Where Money, Investing, and Technology Meet
If you asked the average investor to name the most iron rule of investing, they’d likely say: “Stocks outperform bonds.” And yes, over the long haul, that’s been true. Since 1900 US stocks have returned 9.9% and 10-year US government bonds about 4.4%, a mile-wide gap. But the key question most folks never ask is… […]
Elon Musk has reportedly fired Omead Afshar, Tesla’s head of manufacturing and operations in North America and Europe, according to Forbes. Both CNBC and Bloomberg corroborated the report. Afshar’s exit follows Milan Kovac, the head of engineering on Tesla’s Optimus robot, who left the company in early June. Afshar was promoted to the role last year, […]
A reader asks: How do young people get rich besides crypto? Young people becoming fabulously wealthy is still a relatively new phenomenon. Jerry Seinfeld once said, “The eighties was the first time that young guys could make a lot of money fast. Never existed before. Rich guys were Aristotle Onassis, Andrew Carnegie, shipping, iron. You […]
When scientists first sequenced the human genome in 2003, they revealed the full set of DNA instructions that make a person. But we still didn’t know what all those 3 billion genetic letters actually do. Now Google’s DeepMind division says it’s made a leap in trying to understand the code with AlphaGenome, an AI model […]
Jun 26, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Malware An Iranian state-sponsored hacking group associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has been linked to a spear-phishing campaign targeting journalists, high-profile cyber security experts, and computer science professors in Israel. “In some of those campaigns, Israeli technology and cyber security professionals were approached by attackers who […]
Key Takeaways The US housing finance regulator wants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to draft plans that treat crypto as part of a borrower’s assets for mortgage review. Crypto holdings can be counted directly in mortgage underwriting if the proposals are approved. Share this article The US Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has directed mortgage […]
