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By Mike Larson On September 5, 201807:55 AM Eastern
The NFL season kicks off tomorrow night when the Atlanta Falcons battle the Philadelphia Eagles. I’ll be watching — not just because I’m a longtime football fan but also because I participate in a...
By Jon D. Markman On August 13, 201801:55 PM Eastern
It is called the last mile, and it’s crucial to the future of all commerce. Yet most investors have never heard of it. There lies an opportunity.
Last week, Bloomberg ran a story about a startup...
By Juan M. Villaverde On July 27, 201807:55 AM Eastern
I’m worried.
With each passing day, I see more signs of central governments around the world working in concert to reduce, and ultimately eliminate, the use of physical cash.
Their goal: To...
By Gavin Magor On January 4, 201802:52 PM Eastern
It’s a new year, and hopefully, it’s already starting off with a bang for you! To wrap up our voyage through variable annuity alternatives … and give you a leg up when it comes to financial...
By Mike Larson On November 20, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Want to generate maximum gains in this market? Then focus on the “Micro” not the “Macro.”
If you don’t know what I mean, consider this: Some investors are top-down-style people. They look at the...
By Mike Larson On June 16, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Things can change fast in the stock market, and nothing makes that clearer than the action over the past week. Leaders are starting to lag, while laggards are starting to lead. And if I’m right,...
By Jon D. Markman On May 22, 201702:00 PM Eastern
We humans are pretty simple. We want binary choices. Right, wrong. Up, down. Unfortunately, markets are often more complex.
After the presidential election, investors expected this White House...
By Jon D. Markman On August 16, 201607:30 AM Eastern
In dystopian science-fiction movies, it always starts this way: The Pentagon funds a contest of machines built to play war games using artificially intelligent software. End of civilization...
By Jon D. Markman On May 10, 201607:30 AM Eastern
Hedge fund managers got together last week for a billionaires’ Woodstock — the Ira Sohn Investment Conference. And boy, for a bunch of rich dudes, they sure were cranky and downbeat.
The two...
By Jon D. Markman On January 13, 201507:30 AM Eastern
The pileup of stocks in the first two weeks of 2015 has furrowed a lot of brows but it should not be much of a mystery. Fund managers are selling stuff that had worked last year, like utilities...