Michael Kern

Safehaven

Contributor since: 21 Feb 2018

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• Americans Are Counting On Another COVID Stimulus Check

  Published 03 June 2020 | viewed 8,208 times

  Even though the US economy is gradually reopening, millions of Americans are still suffering financially, with more than 40 million people having filed for unemployment,…

• America’s Multi-Front Meltdown

  Published 01 June 2020 | viewed 3,609 times

  America is at war with multiple enemies, including itself. The nation is at war with a pandemic virus. Protesters are at war with a system…

• Americans Don’t Care if TikTok Is A Security Threat

  Published 31 May 2020 | viewed 3,187 times

  It was a hit before the pandemic. Now, it’s a cult.  TikTok’s numbers are staggering.  The value of the company that owns wildly popular TikTok…

• Energy CEOs See Big Payouts Despite Oil Price Crash

  Published 28 May 2020 | viewed 5,322 times

  The coronavirus pandemic has shaken Big Oil to its core. Many companies have lost over a quarter of their value since the crisis began, and…

• Conspiracy Theories Set Tone For 5G Cold War

  Published 26 May 2020 | viewed 7,514 times

  The 5G war is already underway, and it’s a cold war that has simply changed players. On one side is the same player, the US,…

• COVID-19 Is A Hacker’s Paradise

  Published 20 May 2020 | viewed 10,388 times

  With the start of the pandemic outbreak, many cybercriminals have pledged not to attack health-care providers during the coronavirus outbreak, but this “honor amongst thieves”…

• From Smartphones To Smart VR Acquisition, Apple Pushes the Envelope

  Published 17 May 2020 | viewed 4,566 times

  The rule is thumb in the high-tech world is this: When Apple enters any space, the competition is watching it closely and looking for its…

• COVID-19 Could Spark A Global Food Crisis

  Published 14 May 2020 | viewed 4,953 times

  The next time someone asks whether you want fries with that, say ‘yes’--it could help stave off a global food crisis.  Belgian potato farmers are…

• The Bitcoin Guessing Game At ‘Halving Time’

  Published 12 May 2020 | viewed 9,375 times

  Anyone who turned to the ‘experts’ on bitcoin to hedge a bet on the cryptocurrency ahead of its third halving today had just as much…

• Video Game, Alcohol And Home Workout Gear Sales Are Exploding

  Published 10 May 2020 | viewed 3,817 times

  The short span of time in which it was actually cool to give someone the gift of a package of toilet paper came and went:…

• 2 Reasons To Bet On Bitcoin Right Now

  Published 04 May 2020 | viewed 10,217 times

  In only nine days, Bitcoin will undergo its third “fork”, reducing the rate at which new bitcoins are created and slowing the digital inflation. The…

• COVID Earnings: Oddly Good And Shockingly Bad

  Published 30 April 2020 | viewed 1,804 times

  As first-quarter earnings reports start trickling in, market sentiment is largely looking to what happens in Q2 because that’s where the real pain takes hold. …

• Loans From China: A Private Political Hot Potato

  Published 26 April 2020 | viewed 10,601 times

  As of mid-2016, Donald Trump, real estate developer and television celebrity, had investments in or owned 500 companies in at least 20 countries. Just weeks…

• Could Working From Home Become The New Normal?

  Published 23 April 2020 | viewed 3,742 times

  It's day 33 for me. I leave the house to walk the dog and occasionally swing by the corner store. But that's about it. I…

• The Tech Threat That Will Linger Long After COVID-19

  Published 20 April 2020 | viewed 5,630 times

  Following criticism that it wasn't doing enough to protect its workers from the pandemic, Amazon is hoping to make up for it with the use…

• Americans Are Turning To Alcohol Amid COVID-19 Lockdown

  Published 18 April 2020 | viewed 9,676 times

  There was perhaps a bit of already self-fulfilling prophecy in a statement last week from Belarus’  president, Alexander Lukashenko, when he said no one in…

• Coronavirus And The Coming Financial Revolution

  Published 14 April 2020 | viewed 4,286 times

  The coronavirus pandemic is one of the biggest and unprecedented seismic shifts in the global economy that we’ve ever seen in modern history, and it’s…

• Struggling U.S. Airlines Get $17.5 Billion Bailout, But There’s A Catch

  Published 13 April 2020 | viewed 14,640 times

  With airlines facing a $250-billion loss in revenue for 2020 at a minimum, the additional $35 billion they might have to pay in the form…

• Trump Signs Executive Order To Protect Private Moon Miners

  Published 09 April 2020 | viewed 1,885 times

  As the world continues to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. President Donald Trump is eyeing something a little more...celestial, if you will, signing an…

• 9 Ways The Lockdown Is Playing Out Around The World

  Published 07 April 2020 | viewed 2,652 times

  From new opportunities for dictators and the quarantine ways of the obnoxiously wealthy to genuinely desperate measures to keep people at home in the United…