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  Podcasting Comes of Age

  By Ed McKinley

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  August 17, 2020

  Big names and big money are transforming what was once a do-it-yourself medium Podcast networks are selling for hundreds of millions of dollars, but nothing’s stopping anyone of modest means…
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  One Network Under Norm

  By Jeff Joseph

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  August 17, 2020

  Norm Pattiz built Westwood One, the nation’s largest radio network, before turning podcasting power player at PodcastOne  In 1976, National Radio Hall of Famer Norm Pattiz founded a radio syndication…
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  How Safe Are REIT Yields?

  By Luckbox

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  July 8, 2020

  History provides an answer. Most real estate investment trust sectors seldom skimp on dividends, even during a financial crisis. An excerpt from a new book, Educated REIT Investing, explains why.…

• Office REIT Reckoning

  By Brad Thomas

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  July 8, 2020

  Workers and small-business owners suffered in the first months of the pandemic, but real estate investment trusts could feel the shock later. Nevertheless, one ticker merits consideration. Social distancing has…
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  This REIT Wins Playing Defense

  By Ed McKinley

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  July 8, 2020

  Corporate Office Properties Trust specializes in defense-related tenants, inoculating the company against economic downturns Not even a worldwide pandemic can stand in the way of the master plan for Corporate…
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  Two Competing Economic Theories: Hayek vs. Keynes

  By Luckbox

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  July 7, 2020

  Two of the 20th century’s most prominent economists, John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich August von Hayek, offered sharply contrasting views of the Great Depression. Their arguments of the 1930s seem…
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  Stop the Presses

  By John Phelan

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  July 7, 2020

  America can’t achieve prosperity by simply printing more money Like the undermentioned parrot, Modern Monetary Theory fails to check three boxes. In January, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its…
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  Office Space: The Sequel

  By Ed McKinley

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  July 6, 2020

  Real estate investment trusts that specialize in office space appear likely to emerge intact (but different) from the downturn When a newspaper mistakenly ran Mark Twain’s obituary while he was…
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  Luckbox leans in with Stephanie Kelton

  By Jeff Joseph

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  July 6, 2020

  Stephanie Kelton is a rarity among scholars of economics. Instead of confining her ideas to a college lecture hall, she’s moved onto the world stage. Documentary filmmakers trail her. She…
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  Vaccine Urgency Increases With Extension of First Wave

  By Sage Anderson

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  July 6, 2020

  The United States is still fighting the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic—not the dreaded “second wave.”  “When you have 20,000-plus infections per day, how can you talk about a…