Imagine this scenario. You are offered the opportunity to take a one-time lump sum payout or an annual payment for the rest of your life. Which option should you choose?
That's a scenario that may play out several times during your life. Sometimes it will be an employer who offers that deal with the...

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China is, by far and away, the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide into the Earth's atmosphere.
That factoid was recently driven home by the Rhodium Group's latest report on the topic, updating their annual data through the 2019 calendar year. The following chart indicates the share of net CO...

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Political Calculations' initial estimate of median household income in March 2021 is $66,248, an increase of $244 (or 0.4%) from the initial estimate of $66,004 for February 2021. As expected, this change coincides with the lifting of coronavirus lockdowns imposed by several state and local ...

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We're going to tell a story with a single chart today. We've compared Arizona's first wave trough with its second wave trough in the following chart, where we've estimated the number of excess COVID cases Arizona has counted as a result of the Biden-Harris administration's border migration crisis. ...

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April 2021 marks an unusually strong month for dividend paying firms in the U.S. stock market, which is especially true if you look at year-over-year comparisons. Let's get straight to the month's dividend metadata:

2,019 U.S. firms declared dividends in April 2021, a decline of 1,160 from the 3,...

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If you've been paying attention to home prices, this isn't news, but new homes are becoming less affordable for the typical American household.
In March 2020, the price of the typical new home sold in the U.S. rose to be 5.14 times the typical income of an American household.

Historically, there ...

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The April 2021 jobs report was disappointing, to say the least. Instead of reporting that at least one million Americans had returned to work in April 2021 with the lifting of state and local government lockdowns in high population states, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported number of ...

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