Peter ThielThe writer is a technology entrepreneur and investor. In 2016, President Barack Obama told his staff that Donald Trump’s election victory was “not the apocalypse”. By any definition, he was correct. But understood in the original sense of the Greek word apokálypsis, meaning “unveiling”, Obama could not give the same reassurance in 2025. Trump’s…

DENVER—After years of battling crippling premiums and agonizing deductibles, local resident Michael Haige finally succumbed this week to the health insurance policy that had ravaged his adult life. Haige, who had suffered from limited medical coverage for nearly a decade, passed away early Monday morning. According to sources, the 46-year-old was laid to rest at…

By Victoria A. Brownworth -December 30, 2024 4:49 pm On Dec. 17, I had two back-to-back cancer surgeries. On Dec. 19, I had a third surgery. In the days I was in the hospital, I was confronted yet again by how broken our health-care system is and how tenuous it is for sick people in…

Summary As a growth and tech investor, I’ve written about many AI stocks over the past year, as it has probably become one of the most important (if not the most important) innovations of all time. Not only does it have the potential to become the fourth industrial revolution, it has already upended things like climate tech…

summary This article looks at 3 key areas driving prices in the S&P500 (SPY) in 2025 and uses the evidence to formulate an outlook for the first half of the year. Sentiment and Positioning The SPY closed 2024 at 5,881 with a 23.3% gain, higher than most expected. At the beginning of the year, many analysts…