Monthly Archives: November, 2020

Why Your Next Diamond Might Be Grown in a Lab

In The New York Times, Victoria Gomelsky reports on how the closure of the Argyle Mine in Western Australia will change the way the...

This Rivals the Dotcom Mania

The most famous book on the history of financial bubbles was written by Charles Kindleberger. He called it, Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History...

How to Hire Investment Counsel: This is the Way

Real quick. You’re interested in hiring a financial advisor—one who’s held to a fiduciary standard by law, not some silly suitability one. You know...

Will Work PCs Become a Thing of the Past?

ComputerWorld's Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols outlines the future of PCs as he sees it, writing: Ready or not, here comes Windows as a Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) for...

Be a Shepherd. You’ll Be Happier. Greed Kills

I was talking with a client yesterday. He emailed me earlier in the afternoon. The subject line read “New Customer.” His neighbor recently retired. She...

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“One, Big, Beautiful Bill” Advances: Tax Cuts, Energy, and Border Security in Focus

The White House reports that President Trump’s landmark "One,...

Data Centers Could Dominate U.S. Commercial Power Use by 2050

The US Energy Information Administration’s Annual Energy Outlook 2025...

Unleashing American Energy: Largest Deregulation in DOE History Announced

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has launched the...

Smartphone Satellite Communications Are Here

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The Mysterious ALS Cluster in the French Alps: Is It Linked to Toxic Mushrooms?

Terence Monmaney of Popular Science reports that in Montchavin,...

Trump Announces Vietnam Trade Deal

President Trump announced a trade deal with Vietnam that...

Nuclear Surpasses Coal in U.S. Energy Mix for the First Time

The US Energy Information Administration reports that in 2024,...

The Profound Implications of a Shifting Advertising Landscape

This has profound implications for all sorts of businesses....

Babson College Announces New President

"Babson College, which marks its centennial next year, has...