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Imagine making an offer on your first home, only to lose it to a corporation paying cash with no strings attached. For thousands of Georgians, that is not a hypothetical — it is the reality of today’s housing market.
Now, a bill moving through the Georgia legislature aims to change that.
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Many don’t realize a hidden tech bloodbath is going on, especially as people’s attention is on oil prices and the bigger fish in the market. The S&P 500 Software & Services index is down 25% from October 2025, and that money is going into high-yield dividend ETFs like the VanEck Preferred Securities ex Financials ETF (NYSEARCA:PFXF),
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A $200,000 portfolio can generate over $1,500 a month in dividends, but the structure matters as much as the yield. The three-ETF combination below uses a conservative allocation to show how income-seekers can build a reliable monthly cash stream without concentrating all their risk in a single high-yield strategy.
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Investors are quickly rotating into defensive stocks as the tech rally cools.
This has caused several defensive ETFs to deliver explosive gains, some already up by double digits this year.
A recent study identified one single habit that doubled Americans’ retirement savings and moved retirement from dream,
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The European Central Bank (ECB) kept its three key interest rates unchanged at 2.00%, 2.15% and 2.40%.
“The war in the Middle East has made the outlook significantly more uncertain, creating upside risks for inflation and downside risks for economic growth,” the ECB said in a statement. “It will have a material impact on near-term inflation through higher energy prices.
All of the positive economic talk out of this week’s Federal Reserve meeting had a negative impact on investors, who have now taken expectations for even one interest rate cut this year off the table.
In his post-meeting news conference,
In the U.S., this month’s final batch of Social Security payments is to go out next week: on Wednesday, Mar. 25.
Payments are to be made to recipients born between 21st and 31st of any month.
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There are millions of older Americans today who get most of their retirement income from Social Security. And some retirees don’t have income at all outside of those monthly benefits.
That’s a problem, because Social Security is only designed to replace about 40% of the typical worker’s pre-retirement earnings.
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