Imagine you’re deciding where to invest your savings. All $36 to be precise. You pull up the data on a company, looking at its stock price and, just as importantly, its trading volume. High volume suggests a lot of interest,…
Inside the $346 Million Aequitas Collapse Chris Bean got the call on September 24, 2015. On the other end of the line was Brian Rice, an executive at a buzzy investment firm called Aequitas Management. Rice was pitching a golden…
Imagine sitting in a dental chair, the high-pitched whir of the drill in your ears. You’re focused on the procedure, trusting you’re in a safe, sanitary environment. Now imagine that just beyond the door, a construction crew is tearing up…
A toxic problem was festering beneath the Instagrammy-perfect green landscapes of Lihue, Kauai. For nearly two decades, a major state utility, Hawaii Gas, owned a property that was acting as a slow-motion poison pill for the island’s precious groundwater. The…
An Accident Waiting to Happen Imagine you’re a worker at a massive food distribution warehouse. You walk past the heart of the facility every day: the Ammonia Machinery Room. It’s the humming, vibrating core of a refrigeration system that holds…
The Promise in the Bottle You’re in the laundry aisle, looking for something that can do more than just get out a grass stain. Maybe your child has been home sick from school, or you’re washing your work scrubs after…
The AI Gold Rush and the Twenty-Million-Dollar Mirage It starts with a dream, as it so often does. Maybe you’re a life coach, a consultant, or an entrepreneur with a brilliant idea, trying to get your business off the ground.…
Imagine checking your investment statement. You see a stock was bought or sold. The confirmation slip tells you the brokerage acted as your agent, working directly on your behalf. Or maybe it says they acted as the principal, selling you…
For the firefighters in Huntington, Indiana, every call is a calculated risk. They train for the unknown, preparing to face down smoke and flames. But what they can’t train for is the danger they aren’t told about. For 43 days,…
Imagine you get a call from your financial advisor. I know the readers here don’t have financial advisors, but humor me please -_- Your financial advisor sounds excited. They buzz about the phone yammering on about a hot new private…