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    What Sectors Look Promising Post COVID-19?
    Nick Nowakowski
    • Jan 25
    • 1 min

    What Sectors Look Promising Post COVID-19?

    At the beginning of the pandemic the stock market took a heavy hit and dramatically dropped in value. After the major sell offs the market finally started to recover favoring technology stocks like Zoom, Microsoft, Amazon, and many others. With the end of the pandemic in sight, many may wonder what sectors will boom once this madness is over? Thinking about it logically, no one was traveling during the pandemic causing oil prices and airline companies to suffer. The airline c
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    A Lifesaving Budget
    Nate Jefferson
    • Jan 25
    • 1 min

    A Lifesaving Budget

    An article published by CNBC last December reported that about 63% of Americans are currently living paycheck to paycheck. That’s nearly 2/3 of the people in this country only one paycheck away from not being able to provide for themselves and possibly their family. As the recent events of the global pandemic shows, life can be completely unpredictable. Despite this truth, the financial impact of those times can be much more manageable if people are able to create a budget to
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    Biden Pushes for $1.9 Trillion Covid Relief Bill
    Varun Reddy
    • Jan 25
    • 2 min

    Biden Pushes for $1.9 Trillion Covid Relief Bill

    As COVID-19 continues to spread with speed, the Biden administration is wasting no time getting to work. With hopes of containing the virus and providing vaccine accessibility for all, the White House is pushing for a $1.9 trillion relief package. Biden signed a series of orders Thursday designed to promote mask wearing and streamline production of Covid vaccines and protective equipment, among other goals. The executive actions fit into Biden’s early push to curb the outbrea
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    An abrupt end to keystone XL
    Andrew Hendren
    • Jan 25
    • 1 min

    An abrupt end to keystone XL

    In President Biden’s first day in office an executive order was issued that put an end to the Keystone XL pipeline in the United States. The Pipeline served as a mode of transportation for oil from Canada into the States. The XL is an extension of the original keystone that was thought up in 2008 when oil prices were through the roof before the recession. Canada approved the Pipeline in 2010, but President Obama and the US government stalled out conversations through 2015. Th
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    FOMO Investing
    Justin Halvorson
    • Jan 25
    • 2 min

    FOMO Investing

    As people sat home during the pandemic, trading stocks became extremely popular and TSLA was one stock on everybody’s watchlist. In March of 2020, parts of the market had seen a 30% drop, but since then, TSLA stock has increased nearly 700%. Here's a chart showing you how Tesla and Zoom compared in 2020 to the S&P and the Nasdaq. In 2018, Warren Buffet was asked if he was worried that about another financial crisis. “Well, there will be one sometime. People start being intere
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