Anes Alic

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• Are Americans Finally Sold On Soccer?

  Published 18 February 2020 | viewed 3,814 times

  Soccer, known commonly as football to the rest of the world from whence it originates, became an international craze throughout the late 19th and early…

• Boris Johnson Proposes Billion Dollar Bridge To Northern Ireland

  Published 16 February 2020 | viewed 4,970 times

  Only a couple of weeks after officially leaving the European Union, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson renewed--for the third time in history--a wildly ambitious idea…

• Armed Troops Storm El Salvador’s Parliament

  Published 10 February 2020 | viewed 3,944 times

  Just last year, on a day in July, impoverished El Salvador celebrated its eighth murder-free day in two decades. It’s not much cause for celebration…

• Bachelor’s Degrees Aren’t As Lucrative As They Used To Be

  Published 02 February 2020 | viewed 6,048 times

  Even one of the world’s most famous college dropouts, Bill Gates, believes low graduation rates represent a crisis that needs to be addressed before American…

• Mobile Bank Startup Is Bent On Disrupting Big Finance

  Published 30 January 2020 | viewed 6,980 times

  European mobile bank startup N26 has attracted 250,000 users in the United States since it launched last summer, and now the German-originating fintech is honing…

• Could China's Coronavirus Outbreak Impact U.S. Stocks?

  Published 22 January 2020 | viewed 3,281 times

  There’s a school of thought within financial circles that says that bull markets do not die of old age but rather due to extraneous factors…

• Billions Of Dollars Are Flooding Into The Flying Taxi Space

  Published 16 January 2020 | viewed 4,586 times

  In the 1940s, Henry Ford regaled us with this little fantastical gem: “Mark my words – a combination aeroplane and motor car is coming…You may…

• Startups Are Dying To Give You A Better Death

  Published 15 January 2020 | viewed 6,334 times

  “Ashes to ashes, dust to dust,” no longer.  This phrase, generally used during burial ceremonies, suggests that every life will one day come to an…

• The Banking Bonanza Is Just Getting Started

  Published 14 January 2020 | viewed 6,354 times

  After a disappointing start to the year--the sector’s favorite benchmark, SPDR S&P Bank ETF (KBE), was down 1.3% YTD vs. a 1.64% gain by the…

• Why A Strong Yuan Is A Promising Sign For The Trade War

  Published 10 January 2020 | viewed 4,337 times

  With Beijing appearing to have stopped manipulating the Chinese currency, chances of a US-China trade deal seeing the light of day have increased significantly. The…

• What Would You Sacrifice For A Debt-Free Life?

  Published 09 January 2020 | viewed 4,485 times

  With a total of $13.21 trillion in debt, shared among 300 million people, or some $137,063 in debt per household, Americans still aren’t willing to…

• How Fractional Trading Is Democratizing the Stock Markets

  Published 07 January 2020 | viewed 8,933 times

  Perhaps you have at some point toyed with the idea of buying cult stocks like Amazon Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), Booking Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:BKNG) or even Berkshire…

• These Oil Stocks Are Soaring As Middle East Risk Explodes

  Published 03 January 2020 | viewed 3,921 times

  Oil prices gained $3 overnight, but there is a lineup of stocks benefitting from the fear premium following the assassination of Qasem Soleimani, the head…

• Russia Unplugged: Cyber Control And Censorship

  Published 01 January 2020 | viewed 10,836 times

  Russia claims to now be digitally sovereign, with a dash of censorship, Kremlin-style.  Russia is reported to have successfully implemented its so-called digital sovereignty bill,…

• Trash To Treasure: $100,000 Per Year From Looting Other People's Garbage

  Published 22 December 2019 | viewed 5,968 times

  In the 1980s, dumpster diving emerged to the point that it became a bit of an art as a response to rampant consumerism and massive…

• Mormon Church Accused Of Building $100 Billion Portfolio Using Charity Funds

  Published 19 December 2019 | viewed 7,343 times

  The easiest way to avoid paying taxes is to form a religious organization. But be careful what you do in the age of whistleblowers.  A…

• Smart Money Is Getting Increasingly Nervous

  Published 17 December 2019 | viewed 7,346 times

  Could it be that stock markets are catching on to the fleeting nature of tweeting, or is there something bigger at play here as the…

• Investors Apprehension Makes $3,000 Gold Seem Feasible

  Published 13 December 2019 | viewed 8,178 times

  For the first three quarters of this year, gold peaked with an almost 25% gain more than double the rise of the S&P 500 at…

• Beijing Just Turned Up The Heat In The Tech War

  Published 12 December 2019 | viewed 3,132 times

  The U.S.-China trade war is a moving target that is part trade war and part tech cold war that’s heating up to the point that…

• $120,000 Banana Gets Eaten At Art Basel

  Published 10 December 2019 | viewed 2,941 times

  If there was ever an altruistic reason to put your money into someone’s GoFundMe campaign, it should be “the banana man”--until you dig below the…