Pivotal Point

Turning points in history and in the markets can help you transform small grubstakes into not-so-small fortunes. Or they can trip up your finances for months, even years. This free e-letter will not only keep you one step ahead of the news, but it will also help you identify the pivotal point in time when a major turn is near.

Articles

If you are old enough to remember the Beatles singing “When I’m Sixty-Four,” your prayers have been answered. Researchers have found a way to reverse the aging process. According to the paper...
Telemedicine is one of those face-palm ideas. Having doctors diagnose patients using videoconference technology is a no-brainer. It should be everywhere. It turns out it took a global pandemic...
Social distancing is pushing thousands of enterprise employees out of office towers and into makeshift home offices. It’s a big trend that may last several quarters as the battle to contain the...
The world’s business model has changed overnight: We’ve been cooped up, self-isolated, working from home or simply left with nowhere to go as businesses shutter. As people prepare for this...
Bill Gates made a career out of being several steps ahead of the next big thing. Now he’s racing to help policymakers avoid catastrophe. The billionaire philanthropist stepped down from his...
It’s been a rough month for tech stocks. The Nasdaq is down 18.2% since early February and almost 12% over the past five days. To say that stock crashes are never much fun is an understatement....
Washington lawmakers are set to take another whack at end to end encryption. It could make everyone less safe. A bipartisan group of United States Senators introduced EARN IT on Tuesday. This...
The new BMW i4 doesn’t seem real. Its matte finishes and sedate styling seem out of character for a car company focused on drivers. The sports sedan was supposed to debut last week at the Geneva...
One of the few positives to come from the coronavirus is investors now have a better appreciation of businesses that monetize time. Facebook (FB), Alphabet (GOOGL) and Netflix (NFLX) do this...
The entire business world is in the midst of a giant transition. For plenty of good reasons, remote employment is a growing trend across the corporate world. Though many in the corporate world...

About the Editor

Jon D. Markman is winner of the prestigious Gerald Loeb Award for outstanding financial journalism and the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi award. He was also on Los Angeles Times staffs that won Pulitzer Prizes for coverage of the 1992 L.A. riots and the 1994 Northridge earthquake. He invented Microsoft’s StockScouter, the world’s first online app for analyzing and picking stocks.

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