The Digital Revolution: A New World in 2025?

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The Digital Revolution: A New World in 2025?

By The AMA Team on Wednesday, May 13th, 2015 | Comments Off

Computers that move at the speed of the human brain. A world where every human being can know anything, anywhere, any time. Data streaming through a trillion sensors to connect the whole world. Though these things sound like part of a science fiction movie about the far future, that future is now. Experts from a […]

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California’s Drought Hits Wallets – and Health

By The AMA Team on Saturday, March 28th, 2015 | Comments Off

It takes nearly five gallons of water to cultivate a single walnut – more than it takes to grow a head of lettuce. But in drought stricken California, the water it takes for those and other fruit and vegetable crops is in drastically short supply – and that has effects far beyond the borders of […]

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Drug Lord or Hero: The Silk Road’s Founder Confounds Expectations

By The AMA Team on Wednesday, December 3rd, 2014 | Comments Off

The Silk Road is dead. That eclectic online marketplace for trafficking in illegal substances of every kind was raided and shut down in 2013 by the FBI and other federal agencies, who confiscated its multimillion dollar store of Bit coin. But its mysterious founder, known online as Dread Pirate Roberts, continues to confound. This enigmatic […]

The Fed’s Stimulus Strategy: Silencing Skeptics?

By The AMA Team on Tuesday, September 16th, 2014 | Comments Off

In the end, did hard easing work? That contradictory term for Qualitative Easing version 3, the Federal Reserve’s controversial and much disputed stimulus plan, has been in the news and on the minds of economists and financial advisers since it was conceived in 2012 as the latest attempt to boost the nation’s economic recovery. From […]

Can Corporate Tax Inversions Harm the Economy?

By The AMA Team on Monday, August 4th, 2014 | Comments Off

The chief financial officer of drugstore giant Walgreen’s just departed his job. And while the movements of higher ups at megacorporations often resemble a round of musical chairs, this particular job change sheds light on a new trend in corporate tax evasion: tax inversion. Tax inversion is a milk toast term for a sweeping strategy […]

Bitcoin For Real Estate: A New Frontier

By The AMA Team on Monday, July 7th, 2014 | Comments Off

In spite of outcry from government banks and cyberpolice worried about connections to Internet crime, the Bitcoin just keeps on trucking, with more and more sellers accepting the digital currency. But the growing use of Bitcoin for buying real estate is raising concerns about the digital coin’s staying power and stability. Bitcoin’s splashy entrance into […]

5 Investing Mistakes That Cost You Money

By The AMA Team on Friday, June 13th, 2014 | Comments Off

Investing is supposed to make you money, not make you lose it. But it’s easy to fall into a few traps that can cause exactly that – whether you’re new to investing or have been around the block a few times. Regardless of how you’re investing, financial professionals point to five common mistakes that can […]

Gen Y: Changing the Economic Game

By The AMA Team on Thursday, June 12th, 2014 | Comments Off

Move over, baby boomers. There’s a batch of new kids in town, and their numbers have knocked you out of first place as the biggest age cohort in the country. We’re talking about the millennials, or Generation Y, whose buying patterns and lifestyle choices are changing the face of the economy in ways large and […]

The MintChip: Mainstream Banking Tries to Get Digital

By The AMA Team on Monday, June 2nd, 2014 | Comments Off

It sounds like a new kind of snack: the MintChip. But this product of the Royal Canadian Mint represents a new stage in the evolution of digital currency: digital money created and controlled by a state bank. And its demise in April 2014 serves as a cautionary tale about the efforts of governments and traditional […]

Emerging Markets Worry About Stimulus Fallout

By The AMA Team on Saturday, February 22nd, 2014 | 1 Comment

The Federal Reserve may be optimistic about the outcomes of its decision to taper down the ongoing bond buying stimulus program, but the rest of the world isn’t so sure. Among issues on the table at an upcoming meeting of the world’s money policymakers in Sydney are concerns that in deciding to scale back on […]

Banks Settle Up In Insurance Rate Fixing Suits

By The AMA Team on Tuesday, February 18th, 2014 | Comments Off

In the seemingly never ending saga of legal actions against the nation’s big banks – and sometimes their foreign counterparts as well – the action usually plays out on a government stage of the highest level, with lawsuits brought by state officials or the Justice Department itself. But a recent lawsuit discreetly settled by Bank […]

What Wilderness Adventure Can Teach Investors

By The AMA Team on Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014 | 1 Comment

Throughout human history, wanderers and adventurers have been returning home with stories of challenging the natural world – and winning. And what they learned about overcoming fear and persevering became an inspiration for other kinds of endeavors too. Now, a modern day adventurer hopes that lessons learned from polar treks and mountain climbs can help […]

Can New TechnologyThwart Snooping?

By The AMA Team on Monday, January 20th, 2014 | 2 Comments

As information continues to hit the news about the scope of the National Security Agency’s domestic data collection efforts, new industries are springing up to fill a niche that’s suddenly booming: technology that blocks snooping and protects users from threats abroad – or, as many see it, their own government. It’s a fertile field for […]

Can Floating Cities Change the World?

By The AMA Team on Sunday, December 8th, 2013 | Comments Off

The future may be all at sea, if the folks at the Floating City Project make their vision a reality. And that reality is coming ever closer as crowdfunding for the design of the world’s first seasteading community gathers steam. It’s a concept that challenges many long-cherished beliefs about land, community and government that may […]

Can Cybercurrency Change the World?

By The AMA Team on Thursday, December 5th, 2013 | 3 Comments

Digital currency keeps on making news – and making financial experts worry. In what appears to be the perfect marketing move, the Bitcoin – an electronic currency – was recently used to buy the Tesla, an electric car. And while many hail the move as another step toward the Bitcoin’s eventual dominance of world money […]

Bitcoins + Seasteading = A Brave New World

By derek on Thursday, December 5th, 2013 | 1 Comment

It’s easy to complain about the government. More rare, however, is the ability to conceive a plan of how to implement an alternative and then actually do it. That’s where the Seasteading Institute comes into play. This non-profit organization exists for the purpose of developing plans for the construction of floating cities with independent governments […]

All Hail The World’s Weakest Currencies

By derek on Friday, November 29th, 2013 | 4 Comments

A few years back we posted an article titled “The 5 Worst Currencies in the World.” Somewhat to our surprise, the topic generated an incredible amount of traffic, which – belatedly – led to this post. Anyone can sit down to a computer and cast aspersions at the currency of the latest war-torn, totalitarian hellhole […]

Digital Currency Trades Strong in a Changed World

By The AMA Team on Friday, November 29th, 2013 | 1 Comment

When James Howells tossed out an old hard drive recently, he didn’t realize he’d tossed out a fortune. But the hard drive contained 7500 Bitcoins the Welsh-born IT professional had “mined” several years before – now worth a whopping $7.5 million, as the digital currency is trading for $1,000 a coin. That’s a strong showing […]

Smells Like Bad Credit

By derek on Wednesday, September 25th, 2013 | 2 Comments

Talking about credit scores can be icky. Sort of like taking a long slug from the milk container only to realize it’s a few weeks out of date. The problem with a path of avoidance is that bad credit doesn’t go away. Okay, to be honest some of it goes away after seven years but […]

Low Rates and High Standards: Stalemate for Housing?

By The AMA Team on Wednesday, September 25th, 2013 | 1 Comment

In the wake of the Federal Reserve’s new announcement that they’ll be keeping their massive securities buyup on track for now, things look rosier for global trading – and for consumer markets at home. But even as the Fed’s decision is being welcomed for its intended effects of boosting home sales, some fear that new […]

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