Finance Topic

During the week there had been some news articles about Turing Pharmaceuticals and its CEO, Martin Shkreli, jacking up the price of a drug that has been around for at least 60 years, from $13.50 to $750 a pill. The stated reason for doing so: “needed to make a profit”. Um how about: price gouging because…

I’m reading another book called Future Smart by James Canton. It’s about what the future may bring and what you may need to be thinking of doing to prepare. Some of the things he predicts seems very obvious, like predicting that we will all be connected due to the Internet, social media and Internet of…

There was an article in the New York Times about a private equity firm that once again contributes to finance’s bad image. In case you haven’t noticed, I do not have much regards for hedge funds and equity firms; I regard them as being leeches on society. They make too much money for the value…

Amazon has been hit lately with some bad press surrounding its work culture. The spate of articles was kicked off by the New York Times article describing the “brutal” work culture in Amazon followed up by other publishers’ smaller articles commenting on an aspect of the main article. The NY Times article was pretty damning…

Yesterday I worked on pulling data for an invoice and as usual, I double checked prior months’ numbers. Why do that? They are not supposed to change. Well, in a public company, prior months’ numbers are supposed to remain the same. If you change them, then that’s called restating the financials and that’s frowned upon….

I need to stop watching videos – they are such a time sink. Because of the Donald Trump comedy show, I’ve been watching comedy videos, most especially Bill Maher’s, and boy, are they biting and funny. The problem is, I’m not doing anything but watching videos. There were a few videos from Bill Maher concerning…