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Travel is out of the question for a lot of people, but none of us can escape that unshakable feeling of wanderlust we feel whenever we see someone post a picture of them in an exotic, exciting new context. For those of us still in college itching to travel, study abroad is probably the best bet—the additional challenge of academia and learning about your new context in an academic setting is incredibly appealing for some people, as well as the opportunity to quite literally live abroad for a few months. Even then, it can seem like a lofty goal, and usually for financial reasons. How will you survive once you get to your country of choice? How will you even get there? With the market ruins, millennials have discarded going away, but it's an essential part of our growth, both educational and spiritual. Don't let finances get in the way; most importantly, know they don't have to.
Here are five ways you can pay your way to and through study abroad, and start getting some wear-and-tear on your passport.
Find a program that works for you
The fact of the matter is that just because you can study abroad through your university doesn't mean that the programs offered are right for you, whether that means price-wise or academic-wise. Find a program that won't break bank, and will take you where you want to go, whether that means doing a direct exchange through a university in your country of choice or a study abroad program through another university.
Take out a loan
The government offers several loan options, and these need not be used to just pay for a normal semester—use those Stafford Loans to buy your ticket, and maybe take out a little extra to be able to live comfortably where you most likely won'y be able to get a job, especially if you don't know the language while you're away. That said, only take out what you can afford to take out and, most importantly, what you'll be able to afford to pay back upon graduation.
Scholarships, and grants are your best friends
Aside from money that you worked hard at saving before going away, there are so many options through several organizations for study away, whether destination or merit, or need-based. Do your research and cast a wide net—you never know what you might catch, and there are plenty of organizations ready to help you fulfill your study abroad dreams.
Pick a city with currency that works with your budget
Don't pick a place like, say, London if you're already strapped for cash (not unless that's your dream and you're determined to make it work). For those of us who want to study abroad but don't know where to go or what to expect (and are looking to actually have a cheaper semester) there are so many beautiful cities out there where the American Dollar is stronger than the local currency, and exchange houses will allow you to live a little bit more above your means for less. Study abroad need not break bank once you arrive.
Live like a local
Go to the local market and buy fresh food to cook at home. Make friends and make food together. Scour your new city and find the cafes locals go to, the ones that are the cheapest and, somehow, also the most rewarding to go to. You'll only be in your new city for a few months, so why waste your hard-earned money (or your loans) on grossly expensive tourist attractions? Those things are fun, but the underbelly of a city is usually more fun, more rewarding, and more financially savvy. Live like a local, and fall in love with your new city while giving your wallet some relief.
Joe Biden, the Student Loan Crisis, and the Problem with Economic Stimulus
November 20 | 2020
Last week, for the first time since the stock market began its precipitous fall in February, the Dow Jones Industrial Average stabilized above 29,000 points.
By Monday, November 16th, the Dow had surpassed all previous records, closing at 29,950. Meanwhile, the national death rate as a result of COVID-19 is as high as it's been since May. Meanwhile, working Americans continue to struggle and suffer, wasting their gas money waiting in endless lines for limited supplies of free food.
<p>If you, like <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/266807/percentage-americans-owns-stock.aspx" target="_blank">nearly half of U.S. adults, don't own any stock at all</a>, the numbers above are essentially meaningless. Even for most of the people who are invested in the stock market, their investment isn't substantial enough to make up for issues like <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/millions-of-workers-underemployed-as-virus-surges-prompt-closures.html" target="_blank">widespread underemployment.</a><br></p><p>And yet, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/22/investing/stocks-market-fed-overnight-lending-rescue/index.html" target="_blank">the Federal Reserve has poured $4 trillion into maintaining the stability of investment markets</a> and ensuring that the Dow, the S&P 500 and various other numbers on charts that seem increasingly disconnected from reality move in the right direction. Why is that?</p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-131"></div>
<!-- End Ezoic - incontent2 - long_content --></p><div id="c786e" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="ce78aefbea7293933fb97ac5fa2a12a7"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1329252993733185539" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">30 million people in this country are at risk of eviction.
