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By Sean Brodrick On April 14, 201811:55 AM Eastern
Have you seen the action in gold lately? It’s good. The action in miners is even better. The miners are no longer hitting the snooze button. They’re waking up, shaking off the cobwebs, and looking...
By Jon D. Markman On March 16, 201802:55 PM Eastern
It’s not easy for cryptocurrency speculators right now. Right now, it seems like everyone in a position of power is turning against them.
This week, officials at the International Monetary Fund...
By Jon D. Markman On February 23, 201802:00 PM Eastern
The future of the Internet began Thursday morning. That’s when Falcon 9, the reusable SpaceX rocket, blasted into space.
Elon Musk’s rocket company gets a lot of good press. Rightfully so....
By Sean Brodrick On February 20, 201811:00 AM Eastern
Are you paying too much for gasoline? You could soon pay more.
That is, if Congress bites on President’s Trump latest idea: Raise the gasoline tax. By 25 cents a gallon.
Which means, if you’re...
By Jon D. Markman On January 24, 201802:00 PM Eastern
Imagine never carrying cash again. I know; it’s crazy. Dystopian, even, depending on your point of view.
Last week Alphabet (GOOGL) struck a patent swap deal with Tencent, the Chinese chat,...
By Mike Larson On December 18, 201708:00 AM Eastern
On Friday, I shared my list of the best-performing, highest-rated ETFs of 2017. Now it’s time to do the same thing for STOCKS! Our Weiss Ratings database contains more than 13,700 stocks, so...
By Jon D. Markman On December 11, 201702:00 PM Eastern
In movies and novels, overnight success stories are frequent. Real life doesn’t work that way. It takes years of hard work, vision and at least one gigantic bet-the-farm moment.
This week,...
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 Mike Larson On September 18, 201707:00 AM Eastern
First things first: Our office, my home, and the homes and families of our employees largely escaped the wrath of Hurricane Irma. I’m very thankful for that.
Unfortunately, I can’t say the same...
By Gavin Magor On September 7, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Devastating, and expensive, the damage in Texas from Hurricane Harvey will fall mainly on the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) as I said last week. Catastrophe funding will also kick in for...