Chris Jackson

Phone use is unevenly distributed with landlines mostly present in older, more affluent populations, cell phones with younger populations and less affluent populations often not having any phone access.

If you have mutual funds in a taxable account, it is important to check the estimated mutual fund distributions that the fund families release ahead of time, by tax-loss harvesting this fund, not only do you avoid the capital gains distribution, you also capture a tax deduction. The combination could be a substantial savings.

They don't generate income, their worth is generally not intrinsic but only what other people are willing to pay, good luck selling your Beanie Baby collection.

Commodity funds don't invest directly in the commodity but in the... by Chris Jackson

Commodity funds don't invest directly in the commodity but in their commodity future contracts.

Buying high and selling low — not a profitable practice. by Chris Jackson

Buying high and selling low — not a profitable practice.

He's got the rhetorical gifts to reframe how people see an issue. If he deploys them here and it gets attention, it could reshape the debate.

There are new opportunities for consolidating smallholder production, adding value and reaching new markets that smallholder farmers cannot realise individually.

So: You have a high-speed train, operating on a track which is not purposed for high-speed trains, with no high-speed train signaling/warning system in place, and then you add a sharp curve into the equation. Thus the crash.

It doesn't necessarily fall down the clear Republican-Democrat di... by Chris Jackson

It doesn't necessarily fall down the clear Republican-Democrat divide that we often see.