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 August 16, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Airlines have been the butt of customer service jokes for years. Deservedly so. Now they’re fighting back, with software.
This week, JetBlue announced a large investment in Gladly, a Silicon...
By Jon D. Markman On August 14, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Investors are being lured into crazy e-commerce schemes, again. And they are losing their shirts, again.
Last week, Blue Apron (APRN) reported financial results in its first quarter as a public...
By Jon D. Markman On August 11, 201702:00 PM Eastern
A couple of celebrity tech CEOs are having a Twitter fight.
Elon Musk, co-founder of Tesla (TSLA) and part-time rocket scientist, believes that unchecked artificial intelligence will ultimately...
By Jon D. Markman On August 9, 201702:00 PM Eastern
A tiny Chicago startup is having a huge impact on insurance.
Lemonade Insurance Company wanted to disrupt the way insurance companies do business. So it replaced brokers and paperwork with...
By Jon D. Markman On August 7, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Big Blue. It’s supposed to be the best of blue-chip stocks. It’s not.
The latest financial results for International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) have arrived. And they are dismal, again. Mark...
By Jon D. Markman On August 4, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Water covers most of the planet. Yet, fresh drinking water remains a precious commodity in many places. It’s one of life’s rich riddles.
A Spanish company has a solution. Abengoa S.A. (MCE:...
By Jon D. Markman On August 2, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Everywhere you look, something in the real world seems to be getting replaced by something digital.
Thankfully, the real world has started to strike back.
This week, The Wall Street...
By Jon D. Markman On July 31, 201702:00 PM Eastern
John Fischer holds the Guinness record for the world’s largest ball of stickers.
It’s not surprising.
He is also the founder and CEO of StickerGiant.com, a Colorado business that Forbes dubbed...
By Jon D. Markman On July 28, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Quantum physics and tiny satellites hundreds of miles above Earth will form the basis of the next leap in global communications.
“Quantum communications.” That’s what scientists call this...
By Jon D. Markman On July 26, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Plenty has a great name. It also has a compelling vertical farming idea that could change agriculture forever.
Last week, the San Francisco agricultural technology company scored $200 million in...
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.
