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Are you a small business, or considering becoming an entrepreneur and looking for additional capital? Finding investors is always daunting, but armed with the right information it can be made much easier. In this blog post, we’ll discuss six innovative ways you can find potential investors for your private enterprise. We’ll explore everything from how to use venture capitalists, crowdfunding websites, and public investment funds to more obscure methods such as angel investments or locating investors through networking events.
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Ridgewood NJ, the Recession has been averted. The Houston Astros beat the Philadelphia Phillies to win the World Series Saturday night, pushing the most reliable recession indicator we have (a Philly-based team won in ’29, ’30, ’80, and ’08) off for at least a year.
Do you know, for investors, every new project or substance is an opportunity to expand their chances of success? Like other industries, the health and wellness industry is also experiencing tectonic shifts. The shifts appear when underground drops are thrust up into the mainstream. Every new addition to the market landscape becomes a potential win-win for investors. The investors know their benefits will lure in customers, whether CBD or other botanicals. Therefore, investing is always good when the market is small and you know it will increase threefold. This time too, a new substance has surfaced to attention: Kratom, and we can use the best Kratom strain for energy.
Tulip mania
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Ridgewood NJ, the market for cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin is soaring, and the chance to get rich is the main selling point for investors.
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Omaha, Nebraska , our friend Prince Dykes of the Investors Show wanted to share a recap while he makes the rounds at his first experience at a Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting . Hopefully you enjoy the footage as much as we did.
photo Louis Rukeyser
By Noel Randewich | SAN FRANCISCO
Technology companies have been a driving force behind the U.S. stock market’s recent record rally, and despite mounting evidence of stretched valuations the sector remains a top pick for investors expecting a wave of capital expenditures by U.S. corporations.
Corporate tax cuts and reduced regulations planned by President Donald Trump will give companies reason to spend more on cloud computing, factory automation and smart connectivity that will directly benefit Silicon Valley, many on Wall Street believe.
“The tax cuts are going to promote business investment across all industries, and the business investment is largely going to be in technology,” said Doug Cote, chief market strategist at Voya Investment Management in New York.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-stocks-weekahead-idUSKBN16A2JT?il=0
“All government bureaucracies should be accountable to hardworking taxpayers”
October 11,2016
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Ridgewood NJ, Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) released the following statement on today’s federal court ruling that the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is unconstitutional:
“This is a good day for democracy, economic freedom, due process and the Constitution. The second highest court in the land has vindicated what House Republicans have said all along, that the CFPB’s structure is unconstitutional.
“By design the CFPB is arguably the most powerful and least accountable Washington bureaucracy in American history, and it shows. The Bureau has infringed on the economic freedoms of consumers, limited their financial choices, increased their costs, and failed to hold managers accountable for widespread discrimination and abuse of its own employees. This must change. The CFPB has an important mission. Properly designed and led, it is capable of great good. But the Bureau’s bizarre and defective structure allows it to evade the time-tested checks and balances that are necessary to hold it or any other government bureaucracy accountable. Our Constitution requires these checks and balances to protect our God-given liberties from government abuse. It is astonishing that the Democrats who voted for the Dodd-Frank Act so casually disregarded their constitutional obligations to the American people. It’s also astonishing that President Obama illegally bypassed the Senate by appointing Richard Cordray to serve as the Bureau’s Director. It is time to restore the rule of law and Constitutional governance to this nation. While I welcome today’s decision, it’s absurd that a judicial opinion was necessary.
“The Financial CHOICE Act, approved by our committee last month, solves the constitutional defect identified by the court today. The Financial CHOICE Act replaces the current unaccountable single director with a bipartisan, five-member commission – which is how virtually every independent regulatory agency, including those responsible for consumer and investor protection, currently operates.
“Republican efforts in the Financial CHOICE Act to reform the Bureau are and have always been grounded in the fundamental belief that all government bureaucracies should be accountable to hardworking taxpayers, especially those bureaucracies like the CFPB that can spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year with no oversight or control from Congress or the executive branch; employ an army federal employees; and have a direct impact on the personal finances of virtually every American citizen.”
Published: Sept 2, 2016 2:38 p.m. ET
It’s Labor Day weekend, and despite unemployment under 5% and nearly 15 million private-sector jobs created since February 2010, nobody’s celebrating.
Workforce participation is stuck near historic lows, six million people are part-timers but want to work full time, and wage growth remains subdued.
Both presidential candidates have talked a good game about jobs and the economy, but neither addresses the real problem. The U.S. job-creation machine—once the envy of the world—is broken, because American corporations cannot create steady, well-paying jobs here in the USA while also providing maximal returns to their investors, who are really in charge.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-investors-are-to-blame-for-labors-woes-2016-09-02?link=sfmw_tw
The problem with the town garage is that is a pollution nightmare. The property is now owned by a group of private investors who scooped it up to profit from a possible quick sale to the town as a parking garage. The investors should be on the hook for the remediation, but surely own the property in some sort of LLC with no assets. The town should take the property or start proceedings to have the current owners clean it up. the current cost of $1.2 million is an estimate and costs can surely be higher. We have let this pollution continue for too long and based on us having a ground water system need to do something NOW. we have waited wait too long. Hopefully the new council will shift into high gear and get something accomplished. That parking lot along with the town garage would make a nice parking garage. Forget about retail space.
