The world’s second oldest profession — spying, that is — is getting a makeover from above. A new generation of imaging and data satellites is bringing top-shelf intelligence to just about anybody.

Movies like The Bourne Identity is NOT the way to think about it.

The American labor force will probably never return to its pre-pandemic structure. New forces are driving the American service economy and creating some unlikely winners. Case in point: TravelCenters of America.

Meat processing in the United States is going through a fundamental restructuring. A properly funded start-up could disrupt the $1 trillion global business in beef, chicken, and fish.

A sobering historical lesson in how empires fall through futile efforts to preserve the value of money.

An old-school tech behemoth flaunts cash flow and dividends over Internet 3.0 hype

Once mundane self-storage operators tell an attractive new story.

Overwhelming historical data indicates that Netflix should be valued just like any other media and distribution company.

Inflation and concerns about war is highlight the lack of emotional reaction in virtual currencies like Bitcoin. Tactile stores of value like gold are playing fascinating new roles.

Masks are coming off. Families are heading going back to the beach. And consumers are suddenly considering cosmetic procedures to revamp their looks. A family a technology enablers should benefit.

States are beginning to release actual financial data on the performance of newly legalized online sports betting. While the total wagered both online and in casinos, that actual taxable profits that flow to both investors and taxpayers are razor thin.

War, pandemics and high prices for fuel is putting a premium on smaller air cargo companies that can adapt and still get critical goods through.

Electric vehicles are no longer science fiction. In fact, today’s freshman class of EVs feel closer to mundane consumer electronics then to traditional cars and trucks. The “PC factor” of EVs will profoundly affect consumer adoption and investor value of electric vehicles.

United Van Lines released its annual migration data survey. Covid was seen as the major driver. But deeper analysis reveals that Americans have migrated in consistent ways since the late 1970s. A pandemic was not a major factor, at least statistically.

Fast growing automated lending platform Upstart Holdings is showing aggressive growth. But opaque machine learning, higher than expected costs, and a grim history for alternative lending products dim the company’s prospects.

A Cold War is brewing. But this time, it’s not a 1960s Soviet Union vs. United States battle for global dominance. Instead, a deep and stubborn (yet not particularly violent) class war is afoot inside the modern enterprise. The battle lines of this social upheaval will not be sketched out by liner neo-19th century cadres of investors, managers, and workers,

American companies are picking up a nasty habit of not making money. The Bureau of Economic Analysis (or BEA) announced last month that growth in quarterly corporate profits slowed in 2021. But the BEA made it clear, that if favorable tax treatments were removed, the vast majority of companies lose money.

Consumers have a long history of avoiding the things that make them safer. For example, seat belts: Since the 1950s, Sweden's largest vehicle maker, Volvo, has studied over 43,000 vehicle collisions. From the beginning researchers faced a grim, but relentless truth: Similar to the adoption of vaccines, consumers flatly refused to make themselves safer.

Storied grill and outdoor equipment maker Weber came to the public with an IPO this year. But slow future growth will make the going tough.

Cryptoswaps, anyone? A new wave of cryptocurrency-based financial firms is making traditional risk management tools, like credit default swaps and currency hedges, applicable to cybercurrencies.

Pandemics were supposed to hasten the deployment of innovative medical technologies. They don’t. Instead, traditional restructuring of medical practices by private equity will be the major force in medicine.