How Bezos Defies Tech's Biggest Myth

Industry giant Amazon started in a garage, like many of Silicon Valley's storied startups. But its founder, Jeff Bezos, did not drop out of college.  

The Saving-Too-Little Myth

This isn’t another article about avocado toast, the delicious scapegoat to an entire generation’s money problems.

A Textbook Emerging Market Crisis? Not Exactly

The current emerging market crisis has been stirring uncertainty among investors, much like similar crises we've seen before. But Maryland Smith’s Pablo Slutzky explains why this one might be different.

Robinhood Effect: Why JPMorgan Is Offering Free Stock Trades

SMITH BRAIN TRUST – In a kind of Robinhood effect, JPMorgan Chase recently launched a new digital investing service with deeply discounted trading fees and free access to the bank’s stock research. It’s seeking to attract younger, millennial investors and striving to fend off competition from fast-growing startups – notably Robinhood Markets Inc. – that offer unlimited, free app-enabled trading services.

What Is a Poison Pill, Anyway?

It's not often that a company's board of directors employs a poison pill to fend off a hostile takeover. Even rarer is the way it's being used at Papa John's.

Fannie and Freddie Might Need Your Money

Ten years after Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were placement into conservatorship, the two mortgage-finance giants might soon face a new crisis.

Is It Time To Worry About the Yield Curve?

The U.S. treasury yield curve has economists and market watchers feeling uneasy and warning that a recession may be on the horizon.

Called It: How Kass Predicted Kraft Heinz's Interest in Campbell's

Bragging rights go to David Kass. He predicted months ago that Kraft Heinz might look to acquire Campbell’s Soup. 

Why Harley-Davidson Isn't Alone in Overseas Shift

The fact is, manufacturing overseas isn’t even new for Harley-Davidson. Here's why it does it and what might happen now.

Life After Dow Jones for General Electric

Although General Electric has had the longest continuous presence of any company on the Dow Jones Industrial Average, its ouster from the index this week after 111 years wasn't an altogether surprising event. David Kass explains. 

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