Be Careful Out There… Maybe you saw a week or so ago that a restaurant chain called Sweetgreen joined Wall Street in an initial public offering. I know precisely zero about Sweetgreen. Don’t know where a single restaurant is located. Don’t know if the food is any good…though the first picture under the “menu” link on their website shows a [Read More] …
Weekly Digest: India Considers a Ban on Crypto
Plus Jamie Dimon Grovels Before China Welcome to your Sunday digest…my weekly breakdown of the things we’re thinking about and talking about in the Global Intelligence world. This week’s digest comes with a touch of festive cheer…and disappointment. Winter has descended here in Prague and for the first time since 2019, the city’s Christmas markets [Read More] …
Special Alert: The Market Suffers an Ugly Dip…But Our Portfolio Holds Up Well
Sorry to interrupt your weekend, but I wanted to get this alert to you… Yesterday on Wall Street was ugly. The S&P lost more than 2.25%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, meanwhile, shed more than 1,000 points at one stage before slightly rebounding to close down 905 points, a loss of more than 2.5% on [Read More] …
Video: Why NFTs Will Transform the Economy
Right now, NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, are exploding in popularity. NFT was even named Collins Dictionary’s word of the year. Yet despite their growing popularity, they remain misunderstood. In the mainstream media, for instance, NFTs are regularly derided as little more than a way to buy and sell digital art. The reality, however, is that [Read More] …
Weekly Digest: Why Amazon Is Going to War With Visa
Plus, Europe Issues the Same Financial Warning as the U.S. Welcome to your Sunday digest…my weekly breakdown of the things we’re thinking about and talking about in the Global Intelligence world. First up this week, Amazon goes to war with Visa. This week, the online retail giant announced that it would stop accepting payments from U.K.-issued Visa credit cards amid a dispute [Read More] …
