Why Are So Many People Freaking Out About A Stock Market Crash In The Fall Of 2015?
By Michael Snyder, on August 19th, 2015Is the stock market going to crash by the end of 2015? Of course stock market crashes are already happening in 23 different nations around the planet, but most Americans don’t really care about those markets. The […]
Why Are So Many People Freaking Out About A Stock Market Crash In The Fall Of 2015?
By Michael Snyder, on August 19th, 2015Is the stock market going to crash by the end of 2015? Of course stock market crashes are already happening in 23 different nations around the planet, but most Americans don’t really care about those markets. The […]
Now Is The Time – Fear Rises As Financial Markets All Over The Planet Start To Crash
By Michael Snyder, on July 27th, 2015Can you feel the panic in the air? CNN Money’s Fear & Greed Index measures the amount of fear in the financial world on a scale from 0 to 100. The closer it is to zero, the […]
Hail ShaleFracking Yields Another MiracleTransforming America’s energy fortunes overnight wasn’t enough for fracking—now it seems set to feed the world’s fish. A California biotech company is looking to take advantage of fracking-wrought methane to breed a special kind of bacterium that could be used as a cheaper feedstock for fish. The Economist reports:
[Dr. Alan Shaw, head of the biotechnology firm Calysta] proposes to take advantage […]
There are no stock-market bubbles on the planet Vulcan.There are no financial panics or day traders, either. There are no hedge funds. There are no subprime crises. Bankers do not expect a bailout if they lend money to people who cannot afford to pay it back.The reason? Simple. Such things would be … completely illogical.And when it comes to money, […]
Biotech companies are restoring sight to the blind, curing hepatitis C and fighting off HIV.As they save lives, biotech companies are simultaneously making a lot of money for investors.That’s why the hottest ETFs (exchange-traded funds) on the planet since the bull market began in March 2009 invest in biotech companies.The First Trust NYSE Arca Biotech ETF (FBT) has skyrocketed more […]
‘Near Perfect’ Indicator That Precedes Almost Every Stock Market Correction Is Flashing A Warning Signal
By Michael Snyder, on December 4th, 2014Are we about to see U.S. stocks take a significant tumble? If you are looking for a “canary in the coal mine” for the U.S. stock market, just look at high yield bonds. In recent years, almost every single […]
From (inter)objective Big Data to (inter)subjective Deep DataMichel Bauwens16th August 2014
The real problem of big data is that we are increasingly outsourcing our capacity to sense and think to algorithms programmed into machines. While this seems very convenient and cool at first and offers access to services that many of us want, it also raises a question about who actually […]
Dr. Jan de Jeu, vice president of the University of GroningenA few weeks ago IBM, ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, and the University of Groningen (UoG) formed the European Research Center for Exascale Technology (ERCET) to address some of the greatest societal challenges facing The Netherlands today including energy, healthcare and water management.One of the orchestrators of the […]
It seems like there isn’t a day that goes by without yet another report proclaiming big data as an absolute necessity for retailers and small-to-medium business (SMB) owners, but these claims risk ignoring both the existing challenges of the industry, as well as the bigger picture.In fact, some analysts go as far as to claim that big data is nothing […]
