Millennials’ spending habits can be destructive to industries that are slow to cater to the powerful demographic’s tastes. Defined by the Pew Research Center as anyone born between 1981 and 1996, millennials have different spending habits than their genera…
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Month: August 2019
Need to Know: Why Uber and Lyft will ‘fail miserably’ at autonomous driving
Yeah, yeah, autonomous driving is an interesting lab experiment for Uber Technologies and Lyft to be involved in. But it will be impossible for them to scale to production. Thats according to Trip Chowdhry of Global Equities Research, who just attended talk…
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The Best Offbeat Museums to Visit in All 50 States (And Washington, D.C.)
Don’t get us wrong: We love museums devoted to art, history, and science as much as the next person (and maybe more than the next person). But sometimes, our curiosity demands quirkier territory. Here are our favorite institutions devoted to the stranger thin…
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Tesla Dodges Chinese Tax, Raises Prices
With a 25-percent import tariff looming like a hanging blade over U.S.-built vehicles in the Chinese market, Tesla has managed to side-step another sales-sinking levy: the country’s purchase tax. At 10 percent, the purchase tax applies to most vehicle sales …
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Is Panasonic a Buy?
I don’t talk about stocks from the Pink Sheets every day, but it’s easy to make an exception for technology conglomerate Panasonic(OTC:PCRFY). It’s a global household name with 101 years of operating history and a $19 billion market cap, after all. Is this J…
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