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By Jon D. Markman On October 3, 201803:25 PM Eastern
Something important is happening. The same forces that turned movies, music and shopping into bits of data are transforming financial services.
To the general public, Betterment LLC is largely...
By Sean Brodrick On September 29, 201811:55 AM Eastern
Are you feeling the pain at the gas pump? Yeah, gasoline prices are at their highest for this time of year since 2014. But then we keep hearing that U.S. oil production is hitting new highs. How...
By Juan M. Villaverde On September 26, 201807:55 AM Eastern
Today’s banking system is an opaque web of intermediaries and third parties that stand between you and your money.
Moreover, as I’ll demonstrate in just a moment, they’re gutting the income on...
By Mike Larson On September 26, 201807:55 AM Eastern
I don’t know if there are 50 of ‘em. But when it comes to investing, there ARE shades of gray — and that’s an important lesson I think many people forget.
You see, over the two decades I’ve been...
By Jon D. Markman On September 24, 201802:27 PM Eastern
Banks and credit unions are in a fight for their lives. A financial technology revolution is underway. The old world order is dying.
In early September, Bloomberg reported Mastercard (MA) and...
By Sean Brodrick On September 22, 201811:55 AM Eastern
Cue the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse … because marijuana is now bigger than baseball.
Yep. Major League Baseball earned $10 billion in revenue last year. It should earn about the same this...
On January 24, 2018, the first Weiss Cryptocurrency Ratings were released. Bitcoin got a C+ (“fair”). And many in the crypto community fiercely denounced the grade as overly punishing.
Charles...
By Mike Larson On September 19, 201807:55 AM Eastern
President Trump upped the ante in the U.S.-China trade war this week, vowing to slap new tariffs on $200 billion of imported Chinese goods. The 10% levy will start September 24. Depending on how...
By Sean Brodrick On September 18, 201811:55 AM Eastern
We have met the newest “member” of OPEC — and it is one of America’s 50 states. That’s just one of the wild forces pushing the oil markets around. It’s going to make oil prices more volatile … but...
By Sean Brodrick On September 17, 201807:55 AM Eastern
There's an old Doors song that's particularly appropriate to the gold market right now. Jim Morrison sings:
"I've been down so very damn long/ That it looks like up to me."
I'm looking at gold...