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Inflation has been a massive issue for nearly every major country for the past year or so.  Consumers and corporations alike have felt the pain, with the previous four quarters of earnings proving to be relatively lackluster. While inflation is slowly declining, it has caused the debt of the U...

Inflation has been a massive issue for nearly every major country for the past year or so.  Consumers and corporations alike have felt the pain, with the previous four quarters of earnings proving to be relatively lackluster. While inflation is slowly declining, it has caused the debt of the U...

Government regulation is generally considered bad for an industry.  It often results in increased costs around compliance and increased restrictions that inhibit growth. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing — for example, creating restrictions on where manufacturers can dump...

When Jeff Bezos started Amazon.com Inc. as an online bookseller in 1994, he thought his company would probably fail. And he was upfront about it with Amazon’s investors — starting with his parents. As Bezos told an interviewer in 2000, three years after Amazon went public, “I...

The nearly 3 billion gamers in the world are expected to push the global gaming industry to more than $200 billion in 2023, according to some estimates. And with money flowing through a market that big, investors will be on the lookout for opportunities.  Gameflip is a digital marketplace app...

Disruption has been pretty commonplace lately.  The internet age has changed nearly everything in a few decades. Shopify Inc. (NYSE: SHOP) disrupted and democratized owning a business. Robinhood Markets Inc. (NASDAQ: HOOD) democratized investing in stocks and crypto. Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA)...

If you were to ask the average American who the richest person in the world is, many would likely say Elon Musk, Bill Gates or another American business magnate. After all, an American has held the title almost exclusively for much of the past several decades.  That is no longer the case....

A recent article by Crunchbase reports a staggering decline in Web3 funding. A number of high-profile bankruptcies in the space and an overall decline in sentiment mean venture capitalists (VCs) are starting to slow the pace of funding in the space. FTX was one of the largest crypto exchanges in...

During recessions, the focus tends to be on the worst performers — the biggest names now in the news are Bitcoin and FTX, as their respective prices crash or go bankrupt.  Meta Platforms Inc. and Netflix Inc. have both had terrible years, and many have been happy to kick them...

The stock market had a tough 2022, with the benchmark S&P 500 index plummeting by nearly 20% and the tech-focused Nasdaq Composite down by more than 33%. Last year was the worst year for the U.S. stock market since 2008 because of persistently high inflation and multiple interest rate hikes....

Venture capitalists (VC) and high-net-worth angel investors once owned the startup investing space. It used to be illegal for everyday investors to invest in startups, but that is quickly changing. Now, not only is it possible for everyday investors to invest in the same startups as VCs, but...

The virtual reality (VR) market has been heating up, with dozens of major players and startups rolling out their versions of the original Oculus.  The clear winner is currently Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ: META) with a reported 90% market share in the VR industry. This is in line with the...

When Jeff Bezos started Amazon.com Inc. as an online bookseller in 1994, he thought his company would probably fail. And he was upfront about it with Amazon’s investors — starting with his parents. As Bezos told an interviewer in 2000, three years after Amazon went public, “I...

If you haven’t noticed, the blockchain world has been pretty volatile. OpenSea non-fungible token (NFT) volume is down more than 90%, and nearly everyone has heard about the multibillion-dollar scandals and subsequent collapse of FTX, Celsius and more. Anyone that has been in the world of...

Venture capitalists (VC) and high-net-worth angel investors once owned the startup investing space. It used to be illegal for everyday investors to invest in startups, but that is quickly changing. Now, not only is it possible for everyday investors to invest in the same startups as VCs, but...