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By Jon D. Markman On July 7, 201702:00 PM Eastern
By 2030, the United Nations wants everyone on the planet to have a digital identity. It’s an enormous task.
Microsoft (MSFT) and Accenture (ACN) have been tinkering with blockchain schemes for...
By Jon D. Markman On June 21, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Mining giant Rio Tinto PLC (RIO) is willing to go to hell and back for copper.
Its new mine near Superior, Arizona, bores nearly 7,000 feet below the Earth’s surface. There, temperatures...
By Jon D. Markman On June 16, 201702:00 PM Eastern
A quiet war is underway. And the future of the internet as we know it is at stake.
Most internet content is financed by interruptive advertising. And people hate it.
Apple (AAPL) and Google...
By Jon D. Markman On May 30, 201707:30 AM Eastern
Mark Fields is out as the top man at Ford (F).
Conventional wisdom puts the blame somewhere in the vicinity of Elon Musk, CEO at Tesla (TSLA). Don’t believe it.
The auto business faces a...
By Remi Lukosiunas On May 30, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Generally, keeping all your eggs in one basket isn’t a good idea. That’s true when it comes to investing, and it’s the case for banking, too. Having a healthy mix of different loan types can be a...
By Mandeep Rai On April 26, 201707:50 AM Eastern
I want to start today’s column by showing you four charts – each of which illustrates the results from a different investment strategy. The red line in these charts shows the back-tested results...
By Jon D. Markman On March 27, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Last week, Republican leaders could not convince their own members to vote to kill Obamacare.
So they gave up and moved on.
For investors, that should be good news. Healthcare, with its...
By Jon D. Markman On January 3, 201707:30 AM Eastern
For many sports fans, it’s unthinkable. But young people have stopped watching the games live. They would rather watch them when it’s convenient. And that, pardon the pun, is a game-changer.
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By Jon D. Markman On November 1, 201607:30 AM Eastern
With self-driving cars, the giant global auto industry is careening toward unprecedented disruption as its 100-year-old business model is turned completely inside out.
That is the big takeaway...
By Jon D. Markman On October 25, 201607:30 AM Eastern
With the U.S. presidential election entering the home stretch, hyperbole about the decrepit state of American manufacturing has reached a fever pitch.
With deserted, dilapidated factories as...