With early voting trends pointing to fresh records, the result of the 2024 presidential election will likely be once again decided by a handful of key swing states.
Nominations are announced Friday and the awards ceremony is set for Feb. 2, 2025. The Rockhound takes a close look at some categories and predicts who might fill the eight nomination…
Everybody follows presidential fundraising, but who knows where all that cash goes?
Mark Cuban, Robert Cahaly, and others joined Luckbox’s Jeff Joseph to look several days into the future without the advantage of a crystal ball
The English alt-rock band The Cure returns with their first album in 16 years, Songs of a Lost World. It’s a melancholy record that will attract die-hard fans and new…
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Everybody follows presidential fundraising, but who knows where all that cash goes?
Mark Cuban, Robert Cahaly, and others joined Luckbox’s Jeff Joseph to look several days into the future without the advantage of a crystal ball
Our most recent survey reveals the political thinking of our favorite group of investors
With early voting trends pointing to fresh records, the result of the 2024 presidential election will likely be once again decided by a handful of…
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The Mocktail Movement
Alcohol alternatives are here to stay, even beyond Dry January
Probability Matters
Get serious about investing by attaching a numerical probability to every trade It’s fun to speculate about cultural, political or economic events that might happen…
Who Will Be Nominated for the 2025 Grammys?
Nominations are announced Friday and the awards ceremony is set for Feb. 2, 2025. The Rockhound takes a close look at some categories and predicts…
Unburdened By What Has Been
Steamboat Willie, an early version of Disney's Mickey Mouse, has entered the public domain. Look for the character to star in everything from horror movies…
Straightforwardly Successful
The idea that volatility is often overpriced and fear is inflated gave me the edge I needed
Book Review: On the Edge
Author and data geek Nate Silver urges gamblers, investors, founders and philosophers to take more risks. Our own data geek reviews Silver's new book.
Shohei Ohtani’s Historic 2024 Season: A Quest For Baseball Immortality
Shohei Ohtani is rewriting baseball history, one swing at a time making the Dodgers the favorite to win the 2024 World Series
Review: May Contain Lies, How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases—and What We Can Do About It
A review of a new book by Alex Edmans that helps us understand how bats and pangolins in a Wuhan wet market became the consensus…
Trades
Its been a tough decade so far for Disney. For a hint of likely future direction, just watch these trendlines
Separate truth from fiction in the hype surrounding artificial-intelligence stocks, and remain mindful of exposure Investors who’ve been around the block—and their younger proteges who’ve…
The rise of energy-hungry artificial intelligence has pushed the commodity’s prices higher
Tactics
The U.S. dollar remains the world’s top reserve currency. As a result of that status, changes in the value of the dollar can reverberate to…
Looking ahead into 2024, the long tech versus short financials pairs trade offers a compelling risk-reward dynamic, especially with the stock market trending toward all-time…
With major equity indices like the Dow Jones Industrial Average notching fresh all-time highs, investors and traders may want to consider trimming their exposure to…
Reaching certain price milestones can mean it’s time to take action
Shares of Super Micro Computer (SMCI) are up 180% so far in 2024, and could rally further if the company announces a stock split
Much like traditional pairs trading, a volatility-focused pairs trade hinges on an existing strong correlation between the two underlyings
Hyped-up stocks can have unusual option pricing with atypical option skew Look at prices of the Nasdaq ETF (QQQ) out-of-the-money (OTM) strikes for the April…
To predict next year’s stock prices, look where investors are putting their money New variants of COVID-19 might drive stock prices lower, or President Joe…
Looking to take the sting out of an investment’s shrinking value? Ethereum and bitcoin have been anything but stable. Think gold. Is cryptocurrency the new…
