The Digital Revolution: A New World in 2025?

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The Digital Revolution: A New World in 2025?

By 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 […]

California’s Drought Hits Wallets – and Health

By 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 […]

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

By 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 on Saturday, February 22nd, 2014 | Comments Off

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 […]

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