Month: February 2020

One of the foundational questions about income and wealth is how much is enough? As it turns out, the answer is largely personal.
Today Alexander Green explains why the definition of a rich life varies so much from person to person – and what wealth really means.

One of the foundational questions about money is one that few agree on: How much is enough?
In our increasingly competitive world, some believe that money is the way we measure competence, success, even our worth as individuals.
This isn’t just wrongheaded, in my view. It’s offensive.
There are plenty of folks doing incredibly skilled and underpaid work …read more […]

It’s been a good week for Skechers U.S.A., Inc. (NYSE:SKX) shareholders, because the company has just released its… …read more […]

It’s only natural that many investors, especially those who are new to the game, prefer to buy shares in ‘sexy’ stocks… …read more […]

Amazon Web Services said on Monday it was seeking to depose President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Mark Esper in its lawsuit over whether the president was trying “to screw Amazon” when it awarded a Pentagon contract for cloud computing to rival Microsoft Corp. The Amazon.com Inc unit alleged that Trump, who has publicly derided Amazon head Jeff Bezos and repeatedly criticized the company, exerted undue influence on the decision to deny it the $10 billion contract. Known as the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud, or JEDI, the contract is intended to give the military better access …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — Billionaire Peter Thiel, an early investor in Facebook Inc. who once controlled 45 million shares of the social-media giant, unloaded most of his remaining stake last week.Thiel, a member of Facebook’s board, sold 53,602 shares held by his Rivendell One LLC for $11 million, leaving him with about $2 million of stock, according to a regulatory filing Friday.The transactions are the latest in a series of sales in recent years that have left Thiel with just 9,948 directly held shares. He sold most of his stake in 2012.Shares of Menlo Park, California-based Facebook climbed 27% in the past …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — A little executive bloodletting can sometimes ease the pressure on an embattled chief executive officer. But Jim Hackett is unlikely to see any letup from Ford Motor Co.’s board following the surprise early retirement of one his two top lieutenants.Joe Hinrichs, Ford’s 53-year-old automotive president, will leave on March 1 after almost two decades with the company. As a rising star under celebrated former CEO Alan Mulally, he was put on the fast track to be a potential heir to the top job.With Hinrichs out of the picture, Ford is elevating Jim Farley, the company’s only other president, …read more […]

A multi-layer moat with a multi-cylinder growth engine Continue reading… …read more […]

Investment bank JPMorgan has been looking into the advent of 5G, and pointing out possible paths that the new technology will take as it makes inroads to the digital ecosystem. The most obvious point, of course, is that by the end of this year all of the major mobile providers will have rolled out nationwide 5G networks. That shift has already begun.What is equally important, but less obvious, is that paths toward monetization are not completely clear. JPMorgan does not expect digital customers to pay for 5G specifically in selecting new plans. Customer choice of provider may hinge on the …read more […]

Shareholders of Pixelworks, Inc. (NASDAQ:PXLW) will be pleased this week, given that the stock price is up 11% to… …read more […]