As Alanis Morissette once sang, “Isn’t it ironic, don’t you think?” Certainly that is the case of the sad, but ironically twisted fate, of a top Amazon executive. As you may have heard, Amazon has been taking the heat lately, for their contracted delivery vans being driven unsafely, as their operators are pushed to make […] Read more

AfD lawmakers called on the German government to end Russian sanctions on Thursday, arguing that they’ve failed to “increase domestic pressure on the Russian government” and have only increased the popularity of Russian President Vladimir Putin. In the same motion, the Bundestag’s AfD faction also described the measures taken against Crimea as “counterproductive”, and have […] Read more

I have been writing about the economy and the stock market for almost 20 years now. During that span I have seen the market go through many different phases. There are phases when the market views everything as bad news, and there are ones where all news is viewed as good news. There are even […] Read more

In his first state of the state address on Tuesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed a new “data dividend” that could allow residents to get paid for providing access to their data. Newsome inhabits a Robin Hoodesque Sherwood Forest that would like to take from the money gushers of tech and distribute their wealth to […] Read more

The retail sector is a key component of the U.S. economy, and there are several indications that things are not looking very good for the sector. Last week the retail sales figures for December were released and it showed an unexpected decline of 1.2%. Analysts were expecting an increase of 0.1% for December. The headline […] Read more

The rarest of start-up breeds is being found in several cities in China. The “Unicorn,” a private company with a market capitalization of $1 billion, is being spotted more of late. A Chinese government report put the number of unicorns in the country at 164 in 2017, a 25% increase from the year before. By some […] Read more