
March 2020


Unpacking the Benefits of Travel Surgery
Imagine if your employer’s health insurance benefits offered to cover 100 percent of the cost of your surgery, as long as you were willing to travel to a hospital carefully selected for its excellent national reputation. This is called travel

Samsung Galaxy Fold: Failure or the Future?
On February 20, 2019, South Korean electronics company Samsung announced the Galaxy Fold, the first cellular phone with a fully folding screen by a major cell phone manufacturer. The Fold was originally slated for release in July of 2019, but

New Tech to Generate Better Marketing Information: Generative Adversarial Network

Daryl Morey, LeBron James, and the Unfolding of a Major NBA Controversy
A single tweet from Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey managed to start a major international controversy that has alienated the National Basketball Association (NBA) from almost all of China. On October 4, 2019, Morey tweeted an image that featured

Amazon’s Disruptions in the Smart Home Industry: One Alexa at a Time
The vision of the connected home is finally coming together. With technological advances in voice control and artificial intelligence, the automated assistant is now a viable control center for the connected home. Tech giants and startup disruptors have developed automated

Disney+ Set to Shake-up the Streaming Wars in a Big Way
In April 2019, Disney announced its upcoming video streaming service, Disney+. The new streaming platform will reportedly broadcast content from its main network and subsidiaries, including Pixar, Marvel, National Geographic and 20th Century Fox. In the months since the announcement,

The Rise and Potential Risks of Passive Investing
It’s been a long time coming – passive funds’ meteoric surge over the past decade has led to passive funds officially eclipsing actively managed ones in terms of total money managed. According to a Morningstar report published this past August,

The Effect of the Trump Impeachment Inquiry on the Mexican Economy

The Lure of Municipal Bond Funds Amid Current U.S. Economic Uncertainty
Amidst a looming recession, as observed through the inversion of the yield curve, and investor skepticism regarding a deal with China, the Federal Reserve System’s decision to gradually lower interest rates to stimulate the economy provides an often tax-free and