This post originally comes from BrainFeed.co. On Halloween 2008, in the midst of the financial crisis, a paper titled Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System was sent to a cryptography mailing list. The paper was written by an anonymous person (or persons) named Satoshi Nakamoto. Nakamoto described Bitcoin as a digital currency that would allow transactions between two parties without […]
Investing isn’t about beating others at their game. It’s about controlling yourself at your own game. Jason Zweig If you follow the WSJ, you may have read pieces by Jason Zweig. Jason Zweig is a notable personal finance writer for Wall Street Journal. Zweig writes about the pitfalls of investors getting caught up in their […]
A recap of the past week in 3 short headlines. 1. Choppy Week for Tech The romance that investors had been building with the tech sector since the beginning of the year hit its breaking point as investors realized how much it would cost to continue that relationship. Investors dumped tech stocks almost as hard […]
Imagine you’re in the middle of nowhere, hundreds of miles away from civilization. This scenario would probably be easier for you to picture if you think back to a time when you were completely without internet — no Wi-Fi, no mobile data, nothing. Now imagine that this was the situation you lived in every single […]
Along with relationships, finance and money management is the one topic parents dread to talk to their kids about the most. While parents may be able to talk to their children about the basics of savings, discussions typically stop at that. Only about 30% of parents talk to their kids about investing money and saving […]
Google, Apple, and PayPal all started with brilliant solutions to everyday problems. But solutions alone aren’t what pays employees, funds marketing, and boosts production. When a founder of an innovative startup needs money to grow, they go to a specific category of institutional investors known as venture capitalists (VC) who provide funding in exchange for […]
Hedge funds are financial partnerships that use pooled funds and employ different strategies to earn the highest possible returns for their investors. They are run by a fund manager, also known as the general partner, whose job is to maximize returns and eliminate risk as much as possible. Hedge funds are considered to be more […]
One of the most famous ratios used by value investors is the EV/EBITDA ratio, or the Enterprise Value to Earnings Before Interest, Tax, Depreciation, and Amortization ratio. Value investors use it to evaluate a company. The EV/EBITDA ratio is used with or instead of the P/E ratio. Let’s break down this ratio into two parts: […]
Biotech companies are at the forefront of an unprecedented push to find a vaccine for COVID-19. Because a vaccine will allow people to safely return to work, biotech is the key to ending the pandemic. Biotech companies focus on altering living things, such as genetically engineering crops to have a higher yield or creating vaccines […]
Accounting is like the language of business in that it can communicate how a business is doing financially. Accounting is a process that tells us how much money is involved in certain business and financial activities. In accounting, there are two types of users: external users and internal users. External users, such as banks and […]