Pivotal Point
Turning points in history and in the markets can help you transform small grubstakes into not-so-small fortunes. Or they can trip up your finances for months, even years. This free e-letter will not only keep you one step ahead of the news, but it will also help you identify the pivotal point in time when a major turn is near.
By Jon D. Markman On June 7, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Imagine the ability to look at something and know almost everything about it. It would kind of be like a superpower.
Alphabet (GOOGL) and Microsoft (MSFT) have tools to do it – right now. They...
By Jon D. Markman On June 5, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Last week, Amazon (AMZN) shares busted through $1,000. The odds are good they will keep going.
Amazon is a great business. Arguably, revolutionary. However, its share price has always been...
By Jon D. Markman On June 2, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Get ready for the biggest change in computing since silicon chips.
Quantum Computing is a complete reboot of modern computer science. And this week, Microsoft (MSFT) extended its relationship...
By Jon D. Markman On May 31, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Autonomous delivery drones will arrive in three years. Self-driving trucks will hit roads two years later.
This week, Reuters reported the Japanese government’s plans to launch the autonomous...
By Jon D. Markman On May 30, 201707:30 AM Eastern
Mark Fields is out as the top man at Ford (F).
Conventional wisdom puts the blame somewhere in the vicinity of Elon Musk, CEO at Tesla (TSLA). Don’t believe it.
The auto business faces a...
By Jon D. Markman On May 26, 201702:00 PM Eastern
George Church, the noted Harvard geneticist, is one step closer to building synthetic human DNA.
This week, Stat News reports, he met with 130 scientists, lawyers and government officials to...
By Jon D. Markman On May 24, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Elon Musk is obsessed with speed. From rockets to hyperloops to electric cars, fast is kind of his thing.
Now he wants to apply the same aesthetic to manufacturing.
Critics argue it’s another...
By Jon D. Markman On May 22, 201702:00 PM Eastern
We humans are pretty simple. We want binary choices. Right, wrong. Up, down. Unfortunately, markets are often more complex.
After the presidential election, investors expected this White House...
By Jon D. Markman On May 19, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Computers are moving way past simply, well, computing. Now, they are starting to truly see.
That means, they are starting to put images into context. And this represents a huge step forward for...
By Jon D. Markman On May 17, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Soon, you can manage your finances like a pro with the help of your very own personal digital assistant.
This week Bank of America (BAC) unveiled Erica. The state-of-the-art chatbot comes...
About the Editor
Jon D. Markman is winner of the prestigious Gerald Loeb Award for outstanding financial journalism and the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi award. He was also on Los Angeles Times staffs that won Pulitzer Prizes for coverage of the 1992 L.A. riots and the 1994 Northridge earthquake. He invented Microsoft’s StockScouter, the world’s first online app for analyzing and picking stocks.
