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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 Tony Sagami On August 13, 201807:55 AM Eastern
There’s a huge obstacle keeping cryptocurrencies from becoming a mainstream investment. That is, the inability of large institutional investors to find a third-party custodian to hold it for...
By Mike Larson On August 10, 201807:55 AM Eastern
I bet that Warren Buffett had a huge smile on his face last week. I say that because Buffett’s investment franchise, Berkshire Hathaway, owns 240 million shares of Apple (AAPL). And it pocketed...
Monero, Dash, Zcash and similar coins use advanced mathematics to protect the privacy of transactions, and the technology underlying these specialized coins can be very beneficial.
It could help...
By Mike Larson On August 8, 201807:55 AM Eastern
All tech, all the time. That’s what most of the financial news coverage is about these days. Heck, even as I was writing this piece a CNBC segment called “The Next Big Tech Names” was running on...
By Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D. On August 6, 201807:55 AM Eastern
A lot of expert manpower and money has been poured into the technology that underlies cryptocurrencies — Distributed Ledger Technology, or (DLT).
Major global banks are jumping into the space....
By Jon D. Markman On August 3, 201802:52 PM Eastern
It is Economics 101. The best business model involves strong sales and high profit margins. Sadly, the combination almost never happens.
Apple (AAPL) almost got there in the past quarter. The...
By Mike Larson On August 2, 201811:55 AM Eastern
Have you ever seen a stock market as confused as this one?
One day, you can’t give financial stocks away. The next day, they’re soaring.
One day, transportation shares are on fire. The next...
By Juan M. Villaverde On August 1, 201807:55 AM Eastern
Despite the tremendous amount of expert manpower and money poured into blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), crypto naysayers continue to push their negative narrative.
“It’s all...
By Mike Larson On August 1, 201807:55 AM Eastern
One-hundred and twenty billion dollars is a lot of money.
It’s roughly equal to the entire annual economic output of Kuwait — or Uruguay and Panama combined, if you prefer.
It’s enough to buy...