Thought Leadership

SMITH BRAIN TRUST – Facebook isn’t going to be broken up just now. In a stunning ruling this week, a federal judge dismissed antitrust lawsuits brought against the social media behemoth by the Federal Trade Commission and some 46 states.

What’s ahead for mortgage rates? There will be movement, says Maryland Smith’s Clifford Rossi, the question is: How much?

SMITH BRAIN TRUST – In the housing market, 2021 is shaping up to be the year of the bidding war. In the United States, prospective home buyers are facing fierce competition for limited inventory, as low mortgage rates and pent-up demand drives a seller’s market. Homes for sale are seeing multiple…

How the Special Purpose Acquisition Companies went from so hot to, recently, so not.

For the past quarter-century, Italy’s economy has been nearly stagnant – not because of trade shocks, bad government, labor market problems, or lack of technology advancements, but because of a management style that is holding the country back, finds research from Maryland Smith’s Bruno…

And 23 other takeaways from the Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholders meeting.

A recent $500 million “clerical error” at Citigroup exposes an inherent weakness in big banks that provides lessons to be learned.

The pandemic has changed so much about the way we live and work. And some of those changes are here to stay.

Is Bitcoin a viable currency for trade? Or is merely it an overheated asset, poised to cool way down?

How regulators can better understand the risks facing the financial and mortgage industry.