There’s an old joke in Silicon Valley about Oracle (ORCL) founder and CEO Larry Ellison:Q: What’s the difference between God and Larry Ellison?A: God doesn’t think he’s Larry

It’s been quite some time since I remember opening up a Starbucks (SBUX) quarterly report with a smile. Thankfully last week’s fourth-quarter results finally helped me regain some of my f

You can usually measure the cultural significance of a piece of architecture by how many times it’s been blown up in the movies. The Chrysler Building, for example, was struck by a meteor i

At a recent cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas, Charlie Miller of Independent Security Evaluators demonstrated how a hacker could take control of an Apple (AAPL) iPhone by sending a series of

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Note to Uncle Sam: There appears to be a flaw in the way Social Security Numbers (SSNs) are issued, especially at birth.This could allow enterprising hackers to steal the identities of millions of in

Everyone is well aware of the meltdown in the financial stocks that's resulted from the credit crisis. Less attention has been paid, however, to the fact that the shares of the exchanges on which the

In past American recessions, when the US still had a healthy manufacturing economy, blue-collar workers often suffered the worst unemployment. And though this time such blue-collar trades -- especial

Editor's Note: The following article was written by Raymond James Chief Investment Strategist Jeff Saut. It has been reproduced with permission for the benefit of the Minyanville community.In order t

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