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Central banks often control the supply of money, but Bitcoin works differently. Bitcoin is a decentralized currency with no central bank or central authority, but this does not mean that there is no distribution of power or that some within the bitcoin ecosystem don’t have more power than others. Understanding […]
During the past nine years of a rising stock market, investors have juiced their gains by buying on margin. Buyer beware, those gains could be wiped out in an instant. The amount of money at risk is staggering. Retail and institutional investors have borrowed a record $642.8 billion against their […]
Bloomberg’s Jacklyn Wille discusses the recent ERISA class action lawsuit filed against photography company Lifetouch Inc. The suit, filed by Zamansky LLC on behalf of current and former Lifetouch employees, alleges that Lifetouch ESOP participants “suffered ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’ in damage by investing in the company’s employee stock […]
You have probably heard a lot about Bitcoin by now, and you’ve likely even read some stories about Bitcoin millionaires – some of whom are regular people, and even teenagers, who figured out how to mine Bitcoin or who got into this cryptocurrency investment early when coins cost almost nothing. […]
When Puerto Rico filed for bankruptcy in May of 2017, investors holding the island territory’s municipal bonds lost what little hope they may have had to recover their investment losses. Since then, Puerto Rico’s financial situation has only gotten worse – due in part to the devastation caused by Hurricane […]
Two new rules the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) adopted last year with Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approval took effect on February 5, 2018. According to FINRA’s Chief Legal Officer, the changes are intended to “provide firms with tools to respond more quickly and effectively to protect seniors and […]
CNBC recently launched an investigation into Riot Blockchain, which until October was called Bioptix. The company owned a veterinary patent and researched and developed new ways to test for diseases. The October name change, followed by spike in share price from $8 to more than $40, caught the eye of […]
Earlier this month, a lawyer in Denver, Colorado pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud as a result of her role in a nationwide pump-and-dump scheme that reportedly swindled $20 million from approximately 12,000 investors, “many of whom are retirees who lost their life savings.” The lawyer’s guilty plea follows […]
For individual investors who have lost money due to account churning, unsuitable investment advice, overconcentration and other forms of investment fraud, filing for arbitration with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is the primary means of recovering fraudulent investment losses. Recently, FINRA published a Discussion Paper which highlights some noteworthy […]
Mom and Pop retail investors, known on Wall Street as “dumb money”, are always the last ones to the party. That holds especially true today. In the case of the recent stock market crash, the dumb money retail investors are the ones getting crushed. After sitting in fear on the […]