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By Remi Lukosiunas On May 23, 201707:00 AM Eastern
You work hard to earn your money, and you deposit it into a bank account so it can be kept safe and so you can have access to it later. But at what cost? Around $4.2 billion per quarter, or...
By Gavin Magor On May 4, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Recent reports show that U.S. insurers had a tough start to the year, racking up an estimated record of $7 billion in insured damages in the first three months of 2017. Most of those losses were...
By Remi Lukosiunas On April 25, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Last week, I talked about how the banking industry is in recovery mode. Specifically, data from both Weiss Ratings and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) have shown a significant...
By Jon D. Markman On April 21, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Thirty million people dead in less than a year. That’s the grisly forecast for a successful bioterrorist attack. And it’s more likely than ever, according to experts.
Bill Gates made his...
By Mike Larson On April 3, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Donald Trump’s economic policies get a lot of credit for the recent market surge. And there’s no questioning his positive influence on everything from defense to infrastructure to financial...
By Jon D. Markman On March 29, 201702:00 PM Eastern
I love my digital stuff. My iPad Pro, Dell laptop and Nexus6 smartphone make me way more productive, and I can trade and catch up on ballgames from anywhere.
Sadly, there is a darker side to...
By Mike Larson On March 6, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Money, money, money, mmmooonneeyy. MONEY!
No, I’m not singing the theme song to the Apprentice TV show, or the 1973 soul/funk song from The O’Jays it came from. I’m talking about the driving...
By Jon D. Markman On January 10, 201707:30 AM Eastern
Robots are perfect villains. Mechanical, metallic and merciless. Now they’re getting a software upgrade. And they’re coming for your job.
Much like the Gilded Age – when industrialization in the...
By Jon D. Markman On August 9, 201607:30 AM Eastern
Samsung (SSNLF) just unveiled the best $800 smartphone money can buy. Sadly, there isn’t much pent-up demand for expensive, state-of-the-art mobile devices anymore.
The Samsung Galaxy Note 7 is...
By The Weiss Ratings Team On March 14, 201607:00 AM Eastern
A Weiss Ratings health trend analysis of over 1,000 insurers indicates that the total cost of health insurance went up from $95 billion in Q1, 2010 to $140 billion in Q3, 2015; that’s an increase...