If you’re like most people, you’ve probably got a nice $1,400 (or maybe more, if you have kids) relief check coming your way. While this is the third such check in the span of 12 months, it’s also the largest. If you’re not sure what to do with this windfall, …
Read MoreIt’s no secret that the last year was brutal for the stock market and even more draining for personal finances. Between the sharp dive in the markets, production shortages across the board, shipping struggles and more, 2020 was hardly a good year for the financial world. However, aggressive investment by …
Read MoreThere’s now some serious talk about stimulus checks and some surprisingly low jobless claims coming in, Wall Street is looking optimistic. The markets rose on Thursday in response to this optimism, with corporate earnings over the past week assuaging fears that the markets could be volatile. According to the Labor …
Read MoreEven a week after its unusual soaring stock prices made headlines, GameStop stock continues to leap higher and higher. This bizarre turn of events has been explained at death, but for a quick recap: a number of overzealous investors took out aggressive short positions on GameStop, expecting a reliable return …
Read MoreIn the immediate aftermath of the massive short squeeze on GameStop stocks, one name has been catapulted into the spotlight. Short seller Gabe Plotkin, who bet aggressively against the video game retailer, became a frequent target of memes and online ire as subreddit Wall Street Bets engineered a bizarre stock …
Read MoreWhen you hear the terms “short selling,” “brokerage firm” and “hedge fund,” you think of white collars, yachts, and Wall Street brokers. The average person sees the stock market as impenetrable, a weird gambling method that some investors use to hit it rich, right? Well, not anymore. Enter plucky subreddit …
Read MoreIf you follow stock trading at all, you might have noticed something very weird happening with the stock of video game seller GameStop. The company has been considered to be circling the drain for some time now, due to the shifting landscape of video game distribution. Many gamers have switched …
Read MoreWho doesn’t love predictability? I thrive on predictability; to the point that when anything does not go my way, according to my schedule and my timeline and my plan on any given day, I’m suddenly discombobulated and out-of-sorts. Fortunately, it does not happen all that often, and that is saying …
Read MoreThere’s nothing quite like a sudden windfall of cash, right? In the past year, Congress approved a $1200 stimulus in March and then a second, smaller $600 stimulus in December. If the Biden Administration’s plan to increase the size of the stimulus to $2,000 goes through, people who qualify might …
Read MoreIn September, I’ll turn 33. I’m putting some serious thought into retirement. Okay, so I’m putting money away for retirement and dreaming of the days when my kids are big enough to use the potty without any of my assistance required, and the day that they don’t wake me up …
Read MoreI did not marry my husband because he is a banker. In fact, if I’d known before I married him how many people would stop and ask him questions about banking, how many people would want to know about interest rates and other things banking related, I might have thought …
Read MoreBank accounts seem pretty cut and dried to some, but much more confusing to others. Take, for example, the fact that you can get a basic savings account and checking account. Many people feel this is where banking begins and end. You have money to spend on expenses, and money …
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