By Jenny Lynton Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse recently proclaimed how Bitcoin ‘is not going to be the panacea that people once thought it would be.’ Speaking to CNBC at the Money 20/20 fintech conference, Garlinghouse predicted that ‘instead you’re seeing specializations of different kinds of ledgers, different kinds of blockchains’. With this in mind, we turned […]

Welcome to the world of quant. David Siegel and John Overdeck are two of the founders of the unique, and highly successful, Two Sigma fund. In the second quarter, the billionaires appear to have taken a bullish turn on fintech platform Square (NYSE:SQ) and e-commerce giant Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN). “We’re not your typical investment manager. We follow principles of technology and innovation […]

The United States is on a path to financial ruin, and everyone can see what is happening, but nobody can seem to come up with a way to stop it.  According to the U.S. Treasury, the federal government is currently 22 trillion dollars in debt, and that represents the single largest debt in the history […]