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By Jon D. Markman On May 31, 201902:05 PM Eastern
The markets got off to another rocky start Friday after President Trump tweeted that the U.S. will impose a 5% tariff on Mexican imports.
This tariff would start June 10, increase 5% a month,...
By Jon D. Markman On May 17, 201902:00 PM Eastern
The extreme -2.5% setback to U.S. markets to kick off this week set off a ton of alarm bells among the sort of quantitative analysts who help us understand current events through the prism of past...
By Jon D. Markman On May 6, 201910:00 AM Eastern
Editor’s note: Below is what Jon sent his Markman’s Strategic Options subscribers before the markets opened this morning. With the broad markets in the red, down about 1.5% apiece, we think all of...
By Sean Brodrick On May 4, 201912:00 PM Eastern
There is so much going on in the marijuana space, it’s like trying to drink from a firehose at full blast. As much as you can catch, you’ll miss a lot, too.
So, to help keep you up-to-date and...
By Jon D. Markman On March 13, 201904:44 PM Eastern
Most consumers don’t know it, but they are pawns in a larger debate over privacy.
The popularity of Foursquare — a mobile app that lets users “check in” to locations and recommends other local...
By Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D. On March 13, 201907:55 AM Eastern
Across the Atlantic Ocean, in Great Britain, one of the world's oldest democracies, the head of the government is going down in flames, to one defeat after another.
No matter how you feel about...
By Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D. On February 18, 201907:55 AM Eastern
While the U.S. celebrates the birth of two presidents, the E.U. mourns the death of its economic boom.
Italy has just sunk into recession.
Germany is within a hair of doing the same.
The...
By Juan M. Villaverde On February 13, 201908:55 AM Eastern
On Jan. 28, Canada’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange, QuadrigaCX, suddenly went dark. At least $136 million in customer assets vanished under highly suspicious circumstances.
How was that...
By Dr. Bruce Ng On January 23, 201908:55 AM Eastern
When we first gave Bitcoin a “C+” rating, Bitcoin lovers fumed with anger.
Even when we explained precisely why — high investment risk and lagging technology — they still weren’t very happy.
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By Juan M. Villaverde On January 9, 201908:55 AM Eastern
Globalization of the first kind came with the end of World War II and the emergence of a single dominant currency, the U.S. dollar.
International trade grew by leaps and bounds. In 1950, trade...