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By Jon D. Markman On October 15, 201802:41 PM Eastern
The powers-that-be want to kill paper money. It would make everything so much easier.
However, cash is still king at the lower rung of the socioeconomic ladder. Walmart (WMT) and PayPal (PYPL)...
By Jon D. Markman On October 12, 201804:30 PM Eastern
The corporate world is going green. While this transformation may not get the coverage that electric vehicles do, it’s a big trend change with larger implications.
General Motors (GM) announced...
By Jon D. Markman On October 3, 201803:25 PM Eastern
Something important is happening. The same forces that turned movies, music and shopping into bits of data are transforming financial services.
To the general public, Betterment LLC is largely...
By Sean Brodrick On September 27, 201811:55 AM Eastern
Remember how market speculators used to be so keen on Bitcoin? Many still are. We’re just between innings, they say. And that’s fine. Heck, I play big cycles. Maybe they’re right. But while they...
By Jon D. Markman On September 21, 201801:55 PM Eastern
As a company, Apple (AAPL) is usually bulletproof. Unfortunately, the iPhone maker is hopelessly stuck in the middle of the U.S.-China trade war, and the real “shooting” has only just begun.
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By Gavin Magor On September 20, 201807:55 AM Eastern
Banking may be the single-most important industry for any economy. Without strong, liquid, loan-making banks, capital flows would slow dramatically and the economy would grind to a halt. That’s...
By Jon D. Markman On September 19, 201802:55 PM Eastern
Extremism is on the rise globally. Instead of attacking the root cause, politicians are increasingly scapegoating big technology companies.
Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European...
By Sean Brodrick On September 18, 201807:55 AM Eastern
I was in Colorado recently, and all around me were reminders that I was in a state with a rich history of minerals — natural gas, silver, and especially gold. And it holds lessons for today’s...
By Juan M. Villaverde On September 12, 201807:55 AM Eastern
“You’ve gotta start with the customer experience and work backward to the technology.”
— Steve Jobs, Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, 1997
The key to mass adoption of...
By Sean Brodrick On August 28, 201811:55 AM Eastern
I was in San Francisco over the weekend, speaking at the MoneyShow. And while I was there, the ETFMG Alternative Harvest ETF (NYSE: MJ) — a basket of leading marijuana stocks — did this …
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