...silver prices de-coupling from paper and Elon Musk tweeting support for “the people's crypto,” Dogecoin. We also learned more about how hedge funds, banks, and online brokerages may have manipulated unsavvy...
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...silver prices de-coupling from paper and Elon Musk tweeting support for “the people's crypto,” Dogecoin. We also learned more about how hedge funds, banks, and online brokerages may have manipulated unsavvy...
BUYOUT LENDING SOARING Facing a possible hike in capital gains tax rates proposed by President Joe Biden, companies are scurrying to conclude mergers and acquisitions ahead of it—and lenders are accommodating them with billions in cheap loans, enabled by the U.S. Federal Reserve keeping its base interest rate barely...
...week’s biggest story. Millions of day traders used cheap trading apps like Robinhood to buy up shares of a company that was shorted by huge Wall Street hedge funds. In...
JPMorgan Chase, the largest U.S. bank in terms of assets, will buy Nutmeg Savings and Investment, a British online bank, for a price said by insiders to be about $1 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported. Nutmeg, founded in 2012, has 140,000 customers and €3.5 billion, or about $5...
PFIZER BUYS ARENA PHARMACEUTICAL FOR $6.7 BILLION Flush with billions in cash from the success of its COVID vaccine, Pfizer Inc. has agreed to pay $6.7 billion to buy...
Invitation Homes, a subsidiary of the Blackstone Group asset management firm and now among the largest owner of single-family rental homes in the U.S., will add another $1 billion in rental houses to its inventory this year, the company has said. Home prices are at record levels, pricing many...
We forecast it before, and we continue to do so. There will be a BIG economic bounce that will be heard across the world as lockdown restrictions ease, vaccination rates increase, and continued streams of cheap government and central bank money continue to flow into the economy. Ready to...
...on the new schedule. The plan will depend on a 75 percent online attendance rate; school districts lose a portion of their state aid if they fall short of 75...
Trends are born, they grow, mature, reach old age, and die. Online education continues to be the newly growing trend that Gerald Celente had forecast in 1996 in his book Trends 2000: How to Prepare for and Profit from the Changes of the 21st Century. Last week in Chicago,...
Further pushing commercial real estate prices sharply lower is the brick-and-mortar retail devastation, which was a trend prior to the COVID panic. The retail industry shed two million jobs in April and more than 100,000 stores are expected to go out of business over the next five years, according...
...STUDENTS,” and “DETROIT SCHOOLS: MAJORITY OF KIDS ABSENT. CLASSES GOING ONLINE.” ) We have pointed out that the lockdowns in 2020 helped speed up the transition to online learning, which...
THIS WAS OUR 2018 TREND FORECAST: The process of integrating VR-ED and Interactive-U learning into aspects of traditional education is a megatrend of 2018 that a growing number of community, political and business leaders will advocate. Trends are born, they grow, mature, reach old age and die. The Industrial...
South Korea’s education ministry reported last Wednesday that the nation was allocating more than $110 million for the transition to long-term remote learning. The money primarily will go to transforming classrooms and standard textbooks into formats more conducive to the digital age. Choi Won-hwi, a leader in the government...
It’s a scam. It’s a grand deception. It’s a colossal failure. It’s a mass of data confusion and contradictions rammed down the throats of individuals, businesses and industries. It doesn’t work. It has no future. “It” is digital advertising. You’ll remember the promise of the glorious future of online...
...itself Meta Platforms in October and said it would devote itself to online worlds. Buyers liken the metaverse’s wide-open spaces to the western U.S. in the 1840s, when the country’s...
...on Amazon. As noted in the Trends Journal , the company profiteered in 2020 off pandemic lockdowns that compelled people to do more online buying. Bill Ready, Google’s President of...
WALTON WILL BUY DENVER BRONCOS FOR $4.6 BILLION Walmart heir Rob Walton is leading a group that has agreed to pay $4.6 billion to buy the Denver Broncos football...
Mid-summer in the Hudson Valley is a special and spectacular time of year, when celebrations and events abound. There are winding country roads with unparalleled views, and communities across the region are hosting an array of festivals and fairs. Well-known in the equestrian world as the place to see...
Gambling, once a high crime that sent thousands to jail for breaking the law, became a new law in New York last week when state politicians approved legalized mobile sports betting. The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday the state estimates they can rake in $500 million by getting their...
Seeing the online future, the Blackstone Group, one of the largest private and alternative investment firms in the world, continues to buy up industrial warehouses across the U.S. and Europe. They just closed one of the biggest private real-estate deals in history, paying $5.9 billion. No more window shopping at...
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