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.
By Jon D. Markman On November 27, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Thanksgiving used to be about overeating, watching football on TV, and spending too much time and money at the mall.
However, for the past decade, bricks have been replaced by clicks. Online...
By Jon D. Markman On November 22, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Two years ago, the best bipedal robots couldn’t climb stairs or open doors. Watching them calculate, quiver and then tumble was hilarious.
Now, Boston Dynamics has one doing backflips!
Last...
By Jon D. Markman On November 20, 201702:00 PM Eastern
It’s crazy. Elon Musk has built a semi truck that can accelerate from 0-60 mph in 20 seconds while hauling a 40-ton load.
Think that’s impressive? Well, set the cab free of its trailer, and the...
By Jon D. Markman On November 17, 201702:00 PM Eastern
The opioid epidemic ravages small and large towns across America.
And it has largely been intractable both to law enforcement and to the medical community. Until now.
This week, the...
By Jon D. Markman On November 15, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Apple’s iPhone X is cool. Its new gesture-based operating system is super-slick. Yet, it is nothing compared to what Cupertino has up its sleeve.
This week, Bloomberg reported Apple is...
By Jon D. Markman On November 13, 201702:00 PM Eastern
You can see the Under Armour (UA) logo everywhere …
While passing a group of teens … watching pro sports … working out at the gym … and all around town. Heck, I have several UA gym, golf and...
By Jon D. Markman On November 10, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Skeptics say fully self-driving cars are decades away. They’re wrong.
This week The USA Today reported that Waymo, the Alphabet (GOOGL) subsidiary working on autonomous vehicles, showed off a...
By Jon D. Markman On November 8, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Imagine if fighter jets could shoot down enemy targets with high-powered lasers.
That is now closer to reality. Recently, the Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $26 million contract to...
By Jon D. Markman On November 6, 201702:00 PM Eastern
The numbers are out. Apple (AAPL) had another monster year.
Fourth-quarter sales rose 12% year-over-year, to $52.6 billion. Profits were $10.7 billion.
The Cupertino behemoth sold more of...
By Jon D. Markman On November 3, 201702:00 PM Eastern
There is a great scene in the 2013 film “Her.” In it, the leading man plays in an interactive, completely immersive, mixed-reality video game. It’s set in an impossibly rich, virtual world.
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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.
