Ukraine has a secret weapon in its war with Russia. Only it’s not the firepower we’ve seen donated to them from NATO countries. And it comes courtesy of an unlikely source—Elon Musk’s SpaceX. It’s in the form of an off-grid high-bandwidth internet network named Starlink. It services consumers in 45 countries with as many as […]
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To fight inflation, the Federal Reserve has been raising interest rates in what’s referred to as a tightening cycle. Rates have climbed steadily by 75 basis points (3/4 of 1%) until the most recent Federal Open Market Committee meeting when the tightening was reduced to 50 basis points or a ½ of 1% increase. The
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During inflationary times investing can be frustrating as the measuring stick (U.S. dollar) used to determine the value of future returns keeps getting smaller. With inflation comes the antidote of higher interest rates. Inflation and higher interest rates don’t automatically spell doom for investors, but some changes to retirement portfolios and the way investments are
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Inflation has a significant and sometimes severe impact on the overall economy. The impact on prices can be felt far and wide in the world of commerce, but an even greater concern is the impact of inflation on the investment sector. With rising interest rates, the stock market has whiplashed up and down with volatility.
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Since its summer offensive, Ukrainian forces have pushed Russian troops back considerably from the territory they captured in first several months of the conflict. They have caused perhaps 100,000 Russian casualties, but have suffered a significant number of casualties as well. The momentum has shifted in their favor, but what would it take for them
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On November 8th of this year, FTX, a major cryptocurrency exchange, entered into a letter of intent to be sold to Binance, a rival cryptocurrency exchange. The very next day, Binance pulled out of the deal having had a chance to look at FTX’s books. On November 11, FTX filed for bankruptcy. On November 13,
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In this episode, LAPD detectives Aguilar and Lee are pursuing a serial killer who is terrorizing the area in the Harbor/Gateway District along Sultan Road. On the chance that Ben Williams’s killers would turn up at the offices of the South Bay Neighborhood Association the next day to get paid, Aguilar and Lee drove to
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Last February, Vladimir Putin, Russia’s President, sent a 200,000 man army across the border from Russia into the sovereign nation of Ukraine. He apparently believed that the Ukrainian forces would fall easily, as the size and strength of his invading force has proven to be inadequate for the job it was assigned to do. In
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Owning your own home in this country has long been thought of as the American Dream. Home ownership at any affordable cost has been the aspiration of American families since colonial times. It meant lots of hard work and sacrifice, and a long-standing debt that required monthly payments. It’s often the largest single investment an
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Much of the Western United States has been in the throes of a serious drought that has been carrying on for nearly six years. Las Vegas, Nevada, resides in the middle of the desert, and gets most of its water from Lake Mead and the Colorado River. But Lake Mead’s water supply is shared with
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