Who Benefited Most From QE3?

The official end of the Federal Reserve’s third round of Quantitative Easing came in October 2014, and as the dust settles, financial experts are still debating just who benefited the most from that massive economic boost – and it may not have been US consumers. It’s...

China’s New Silk Road: Opportunities For Investors?

China’s fabled Silk Road, that ancient trade route that brought Asian riches to hungry European cities, is getting new leas on life, thanks to a recent initiative by the Chinese government. And while the New Silk Road project has the US and some of its allies worried,...

Should Bad Banks Handle Pension Funds?

In recent times, American workers have seen their retirement plans evaporate as employers and financial institutions mismanage or whittle away their pension funds. As another round of indictments come down for the nation’s biggest banks, one Senator is asking whether...

Artificial Intelligence: Changing the Investing World?

For over a century, scie3nc fiction writers have been inventing futures in which intelligent machines and robots run the world, with either wondrous benefits or devastating consequences for human life. And now, thanks to lightning fast advances in robotics and...

The Robot Revolution Comes to Real Estate

Experts predict that by 2015, robots and other kinds of artificial intelligences and smart machines will claim one third of the jobs held by humans. The coming of the Second Machine Age concerns some economists and financial planners, who worry about the impact of...