by Dave Hoshour | Mar 22, 2020 | Blog-Investments
Extreme Volatility Why is the stock market falling or rising 5% and 10% in a day over and over? Is it panic selling? Yes and no. Some people are selling because they believe the economy is going into free fall and corporate profits will fall a lot. Others are selling...
by Dave Hoshour | Mar 19, 2020 | Blog-Investments
See today’s post on my Cornerstone Investment Services FB Page
by Dave Hoshour | Feb 24, 2020 | Blog-Investments
Ever posted a picture of yourself online? Chances are your face is now in the files of Clearview Facial Recognition, a company that has software that allows police to track down criminals. That’s a good thing, but it is built using a database of many millions...
by Dave Hoshour | Jan 21, 2020 | Blog-Investments
The Dept of Labor, which oversees retirement plans, publishes a brochure entitled Meeting Your Fiduciary Responsibilities, i.e. those that come along with oversight of a retirement plan. While the DOL has published a lot and there is a lot to keep up with, this is a...
by Dave Hoshour | Aug 21, 2019 | Blog-Investments
More facts from a WSJ article on student debt. The average student loan balance for a graduate with a degree in Dance from New York University is $96,000. About 30% of student loans are in income-based repayment plans with another 20% in forbearance and another 10%...
by Dave Hoshour | Jun 21, 2019 | Blog-Investments
Bitcoin was an experiment that didn’t quite work, mainly because the value fluctuated so that no one knew quite what they were really getting paid. But Facebook’s recently announced Libra may have solved that problem with tying it to a basket of popular...