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Providing our readers with perspective, analysis, and deep-dive contextual insights on Utah-based monetary news, data, and information, as well as editorial commentary and opinion pieces.

The Top 13 Utah-focused Monetary, Financial and/or Business "News Nuggets" for March 2025 that You Might have Missed

The Top 13 Utah-focused Monetary, Financial and/or Business "News Nuggets" for March 2025 that You Might have Missed

In this report you'll find info about 11 Utah-based firms and nine separate executives that we feel made the cut as being among the most "newsworthy" last month, which (when combined together) form our writeup about Utah's Top 13 Monetary, Financial and/or Business

NEWS & ANALYSIS — What a Tangled Web is Woven: Beyond Announces its Plan to Purchase Back the Digital Assets of "Buy Buy BABY" for $5 Million

NEWS & ANALYSIS — What a Tangled Web is Woven: Beyond Announces its Plan to Purchase Back the Digital Assets of "Buy Buy BABY" for $5 Million

Without a scorecard, keeping track of the nuances of baseball can be difficult at best. Now, some can argue, a similar claim can be made about Salt Lake City, Utah-based Beyond (NYSE:BYON), formerly Overstock.com. Here's an attempt to untangle the newest "twist" that'

Image downloaded from the Events page of the RevRoad website on the morning of Tuesday, 28 January 2025.

RevRoad Closes its Doors. Kind Of.

In a turn of events both shocking and yet not totally surprising, the RevRoad experiment has come to an end. Sometime in the last week, the RevRoad website shifted from this — to this (on Sunday, 26 January 2025) — Additionally, based upon my review of dozens of LinkedIn profiles this morning,

CATCHING-UP: The Top 49 Utah-focused Monetary, Financial and/or Business News Nuggets for the Last Quarter of 2024 that You Might have Missed

CATCHING-UP: The Top 49 Utah-focused Monetary, Financial and/or Business News Nuggets for the Last Quarter of 2024 that You Might have Missed

{AUTHOR'S NOTE: With apologies in advance, it's clear that things got a bit hectic for "Yours Truly" in the latter part of the year, especially with the births of a grandson in October and a granddaughter in November, as well as landing two new

Roughly Nine Months after Being Named Executive Chairman of Beyond, it's Clear that Marcus Lemonis is the "Man in Charge" as Beyond Unveils Five Major Announcements / Initiatives in the Past Six Weeks

Roughly Nine Months after Being Named Executive Chairman of Beyond, it's Clear that Marcus Lemonis is the "Man in Charge" as Beyond Unveils Five Major Announcements / Initiatives in the Past Six Weeks

What are these five major announcements / initiatives? ONE: A global licensing program; TWO: A Strategic Partnership with, and a $40 million investment in, The Container Store; THREE: A Strategic Partnership with, and up to $25 million in investments into, Kirkland's, including with four separate financial agreements with the

In Roughly 45 Days, the LDS Church Will Have Spent Nearly $500 Million to Buy over 105,000 Total Acres of Farm Land in Australia and the U.S.

In Roughly 45 Days, the LDS Church Will Have Spent Nearly $500 Million to Buy over 105,000 Total Acres of Farm Land in Australia and the U.S.

On Wednesday, 16 October 2024, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will purchase 46 farms in the United States totaling over 41,000 acres for over $289 million, news likely deemed "material" by the seller's legal counsel, making it imperative the news was publicly

Utah's Unexpected Artist and Art Genre Inventor / Creator: Introducing Steve Bohls and "Bohlsean Art"

When you actually start digging into the data, it's fascinating to discover how many world-renowned artists actually started out doing something else before they began creating their art. This reality is not limited to painters or sculptors, but apparently crosses all genres of art and creativity. Cases in