Mastercard Evades Enemies
By Jon D. Markman President Trump says that trade wars are easy to win. It depends on the definition of winning. The Chinese government announced recently that state agencies must...
Outwit the Surveillance State
By Jon D Markman Smartphones and the applications we use are tracking our every movement. It’s part of what some derisively call surveillance capitalism. Using a leaked database...
Overwatch Results Update
Results of our Overwatch program in Strategic Advantage. Starts with $100,000 on June 28, 2017. Each new recommendation uses 25% of the portfolio. This means that results are...
Cool tech IPOs finally emerge after drought
It has become a cliché. If your business is not scarfing up new technology, it’s being devoured by it. Given the choice, companies are choosing to eat. With more than $3.6...
Turning back the clock on aging
It’s mind bending. Scientists believe it is now possible to wind back the biological clock. Aging would not only stop. It would reverse. In mid-December, researchers at the Salk...
Artificial Intelligence is Coming for Your Job
Artificial intelligence is a killer application. The very idea of technology learning at an exponential rate boggles the mind. Software developers are giddy to unleash its...
Electric Vehicles Now Menace Oil Biz
The car business is about to take us all on a wild ride. Autonomous vehicles will challenge industry business models. Electric propulsion will challenge the global economy. This...
Renaissance men plunder data for profit
What do Big Data, cutting edge supercomputers and sunny days have in common? If you answered Renaissance Technologies’ Medallion hedge fund, give yourself a gold star. Gold stars...
Technology ready to cure health-care costs
After the global financial crisis in 2009, Marc Andreessen was a fount of optimism. The pioneering web engineer and venture capitalist is still optimistic, but not for the reasons...
GE Readies for Revolution
All over the globe, the working class is rising up against the forces of industrial globalization. Nationalism will bring back good-paying jobs, say the populists. Or so the...