Millions of people are unemployed or underemployed from… https://t.co/pWGQY94iJT</div> — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez)<a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/statuses/1329252993733185539">1605753584.0</a></blockquote></div><p></p><p>The answer to that question is complicated, but it is closely linked to the reason why President-Elect Joe Biden is currently on the receiving end of a lot of scrutiny and pushback on the topic of student loan forgiveness.<br></p><p>Recently the amount of <a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-17-trillion-question-that-did-not-come-up-during-trump-biden-presidential-debate-2020-09-30" target="_blank">student loan debt in the United States surpassed $1.7 trillion</a>. That amount has more than <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/21/bloombergs-plan-to-tackle-the-1point7-trillion-student-loan-crisis.html" target="_blank">tripled in the last 15 years</a>, with around 45 million Americans currently holding some amount of student loan debt, and an average burden in excess of $30,000.</p><p>Most of that debt is <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/07/your-money/student-loans-bankruptcy.html" target="_blank">nearly impossible to discharge through the standard bankruptcy process</a>. And the fact that most of that burden falls on young people — whose careers are less established and who face generational declines in wages and wealth — exacerbates the impact of that debt. It's a major factor in <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/09/millions-of-millennials-are-locked-out-of-homeownership-heres-why.html" target="_blank">the worrying declines in rates of home ownership, marriage, and birth rate among millennials</a>.</p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-133"></div>
<!-- End Ezoic - incontent3 - longer_content --></p><p>It is widely acknowledged that the cost of higher education has ballooned out of control while it has increasingly been pushed as a necessary step on the path to prosperity. Underlying this problem is the fact that — <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32821678" target="_blank">unlike many developed nations</a> — our federal government doesn't offer affordable public universities or fund education in fields like medicine and engineering where we always need more skilled professionals.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">
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</p><p>Instead we offer government-backed loans and guarantees that incentivize institutions to invest in administrative bloat and in expensive development projects to enhance their prestige and entice prospective students with unnecessary luxuries. Teenagers instilled with little sense of the financial commitments — but an unwavering belief in the necessity of college — have become cash cows.</p><p>The system as it stands is clearly broken, and whatever other reforms are called for, the resulting debt crisis is interfering with the spending power and attainment of an entire generation. In the context of a pandemic that has affected the livelihoods of so many, it would seem like an uncontroversial act for the government to alleviate some of that burden of student debt.<br></p><p>And for the most part, it is. Opinion polling shows that the notion of <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamminsky/2020/09/25/new-poll-shows-substantial-bipartisan-support-for-student-loan-forgiveness-and-other-relief-for-borrowers/?sh=14602aa12b7c" target="_blank">providing some amount of student loan forgiveness is broadly popular</a> across partisan lines.</p><p>The exception is among the pundit class — and the wealthy donors they represent. Because, as various political figures — including <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/16/schumer-suggests-student-debt-forgiveness-through-executive-order.html" target="_blank">Democratic Senators Chuck Schumer and Elizabeth Warren</a> — have begun urging Joe Biden to make student loan forgiveness an early focus of his presidency, others in politics and the news media have done their best to push back.</p><div id="d17b3" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="2e3f727d707e9312d1023e111a6db655"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1143504500914884608" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">When you say #cancelstudentdebt, you’re saying a minority of people who had the advantage of obtaining a degree sho… https://t.co/BMbhxUHAbK</div> — Dan Crenshaw (@Dan Crenshaw)<a href="https://twitter.com/DanCrenshawTX/statuses/1143504500914884608">1561467692.0</a></blockquote></div><p>At the moment, a forbearance measure laid out in the CARES act has been extended through the remainder of 2020 — allowing those with federal student loans to defer payments for the time being. But further action being proposed would include forgiveness for debt owed to private companies.<br></p><p>Among the wide range of suggestions are legislation to provide <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/23/biden-proposes-forgiving-10000-in-student-debt-for-public-service.html" target="_blank">$10,000 of debt forgiveness for individuals meeting certain restrictive criteria</a> and $50,000 of automatic forgiveness for all student debt holders — delivered through an executive order as soon as Joe Biden assumes the White House.</p><p>In either case, some would still be left with large burdens of debt, and some would likely be hit with unmanageable tax bills — as debt forgiveness is considered a form of income. But the debate has not largely involved addressing those shortcomings. Rather, many have questioned whether we should be considering these proposals at all.