In 2017, BMW exported 81,186 vehicles from its plant in Greer, SC to China with an export value of $2.37 billion. But on July 6, China increased its import tax on American-made automobiles from 25 percent

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In a pure fiat system, governments invariably print too much money. That causes prices to rise. The people, feeling pinched, turn to socialist governments who promise to give them free healthcare, tuition,

A number of people recently have suggested that Facebook - by profiting from the social harm it causes, yet denying its culpability - is acting like the tobacco industry in the 1990s. While there undeniably

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Facebook just launched a new home video camera, called Portal, that will allow two-way video chats with your Facebook “friends” from your home. It consists of a high-resolution video camera, a tablet-sized

The question is which way the trend resolves itself. Will the next big move be higher or lower? The pattern itself is agnostic. As a general rule, you can't tell from a price compression pattern which

Tesla has $230 million in convertible debt coming due next month, followed by another $920 million in March. Barring a massive rally in Tesla's share price in the meantime, this debt must be paid back

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Large-scale financial crisis events are both rare and extreme. You only see them once or twice a decade, if that. Because of this low frequency, they are like earthquakes or tsunamis. They violently shake

Trading digital collectibles is a huge business. In the U.S. alone, people spend more than $188 billion on purely digital items. Gamers spend an estimated $50 billion annually buying digital outfits and

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Amazon started out selling books online. These days, it’s the largest e-commerce retailer in the world. It makes billions of dollars hosting data “in the cloud.” It even makes TV shows. What’s less well-known

we will soon connect the entire planet on the internet... In 2010, about a quarter of humanity was connected (1.8 billion people). By 2017, that number had risen to half of the planet’s population (3.8

"The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free." Nassim Nicholas Taleb De-Google your life – The way to stop Google – and the NSA – tracking

. . . not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

In any given year, a whole bunch of stocks in the S&P 500 underperform the index. For the first half of this year, 62% of the stocks in the S&P couldn’t keep up with the index. Most of the time,