Market Mad House

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. Friedrich Nietzsche

Bitcoin

My Thoughts

Argentina Shows Just How Disruptive Bitcoin Could Be

It looks as if bitcoin could have a future in the real world, and that could be the most disruptive development yet. We may need to completely rethink our concept of money and our ideas of economics because of it.

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Good Stocks

US Credit Card Companies Allowed into China

The loss of Costco Canada is already hurting American Express, where revenue fell slightly between December 2014 and March 2015. AmEx reported a TTM revenue of $34.04 billion on March 31, down from $34.29 billion on December 31. The loss of Costco Canada hit American Express hard because the club store giant is huge in Canada, as anybody who visits the country knows.

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Long Ideas

How Digital Wallets Will Destroy Banking as We Know It

JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) reported that one million of its account holders are now using Apple Pay at its Investor Day on Tuesday, February 24, 2015. That means one million customers of one of the nation’s largest banks are using an alternative to traditional banks. Bank consumer behavior is changing faster than we thought.

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