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“Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.” Charles Dickens These words may have never been more poignant than they are during this holiday season. Dickens was a student of human nature. He understood that humans are fragile creatures, often broken,… [Read More]

Even the Elf on the Shelf can’t convince this fund to focus on being good. With the apt ticker of BAD, a brand-new exchange-traded fund centers around betting, alcohol and drug companies, particularly casinos and gaming, alcohol and cannabis companies, and new pharmaceuticals, with the idea that too many funds are going the route of… [Read More]

The battle lines are being drawn. Following the dawn of Meta (FB) last month, Instagram has now thrown down their gauntlet for early control of the Metaverse. Company CEO Adam Mosseri announced over the weekend that Instagram will “actively pursue” building features for incorporating non-fungible tokens. They’re looking to be the leading NFT marketplace. We… [Read More]

Did we really need the roller-coaster ride to get to this point? Scheduling a much-anticipated press conference midway through a week of selloffs and mood-swings was bad enough. The content of that presser was worse. Jerome Powell told us absolutely nothing new. He stood up, put on his best “I’m important” face, and stated the… [Read More]

The 1968 Pontiac GTO was my dream car growing up. Motor Trend voted it in as “Car of the Year” when I was two years old, and they started popping up in the neighborhood in my formative years. I never owned one, settling instead for the 1973 Monte Carlo as my first ride, another MT… [Read More]

Soluna Holdings CEO, Michael Toporek, and John Belizaire, CEO of Soluna Computing and EcoChain, Inc. Discuss Why Computing is the Future of Renewable Energy Michael Toporek and John Belizaire had an idea. What if they could build scalable data centers that consumed excess renewable energy? It would solve a problem for solar and wind farms… [Read More]

In many ways, 2021 has been a banner year for biotech. Covid-19 vaccines and treatments have captured headlines and saved lives across the globe. Biotech has truly changed the world for the better—and yet, it’s been a terrible year for biotech stocks. In the past year, the iShares Biotechnology ETF, which focuses on large-cap biotech… [Read More]

Ring. Chime. Prime Music. Netflix. Disney+. What do they all have in common? They’re built on Amazon Web Services (AWS). They also went down for several hours yesterday as the online server giant experienced outages. So did Coinbase (COIN), yet they somehow managed to pull out of a downtrend that’s lasted several weeks. How did… [Read More]

There are OTC stocks you can’t buy on Robinhood. It’s one of my pet peeves about the platform. I need to switch over to eTrade to buy certain penny stocks, which I am not a big fan of. I suppose I could use Schwab or TD Ameritrade instead, but I can’t be an accessory to… [Read More]

Rodrigo Sura / EPA   Peter Schiff, the CEO of Euro Pacific Capital and well-known financial commentator and radio personality, is not a fan of Bitcoin, as he widely shares in interviews and articles. Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s President disagrees. He recently told Schiff that his country lost big when it failed to convert its… [Read More]

“Location, location, location” takes on new meaning when it comes to buying real estate in the metaverse. As more consumers and investors across the globe flock to the metaverse—a virtual environment where virtually anything that takes place in the “real world” can also occur—virtual land is hotter than ever. Real estate investors are just beginning… [Read More]

Brandon Bell/Getty Images Out of sight may not equal out of mind when it comes to former President Donald Trump. Stocks linked to the ex-president are trading heavily as the Trump Media & Technology Group has announced its plan to raise upwards of $1 billion in new financing. Even with Trump banned on several social… [Read More]