Michael Kern

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Contributor since: 21 Feb 2018

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• Americans Still Quitting Jobs At Record Pace

  Published 04 May 2022 | viewed 79,799 times

  March with the gap between open jobs and available workers reaching 5.6 million. The Labor Department reported in its Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey…

• Is The Dollar Too Strong?

  Published 29 April 2022 | viewed 78,317 times

  In a stark departure from tradition whereby American presidents refrained from talking about the value of the American dollar in order to avoid shaking up…

• Tech and Internet Giants’ Earnings In Focus After Netflix’s Stinker

  Published 26 April 2022 | viewed 43,265 times

  Earnings season is here with us once again, with a fifth of S&P 500 companies having reported first-quarter 2022 earnings so far. According to the…

• Crypto Investors Won Big In 2021

  Published 22 April 2022 | viewed 51,440 times

  Crypto investors earned a whopping $163 billion in 2021 for a nearly 400% increase over 2020’s $32.5 billion gains, according to blockchain data company Chainalysis.…

• US Banks Shrug off Nearly $15 Billion In Russian Write-Offs

  Published 18 April 2022 | viewed 33,292 times

  As earnings season starts off, all eyes are on major U.S. banks who have emerged from the pandemic into a brand new reality that has…

• Is Musk A Bastion Of Free Speech Or Will His Absolutist Stance Backfire?

  Published 14 April 2022 | viewed 41,700 times

  Elon Musk perhaps wants to take over Twitter for some $43 billion, but share price movements suggest that this is either being viewed as another…

• Europe’s Economy Is On The Brink As Putin’s War Escalates

  Published 11 April 2022 | viewed 15,546 times

  Aside from the tragic human casualties and infrastructure devastation, Ukraine is facing a massive economic crisis that the World Bank estimates will shrink the country’s…

• Intel Joins Russian Exodus as Chip Shortage Digs In

  Published 07 April 2022 | viewed 10,011 times

  Six weeks inside one of humanity’s biggest existential crises, hordes of businesses and corporate entities have quickly taken sides with many choosing to ditch their…

• Russia’s War in Ukraine Marks The Beginning Of The End For Globalization

  Published 25 March 2022 | viewed 11,481 times

  There is an eternal debate among various experts as to when globalization actually started; whether it was with the Silk Road, the Vikings, Columbus's voyage,…

• Ride-Hailing Companies: Bargains Or Value Traps As Fuel Prices Surge?

  Published 17 March 2022 | viewed 5,123 times

  Barely two years ago, the gig economy was a volatile mess as investors and regulatory authorities scrambled to determine whether people who worked for ride-hailing…

• Global Currency Markets In Turmoil As Ukraine Crisis Escalates

  Published 14 March 2022 | viewed 10,726 times

  As the Russia-Ukraine war ends the third week, oil and commodity markets have recorded  massive gains thanks to shuttering of Ukrainian ports, sanctions against Russia…

• Russia Considers Nationalizing Foreign Businesses

  Published 11 March 2022 | viewed 5,083 times

  The Russian government is reportedly considering seizing and nationalizing the assets of foreign companies exiting Russia due to the invasion of Ukraine. Seen as retaliation…

• Amazon’s First Stock Split Since 1999

  Published 10 March 2022 | viewed 4,947 times

  Amazon said its board of directors has approved a 20-to-1 ratio stock split in what amounts to the fourth stock split for the online retail…

• Cybersecurity Will Be Next Trillion-Dollar Industry

  Published 01 March 2022 | viewed 5,193 times

  Hackers worldwide appear to have taken sides in the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, with pro-Russian hackers such as the Conti cybercrime group vowing to…

• Big Tech Is Lashing Out At Russia

  Published 25 February 2022 | viewed 10,127 times

  In an effort to protect the safety of its users, Google has disabled live traffic features offered by Google Maps in Ukraine, because live traffic…

• The Top 3 Wealth Management Trends Of 2022

  Published 22 February 2022 | viewed 9,196 times

  The biggest intergenerational wealth transfer in history is underway. Baby boomers and older Americans have spent decades accumulating an enormous stockpile of money and wealth,…

• The Longest Bull Market In History Could Be Officially Over

  Published 21 February 2022 | viewed 4,923 times

  Is the U.S. stock market in a mere market correction or a proper bear market? Whereas many long-term investors would wish for the former case,…

• Major Hack On Ukraine Infrastructure Highlights The Reality Of Modern Warfare

  Published 18 February 2022 | viewed 5,693 times

  The websites of the Ukrainian army, the defense ministry and major banks were knocked offline after a series of cyberattacks highlighting the nature of modern-day…

• Zillow Predicts 16% Jump in Home Prices This Year

  Published 14 February 2022 | viewed 5,601 times

  This year will continue to be a sellers’ market in the real-estate sector, with home value expected to increase anywhere from 3% to double digits.…

• No Surprise: TikTok Is The Worst Data Privacy Offender

  Published 11 February 2022 | viewed 9,306 times

  To almost no one’s surprise, the latest data drama concerns hyper-popular TikTok, which a new report says is the worst offender in the privacy space,…