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A second-quarter survey of 18 mainstream news outlets logged 1,116 Bitcoin (BTC) stories and measured sentiment at 31% positive, 41% neutral, and 28% negative, according to Bitcoin analysis firm Perception. The data reveal a significant gap between finance-focused media that cover the market extensively and legacy publications that rarely address it. Sparse coverage Perception counted […]
We also covered questions about healthy corrections, a dating budget, balanced portfolios and investing in stocks at all-time highs. Further Reading: When Does Housing Become THE Issue? 1For context, I graduated in 2004 with ~$25k in student loans, which is around $42k in current dollars. The big difference is that borrowing rates back then were […]
Working in wealth management can be an eye-opening experience at times. There are certain ultra-high net worth clients you work with who have so much money that it doesn’t really matter how the money is invested. They could put it all into T-bills or put it all in stocks and they would be fine either […]
In 1900, there were just 8,000 automobiles registered in the United States. By 1910, there were nearly half a million cars. By the start of the Great Depression in 1929 it had skyrocketed to 23 million. Just 2% of households owned a car in 1910. By 1940, it was more than 90%. Today, 70% of […]
Disclosure: This is a sponsored post. Readers should conduct further research prior to taking any actions. Learn more › June 26, 2025 – Geneva, Switzerland – TRON DAO announced today that the total circulating supply of USDT on the TRON blockchain has exceeded $80 billion, further cementing TRON’s position as the top blockchain for USDT […]
If you asked the average investor to name the most iron rule of investing, they’d likely say: “Stocks outperform bonds.” And yes, over the long haul, that’s been true. Since 1900 US stocks have returned 9.9% and 10-year US government bonds about 4.4%, a mile-wide gap. But the key question most folks never ask is… […]
A reader asks: How do young people get rich besides crypto? Young people becoming fabulously wealthy is still a relatively new phenomenon. Jerry Seinfeld once said, “The eighties was the first time that young guys could make a lot of money fast. Never existed before. Rich guys were Aristotle Onassis, Andrew Carnegie, shipping, iron. You […]
Key Takeaways The US housing finance regulator wants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to draft plans that treat crypto as part of a borrower’s assets for mortgage review. Crypto holdings can be counted directly in mortgage underwriting if the proposals are approved. Share this article The US Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has directed mortgage […]
Representatives from multiple universities met with the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Crypto Task Force on June 23 to discuss a staking rulebook. The meeting included representatives from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, the University of Chicago Law School, and venture firm Placeholder. According to the logs, […]
Development of the benchmark at Hongshan began in 2022, following ChatGPT’s breakout success, as an internal tool for assessing which models are worth investing in. Since then, led by partner Gong Yuan, the team has steadily expanded the system, bringing in outside researchers and professionals to help refine it. As the project grew more sophisticated, […]