By Jonathan D. Salant | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House on Tuesday passed legislation designed to make annual reports and other disclosures by publicly traded companies easier to read.
The Disclosure Modernization and Simplification Act of 2015, sponsored by U.S. Rep. Scott Garrett (R-5th Dist.) passed on voice vote.
It requires the Securities and Exchange Commission to eliminate requirements for disclosures not needed by investors, and asks the SEC to study how to reduce such paperwork in the future, using technology to improve the delivery and presentation of such disclosures. In addition, annual reports could include summary pages that refer to materials provided in earlier filings.
“You just want to have clarity,” said Garrett, chairman of the House Financial Services subcommittee on capital markets and government sponsored enterprises, said on the House floor. “That’s what our bill does. It just makes it a little bit simpler.
Nathan Bomey, USA TODAY1:19 p.m. EDT August 24, 2015
The brokerage is directing online account holders to a toll-free phone number to complete trades.
Investors encountered problems accessing their online stock accounts and completing trades through brokerage TD Ameritrade on Monday morning amid a feverish sell off in the broader markets.
TD Ameritrade first confirmed the issue in response to traders on Twitter who complained about the problems. The firm directed traders to a toll-free phone number and a special website address to complete trades.
Scotttrade also experienced issues as investors flocked to execute trades.
Collectively, the issues exposed creaking digital infrastructure not capable of handling a massive surge in trading on a day with heavy interest in the equity markets.
TD Ameritrade spokeswoman Kim Hillyer told USA TODAY in an email that the firm’s site experienced “industry-wide latency issues” during the morning rush.
“The sell-off is causing wide-spread issues in multiple areas of the market. We saw a significant increase in trading volumes at the open, and volumes remain above average,” she said. “Client trades were and continue to be executed, although there has been some slowness in some cases, related to these industry-wide issues and the historic nature of the day.”
The company wasn’t the only online brokerage to experience troubles during the selloff.
Separately, brokerage Scottrade also experienced problems with its site. The firmacknowledged the problems on Twitter and said it had restored its access after a brief outage
A new playbook for hospitals: How investors pursue a financial turnaround
AUGUST 24, 2014, 10:34 PM LAST UPDATED: SUNDAY, AUGUST 24, 2014, 11:21 PM
BY LINDY WASHBURN
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD
A century ago, a nun often stood outside a factory in the city of Passaic on paydays, holding a tin cup as she begged for donations to care for the poor at St. Mary’s Hospital. It was an era before health insurance, before Medicare and Medicaid, and before health care became the fastest growing sector of the American economy.
Sister Agnes believed in St. Mary’s mission, just as the two nuns still serving at the hospital do today. But to save their hospital, the Sisters of Charity of St. Elizabeth just sold it to a company for which medicine is a business, not a ministry.
As California-based Prime Healthcare Services takes over St. Mary’s and awaits approval to buy three other New Jersey hospitals, it is joining a fast-changing industry that now pumps more than $20 billion a year into the state economy. Prime and other companies look at hospitals like St. Mary’s — hospitals in such grave financial condition that their survival is in doubt — and see the potential for very healthy profits.
– See more at: https://www.northjersey.com/news/a-new-playbook-for-hospitals-how-investors-pursue-a-financial-turnaround-1.1072991#sthash.yfZn5r0m.dpuf
BIS chief fears fresh Lehman from worldwide debt surge
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
8:10PM BST 13 Jul 2014
Jaime Caruana says investors are ignoring prospect of higher interest rates in the hunt for returns
The world economy is just as vulnerable to a financial crisis as it was in 2007, with the added danger that debt ratios are now far higher and emerging markets have been drawn into the fire as well, the Bank for International Settlements has warned.
Jaime Caruana, head of the Swiss-based financial watchdog, said investors were ignoring the risk of monetary tightening in their voracious hunt for yield.
“Markets seem to be considering only a very narrow spectrum of potential outcomes. They have become convinced that monetary conditions will remain easy for a very long time, and may be taking more assurance than central banks wish to give,” he told The Telegraph.
Mr Caruana said the international system is in many ways more fragile than it was in the build-up to the Lehman crisis. Debt ratios in the developed economies have risen by 20 percentage points to 275pc of GDP since then.
Credit spreads have fallen to to wafer-thin levels. Companies are borrowing heavily to buy back their own shares. The BIS said 40pc of syndicated loans are to sub-investment grade borrowers, a higher ratio than in 2007, with ever fewer protection covenants for creditors.