Michael Kern

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Contributor since: 21 Feb 2018

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• More Trouble Ahead for Supply Chain as Hackers Descend

  Published 09 November 2021 | viewed 6,041 times

  As the global supply chain struggles from the aftershocks of the pandemic, spreading the suffering to nearly every industry, cyber criminals vultures are descending on…

• Squid Game Rampage Fails to Lift Netflix Stock After Stellar Earnings

  Published 21 October 2021 | viewed 4,456 times

  Video streaming giant Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) has just reported third quarter 2021 earnings, yet an otherwise successful quarter in terms of content and subscriber growth…

• The New World Tax Order

  Published 13 October 2021 | viewed 4,380 times

  Just days after the massive Pandora Papers leak, a total of 136 countries and jurisdictions, representing 90% of the global economy, finally agreed on a…

• Zuckerberg Loses Billions in Social Media Outage

  Published 06 October 2021 | viewed 3,812 times

  Mark Zuckerberg’s personal wealth shed nearly $7 billion on Monday as three social media and messaging applications, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp were down for more…

• ‘Pandora Papers’ Leak Reveals More Financial Crime

  Published 05 October 2021 | viewed 4,541 times

  If history repeats itself, the newly published “Pandora Papers” will for the most part remain no more than an interesting read for the public and…

• China Has Set Out To Crush Crypto...Again

  Published 01 October 2021 | viewed 8,525 times

  The People’s Bank of China, the country's central bank, has announced that all transactions of crypto-currencies are illegal, effectively banning digital coins. "Virtual currency-related business…

• Millennials Could Power A 20-Year Bull Stock Market

  Published 29 September 2021 | viewed 4,499 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…

• Quantum Computing Is The Newest Megatrend In Silicon Valley

  Published 17 September 2021 | viewed 12,393 times

  "All is waves, with nothing waving, over no distance at all." That’s a famous line in a fantasy duology describing the basics of magic. Interestingly,…

• How To Invest In The Cybersecurity Boom

  Published 16 September 2021 | viewed 4,075 times

  “I’ve been hearing about solving security problems for the last 10 years. We’ve been here and 10 years later, things have only gotten exponentially worse,”…

• Wells Fargo Back In The Scandal Spotlight Once Again

  Published 12 September 2021 | viewed 4,423 times

  So it seems that the unofficial rule of thumb is that if the U.S. financial regulators have a slow month, they just slap Wells Fargo…

• As Auto Giants Flail, Look To Chip Stocks For Gains

  Published 09 September 2021 | viewed 4,468 times

  Hopes and positive expectations for larger vehicle inventories and lower prices for this summer are now dimming as a prolonged semiconductor chip shortage has caused…

• China’s Video Game Restrictions Unlikely To Slow Down Booming Industry

  Published 06 September 2021 | viewed 4,620 times

  Last month, China's Economic Information Daily published an editorial that compared video games to "spiritual opium." Beijing followed through shortly thereafter with sweeping video game…

• ‘Easy Money’: Crypto Is Still Attracting Newbie Investors

  Published 26 August 2021 | viewed 5,279 times

  In the retail investing world, there is nothing easier to invest in than cryptocurrency. It’s a no-hassle endeavor that requires zero due diligence. There are…

• Why World Markets Should Be Watching Germany Closely

  Published 30 August 2021 | viewed 5,059 times

  Germany is one of the largest economies in the world. That means that critical German elections that will likely usher in a post-Merkel powerhouse should…

• China’s Tycoons Are Getting A Serious Reality Check

  Published 21 August 2021 | viewed 4,833 times

  In yet another attempt to control its wealthy, Beijing has laid out a new plan aimed at restraining “unreasonable income”, hiking wages and giving a…

• American Wealth Is Built On Borrowing

  Published 18 August 2021 | viewed 8,695 times

  American banks have adopted a new business model: Instead of lending money to people who don’t have money and need some, they are lending money…

• China Imposes Widespread Lockdowns As Delta Virus Spreads Rapidly

  Published 05 August 2021 | viewed 19,739 times

  They say once bitten, twice shy. At a time when the majority of western economies are doing everything in their power to avoid locking down…

• Chinese Stocks Rebound After Regulatory Scare

  Published 29 July 2021 | viewed 3,900 times

  Sweeping crackdowns across diverse sectors of the Chinese economy have been sending shockwaves across global financial markets, with American investors finding themselves in the firing…

• Crypto-Based ‘Shadow Financial Market’ Spooks Regulators

  Published 26 July 2021 | viewed 5,674 times

  After a 3-year drought, crypto bulls were once again basking in the limelight as bitcoin and its altcoin peers went on a parabolic rally beginning…

• Facial Recognition Is Watching You

  Published 17 July 2021 | viewed 7,599 times

  Those traditionally elderly door greeters that we’ve grown used to gracing major American brick and mortar retailers are now being shored up with controversial facial…