Last week many major airlines canceled trips to China along with many US companies closing their offices in China. In a country with a population of 1.386 billion, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the coronavirus has reached epidemic […]
I’ve said for years that one of many requests I have when getting to heaven is to meet the members of the three-person committee of the Secret Order of Associated Press (SOAP). What I have surmised are the members are […]
On Wednesday, July 31, the Federal Reserve lowered the discount rate charged to financial institutions by 25 basis points (0.25%) making this the first rate cut in eighteen months. On Thursday, President Trump announced the intent to impose a 10% […]
As with almost every complex design, there is just one thing that can either enable its brilliance or instantly cease its functionality entirely. For instance, an intricately designed mainframe computer with billions of programmed lines of code and exclusive hardware […]
One winter night during one of the many German air raids on Moscow during WWII, a distinguished Soviet professor of statistics showed up in his local air-raid shelter. He had never appeared there before. ‘There are seven million people in […]
The most challenging aspect of investing is matching one’s expectations with actual performance. With a standard hope to earn the long-term market average, diversified investors are in for a big surprise. Since 1927, the S&P 500 index has averaged a […]
Of the many innovations that are changing how we interact with technology, IFTTT is leading the charge in its collaboration with the IoT (Internet of Things). IFTTT, otherwise known as If This Then That is a free service that allows super nerds like […]
