Those that sold their cryptocurrencies at the peak of the market made a tremendous amount of money, but those that hold on to the bitter end are going to be gravely disappointed.  For a while there, it seems like cryptocurrency prices were going to go up forever.  2017 was the best year for cryptocurrencies ever, […]

In 1993, William Kurt Hauser, a San Francisco investment analyst, presented his results from an incredibly interesting study. Hauser had analyzed tax revenues in the United States over time and came to the conclusion that tax revenue as a percentage of GDP had remained around a narrow band of 19% since 1946. That was astonishing. […]

Steve Cohen is the founder of Point72 Asset Management, a family office that manages more than $12 billion. Cohen founded S.A.C. Capital Advisors in 1992, but the hedge fund shut down in 2016 after the firm pleaded guilty to insider trading charges. Point72 spun off from S.A.C. in 2016 and had only managed Cohen’s personal […]