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By Mike Larson On May 19, 201707:00 AM Eastern
How much is too much? That’s the question the Securities and Exchange Commission is wrestling with when it comes to leverage. Earlier this week, the SEC halted the approval process for a pair of...
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 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 Jon D. Markman On April 26, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Most people are self-driving car skeptics. They just can’t imagine the cumbersome robot cars we see in the media today will ever become good or cheap enough for widespread use.
A big hurdle is...
By Jon D. Markman On April 24, 201702:00 PM Eastern
There is a new calculus in corporate boardrooms. Profits are so yesterday. Now it’s all about vision and great storytelling.
Blame Amazon (AMZN). The online behemoth cracked the code. Despite...
By Jon D. Markman On April 21, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Thirty million people dead in less than a year. That’s the grisly forecast for a successful bioterrorist attack. And it’s more likely than ever, according to experts.
Bill Gates made his...
By Mike Larson On April 17, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Is today’s market volatile or non-volatile? The answer is … yes.
In fact, it reminds me of the famous Schrodinger’s cat experiment. That’s the one where Austrian physicist Erwin Schrodinger...
By Jon D. Markman On April 12, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Adidas, the giant athletic shoemaker, wants to 3D-print your next pair of sneakers.
The iconic shoe manufacturer wouldn’t be the first to toy with the idea. Rivals have played with the...