Finance Topic

Last week Facebook’s stock nosedived by more than $100 billion and now shareholders want Mark Zuckerberg out due to his mishandling of crises that have been popping up over the last year. Do shareholders now have a social conscience? Um, no. Did the shareholders care about the election meddling when we all learned that the…

I’ve often enjoyed reading Thomas Friedman’s opinion articles because he often has very insightful nuggets that I can learn from. He writes about world politics but also hits closer to home, especially on jobs and US economics. He has written Thank You for Being Late, a book that outlines the 3 accelerating changes in the…

I have already written a post about this a couple of weeks ago, but I have lately been reading more articles on the topic of the impact of the tax cut along with the reasoning on how the trade war will play out. Hey, do you feel like you are winning now? Tax cuts: The…

Wow oh wow oh WOW. The sheer evilness of this. A private equity firm is making money off of poor or working people, reminiscent of the subprime lending debacle. What this private equity firm does is just send a live check to the “victim” and the “victim” can use the live check by signing it…

[Since the last post was long, distressing, and depressing, full of stuff that I wanted to record, this post will be short. The other one took me many days (2 weeks) to organize and still I was not happy – very emotionally draining as I worry what America is becoming.] Harley Davidson is in the…

Sick of winning yet? This week there has been quite a few articles about the tariff war we’re heading towards. I am no economist but my understanding of history in regards to protectionist trade wars is that such wars hurt the economy. We suffered such protectionist trade wars during the ‘30s which might have prolonged…