Michael Kern

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Contributor since: 21 Feb 2018

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• Corporate Bitcoin Holdings Boost Crypto Confidence

  Published 15 October 2020 | viewed 7,514 times

  Bitcoin may still be shy of its record high of $20,000 in 2017, but its pandemic-time recovery is making it popular among large companies. The…

• Europe Wants To End The Big Tech Monopoly

  Published 12 October 2020 | viewed 9,094 times

  There is such a thing as excessive market power, and it’s held by a handful of tech giants that hold a dangerous monopoly of data,…

• Credit Card Debt Plummets Amid COVID

  Published 09 October 2020 | viewed 8,250 times

  A painfully slow economic recovery and elevated unemployment, combined with an abrupt end to government aid and no new stimulus in sight has Americans cutwith…

• Jobs Report Paints Dire Picture of US Economy

  Published 06 October 2020 | viewed 7,608 times

  As health experts warn about a looming, and perhaps imminent, third wave of the pandemic, data shows that the U.S. continues to pile on unemployment…

• What To Do With $2 Trillion In Suspicious Bank Transactions?

  Published 22 September 2020 | viewed 5,246 times

  If elections and COVID don’t rile the market enough, news that major global banks have been laundering huge amounts of money over the past 18…

• New TikTok Deal Hopes To Bypass National Security Concerns

  Published 20 September 2020 | viewed 7,685 times

  TikTok is now planning to go public without the sale of its parent company, ByteDance, in a deal that would involve American software behemoth Oracle…

• This ‘Once-Boring’ Tech Company Is Now Super Hot

  Published 16 September 2020 | viewed 5,919 times

  The world will definitely be going paperless before it goes cashless, and there’s nothing like a pandemic to serve as a huge catalyst for a…

• Google Pledges To Go Carbon-Free By 2030

  Published 15 September 2020 | viewed 8,710 times

  Big Tech is in the race of a lifetime, and now it’s not just about data. This time around, they’re facing off to see which…

• A New Twist In The TikTok Saga

  Published 14 September 2020 | viewed 6,296 times

  Late on Sunday, Microsoft dropped out of negotiations with Chinese-company Bytedance to purchase Tik-Tok, after which it was reported that Oracle would assume management of…

• The Jury Is In: ESG Is A Megatrend Now Worth $250B

  Published 10 September 2020 | viewed 9,520 times

  If you were a skeptic before when it came to ESG (environmental, social and governance) investing, then let the money speak As of last week,…

• Gen Z And Millennials Are Fueling An ESG Boom

  Published 08 September 2020 | viewed 7,539 times

  Fossil fuels are out. At least according to the younger generations. Neither millennials nor their up-and-coming counterparts, the zoomers, or Gen Z, are particularly interested…

• Are You Bullish Enough To Buy The Bitcoin Dip?

  Published 07 September 2020 | viewed 6,879 times

  Bitcoin had held onto the high 411,000 price range for weeks in a show of stability that it hasn’t really before. Then it hit $12,000,…

• Is The Worst Over For The Tech Stock Crash?

  Published 06 September 2020 | viewed 5,342 times

  Wall Street plunged on Thursday with tech stocks--the key drivers of months of rallying--falling on weak economic data, but this may not be a full-on…

• 5 Things To Do With $1,000 Right Now

  Published 03 September 2020 | viewed 15,862 times

  If you’ve got an extra $1,000 by some miracle, or perhaps thanks to COVID stimulus holdovers, it may not seem like much, but there’s no…

• America’s Tech ‘Monster-Caps’ Surpass $9.1T

  Published 31 August 2020 | viewed 3,708 times

  In just over a decade, the U.S. tech industry has gone from being four times smaller than the entire European stock market to overtaking it…

• How Big Tech Is Fueling A Renewable Boom In Taiwan

  Published 31 August 2020 | viewed 4,534 times

  Apple is seemingly everywhere these days. From its headline-grabbing stock split to its industry-leading carbon-neutral push, the tech giant is truly showing that it is…

• Stocks Rise On New COVID Testing Tech

  Published 30 August 2020 | viewed 4,906 times

  The markets were in climbing mood Friday morning, partly on news of FDA approval for a 15-minute COVID-19 test from Abbott Laboratories, with whom Trump…

• The Sun Is Shining On Renewable Investors

  Published 28 August 2020 | viewed 7,381 times

  The COVID-19 pandemic has shot holes in every industry on the planet, but in particular, the energy industry. It has highlighted our shortcomings and our…

• 5 Stocks To Get Your Week Going

  Published 23 August 2020 | viewed 2,767 times

  The Dow, S&P 500 and tech-heavy Nasdaq were all trading up Friday late morning despite weekly jobless claims that came in above 1 million: The…

• Buffett’s Gold Buy Doesn’t Mean As Much As You Think

  Published 17 August 2020 | viewed 5,052 times

  A week ago, the trading news from the legends’ corner was that Warren Buffett had poured over $2 billion in Bank of America in just…