</p><p></p><p><strong>The objections tend to fall into three categories: It wouldn't help the right people, it wouldn't stimulate the economy as much as other measures, and "I paid off my student loans, so why shouldn't they?"</strong></p><p>The last is patently asinine, and should be ignored or mocked as it applies equally to any form of progress — "My face healed after smashing against the dashboard, so why should we add airbags now?" If the people espousing this perspective want to be acknowledged for their fiscal responsibility, here's the entirety of the praise they deserve: Good for you.</p><p>The fact remains that many people are not able to pay off their student loan debts, which can have a ruinous effect on their credit rating, affecting everything from interest rates on other loans to — in a cruel twist — <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/select/can-employers-see-your-credit-score/" target="_blank">their employment prospects</a>. There is a disturbing potential for an accelerating debt cycle that becomes impossible to escape.</p><div id="1d226" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="f031972cfe91ea552f9cee44e0d553ad"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1328480231993249796" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">“Things were bad for me, so they should stay bad for everyone else” is not a good argument against debt cancellatio… https://t.co/yyC60K5Uyz</div> — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez)<a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/statuses/1328480231993249796">1605569343.0</a></blockquote></div><p>Even for those who are able to pay off their debts may feel pressured by the monthly payments to accept employment that they otherwise wouldn't — contributing to an imbalance in the employee-employer relationship that could further suppress wages. In short, it's bad.<br></p><p>So while it's valid to point out that there are others in the economy more in need than college graduates, we can't ignore the reality of the student debt crisis. Along with other important measures — further extension and expansion of unemployment benefits, rent subsidies, and direct payments to make it easier for people to stay home — student loan forgiveness should be considered an essential part of COVID relief.</p><p>Which leaves only one complaint left: It wouldn't do enough to stimulate the economy.</p><p>The basic issue is that the benefit of debt forgiveness is spread out over years or decades of remaining loan payments. And because it would also contribute to recipient's tax burdens, there is a concern that much of the cost of debt relief would not result in short term increases in consumer spending — the kind that spurs quick economic growth.</p><p>While that's worth being aware of, doesn't this objection have its priorities reversed? Isn't the entire purpose of a strong economy to improve people's lives? So why are we unwilling to improve people's lives unless it primarily contributes to short term economic growth?</p><p></p><p>Clearly our entire system has embraced this inverted way of thinking. That's why it can pass almost without notice when the Federal Reserve spends $4 trillion to prop up investment markets.</p><p>We happily spend that amount on measures that only directly benefit the wealthy, and yet — when it's suggested that we should spend a fraction of that on a popular policy that could improve the lives of 45 million Americans — it becomes a point of great contention.</p><h2></h2><p>We all seem to have forgotten the essential truth that the economy is meant to serve us — not the other way around.</p>
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Joe Biden, the Student Loan Crisis, and the Problem with Economic Stimulus
November 20 | 2020
Last week, for the first time since the stock market began its precipitous fall in February, the Dow Jones Industrial Average stabilized above 29,000 points.
By Monday, November 16th, the Dow had surpassed all previous records, closing at 29,950. Meanwhile, the national death rate as a result of COVID-19 is as high as it's been since May. Meanwhile, working Americans continue to struggle and suffer, wasting their gas money waiting in endless lines for limited supplies of free food.
<p>If you, like <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/266807/percentage-americans-owns-stock.aspx" target="_blank">nearly half of U.S. adults, don't own any stock at all</a>, the numbers above are essentially meaningless. Even for most of the people who are invested in the stock market, their investment isn't substantial enough to make up for issues like <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/millions-of-workers-underemployed-as-virus-surges-prompt-closures.html" target="_blank">widespread underemployment.</a><br></p><p>And yet, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/22/investing/stocks-market-fed-overnight-lending-rescue/index.html" target="_blank">the Federal Reserve has poured $4 trillion into maintaining the stability of investment markets</a> and ensuring that the Dow, the S&P 500 and various other numbers on charts that seem increasingly disconnected from reality move in the right direction. Why is that?</p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-131"></div>
<!-- End Ezoic - incontent2 - long_content --></p><div id="c786e" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="ce78aefbea7293933fb97ac5fa2a12a7"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1329252993733185539" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">30 million people in this country are at risk of eviction.
