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The House Ways and Means Committee came out with their tax reform plan, which has been hyped extensively since the election. Now that there is something real to look at,…
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One of the subjects that we have discussed here at TOE has been monetary policy, interest rate differentials, and the performance of the US Dollar. As a memory refresher, we…
The efficient market hypothesis posits that daily share price movements are random and that all stocks are priced with the expectation that the holder of an asset earning a profit…
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