Bleeding Edge

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Brad Thomas Discusses the Benefits of Dividend Stocks

Most people know the U.S. stock market is a great way to build wealth over time. Adjusted for inflation, it’s delivered about 7% annual returns. But dividends play an important role in boosting those long-term stock returns – above and beyond share price appreciation. According to research from the IESE Business School, from 1900 to 2018, the S&P 500 delivered 416x...

The Risk of AI Impersonations is Real

More work needs to be done developing artificial intelligence software designed to spot voice, video, and images created by an AI. And that kind of technology needs to be adopted and employed by search engines, social media platforms, messaging platforms, etc.

How Interest Rates Impact VC Investments

Sadly, this is what happens with a $1 trillion-plus annual budget deficit, a credit crunch, and rampant inflation. I expect that early-stage venture capital (VC) investment levels will be on par with 2017 or 2018 levels and will almost certainly be less than half of last year. It feels like we’re taking a massive step backwards…

The Next Shoe to Drop – First Republic

This isn’t a normally functioning market. This isn’t healthy. And it is going to get worse. FRC is just a snapshot of how bad things are. There are hundreds of other regional banks that are at risk of a similar liquidity crisis. Money continues to flee for money market funds and the safety of megabanks.

Are Alphabet’s Days Numbered?

The innovation that spurned from the team behind a single research paper at Google is incredible. Just seven individuals directly related to tens of billions of dollars of value created. And Google failed to keep them in-house. 

Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly

If SpaceX was able to get to 39 kilometers in altitude with six less operational rocket engines on a test launch, just imagine what will happen the next time around. And that’s the point. The reason that SpaceX was able to transform the aerospace industry was because it was willing to test and fail early.

Jeff Clark Predicts Market Turmoil Ahead

This is the most urgent warning of my career. A 44-day market-wide crash hangs over the horizon. It’s set to begin on April 24. During this time, we could see hundreds of stocks crash across the market. Last April, when this strange anomaly hit the market, 1,662 stocks began to crash in a nightmare that lasted 44 days.