Article Published by: Forbes In the early days of bitcoin, I was explaining the technology to economist Edward Stringham. This new market-based money allows individuals to exchange peer-to-peer without financial intermediation, I said. All transactions are finally settled, regardless of geographic proximity, with no previous trust...
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Article Published by: economist A contrarian strategy fares badly much of the time In april 1962, Joan Whitney Payson watched the New York Mets, a collection of cast-offs from rival baseball teams, lose their first ever game. Mrs Payson, the Mets’ owner, soon left for a summer...
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Article Published by: forbes.com Fidelity Investments is spinning off a stand-alone company dedicated to bringing cryptocurrencies to institutional investors. Called Fidelity Digital Assets, the limited liability corporation based in Boston will provide enterprise-grade custody solutions, a cryptocurrency trading execution platform and institutional advising services 24 hours a...
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Article Published by: economist.com MORE than 300m people suffer from depression around the world, and another 260m people suffer from anxiety. Technology and the constant cacophony of modern life are cited as the main causes of the increasing prevalence of mental illness. After falling into depression aged...
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Article Published by: Forbes In a New York Times article, Ben Bernanke, Hank Paulson, and Tim Geithner explained how they saved the banking system. It has been 10 years since the financial crisis started. The banking system has recovered. Wall Street has recovered. The government has been...
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Article Originally Published by Pawel Kuskowski on Forbes.com By 2022, the UK will be a global hub for blockchain technologies and the crypto economy. That is the claim of a new report from the Big Innovation Centre, DAG Global and Deep Knowledge Analytics, released last month. It’s good...
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Article originally published by Erik Sherman on Forbes.com If you look at official overall unemployment numbers, conditions in the U.S. look great. That's on the whole, though. Rates vary wildly by age, race, gender, and level of education. The unemployment numbers are also complex. The figures have frequently dropped because people leave...
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Article Published by: thestreet.com A Roth IRA can add to your retirement income in a tax-advantaged way. A Roth IRA is a unique retirement savings vehicle that has the stamp of approval from Uncle Sam, offering retirement withdrawals tax-free -- after paying taxable contributions into your Roth...
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Article Published by: economist.com A data boom enables an algorithmic approach to fixed-interest investing Compared with equity investing, bond investing can seem stuck in the dark ages. As hedge funds and asset managers use whizzy algorithms to trade shares automatically, bond-fund managers still often call traders by...
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Article Published by: forbes For more than a decade, one 48-year-old entrepreneur in Ghana has been quietly building up a multimillion-dollar oil and gas outfit called UBI Group. Salma Okonkwo is a rare woman to head up an energy company in Africa. “I don’t stop when...
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