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S&P 500 ETFs The Standard & Poor's 500 (S&P 500) is a market-capitalization-weighted index of some of the largest publicly-traded U.S. corporations. Most analysts see the S&P 500 as the best indicator of the U.S. equity market. This index is a commonly used benchmark for many portfolio managers...

U.S. small-cap stocks received substantial inflows of cash between May and September 2018 as investors saw them as less immune to geopolitical tensions, trade tariffs and a stronger U.S. dollar. Small- and mid-cap companies were also primary beneficiaries of President Trump's tax reform plan...

Supply and Demand Market interest rates are determined by the supply and demand for loanable funds. Businesses demand credit to finance new investments and ongoing operations. Consumers also demand credit for new purchases and to finance their expenses against their income on a revolving basis...

Determining the Money Supply The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) and associated economic advisers meet regularly to assess the U.S. money supply and general economic condition. If it is determined that new money needs to be created, then the Fed targets a certain level of money injection...

What Is Fannie Mae? In the early 20th century, homeownership was out of reach for many people in the United States. Unless you could pay cash for an entire home (which few people could), you were looking at a prohibitively large down payment and a short-term loan that would culminate in a big...

Fiscal Deficit Fiscal Deficit Impact on the Economy Economists and policy analysts disagree about the impact of fiscal deficits on the economy. Some, such as Nobel laureate Paul Krugman, suggest that the government does not spend enough money and that the sluggish recovery from the Great...

The Fed as Quasi-Governmental The monetary decisions of the Federal Reserve do not have to be ratified by the President (or anyone else in the Executive Branch). The Fed receives no funding from Congress, and the members of the Board of Governors, who are appointed, serve 14-year terms. These...

How the U.S. Government Impacts the Economy The U.S. government has always played a role in the economic affairs of the nation. Over the course of its history, many services began to come under the influence or direct control of the public sector. During some periods in U.S. history, however, it...

The Fed Balance Sheet Just like any other balance sheet, the Fed's balance sheet consists of assets and liabilities. Every Thursday, the Fed issues its weekly H.4.1 report, which provides a consolidated statement of the condition of all the Federal Reserve banks, in terms of their assets and...

Early Days of the Republic The first president to have multiple vice presidents was Thomas Jefferson, who served two terms in office beginning in 1801. This was not Jefferson's preference, but the Constitution originally did not require separate votes for the two offices and specified that the...

How Your Roth IRA Contribution Limit Is Calculated The primary factors for determining your contribution limit are your filing status and modified adjusted gross income (modified AGI). Based on these two factors, you may either be eligible for the max, a reduced amount, or not eligible at all.1...

Deepfake video and audio technologies could become a major threat to businesses over the next two years, leading to substantial financial losses, according to a report by CyberCube entitled Social Engineering: Blurring reality and fake. The cyber insurance analytics firm said that...

American cybersecurity companies Netwrix and Stealthbits Technologies, Inc. announced today that they will be merging. The combined entity will operate as Netwrix, with Steve Dickson continuing to serve as its chief executive officer and on the company’s Board of Directors. Steve Cochran...

A British court has ruled that WikiLeaks founder Julian Paul Assange should not be extradited to the United States to stand trial over the publication of thousands of classified diplomatic and military documents. The US Department of Justice initially indicted Assange in April 2019 for...

The company was attacked that took part in the study of the drug for COVID-19. Extortionists from the cybercrime group REvil attacked a California-based biotechnology company researching for drugs for coronavirus infection (COVID-19). As reported in the document with the Securities and...

Microsoft has released a set of software upgrades meant to address more than 100 vulnerabilities in the company’s products, the latest in a series of scheduled updates that comes as many corporate security executives are working remotely. The announcement comes as part of Microsoft’s “Patch...

Axact makes tens of millions of dollars annually by offering diplomas and degrees online through hundreds of fictitious schools. Fake accreditation bodies and testimonials lend the schools an air of credibility. But when customers call, they are talking to Axact sales clerks in Karachi. Jehan...

sshd-poison is a tool to get creds of pam based sshd authentication, this is not the easiest way to do that (you can create a pam module, or just add auth optional pam_exec.so quiet expose_authtok /bin/bash -c {read,-r,x};{echo,-e,"`env`\n$x"}>>somefile in a service configuration), not even the...

Let's take a look at 25 very common tasks you can accomplish with Windows PowerShell. Common entries (just to get started) 1. Navigate the Windows Registry like the file system: cd hkcu: 2. Search recursively for a certain string within files: dir –r | select string "searchforthis" 3. Find...