Michael Kern

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Contributor since: 21 Feb 2018

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• Mexico Kickstarts War On Junk Food

  Published 13 August 2020 | viewed 3,482 times

  It was with disbelief that most viewers watched Michael Moore’s documentary Where to Invade Next recount how children in France had never tried Coca-Cola. Likewise,…

• Global Tech Stocks On Edge Over Trump TikTok Ban

  Published 09 August 2020 | viewed 5,622 times

  The immediate result of Trump’s Thursday executive order banning TikTok and WeChat was to shave nearly $35 billion off the shares of Chinese tech giant…

• TikTok Takes Center Stage In US-China Tech War

  Published 05 August 2020 | viewed 7,671 times

  Short-form video app sensation TikTok is being set up to be the central feature in Washington’s economic warfare with Beijgin, but it won’t be an…

• Crypto FOMO Heats Up As Bitcoin Climbs Above $11,000

  Published 04 August 2020 | viewed 7,097 times

  When ‘experts’ of all sorts dare to predict an exceptionally bright future for Bitcoin, they often end up comparing it to Warren Buffett’s admittance that…

• Markets Trending Down Despite Tech Blow-Out

  Published 02 August 2020 | viewed 3,506 times

  In one of the most exciting earnings seasons in a while, thanks largely to a pandemic that has added several high-level twists, big tech is…

• Stocks Tumble On Brutal Economic Report

  Published 30 July 2020 | viewed 5,032 times

  Global markets took a hit Thursday morning, setting up U.S. equities to open lower after the Fed warned of a weakening recovery and fading consumer…

• The U.S. Dollar Is Losing Ground As A Reserve Currency

  Published 28 July 2020 | viewed 6,209 times

  That equities market rally that has investors giving stocks some really good days and blatantly ignoring the economic elephant in the room is now growing…

• Tuesday Earnings Highlights: Not What You’d Expect

  Published 22 July 2020 | viewed 2,913 times

  As America records 1,000 deaths a day for an all-time single-day COVID record, the market barely blinked because it was busy watching Q2 earnings for…

• Twitter Compromised In Unprecedented High-Profile Attack

  Published 16 July 2020 | viewed 4,789 times

  So, now we know: Twitter can be compromised at the highest levels, if that wasn’t clear before.  It was an epic hack--not for the money…

• Face Masks Become The Key To Economic Recovery

  Published 15 July 2020 | viewed 5,936 times

  The Dow closed up 550 points Tuesday after Federal Reserve Gov. Lael Brainard called for more stimulus, the Dallas Fed predicted above-trend growth for 2021,…

• Will Gold Hit $2,000?

  Published 12 July 2020 | viewed 6,033 times

  Gold is soaring past an eight-year high now, even as equities are rebounding, in a bizarre setup that sees the two moving in lockstep when…

• Equities Cheer Stellar Jobs Report, But It May Be Fleeting

  Published 05 July 2020 | viewed 2,456 times

  The market barely knows how to react to good news and bad news ….  The bad news is that the United States has broken another…

• Over 184 Companies Have Bailed On Facebook

  Published 29 June 2020 | viewed 3,825 times

  Advertising hatred of Facebook is spreading as fast as social media-generated fake news.  Facebook is taking a nose-dive precisely because advertisers are fleeing what has…

• Economic Reopening Backfires, COVID Surge Snaps Recovery

  Published 27 June 2020 | viewed 5,859 times

  Apple is closing its stores again in Florida. Texas is pressing the pause button on its reopening plans. Michigan is delayed ‘Phase 5’ of its…

• Immigration Attack Will Ruin America’s Tech Dominance

  Published 23 June 2020 | viewed 3,274 times

  This is where Canada’s “Waterloo” conducts a silent coup against Silicon Valley, thanks to the use of immigration as a political punching bag in the…

• The Trillion Dollar Investment Trend Buffett Is Ignoring

  Published 18 June 2020 | viewed 3,999 times

  Legendary investors such as Warren Buffett have been getting a lot of flak lately for standing by and watching amateur investors pour into free-trading platforms…

• JPMorgan’s Cryptic Change Of Heart

  Published 15 June 2020 | viewed 6,892 times

  After years of bemoaning bitcoin, JP Morgan is now singing a very different digital tune--possibly because now that BlackRock seems to have overtaken things on…

• Amateur Hour On The Stock Market As Wall Street Games Newbies

  Published 14 June 2020 | viewed 4,950 times

  Only days after being celebrated for breaking all kinds of new investing records as U.S. states began reopening their economies, the cream of the crop…

• Millennials Are Pouring Into Fee-Free Brokerage Apps

  Published 08 June 2020 | viewed 4,199 times

  Nearly 7.7 million American workers under 30 are now unemployed, and stock markets have taken a beating as the ongoing coronavirus pandemic continues to rattle…

• Fake News Is A New Virus Without A Cure

  Published 04 June 2020 | viewed 6,371 times

  Fake news is as much of a virus as COVID-19--but deadlier in different ways, as Americans are about to find out.  And if the cure…