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daniel May 16, 2015 AMZN, Apple Pay, BAC, Bank of America, bubble, Bubble Economy, Consumer Loans, Disruptive Technology, LC, lending club, Mr. Money Mustache, PayPal, Peer to Peer Lending, Peer to Peer Lending Bubble, Subprime Loans, Value Investing, Venmo, Visa, Warren Buffett, WMT

Is Peer to Peer Lending a Bubble?

One reason why Lending Club’s business is so good could be that large numbers of Americans simply lack the money or the good credit records necessary to borrow from traditional banks.

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daniel December 17, 2014March 15, 2016 America’s Middle Class Is Lost, average income, Consumer Loans, COST, Costco, CVS Health, Disruptive Technology, Dollar General, Dollar Stores, Dollar Tree, Economy Is Not Working for Average Americans, Family Dollar, FDO, Gold, GOOG, Income of 81% of Americans Has Fallen Since 1999, Incomes in 572 American counties peaked in 1979, Kroger, Middle Class Is Lost, Poverty, Value Investing, WAG, Where the Recovery Is Not: Middle America, Why America’s Middle Class Is Lost, WMT

The Income of 81% of Americans Has Fallen Since 1999

The bottom line is that the economy is not working for average Americans. Incomes are falling and destroying America’s economic health. Inequality is growing too as technology lets the affluent take advantage of opportunities such as the booming stock market while the average family has a hard time buying groceries.

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daniel November 5, 2014November 5, 2014 Affordable Care Act, Consumer Loans, CVS, CVS Health, Dollar General, Family Dollar, FDO, Medicaid, Medicare, Obamacare, WAG, walgreen

How Medicaid Expansion Helps Walgreen and Hurts Dollar Stores

It looks as if Obamacare could be changing the retail landscape by expanding Medicaid. That expansion seems to be driving customers to stores with pharmacies and leaving traditional dollar stores high and dry. One wonders how long Walgreen can continue to profit from that upheaval and how long before Kroger, CVS Health, and Walmart Stores Inc. start expanding their Medicaid business.