American consumers are making some pricey mistakes in their personal banking activities these days, according to a new study released by personal-finance website WalletHub. For instance, 94 percent of people…
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A new report from the US Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) warns financial services providers (and by implication, those that use them) that cybersecurity threats are the biggest challenge currently…
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In another sign that investors need to be careful when entering such a relatively new space as cryptocurrencies, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission recently launched two separate civil enforcement actions,…
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In a study pregnant with implications for Western nations bent on dropping ever more bombs throughout the Middle East, researchers recently reviewed the lessons many feel should have been learned…
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An effort by three Democratic members of the US Senate and House to prove it is easy for Americans to make unauthorized purchases of firearms online largely failed, according to…
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Oil production in the collapsing socialist economy of Venezuela has been falling for years, and in late 2017, it hit a 28-year low. Sadly, things appear destined to get even…
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Financial technology startups invading the life insurance domain – “insurtechs” – are poised to dramatically overhaul the way the industry sells life insurance products to consumers. According to a new…
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One of the most damaging effects government intervention in an economy has is the corruption of the entrepreneurial instinct into one that engages in what’s known in political economy circles…
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American consumers got another bad dose of Big Data recently. There has been another huge data malfunction – this time by an apparent lapse at Alteryx, a California-based data analytics…
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A new report from the Center for Economics and Business Research, a London-based consultancy, claims the economy of China will surpass that of the US as the world’s largest by…
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Although tax reform is now a done deal, or a fait accompli, depending on your perspective, that’s not keeping fans of tax-and-spend government from decrying what they characterize as “trickle-down”…
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For a generation that both watched “The Matrix” movies and lived through the September 11th terrorist attacks – and now has to endure hyperbolic headlines about possible nuclear war breaking…
