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Over the past week, Elon Musk’s fan club had been waiting patiently for the Tesla creator to reveal what he recently described as his “master plan.” Moments ago he did just that, and it all boils down to precisely what Elon Musk is best known for: a handful of lofty, grand visions – including “enabling […]Read More

Seemingly doubling down on his comments in April (following what he called Europe’s “flawed asylum policy”), George Soros has expanded his demands from four to seven fundamental pillars on how to prevent the collapse of the European Union. In an article penned for Foreign Policy titled “This Is Europe’s Last Chance to Fix Its Refugee […]Read More

Crude oil is the world’s most actively traded commodity (and today’s chaos evidenced that perfectly), and oil-related markets are a staple for traders, hedgers, investors around the globe. The below infographic, put together by Aspect, covers the history of crude oil trading, while also highlighting the major events that have shaped the landscape of the […]

While location, location, location is something that is empasized a lot, the best places often come with compromises that are hard to come to terms with – chief among which, the financial matters. Across the 30 most populous US cities, the following chart from CafeRent.com shows how much bang you get for your buck… (click […]

Submitted by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com, We are a little over half way through 2016 and, at the current rate, it will be a miracle if the year finishes without outright catastrophe in half the nations of the world. Some might call these events “Black Swans,” some might call them completely engineered threats, others might […]

The last time we wrote about the long-running saga of the scandalous collapse and constant corruption at the Malaysian state wealth fund, 1MDB, which also happened to be an unconfirmed slush fund for president Najib, was a month ago when we learned that the NY bank regulator was looking into fundraising by the fund’s favorite […]

The Nigerian Army on Tuesday killed at least 42 members of Boko Haram and rescued 38 women nd 42 children. The terrorists also killed one person a d injured 4 others. The confrontations in Garere village, Kukawa Local Government Area of Borno State, also left several terrorists with gunshot wounds “Similarly, 38 women and 42 […]

When the Supreme Court deadlocked on President Obama’s immigration reform plan, it marked a major defeat for the president. The four-to-four tie left in place a Fifth Circuit ruling halting Obama’s immigration reforms, essentially bringing an end to a program that would have prevented the deportation of millions of undocumented immigrants — and which the […]

It took jurors less than an hour of deliberations to find Michael Coscia guilty of illegal “spoofing” and commodities fraud last November. Coscia was the first person convicted under the Dodd-Frank Act’s anti-spoofing laws, for making $1.4 million off a bait-and-switch scheme. His prosecution was widely watched and the ease the jury had in convicting […]Read More

A man who was criminally convicted for having used a fake trade name to bilk thousands of victims into writing him checks failed to get the First Circuit to overturn his sentence. It appears that unless fortune smiles upon Darren Stokes, his four-year sentence in federal prison will stand. The court found that no reasonable […]

When it comes to technology and the law, the future might not be here yet, but it’s on its way. Despite the legal industry’s reputation as a cautious adopter of innovative technology, some lawyers are starting to take steps towards integrating cutting-edge tech into their practices. But you don’t have to be a BigLaw firm […]Read More

The kids are out of school and you’re still stuck working nights and weekends trying to make your billable hours. Sure, you’d much rather spend your days taking the little ones to the beach, instead of sitting through another status call or polishing off a memo, but that’s not always possible. So, lawyers with children, […]Read More