Not everyone gets a trophy, an inevitable truth discovered by the U.S. Olympic team in Pyeongchang — at least so far. It’s not been a standout year for the U.S. Olympic team, which, as of the writing of this article, was in 5th place in the medal race, with...
On Friday, the Olympics kicked off in Pyeongchang – and the world got a chance to see there is no such thing as impossible. Lots of impossible things happened on Friday. The headline, of course, was the unified Korean team entering the stadium under a...
It’s a big week for tech stock watchers – and expectations are running hot and high for the “FANG” results coming soon to a headline near you. Or, at least 75 percent of the FANG results, as Netflix got an early jump on the big...
It’s never a bad idea to try a new thing — and this week was full of a lot of players in payments trying new things. Amazon is trying out some new pricing as it works to expand and better monetize its Amazon Prime Customer base. Bitcoin is...
Louis Brandeis, arguably the most quotable judge in the history of the United States Supreme Court, had his doubts about spontaneous acts of brilliance. “There is no great writing,” he famously said. “There is only great rewriting.” While the world is full of stories of...
Holiday vacations are officially over, and the payments and commerce news cycle is back in high gear. Bitcoin turned nine, and was celebrated by seeing its price per coin exceed $20,000. Rumors circulated that FICO might be losing its monopoly in the mortgage market as the FHFA is considering allowing lenders to...
The final countdown to Christmas has begun – and in exactly one week, the counter officially will be at zero. The prepared have been finished for a month, the reasonably forward-looking have been finished for a day and the rest of us have already made...
Everyone knows the Charles Dickens classic, “A Christmas Carol.” Scrooge the miser is visited by the three Ghosts of Christmas – Past, Present and Future – to divert him from his miserable, stingy ways and introduce him to the true meaning of Christmas. Fun fact: Dickens wrote “A...
On Dec. 5, 1872, 145 years ago tomorrow, the Mary Celeste was discovered drifting aimlessly off the coast of the Azores in the Atlantic Ocean. It was drifting aimlessly because despite being an American merchant craft filled with denatured alcohol and other goods bound for...
