On Monday, some traders thought that they had just completed the trade of a lifetime. Due to a software glitch, several stocks - including Berkshire Hathaway - were reported to be down over 99%. ...
Earlier today, President Donald J. Trump was found guilty of all 34 counts in his "hush-money" trial. Sentencing is set for July 11th, and President Trump could face up to 4 years in jail. Whi...
Prediction markets do a much better job of telling us what is going to happen in future events than polling. The reason? Real money is on the line. Prediction markets such as Polymarket are...
Amazon.com is a $2 trillion Goliath of a company that competes in e-commerce, cloud computing and a host of other industries. Like most monstrously sized companies, Amazon.com has acquired a number...
There was a time, early in the 1920s, when Detroit was the fourth-biggest city in the United States, behind only New York, Chicago and Philadelphia. This was in the early 1920s, when Detroit was fi...
On July 17th, 1955, Walt Disney officially opened the doors to the 160 acre "Disneyland" theme park in Anaheim, California. The park was certainly a risk, as Disney had spent $17 million to build ...
Laszlo Hanyecz was hungry. It was September 22nd, 2010, and Hanyecz was flush with these practically worthless things called Bitcoin, and he wanted to use them to get some pizza delivered. Sur...
It was early 2015, and Chipotle was thriving. The company, which was founded in 1993 by Steve Ells, was growing rapidly through the United States. Customers, lured by the promise of fresh ingr...
It was a beautiful Monday morning at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, California. It was the summer of 2006, which was roughly 2 1/2 years after Facebook was launched by Mark Zuckerberg and Edu...
In this day and age, millions upon millions of options contracts are traded every market day. Did you know that the very first options trade was completed by a philosopher named Thales of Miletus,...
For a Texas man named Tyler Loudon, the temptation was just too great. Loudon would spend his days listening in on his wife's juicy work conversations, and an idea formed inside of his head. Y...
The 1964 US Presidential election was a landslide victory for Lyndon B. Johnson, as he won 486 of the electoral college votes, and ended up with over 61% of the popular vote. Johnson, who had take...
President Donald Trump is looking as though he may very well sweep the 2024 Republican primaries. We are just a few days into February, and there are just two names remaining left in the race - Presid...
Apple is currently valued at $3.01 trillion, making it one of the most valuable companies in the world. Ronald Wayne, who was one of the founders of Apple (along with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak)...
In the 1976 US Presidential election, Jimmy Carter defeated the incumbent Gerald Ford by a comfortable margin. What people may not realize or remember, however, is that California Governor Ronald ...