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Is This Federal Budget Doomed to Bust?

February 15, 2020 admin Comments Off on Is This Federal Budget Doomed to Bust?

Earlier this week, President Trump released his latest budget proposal. And like all recent presidents have stated, Trump believes that his budget would promote spending cuts and deficit reduction.
And as the opposition in Congress always says when a budget is presented, the spending cuts are in the wrong place, and the deficit reduction depends on pie-in-the-sky assumptions.
As always, the truth probably lies somewhere in the middle.
But before we dive in, we have to take a brief dive into the national budget history – going back to 1969.
Since then, there has been a year-end budget surplus only five times.
According to Congressional …read more […]

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TikTok IPO: Will ByteDance Go Public in 2020?

February 15, 2020 admin Comments Off on TikTok IPO: Will ByteDance Go Public in 2020?

TikTok is a popular app with Gen-Z and millennials. It has a strong user base in the west and is expanding around the world. With this growth, investors are asking about a TikTok IPO. Although, its parent company ByteDance is more likely to go public.
However, many investors are skeptical of an IPO. The company might not be worth its lofty valuation. ByteDance is an investment unicorn and one of the highest valued startups in the world. Private investors have valued it at as much as $78 billion. That’s steep, and there are other concerns the company needs to address before …read more […]

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All the Ways Stock Market Bulls Have Gone Off the Rails. Again

February 15, 2020 admin Comments Off on All the Ways Stock Market Bulls Have Gone Off the Rails. Again

(Bloomberg) — It’s that time of the bull market again, when everyone decides things beyond the realm of rationality have taken over in equities. Demand is brisk for an account of all the ways investors have lost their minds.Concern is normal whenever the market is buoyant. When it’s 11 years into a massive rally and share values soar by $1 trillion in two weeks, skeptics come out of the woodwork. Records keep falling — the S&P 500 is setting one every 2 1/2 days — while valuations fatten. It’s enough to make the staunchest bull wonder about a reckoning.Dread is …read more […]