Millions of people are unemployed or underemployed from… https://t.co/pWGQY94iJT</div> — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez)<a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/statuses/1329252993733185539">1605753584.0</a></blockquote></div><p></p><p>The answer to that question is complicated, but it is closely linked to the reason why President-Elect Joe Biden is currently on the receiving end of a lot of scrutiny and pushback on the topic of student loan forgiveness.<br></p><p>Recently the amount of <a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-17-trillion-question-that-did-not-come-up-during-trump-biden-presidential-debate-2020-09-30" target="_blank">student loan debt in the United States surpassed $1.7 trillion</a>. That amount has more than <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/21/bloombergs-plan-to-tackle-the-1point7-trillion-student-loan-crisis.html" target="_blank">tripled in the last 15 years</a>, with around 45 million Americans currently holding some amount of student loan debt, and an average burden in excess of $30,000.</p><p>Most of that debt is <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/07/your-money/student-loans-bankruptcy.html" target="_blank">nearly impossible to discharge through the standard bankruptcy process</a>. And the fact that most of that burden falls on young people — whose careers are less established and who face generational declines in wages and wealth — exacerbates the impact of that debt. It's a major factor in <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/09/millions-of-millennials-are-locked-out-of-homeownership-heres-why.html" target="_blank">the worrying declines in rates of home ownership, marriage, and birth rate among millennials</a>.</p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-133"></div>
<!-- End Ezoic - incontent3 - longer_content --></p><p>It is widely acknowledged that the cost of higher education has ballooned out of control while it has increasingly been pushed as a necessary step on the path to prosperity. Underlying this problem is the fact that — <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32821678" target="_blank">unlike many developed nations</a> — our federal government doesn't offer affordable public universities or fund education in fields like medicine and engineering where we always need more skilled professionals.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">
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</p><p>Instead we offer government-backed loans and guarantees that incentivize institutions to invest in administrative bloat and in expensive development projects to enhance their prestige and entice prospective students with unnecessary luxuries. Teenagers instilled with little sense of the financial commitments — but an unwavering belief in the necessity of college — have become cash cows.</p><p>The system as it stands is clearly broken, and whatever other reforms are called for, the resulting debt crisis is interfering with the spending power and attainment of an entire generation. In the context of a pandemic that has affected the livelihoods of so many, it would seem like an uncontroversial act for the government to alleviate some of that burden of student debt.<br></p><p>And for the most part, it is. Opinion polling shows that the notion of <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamminsky/2020/09/25/new-poll-shows-substantial-bipartisan-support-for-student-loan-forgiveness-and-other-relief-for-borrowers/?sh=14602aa12b7c" target="_blank">providing some amount of student loan forgiveness is broadly popular</a> across partisan lines.</p><p>The exception is among the pundit class — and the wealthy donors they represent. Because, as various political figures — including <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/16/schumer-suggests-student-debt-forgiveness-through-executive-order.html" target="_blank">Democratic Senators Chuck Schumer and Elizabeth Warren</a> — have begun urging Joe Biden to make student loan forgiveness an early focus of his presidency, others in politics and the news media have done their best to push back.</p><div id="d17b3" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="2e3f727d707e9312d1023e111a6db655"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1143504500914884608" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">When you say #cancelstudentdebt, you’re saying a minority of people who had the advantage of obtaining a degree sho… https://t.co/BMbhxUHAbK</div> — Dan Crenshaw (@Dan Crenshaw)<a href="https://twitter.com/DanCrenshawTX/statuses/1143504500914884608">1561467692.0</a></blockquote></div><p>At the moment, a forbearance measure laid out in the CARES act has been extended through the remainder of 2020 — allowing those with federal student loans to defer payments for the time being. But further action being proposed would include forgiveness for debt owed to private companies.<br></p><p>Among the wide range of suggestions are legislation to provide <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/23/biden-proposes-forgiving-10000-in-student-debt-for-public-service.html" target="_blank">$10,000 of debt forgiveness for individuals meeting certain restrictive criteria</a> and $50,000 of automatic forgiveness for all student debt holders — delivered through an executive order as soon as Joe Biden assumes the White House.</p><p>In either case, some would still be left with large burdens of debt, and some would likely be hit with unmanageable tax bills — as debt forgiveness is considered a form of income. But the debate has not largely involved addressing those shortcomings. Rather, many have questioned whether we should be considering these proposals at all.</p><p></p><p><strong>The objections tend to fall into three categories: It wouldn't help the right people, it wouldn't stimulate the economy as much as other measures, and "I paid off my student loans, so why shouldn't they?"</strong></p><p>The last is patently asinine, and should be ignored or mocked as it applies equally to any form of progress — "My face healed after smashing against the dashboard, so why should we add airbags now?" If the people espousing this perspective want to be acknowledged for their fiscal responsibility, here's the entirety of the praise they deserve: Good for you.