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Geniuses, really

Cryptocurrency holders, beware: A surprising change to your 2020 tax form is about to strip away excuses for ignoring the tax rules on bitcoin, ether or other digital currencies. The Internal Revenue Service plans to alter the standard 1040 form by putting this question on the front page: At any tim...

(snip) Many new traders likely aren’t aware they are trading in taxable accounts, where each sale has tax effects. (Robinhood customers can’t trade within retirement accounts such as traditional or Roth IRAs, where sales aren’t taxable.) Next year, many will be surprised to receive long tax forms fo...

Who is Donald T. Trump? Heard of Donald Jenius Trump, though..

It’s been an eventful first evening of the 2020 Republican National Convention, and it may have reached its pinnacle midway through the 10 p.m. ET hour when Donald Trump Jr. took the virtual stage to deliver a speech about how great his dad, Donald Trump, is. But a lot of folks on the internet quick...

For many professionals, technology has been a lifeline during the pandemic, enabling them to be productive while stuck at home. For many other workers, it is a new dividing line, corralling them further into the stagnant corners of the economy. The pandemic has led to unemployment of workers in the ...

Don't know if it is still there

Seems to work fine now... fingers crossed?

Yes, the author of the piece in Newsweek "questioning" the legitimacy of Harris to serve as V.P. Even if Harris' parents were not citizens at her birth, she was born in the United States. Trump does not like the fact that many pregnant women come to this country so that their newborn would be U.S. c...

Nice presentation by Jill Schlesinger on CBS Morning show

https://www.cbs.com/shows/cbs_this_morn ... -deadline/

Yes, I am afraid that our friendly virus will drive the last nails into the Postal Service and print publications. Strange to visit a doctor's office and not having any magazine to leaf through.

George Argyros? The worst ambassador (to Spain) that this country had?

In reality, though, John Wayne hated the airport.

Back in March, when it was announced, I knew that we did not need the $2400. We are retired, did not lose any jobs and our Social Security Benefits are still arriving (fingers crossed) and am withdrawing from IRA as needed, about half of what the RMD would have been (the other half is being rolled o...

Yes, just found out about it. One more nail in the demise of the print media, even before the virus. (snip) The newsweekly, which was founded in 1995, had been offloaded from Voice Media Group to local publisher Duncan McIntosh in 2016. The next year, OC Weekly’s editor Gustavo Arellano, who is now ...

(snip) For savers - section 2202 Individuals affected by the coronavirus will be permitted to take a withdrawal from their retirement accounts (IRAs, 401(k)s, etc.) of up to $100,000, without paying the usual early-withdrawal penalty. In addition, the sum withdrawn may be recontributed to a retireme...

Zoom has been one of the hottest stocks on the market this year—just not the Zoom you think. Shares of Zoom Technologies have surged 10-fold since the first of the year. But most of those traders likely think they are buying Zoom Video Communications. ZM 7.47% The latter is a Silicon Valley wunderki...

(for the ones still in love with Sanders) It isn’t hard to imagine a Joe Biden administration in which Kamala Harris is vice president, Michael Bloomberg is treasury secretary, Pete Buttigieg is homeland security secretary, Tom Steyer is climate-change czar and Andrew Yang is commerce secretary—or, ...

Well, Sanders is now in retreat. This is all that matters.

Yes, they develop medications to make money. This is human nature. Do you think that Edison, or Steve Job or others develop new products to make other people happy? No. Profit motivates innovation. If you do not realize this I am sure that the close Jr. college can offer Economic 101. Yes, many are ...

Did not say that Sanders is a strongman, only that he admires them. Castro, Maduro, Stalin