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By Sean Brodrick On October 20, 202005:40 AM Eastern
His name was Nikolai Kondratieff.
He wrote a 23-page tract called “The Long Waves in Economic Life.”
It contained an idea so incendiary, he was sent to the gulag … before being...
By David Dittman On October 13, 202004:51 PM Eastern
“U.S. stocks climbed to to the highest in almost six weeks amid a rally in big technology companies” read the midday alert from Bloomberg, including the repetitive “to.”
I only noticed the typo...
By Jon D. Markman On October 7, 202012:56 PM Eastern
Washington lawmakers are about to mount their assault on perceived anticompetitive practices at big tech companies. That means investors should buy Amazon.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN, Rated “B”),...
By Jon D. Markman On August 31, 202001:56 PM Eastern
Walmart Inc. (NYSE: WMT, Rated “B”) is working with Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT, Rated “B+”) on a bid to buyout TikTok, the smartphone app famous for silly lip-singing and dance videos created...
By Jon D. Markman On August 12, 202001:00 PM Eastern
Google has a plan to use the sensors in Android phones for a worldwide earthquake detection network, and it’s legitimately the best smartphone news is in a long time.
The search giant announced...
By David Dittman On August 11, 202004:42 PM Eastern
Niall Ferguson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He’s been a professor of history at Harvard, New York University and at the University of Oxford. His books...
By Jon D. Markman On August 10, 202012:54 PM Eastern
Bill Gates says most COVID-19 tests are complete garbage, but he’s optimistic about vaccines and treatments that should end the threat in United States by the end of 2021.
That’s the key...
By Jon D. Markman On August 3, 202001:13 PM Eastern
Pro-growth policies are nice, but corporate managers mostly want politicians to stay out of the way.
On Saturday, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT, Rated “B+”) and ByteDance, the Chinese parent of...
By David Dittman On July 28, 202004:41 PM Eastern
“It should be clear for all to see,” wrote Jon Markman in the July 24, 2020, issue of Jon Markman’s Pivotal Point, “that Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT, Rated “B+”) was a huge winner in the pandemic.”
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By Jon D. Markman On July 27, 202012:58 PM Eastern
In the 1990s, Wintel, the partnership between Microsoft’s (Nasdaq: MSFT, Rated “B+”) Windows and Intel (Nasdaq: INTC, Rated “B”) that created the x86 chips, was unstoppable.
The two tech giants...