</p><p>The fact remains that many people are not able to pay off their student loan debts, which can have a ruinous effect on their credit rating, affecting everything from interest rates on other loans to — in a cruel twist — <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/select/can-employers-see-your-credit-score/" target="_blank">their employment prospects</a>. There is a disturbing potential for an accelerating debt cycle that becomes impossible to escape.</p><div id="1d226" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="f031972cfe91ea552f9cee44e0d553ad"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1328480231993249796" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">“Things were bad for me, so they should stay bad for everyone else” is not a good argument against debt cancellatio… https://t.co/yyC60K5Uyz</div> — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez)<a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/statuses/1328480231993249796">1605569343.0</a></blockquote></div><p>Even for those who are able to pay off their debts may feel pressured by the monthly payments to accept employment that they otherwise wouldn't — contributing to an imbalance in the employee-employer relationship that could further suppress wages. In short, it's bad.<br></p><p>So while it's valid to point out that there are others in the economy more in need than college graduates, we can't ignore the reality of the student debt crisis. Along with other important measures — further extension and expansion of unemployment benefits, rent subsidies, and direct payments to make it easier for people to stay home — student loan forgiveness should be considered an essential part of COVID relief.</p><p>Which leaves only one complaint left: It wouldn't do enough to stimulate the economy.</p><p>The basic issue is that the benefit of debt forgiveness is spread out over years or decades of remaining loan payments. And because it would also contribute to recipient's tax burdens, there is a concern that much of the cost of debt relief would not result in short term increases in consumer spending — the kind that spurs quick economic growth.</p><p>While that's worth being aware of, doesn't this objection have its priorities reversed? Isn't the entire purpose of a strong economy to improve people's lives? So why are we unwilling to improve people's lives unless it primarily contributes to short term economic growth?</p><p></p><p>Clearly our entire system has embraced this inverted way of thinking. That's why it can pass almost without notice when the Federal Reserve spends $4 trillion to prop up investment markets.</p><p>We happily spend that amount on measures that only directly benefit the wealthy, and yet — when it's suggested that we should spend a fraction of that on a popular policy that could improve the lives of 45 million Americans — it becomes a point of great contention.</p><h2></h2><p>We all seem to have forgotten the essential truth that the economy is meant to serve us — not the other way around.</p>
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Boeing's 737 MAX is to take to the skies once more after the go-ahead from the FAA, fueling the stock's rise.
Shares of Boeing (BA) have continued to climb this month, rising over 33% from their October 30th closing of $144.39, and have continued to climb this week.
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</p><p><br></p><p>There are a few key events contributing to this rapid rise in the stock:</p><p>1. October's quarterly report unveiled further job cuts, for the airline as well as a smaller-than-expected loss. Losses were $1.39 a share, beating out expected losses of $2.47 a share. Headcount will also shrink by <a href="http://www.fi-aeroweb.com/US-Commercial-Aircraft-Fleet.html" target="_blank">11,000.</a> Even in one of the worst markets for travel stocks in decades, investors appear to be confident in the company's long-term prospects.</p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-129"></div>
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</script></center><p></p><p>2. With multiple COVID-19 vaccine trials reporting positive results, investors are starting to eye a post-coronavirus world where pent-up demand for travel will see millions taking to the skies. With Boeing still the market-leader in US commercial aircraft, expect that demand to trickle down to the airplane manufacturer's bottom line.</p><p>3. With the FAA clearing the 737 MAX to fly after two fatal crashes, the plane is expected to become a hot commodity once more. The planes have been grounded for 20 months while Boeing made changes to software, design, and training to reassure customers, and airlines are eager to get them flying once more. </p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-131"></div>
<!-- End Ezoic - incontent2 - long_content --></p><p>The 737 MAX has a longer range and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/18/business/boeing-737-max-faa.html" target="_blank">burns 14% less fuel</a> than Boeing's previous 737 NG, making it a strong choice for airlines' long-distance and trans-continental routes. Alaska Airlines and Ryanair are both expected to take MAX deliveries in a matter of months and US passengers could be prepared to fly in already-delivered planes as early as late December.</p><p><strong>That's not to say Boeing's rapid rise will continue.</strong> These vaccines are still awaiting FDA approval and the 737 Max still needs clearance from air safety regulators internationally including Transport Canada, Civil Aviation Administration of China, and the European Aviation Safety Agency. </p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-133"></div>
<!-- End Ezoic - incontent3 - longer_content --></p><p>Meanwhile, it may be an uphill battle for passengers to board a plane again after COVID-19, not the least on an airplane model that dominated the headlines following the <a href="https://www.thestreet.com/investing/boeing-posts-n..." target="_blank">crashes of Lion Air Flight 610</a> and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302.</p><p>Positive news in the last month has allowed Boeing's stock to soar. The real question is how long will it stay up?</p>
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