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By Jon D. Markman On May 5, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Providing healthcare is a giant pain. Escalating costs and an aging population are causing a political divide. They are also pushing government budgets to the breaking point.
A pair of startups...
By Mike Larson On May 5, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Stop me if you’ve seen this movie before: Central bankers flood the economy with cheap, easy money. Things go well for a while in the sector that benefits from it. But eventually lenders go WAY...
By Jon D. Markman On May 3, 201702:00 PM Eastern
In 1997, a tiny company in Scotts Valley, Calif., came up with a radical business model. The big idea was to use data to change the way average people consume media.
That company was Netflix...
By Remi Lukosiunas On May 2, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Stashing your cash in one place may not always be the best idea. It’s like picking your investments: You want to diversify your portfolio in case some of them underperform. But from the looks of...
By Jon D. Markman On May 1, 201704:00 PM Eastern
Last week, as the Nasdaq Composite Index crossed 6,000 for the first time, Robert Shiller, a Nobel laureate economist, made the rounds in the financial press.
He’s worried. Valuations are...
By Mike Larson On May 1, 201707:00 AM Eastern
President Donald Trump just unveiled the “biggest tax cut” ever. Or at least, that’s what he and deputies like Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn are...
By Jon D. Markman On April 28, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Amazon wants you to take wardrobe advice from a connected gadget.
It brought personal digital assistants into our kitchens with Echo, a connected speaker. Now it can see, so Amazon wants to come...
By Mike Larson On April 28, 201707:00 AM Eastern
When I was a kid, my mom doled out a lot of oatmeal for breakfast. She tried to spice it up with brown sugar or raisins sometime, and of course, it met my nutritional needs. But let’s be honest:...
By Gavin Magor On April 27, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Last week, I wrote about the health insurance industry, outlining how safety and investment ratings can differ. Today, I would like to focus on the entire insurance industry and the top rated,...
By Mandeep Rai On April 26, 201707:50 AM Eastern
I want to start today’s column by showing you four charts – each of which illustrates the results from a different investment strategy. The red line in these charts shows the back-tested results...