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By Jon D. Markman On January 10, 201802:00 PM Eastern
Something big is happening. The very nature of commerce is changing. And it is happening fast.
This week, The Wall Street Journal ran a story about Samsung’s capital spending. In 2017, the...
By Jon D. Markman On January 5, 201802:00 PM Eastern
There is a new way to get rich. It is as simple as creating digital money.
Chris Larsen, the co-founder of Ripple — a real-time, digital payment network — is now the fifth-richest person in...
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 Jon D. Markman On December 29, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Trading near $14,000, Bitcoin is up 1,500% this year. And still, most investors would be hard-pressed to explain the monetary unit in a paragraph or two.
Cryptocurrencies are decentralized,...
By Mike Larson On December 29, 201708:22 AM Eastern
The best-performing, highest-rated ETFs. The best-performing, highest-rated stocks. The best-performing fixed-income investments. I’ve spent a lot of time recently looking back at which trends and...
By Gavin Magor On December 28, 201709:05 AM Eastern
How much do you value safety when it comes to investing? That’s what the choice between a traditional variable annuity and the next two competing products in our educational series boils down...
By Mandeep Rai On December 27, 201709:09 AM Eastern
Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” is one of the American poet’s most well-known works, famous for its depiction of two roads diverging in a wood. What I’m most interested in today, though, is...
By Jon D. Markman On December 20, 201702:00 PM Eastern
You may have noticed that carmakers are suddenly rushing to turn their fleets electric.
This week, Prius maker Toyota became the latest brand to jump into the new phase of the electric...
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,...