Forbes - USA (2019-12-31)

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FRONTRUNNER

32 | Grand Slam

The Houston Astros are mired in controversy,

but owner Jim Crane is a new billionaire.

36 | World of Forbes

Around the globe with our 34 international

editions.

38 | The Luxe Life

Readers weigh in on our November cover:

Bernard Arnault, the $100 billion man.

CONTRARIAN

TECHNOLOGY

46 | Roku Redo

Anthony Wood became a billionaire with cheap

streaming gadgets. That business has never turned a

profit. Roku is now betting its future on a model as

old as TV: advertising.

By Angel Au -Yeung

INVESTING

50 | Connecting a Million Dots

EquBot is on a quixotic quest to prove that

computers can outsmart human stock pickers.

By William Baldwin

19 | FACT & COMMENT

Steve Forbes

International trade is good.

20 | THE FORBES 2019 ALL-STAR

EATERIES IN NEW YORK

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126 | Fintech’s Secret Bank

Many of the most popular finance apps are little more than glitzy loan pushers with a voracious appetite for risk.

Enabling them is a tiny bank in New Jersey with overinflated ambitions.

By Antoine Gara, Jeffrey Kauflin and Nathan Vardi