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By Jon D. Markman On April 4, 201801:55 PM Eastern
Healthcare is one-sixth of the U.S. economy. It is a $3 trillion industry. And it is hopelessly broken.
On Monday, The Wall Street Journal reported that Walmart (WMT) was in early talks to...
By Mike Larson On April 2, 201807:55 AM Eastern
The “all-is-well” crowd is out in full force.
They say that the big rout we’ve seen in tech stocks is still just a garden-variety correction.
They insist nothing has changed “fundamentally.”
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By Mike Larson On March 29, 201809:00 AM Eastern
I could think of lots to spend $664,000 on if someone handed it to me today. A parking place is not one of them.
But apparently, Kwan Wai-ming is cut from a different cloth. The executive...
By Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D. On March 28, 201808:00 AM Eastern
The data breach of 50 million Facebook users is not just a social media problem.
Nor is it strictly an excuse for investors to dump their tech stocks, sending them into a nosedive like we saw...
By Juan M. Villaverde On March 28, 201807:00 AM Eastern
Facebook’s breach of trust, impacting over 50 million users, has most of the world up in arms.
Users are deleting their Facebook accounts. Investors are dumping Facebook shares. And widely-read...
By Jon D. Markman On March 23, 201801:55 PM Eastern
Bitcoin is likely to become the online equivalent to gold, according to a billionaire investor.
Peter Thiel was at the Economic Club of New York last week, talking about cryptocurrencies. As the...
By Tony Sagami On March 23, 201807:55 AM Eastern
Sure, 2017 was a good year for the stock market, but it was a really amazing year for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. The S&P 500 rose 21.4%. Bitcoin soared 1,403%.
Yup, 64 times better than...
By Mike Larson On March 22, 201812:00 PM Eastern
Just over a decade ago, one of the first major dominoes in the mortgage crisis toppled. The venerable Wall Street brokerage firm Bear Stearns collapsed, forcing the government and Federal Reserve...
By Mike Larson On March 21, 201807:55 AM Eastern
Just over a decade ago, one of the first major dominoes in the mortgage crisis toppled. The venerable Wall Street brokerage firm Bear Stearns collapsed, forcing the government and Federal Reserve...
By Mike Larson On March 19, 201807:55 AM Eastern
It’s been a while since our children were young enough to enjoy the playground. But as parents, we remember how much joy they got hanging from the monkey bars, swinging on the swings, and slipping...