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• Pinterest, Zoom Launch Much Anticipated IPOs

  Published 18 April 2019 | viewed 588 times

  With short interest now at 60+ percent of its float, Lyft has swiftly become a symbol for disastrous post-IPO performance by the latest batch of…

• JPMorgan Shares Soar On Solid Earnings Report

  Published 12 April 2019 | viewed 956 times

  So much for fears the banks would drag down Q1 earnings season. In a big reversal from the sharp slump in Q4 bank earnings, moments…

• Wal-Mart To Roll Out Robots In Hundreds Of U.S. Stores

  Published 09 April 2019 | viewed 1,159 times

  Offering yet another lesson in how raising the minimum wage can destroy jobs, particularly for the most poorly compensated workers whom activists had intended to…

• Goldman: Banning Buybacks Would Be Disastrous

  Published 08 April 2019 | viewed 1,487 times

  Few topics prompt as powerful (and violent) a response from financial professionals as what the role of financial buybacks is in determining stock prices. One…

• How Long Will Stock Market Euphoria Last?

  Published 05 April 2019 | viewed 753 times

  Over the past few weeks, we have been inundated with countless headlines declaring that this is the best start to the year for US stocks…

• Airbnb In Hot Water Over Hidden Camera Incidents

  Published 03 April 2019 | viewed 1,120 times

    \Travelers staying in Airbnb rentals might want to think twice before traipsing around naked in somebody else's rental property. according to The Atlantic. In fact, one…

• Russia Is Ditching The Dollar At A Record Pace

  Published 01 April 2019 | viewed 1,345 times

  Nine months ago, as US Treasury yields were drifting lower from a seven-year high reached in May of last year, we pointed out a curious…

• How Big Is The National Debt, Really?

  Published 30 March 2019 | viewed 1,390 times

  The United States is on a path to financial ruin, and everyone can see what is happening, but nobody can seem to come up with…

• Don't Write Off Cryptocurrencies Just Yet

  Published 25 March 2019 | viewed 1,343 times

  Is Bitcoin doomed to failure? It is not hard to find commentary on the internet indicating that Bitcoin is bound to fail. The authors invariably point…

• Is A Gold Breakout Near?

  Published 22 March 2019 | viewed 2,457 times

  The global economic outlook is deteriorating. Government borrowing in the deficit countries will therefore escalate. US Treasury TIC data confirms foreigners have already begun to…

• The Feds Continue To Prop Up Equities Markets

  Published 21 March 2019 | viewed 1,107 times

  The bull market of the past decade since the Great Recession has been an unusual one: despite all of the economic damage that occurred during…

• Champagne Sales Slow As European Economic Worries Grow Louder

  Published 20 March 2019 | viewed 3,193 times

  The economic toll of Britain's Brexit and France's "yellow vest" movement cooled French champagne sales in 2018 to its lowest level since 2004, private trade…

• Ford CEO Gets Raise After Massive Layoff Round

  Published 18 March 2019 | viewed 880 times

  No sooner did news break that Ford will be laying off 5,000 workers in Germany than it was also reported that the company's CEO, Jim Hackett, saw his pay rise to…

• $600 Billion At Risk As Boeing Fallout Continues

  Published 14 March 2019 | viewed 639 times

  New evidence shows that the Boeing Co. 737 MAX which crashed in Ethiopia on Sunday may have experienced similar technical difficulties as the 737 MAX…

• Why Twitter's CEO Is Backing A New Bitcoin Boom

  Published 13 March 2019 | viewed 1,353 times

  Jack Dorsey, the billionaire co-founder of Twitter and Square, is at least consistent in his support for Bitcoin. He has remained unwavering in his belief, surely…

• Trump Turns To Congress For Help Funding The Wall

  Published 11 March 2019 | viewed 505 times

  As part of his budget request to be released on Monday, President Trump will ask the Congress for an additional $8.6 billion to help pay…

• Bezos Flips The Script In Amazon Supply Chain

  Published 08 March 2019 | viewed 1,042 times

  After Amazon successfully put a majority of its retail "brick and mortar" competitors out of business, it is now cracking down on its own supply…

• More Banks Caught In Russian Money Laundering Scandal

  Published 05 March 2019 | viewed 650 times

    Are there any banks in Europe that haven't been tainted by the burgeoning Russian money laundering scandal? To wit, European banking shares tumbled on…

• Central Banks Coming To Grips With Hard Brexit Reality

  Published 01 March 2019 | viewed 675 times

  With scarcely a month left until the date Britain is scheduled to leave the European Union, the monetary czars at the top of the world’s central banks…

• Millennial Debt Soars Past $1 Trillion

  Published 26 February 2019 | viewed 923 times

  Debt held by Americans aged 19 to 29-years-old exceeded $1 trillion at the end of last year, according to Bloomberg, citing the New York Federal Reserve Consumer…