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Industry giant Amazon started in a garage, like many of Silicon Valley's storied startups. But its founder, Jeff Bezos, did not drop out of college.  

This isn’t another article about avocado toast, the delicious scapegoat to an entire generation’s money problems.

The current emerging market crisis has been stirring uncertainty among investors, much like similar crises we've seen before. But Maryland Smith’s Pablo Slutzky explains why this one might be different.

SMITH BRAIN TRUST – In a kind of Robinhood effect, JPMorgan Chase recently launched a new digital investing service with deeply discounted trading fees and free access to the bank’s stock research.

It's not often that a company's board of directors employs a poison pill to fend off a hostile takeover. Even rarer is the way it's being used at Papa John's.

Ten years after Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were placement into conservatorship, the two mortgage-finance giants might soon face a new crisis.

The U.S. treasury yield curve has economists and market watchers feeling uneasy and warning that a recession may be on the horizon.

Bragging rights go to David Kass. He predicted months ago that Kraft Heinz might look to acquire Campbell’s Soup. 

The fact is, manufacturing overseas isn’t even new for Harley-Davidson. Here's why it does it and what might happen now.

Although General Electric has had the longest continuous presence of any company on the Dow Jones Industrial Average, its ouster from the index this week after 111 years wasn't an altogether surprising event. David Kass explains.