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daniel January 12, 2015January 12, 2015 AAPL, ABX, Amazon, American Express, Apple Pay, Apple Stock, Bank of America, Benjamin Graham, Berkshire Hathaway, COST, Costco, Day Trading, GOOG, Google, KR, Kroger, momentum, momentum stocks, Mr. Market, Mr. Money Mustache, TSLA, Wal-Mart, Warren Buffett, WMT

Momentum for Stocks

Many of today’s market rock stars, including Google (NASDAQ: GOOGLE), Amazon (NYSE: AMZN), (Netflix: NASDAQ: NFLX), Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ: COST), are momentum stocks. The theory driving these stocks is that the new markets these companies create are capable of generating unlimited growth.

Politics

daniel January 4, 2015February 14, 2016 $3.452 billion in cash from financing, AAPL, American Express, Apple Pay, Apple Stock, COST, Digital Walelts, Digital Wallet, Disruptive Technology, Dollar General, Guaranteed Income, Income Ineqality, Mr. Market, Mr. Money Mustache, PayPal, Poverty, Venmo, WMT, XOOM

How Digital Wallets Could Help the Poor and Reduce the Cost of Government

Since most poor people have or could easily buy a smartphone, the government could simply disperse the aid to an app such as Venmo or Apple Pay. This would eliminate the paperwork, and it could be used to greatly reduce the bureaucracy.

Market Insanity

daniel January 1, 2015March 6, 2016 AAPL, Apple Pay, Apple Stock, Benjamin Graham, Berkshire Hathaway, COST, Costco, Coupons, Disruptive Technology, Dollar General, Dollar Tree, Extreme Coupons, Family Dollar, FDO, Groupon, Value Investing, Warren Buffett, WMT

Groupon: Is there Any Value in Coupons?

Groupon has no float and, worse, no means of generating additional float.

Long Ideas

daniel December 31, 2014January 24, 2016 AAPL, Apple Pay, Apple Stock, Bank of America, COST, Costco, CVS Health, Digital Wallet, Disruptive Technology, Dollar General, Value Investing, Wal-Mart

Where Is Apple Pay Actually Accepted?

Finding a store that takes Apple Pay may only be half the battle because a lot of banks don’t support the app yet. To make matters worse, banks appear to be very selective about which of their accounts support Apple Pay and which don’t. Some banks allow it for credit and debit cards, while others do not.

Long Ideas

daniel December 25, 2014March 22, 2016 Apple Stock, Benjamin Graham, Berkshire Hathaway, Disruptive Technology, FDX, FedEx, GOOG, Google, Google Express, Kroger, Mr. Money Mustache, PayPal, UPS, Value Investing

Same-Day Delivery War Heats Up

The same-day delivery war will be won by the company willing to stick it out, invest money, and spend several years slowly building up and rolling out its service. In that time, we’re liable to see consolidation and alliances Walmart or Amazon.com teaming up with Google Express, or Google contracting with Kroger or Uber to provide deliveries.

My Thoughts

daniel December 5, 2014December 5, 2014 AAPL, ABX, American Express, Apple Pay, Apple Stock, Bank of America, Berkshire Hathaway, Green Dot, Mr. Market, Mr. Money Mustache, New Source of Electricity, Obamacare, PayPal, Plug Power, Prosper, Square, Wal-Mart, walgreen, Warren Buffett, XOOM

Are Digital Wallets a Threat to Banks?

The threat to banks is best shown by PayPal’s growth rate. PayPal’s mobile payment volume increased by 72% between the third quarters of 2013 and 2014, growing to $12 billion. Mobile payments now make up 20% of PayPal’s payments. Venmo, a mobile payment App offered by PayPal subsidiary Braintree, saw its payment volume grow by 50% between the third quarters of 2013 and 2014.

Long Ideas

daniel November 30, 2014December 8, 2016 AAPL, American Express, Apple Pay, Apple Stock, Bank of America, Benjamin Graham, Berkshire Hathaway, GOOG, Kroger, Mr. Market, Value Investing, Venmo, Visa, WAG, Wal-Mart, Warren Buffett

Is PayPal’s Venmo the Bank Killer App?

In a recent Bloomberg interview, Ready makes Venmo and Braintree sound like a sort of Google for financial transactions. That is an open sourced platform through which a wide variety of transactions are made. The difference is that Braintree’s transactions are financial.

Long Ideas

daniel November 11, 2014January 22, 2016 AAPL, American Express, Apple, Apple Pay, Apple Stock, Bank of America, BOA, Current C, PayPal, Target, TGT, Visa

Who Actually Accepts Apple Pay?

It looks as if Apple Pay users are going to have to go out of their way to find a store that accepts it. That doesn’t bode well for a product that’s being sold as a convenient alternative to cash, checks, and credit cards. Apple Pay does not seem to be very convenient at all.

Good Stocks

daniel October 27, 2014May 20, 2016 AAPL, Apple Pay, Apple Stock, Credit Cards, MA, Master Card, Smartcards, V, Visa, Zwipe

MasterCard’s Latest Product Demonstrates Apple Pay’s Threat to Credit Cards

The Zwipe experiment shows that MasterCard is worried about security, in particular high profile data thefts like those at Target (NYSE: TGT) and Home Depot (NYSE: HD). The card provider is scared that customers will prefer the higher level of security offered by Apple Pay, which can be secured by a fingerprint scanner.