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Small Business Owner Optimism is Decreasing December 17, 2018 U.S. Economy Forecasts are hard to make. But profits tend to rely on forecasts. For a small business, it’s important to forecast well. If there are too many customers and not enough inventory, the business can fail. Too much inventory can also lead to failure. Hiring plans and inventory depend on future expectations. Owners might get it wrong, […]
Traders Ignored the Fed Chairman’s Warning December 13, 2018 U.S. Economy Traders were right that Fed Chairman Jerome Powell's recent speech was important. But buying stocks was the wrong reaction.
Big Telecom Companies Ignore Phone Scammers December 12, 2018 Privacy Invasion Telephone scammers steal $37 billion a year from elderly Americans. And the problem is about to get much, much worse, very soon.
Video Game Makers Game You Through Microtransactions December 10, 2018 Technology As regular readers know, I’m an old-school gamer. My first video game system was an Atari 2600, with Combat!, Pitfall, Q-Bert … even the much maligned E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial game. But gaming has changed considerably since the days of the Atari 2600. No longer do you just buy a video game and play it at […]
Is Microsoft the Next $1 Trillion Company? December 5, 2018 Investment Opportunities Microsoft is thriving to such a degree that it briefly overtook Apple as the largest U.S. company by market capitalization last week.





