Gold price soars to all-time high of $2,225, defying rising Treasury yields and a robust US Dollar. Fed Governor Waller’s hawkish comments and upbeat US data were no excuse for the advance in Gold and the US Dollar. Market anticipation builds for the upcoming release of the Fed’s Core PCE…

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has proposed a new framework to incentivize Ethereum decentralization by penalizing correlated failures among validators. According to the research proposal submitted by Buterin, large-scale staking groups, and organizations have an undue advantage over smaller players, creating an imbalance in the decentralized staking sector. “The theory is…

Would you believe, my fellow contrarian, that most of our vanilla income friends settle for utility dividends that pay quarterly? Ha! Unfortunately (for them) that’s no typo. There are millions of investors just like them who are OK being paid every 90 days. Yes, ninety! Obviously, they don’t read highbrow…

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The Department of Education recently made major changes to simplify the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, known as the FAFSA, but the rollout has been bumpy. The form wasn’t widely made available until January, about three months later than usual. Since then, families have experienced many glitches, and the government didn’t start sending students’ financial aid information to colleges until mid-March. Now, many students are in limbo, waiting to receive financial aid award letters from colleges before deciding where to enroll next fall and whether they can afford it.

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