Extreme Volatility

Extreme Volatility Why is the stock market falling or rising 5% and 10% in a day over and over? Is it panic selling? Yes and no. Some people are selling because they believe the economy is going into free fall and corporate profits will fall a lot. Others are selling...

Privacy & Control

Ever posted a picture of yourself online? Chances are your face is now in the files of Clearview Facial Recognition, a  company that has software that allows police to track down criminals. That’s a good thing, but it is built using a database of many millions...

Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Could Work

Bitcoin was an experiment that didn’t quite work, mainly because the value fluctuated so that no one knew quite what they were really getting paid. But Facebook’s recently announced Libra may have solved that problem with tying it to a basket of popular...