Michael Peterson

The new year hasn’t brought any respite from the mounting debt burden of the U.S., and the Treasury’s debt tracker shows that the national debt surpassed $34 trillion for the first time ever last week. What Happened: The national debt, currently at $34 trillion, crossed...

Before Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) officially acquired Beats Electronics, many analysts speculated about alternative mergers. Spotify was one of the first companies that came up, followed by Pandora (NYSE: P), Bose and others within the music business. Now that the Beats deal is over, further merger...