by Leif Jensen | Nov 22, 2021 | Investing |
Have written before about Bitcoin and virtual currencies. I am not a fan. People whom I expected to embrace virtual currencies are avoiding them and other are embracing them, who I thought would never touch them. But now investors now have a new option for gaining...
by Leif Jensen | Sep 28, 2021 | Investing, Money Management, Taxes |
President Biden wants to increase the tax on dividends. I find this a bit shortsighted; since he apparently has never invested in the stock market throughout his life (can this be true?) The value of those dividends is then an unknown entity. Not all have federal...
by Leif Jensen | Aug 9, 2021 | Investing, Taxes |
Long-term capital gains have favorable rates, over ordinary income. Profits from the sale or exchange of capital assets held over a year are generally taxed at 0%, 15% or 20%. There’s also the 3.8% surtax on net investment income of single filers with modified...
by Leif Jensen | Jun 16, 2021 | Investing |
It is possible that regulators may soon approve the first U.S. exchange-traded fund for bitcoin. Investors who have watched the cryptocurrency’s value soar since 2017 have understandably grown interested in gaining exposure to bitcoin via an ETF, rather than holding...
by Leif Jensen | Jun 8, 2021 | Investing |
We now have a couple of generations brought up on video games, so was it ever a far stretch that someone would create a stock trading app that gamified investing. Michael Burry from the “Big Short” (book and movie); blasted Robinhood’s gamification of investing,...
by Leif Jensen | Jun 2, 2021 | Investing |
The basic thought behind any investment, stock, collectable or tchotchke is that it has value and can be resold at a later date; or so thought all of the beanie baby holders. What they were relying on was the “greater fool theory”. The greater fool theory argues that...
