Your first question might be: “what the heck is the “Internet of Cars?!” It’s a fair one. The Internet of Vehicles (IoV) just might be the next milestone in the tech zeitgeist, with desig...
PENSACOLA, FL ASKS…Mitch, the bull market is in its 7th year – is the next bear around the corner? When is it coming and how can I prepare? Thanks for the question. Know that bull markets d...
Following the subprime loan crisis that induced the Great Recession, the media has noted at least two other debt crises more recently including those revolving around student debt and, now, car l...
Following the Brexit vote, seven asset managers, so far, have suspended redemptions on their UK real estate funds. Accounting for around £18 billion—more than half of the open-ended British pr...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) lending, also known as online lending or marketplace lending, has seen skyrocketing popularity in various countries over the last decade. According to Bloomberg Markets estimat...
Perhaps not surprisingly, the Federal Reserve left the fed funds rate unchanged in their June meeting, almost certainly on the back of a weak May jobs report (+11,000 m/m). It is yet another exam...
“A penny saved is a penny earned.” - Benjamin Franklin Americans, in particular, have long been challenged when it comes to saving money. And, psychologists and economists are still striving...
At a quick glance, China’s economic growth is decelerating. However, this may just be a temporary “side-effect” of the nation’s re-making itself as a services-oriented economy from that o...
Theresa May is a highly experienced politician who has already made history by becoming the second longest serving home secretary in the past 100 years, serving six years in one of Government’s...
It will come as no shock to you that coffee is one of the most popular hot beverages among consumers. The result—coffee is expected to garner record high global consumption at 150.8 million bag...
The aftermath of the “Brexit” vote is sure to create plenty of winners and losers, but perhaps most-watched will be those affected in the realm of trade. At this stage, there’s no sense in ...
THERESA MAY ASSUMES KEY ROLE AS BRITAIN PM – Theresa May became the second woman to lead Britain since Margaret Thatcher (1979-1990), and the world is watching as she assumes the extraordinaril...
Amidst all the gloom surrounding global economic woes this year, many people overlooked some silver linings—one of them being 2015’s record high global foreign direct investment (FDI) flows. ...
Nearly all the largest U.S. banks have passed the Fed’s annual stress tests unconditionally this year—meaning, these banks are deemed fit to ward off financial stresses or crises and are elig...
Technology has evolved to become what it is today—an integral part of human existence. And, while technology benefits society in many ways, its increasing sophistication will likely put a broad...
Electricity is a lifeline of the modern world and its evolution is toward being produced ‘clean.’ Thanks to its clean burning, predictable and flexible nature coupled with a production boom a...
With Brexit analysis consuming the vast majority of investor news airtime (and because we just celebrated our 240th year of independence), I think it’s the perfect time to bring the U.S back in...
INTERESTING AND POSITIVE DEVELOPMENTS, POST-BREXIT – there’s been a slew of interesting news following the Brexit and, in our view, most of it points to the positive. We’ll just list-off a ...
Experiencing positive earnings for the fourth straight quarter in Q1 2016, Amazon may have received added vindication of its long-standing core business strategies. Born out of Jeff Bezos’ visi...
Twilio, a cloud communication platform backed by Silicon Valley investors, delivered good news for hundreds of technology start-ups following its IPO that raised over $150M. Twilio clients includ...