Michael Kern

Safehaven

Contributor since: 21 Feb 2018

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• Who Is The Most Dangerous Person On The Internet?

  Published 13 January 2020 | viewed 7,032 times

  "Be sure to tune in and watch Donald Trump on Late Night with David Letterman as he presents the Top Ten List tonight!"  That was…

• 3 Oil Stocks Paying Out Promising Dividends In 2020

  Published 08 January 2020 | viewed 3,297 times

  Dividend stocks hold a special place in many investors' portfolios. They have the potential to provide a constant stream of income, without some of the…

• Banksy Stirs Things Up Again In Bethlehem

  Published 31 December 2019 | viewed 3,542 times

  Rarely shying away from making timely political statements, elusive British artist Banksy has over the holidays revealed his new piece on the imposed divide between…

• How Much Money Could You Have Made This Decade?

  Published 29 December 2019 | viewed 3,601 times

  As we head into 2020 and take a look back at the past decade, many would-be investors will necessarily be suffering from a latent case…

• Sex, Drugs And Crypto: The $76 Billion Black Market

  Published 23 December 2019 | viewed 3,262 times

  By some estimates, $76 billion in illegal activity every year is enabled by bitcoin, but the icing on the cake is Facebook’s vague plans for…

• Quantum Computing Could Go Mainstream This Decade

  Published 17 December 2019 | viewed 15,199 times

  What happens when quantum computing hits the masses and becomes just as common as a smartphone? We may not have to wait that long to…

• Are Celebrities Good Or Bad For Cannabis Stocks?

  Published 01 December 2019 | viewed 14,923 times

  Political polarization is ruining Thanksgiving families’ dinners. As Republican and Democrat supporters grow further apart, bipartisan turkey dinners are being canceled or shortened.  However, if…

• How To Survive Thanksgiving Politics With Cannabis Gravy

  Published 28 November 2019 | viewed 2,349 times

  The use of celebrities is a clear move by the cannabis companies to promote the plant’s products to the public and influence the regulator Political…

• Twitter: The Saudi Spy Tool To Bring Down Dissidents

  Published 07 November 2019 | viewed 6,806 times

  In 2017, Saud al-Qahtani--advisor to the Saudi Crown Prince--was rather active on social media. In one Twitter post, he stated: “Does a pseudonym protect you…

• Cannabis Has Become A Real Estate Selling Point

  Published 03 November 2019 | viewed 6,993 times

  Americans spend a whopping $40 billion every year shopping under the influence. But there’s a new high-dollar twist to that trend that realtors are hoping…

• The Cosmic Wild West Just Got Its First IPO

  Published 28 October 2019 | viewed 3,934 times

  National pride and cosmic geopolitics has nothing to do with today’s space race from the American perspective. It’s all about eventual profit, and that’s exactly…

• Another Goldman Banker Charged For Insider Trading

  Published 23 October 2019 | viewed 4,832 times

   "Once upon a time, there was a Pops searching for Truffles in the Forest". So goes the subject line of an email message sent in…

• ‘Click To Pray’, The Vatican’s Latest Attempt To Draw In Millennials

  Published 20 October 2019 | viewed 2,770 times

  The Catholic church keeps up with the times, apparently. In an effort to reach more tech-obsessed Millennials and Gen-Zers ostensibly to pray for world peace,…

• Is The Pot Stock Boom Over Already?

  Published 17 October 2019 | viewed 4,153 times

  With Mexico on the brink of legalizing recreational marijuana, you would think it would be great news for the cannabis industry, but stocks are getting…

• 5 Billionaires Booted From Their Own Companies

  Published 13 October 2019 | viewed 3,330 times

  Be careful what you build. If it gets too big, you may become a billionaire, but there’s a chance you end up in an increasingly…

• Is There Any Reason To Be Bullish About Netflix?

  Published 08 October 2019 | viewed 2,613 times

  Netflix stock is down 30 percent from its high, and earnings are about to come out. Whether this is a buy or not comes down…

• Zero-Fees Is The New Normal In Stock Trading

  Published 03 October 2019 | viewed 3,243 times

  When Robinhood first came out with its free stock-trading app, we didn’t really think it would take too long to put pressure on the market…

• Big Tobacco Just Can’t Catch A Break

  Published 22 September 2019 | viewed 2,811 times

  In the throes of a vaping panic that has the FDA and the CDC running in frantic circles, tobacco giant Altria has seen its shares…

• Safe Haven Assets Shine As Recession Looms

  Published 28 August 2019 | viewed 5,922 times

  Unless you've been living under a rock for the past several months, you may have noticed that fears of a looming recession are growing. The…

• Space Crime And Scandal Overshadow SpaceX Failure

  Published 27 August 2019 | viewed 4,693 times

  The space … space has been quite the scene of legal drama recently, with everything from a NASA astronaut being accused of hacking her estranged…