My hometown of Baltimore was the first city to install gas street lights in 1816 in an effort to curb crime. More cities quickly followed suit. By the turn of the century, every evening at dusk, lamplighters walked the streets with their ladders and torches,...
For nearly three decades, the internet rewarded people who knew how to find information fast. The pros learned to turn questions into a few notable keywords and cherry-pick through pages of results until they found what they needed. Search became a reflex. Searchers gathered data,...
Easy loans are luring millions of Americans into a dangerous cycle of debt. Young people, particularly college students, are being seduced by easy credit and instant gratification, spending money they don’t have on things they don’t need. This easy credit revolution threatens to create a...
In 1915, a Wall Street analyst named Benjamin Graham saw an opportunity. Guggenheim Exploration was trading as a single stock, but it held shares in multiple copper mining companies worth far more than the parent company’s price. Graham bought the undervalued parent, shorted the overvalued...
September 24, 2025
In 1996 the Palm Pilot felt like the future. For those unfamiliar (or not yet born), the Palm Pilot was a pocket computer that organized contacts, calendars and tasks in a way that was fast, simple and portable. Developers created apps allowing users access to the internet. It wasn’t the first Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), […]
