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The top of today’s reading list asks if legalizing marijuana could solve state tax revenue problems …….. and the last article is a great 55-year review of Treasury interest rate data.
- Could Marijuana Be the Revenue Fix That State Governments Need? (Dan Ritter, Wall Street Cheat Sheet)
- A Put Writing Opportunity on an Infrastructure Play (Dr. Paul Price, TalkMarkets) Naked put writing is a good strategy for trying to buy stocks at a lower price and getting paid to wait if you don’t get the buy. However, most brokerages have restrictions on selling puts and special authorization may be needed. This can be difficut or impossible for smaller account sizes (less than $500,000 or even higher lower limits) with many brokerages.
- International Business Machines Corp. Accuses Twitter of Patent Infringement (IBM) (Mike Deane, Dividend.com) A significant kerfuffle on the eve of Twitter’s IPO?
- The US needs to retire daylight savings and just have two time zones—one hour apart (Allsion Schrager, Quartz)
- Retirement Recovery (Deena Katz, Financial Advisor)
- Euro on the slide as traders back ECB rate cut (Robin Wigglesworth and Delphine Strauss, Financial Times) The great Euro rally of October 2013.
- U.S. Infrastructure Spending Plunges (Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism) One of the shortest posts ever at Naked Capitalism with this much information.
- Reagan Revolution Misses Tax Fiefdoms Flourishing in U.S. (Tim Jones and John McCormick, Bloomberg) Cities, counties, school districts a plus 38,266 special purpose districts is where the real tax and spending controls are needed according to this article. So distributed government doesn’t work all that well either?
- Obamacare: The Biggest Insurance Scam in History (Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers , Truthout) Hat tip to Roger Erickson for finding this article from the left.
- Treasury Yields in Perspective (Doug Short, Advisor Perspectives) A great collection of historical data.
Click on graph for Larger image at Advisor Perspectives dshort.com.
