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Vanguard founder Jack Bogle started the debate of active versus passive investing when he created the first index fund in 1975. Hundreds of additional index funds, countless studies, and one historic recession later, passive investing has become a household concept and is accepted as the preferred...

Well, we’ve arrived at the end of another year and, despite losing some momentum in recent weeks, I was able to hit a big milestone in my trading career. 2018 marks the first year since I started trading that I was able to break $500,000! I’m extremely hyped to have been able to cross...

In a decisive step toward bringing its investment research and tools to a broader audience, TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. (NASDAQ: AMTD) has partnered with Chinese tech giant Tencent Holding ADR (OTCMKTS: TCEHY) to bring a mobile version of the brokage’s research platform to the popular WeChat...

Happy Holidays traders! Still no luck on that home run day I’ve been holding out for this month. I took a few average wins and one mid-sized loss over the course of last week. I’m up roughly $20k on the month and I’m hoping to push that above at $30k before the new year. As I said...

By William Sumner, Hemp Business Journal Contributor Last week, news broke that Congressional lawmakers had reached tentative agreement on the 2018 Farm Bill, including an amendment to fully legalize hemp in the United States. Yet, even as the hemp industry awaits final passage, some industry...

By John Kagia, Chief Knowledge Officer, New Frontier Data, and J.J. McCoy, Senior Managing Editor, New Frontier Data  "We are our choices", wrote Jean-Paul Sartre, and no experienced salesperson would disagree. The gap between a company's sales efforts and its core...

From anemic growth in bond and fixed income investments to growing volatility in the equity and currency markets, retail investors with an eye toward growing their money long term have their work cut out for them. Now that the oldest of the millennial generation is nearing 40, the bulk of...

After giving up all of its year-to-date gains and entering a correction for the second time in 2018 (the first drop being February’s dramatic correction), S&P 500 futures traders are trying to make up any lost ground that they can in the final few weeks of 2018. The broad market index is...

Interview with Kia L. Jackson, CEO of W.O.M.M.A.N, LLC, by Michael Harlow, Tax Partner, CohnReznick Over the past two decades, cannabis legalization has remained a divisive topic. This fall, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's 48th Annual Legislative Conference (ALC) presented "...

New Frontier Data's latest release examines nine distinct consumer types based on particular consumer habits, preferences and experiences. The categories are classified by respective rates of usage: heavy consumers, moderate consumers, and light consumers. Consumer types include: Traditional...

Woolsey Fire near Thousand Oaks, California, early morning of November 9, 2018.  Three fast-moving wildfires are wreaking havoc across portions of California. One of them, called the Camp Fire, is in the Plumas National Forest near Chico in northern California. According to a report from KRON-...

By J.J. McCoy, Senior Managing Editor, New Frontier Data The Asia-Pacific region is home to 60 percent of the world's population – some 4.3 billion people – including the world's most populous country, China. To suggest that it offers a modern-day Silk Road for investment and...

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used to create them" —Albert Einstein Last week we began exploration of the definition of precision railroading and how the industry is attempting to apply it. It is encouraging to see longstanding practices and processes being...

Ohio farmers are rushing to finish their harvests, on pace to haul in some of the best yields in years. Corn and soybean fields are plentiful across the Buckeye State, and soybeans is its number one crop. A recent list published by Beef2Live.com ranks Ohio as the sixth-leading producer of soybeans...

FreightWaves has released 48 new agricultural commodities along with three new warehouse rent and availability indices. Freight movements are greatly impacted by commodity flows of all kinds, but none more immediate and significant than the agricultural variety. Regardless of the freight or...