by Leroy Hurt | Oct 27, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via Business Insider: …two 2030 growth scenarios. The first is the “continued growth in the wealth management business” that is “driven by independent advisors, online tools and advice companies, and emerging international markets.” The...
by Leroy Hurt | Oct 27, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via Business Insider: The first Bitcoin ATM in the world is believed to launch in Canada next week. According to reports from CBC, Mitchell Demeter, co-founder of Vancouver bitcoin trading company Bitcoiniacs and part-owner of Robocoin, has invested in five such...
by Leroy Hurt | Oct 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via Newgeography.com: With Twitter’s high-profile IPO, the media and much of the pundit class are revisiting one of their favorite themes: the superiority of the brash, young urban tech elite, who don’t need to produce much in the way of profits to be showered with...
by Leroy Hurt | Oct 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via Instapundit and Network World: Science fiction writers have long told of great upheaval as machines replace people. Now, so is research firm Gartner. The difference is that Gartner, which provides technology advice to many of the world’s largest companies,...
by Leroy Hurt | Oct 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
Via Instapundit, American Interest, and Project Syndicate: Most of today’s advanced economies became what they are by traveling the well-worn path of industrialization. A progression of manufacturing industries – textiles, steel, automobiles – emerged from the ashes...