Sharing is caring and in this spirit I wanted to share some technical insights into this week’s market bounce following the aggressive flush down last week. As of late I’ve been hearing […]
Cancer research, meat alternatives and smart home technologies are among the major developments of our time. But which countries are world leaders in research and development, patent activity, high-tech density and everything that comes with fostering …
The Economist Democracy Index rates countries on the state of their governing system each year. In the latest installment published today, 23 countries in the world were rated as “full democracies,” including all Scandinavian countries, several Western…
The United States is the 25 least corrupt nation out of 180 countries, according to the 2020 Corruption Perceptions Index reported by Transparency International.
Aside from reporting another blowout quarter, Amazon also dropped a bombshell on Tuesday, announcing that its founder and CEO Jeff Bezos will transition to the role of Executive Chair in Q3 2021. Bezos, whose stake in Amazon has made him the richest ma…
Today’s Fed QE
Monetary policy can be implemented through outright purchases or sales of securities, which permanently changes the size of the Federal Reserve’s System Open Market Account (SOMA) portfolio.
Some stuff I’ve been reading that (sometimes) falls into current newsflow: Kalda, Ankit and Loos, Benjamin and Previtero, Alessandro and Hackethal, Andreas paper, titled “Smart(Phone) Investing? A within Investor-Time Analysis of New Technologies …
Super Bowl LV is less than a week away, and many are pegging the championship game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers as a classic battle of old versus new. Former New England Patriot and 43-year-old quarterback Tom Brady leads the…
This heavily managed ‘market structure’ is far from equilibrium and extremely prone to instability.