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End of Easy Money Brings a $410 Billion Global Financial Shock

(Bloomberg) — The global shift away from easy money is poised to accelerate as a pandemic bond-buying blitz by central banks swings into reverse, threatening another shock to the world’s economies and financial markets. Bloomberg Economics estimates that policy makers in the Group of Seven countries will shrink their balance sheets by about $410 billion […]

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Mom and Pop Investors Took a Billion-Dollar Bath Trading Options During the Pandemic

(Bloomberg) — Of all the risky things amateur investors did while locked at home in the pandemic, dabbling in stock options was one that veteran investors were convinced would end badly. They weren’t wrong. Turns out, taking leveraged flyers on meme stocks mentioned on Reddit’s WallStreetBets trading forum is harder than it looks. New research […]

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