Right around this time last year, we issued our forecasts for 2015—

We offered you our perspective on which sectors and investment themes would be important for the coming year.

Today, we’ll review our predictions and see how they panned out...

And then we’ll tell you where you should focus…

Matt and I spend a lot of time focusing on data.

Every Monday morning, for example, we bring you hundreds of data points on new start-up deals from around the web...

And if you’re a CrowdabilityIQ subscriber, you know that we crunch thousands of individual data points for each deal.

After nearly eight years of cutting interest rates, the Fed finally hit us with a rate hike yesterday.

Many investors are wary of higher interest rates, and understandably so:

When money becomes more expensive, businesses (and stock prices) tend to suffer.

In fact, historically, whenever the Fed has raised rates,…

Made might be the wrong word here. Raised is more like it.

You see, when Matt and I first launched Crowdability, we raised $1 million from investors to help grow our business.

From start to finish, it took us 21 days to pull together the entire investment.

Relatively speaking, that’s…

Like you, I’ve lived through my fair share of bull markets:

Junk bonds...

The dot-com boom...

The housing boom.

And if you know how to play these markets, you can walk away with a great deal of money.

But most investors lose money in these situations.

That’s because they make…

We began sounding the warning bells late last year...

A major market event was coming, and people needed to get ready for it.

After in-depth discussions with numerous sources—politicians, finance professionals, attorneys with close contacts at the SEC—we felt confident going on record and making one of the boldest market…

Is there a certain subject where you’re an expert?

For example, do friends and family come to you for advice about the stock market, or buying a car, or stereo equipment?

Now imagine that you had an opportunity to make a great deal of money from your expertise—imagine you could…

Russia and China are entrenched oligarchies.

In these nations, a small group of powerful citizens controls the vast majority of a country’s resources, and also its political agenda.

Some would argue that Wall Street, too, is an oligarchy:

Certainly, for centuries, a handful of banks and brokers have kept an…

Credit is a critical part of our country’s economic engine.

Businesses and consumers use it for nearly every economic action they undertake—from leasing equipment, to buying a home, to paying for medical bills.

The consumer side alone currently makes up 20% of U.S. GDP.

While credit can make the wheels…

Last weekend, I went on a family trip up the coast of Maine—there’s nothing quite like New England in the fall.

Early one evening, over a cold beer and a hot cup of clam “chowdah,” we started chatting about the recently announced merger between Dell and EMC.

Given that Dell…