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The Qualified Opportunity Zone program was introduced within the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. The program allows investors to defer paying capital gains taxes from the sale of assets (such as real estate, stocks, or bonds) by directing those gains through Qualified Opportunity Funds (QOFs) toward...

How can we understand the interplay between the economy, governed by the Federal Reserve, and Bitcoin? Debt-Fueled Economy On a micro-level, we all have our own priorities as to when we spend money. However, in broad strokes, many individuals are willing to spend more money on something if they can...

Botnets have matured into a disastrous cybercrime phenomenon over the years. These armies of subdued electronic devices account for cyber incidents that range from data theft and click fraud to malware propagation and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Although the underlying predatory...

When civil unrest broke out in Belarus, local users ran into hurdles trying to access various online services. Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI), an independent project that monitors Internet censorship around the world, was regularly reporting outages both in the capital city Minsk...

The whys and wherefores of any distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) assault come down to temporarily knocking a web service offline. With the amplitude of these attacks increasing over time, even the best-protected digital infrastructures may fail to mitigate them. The rise of IoT botnets such as...

Individuals with sizeable capital gains are looking for proactive solutions to address their taxable event. The Qualified Opportunity Zone Program (“QOZ Program”) made available under the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is one option gaining a lot of interest.  The QOZ Program was...

The media was anticipating a Democratic sweep during these elections… the markets followed the predictions. This means the polls were not only predicting the Democratic nominee and former vice president Joe Biden would take control of the White House, but the markets were also predicting...

Almost every waking moment of my life is shared with the public. Whether it's through my social channels (I have over 26 million followers across Instagram, Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR), Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP) , YouTube, and TikTok) or through collaborations with other influencers, I'm...

On Sept. 4, under Section 361 of the Public Health Service Act of 1944, the CDC issued the “Temporary Halt in Residential Evictions to Prevent the Further Spread of COVID-19.” The order, effective through Dec. 31, is a nationwide halt to prevent the eviction of the most vulnerable...

The following originally appeared on CapitalWatch Forget about buying options in solar stocks based on polling data favorable to a Biden win or fracking stocks favorable to a Trump reelection. Look to China—even if you do not like what you see. Now, I have been hard on China in past articles...