Editorial

10 Proven Strategies for Long-Term Wealth Building

Today, perhaps more than any time in history, American citizens are taking their financial futures into their own hands. With roughly 100 million brokerage accounts, holding over $20 trillion in assets, this is today’s American retail, self-directed investor. [1] But,...

Subscription-Based Companies Defy Economic Headwinds

On March 17 of 2020, Analysis Mason published a report on the Software as a Service market, or SaaS. At the time, the industry was just beginning to grab mainstream attention, and publicly traded SaaS companies like Salesforce (CRM) and Adobe (ADBE) had tremendous...

Of Bull Markets and Bloodbaths…

Rejoice investors, there’s no bloodbath coming (or is there?). The first half of 2024 has been nothing short of spectacular. The S&P 500 hand-fed investors total returns of over 15%, with the tech heavy NASDAQ doling out nearly 18%.  That’s 15-18% in just a six...

Is Investing in SPACs A Good Idea Again? (Was it Ever?)

Not that long ago, blank-check special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) were all the rage on Wall Street. In 2020 alone, there were 248 SPAC target IPO deals, with a whopping 613 of them coming the following year. The market was hot! How hot was it? Well, the...

Stock Market Returns During Election Years

Turn on any cable news channel and you’ll be told, ad nauseam, that this is the single most important election in US history. If candidate A doesn’t win, democracy is over… If candidate B doesn’t win, the economy will be in shambles. And your money? You can kiss it...

Robot Birds, Model-Ts, & $70 Billion in FinTech

Around 350 B.C.E, Pythagorean mathematician Archytas of Tarentum presented his friend Plato with a gift. On the outside, it looked simple enough. It was a wooden pigeon.  But this was no simple, hand-carved bird. You see, this seemingly ordinary-looking gift had...