Finance Topic

Okay, the image’s quote is taken out of context, so to put it in perspective: Paul Tudor Jones is a hedge fund guy who gave a TED talk about the need to change capitalism. I can’t seem to get the link so if you want to hear the talk (and I advise you to do…

We seem to be progressing on the automated Monday report. We’re at the stage where folks have embedded the report as part of their Monday morning routine. Our current work has lately been focused on learning how to resolve the imbalances that come up and meeting the deadline. Once they get past the stage of…

This week there was an announcement that GE was going to go back to being an industrial company. I always knew that the company was an industrial conglomerate with sophisticated engine products, lightings and lightbulbs, medical equipments and other industrial products – too many to name. I also knew that GE had a financial component:…

The latest dispatch on the inequality front comes from a hedge fund. The article was part of a set in the McKinsey app, so even the “elites” are recognizing the need to do something about the inequality. Now I don’t typically regard the hedge funds or the Wall Street financial types as having a lot…

I think we are approaching the end of the budgeting project. This week we had a meeting with the lender/investor who may have been the prime instigator for this budget process. I didn’t know it, but the first time we went through the budget last November, they didn’t like the fact that we didn’t review…