Finance Topic

Last week I saw a TED video where Nich Hanauer warned the wealthy 1% to alter their thinking about capitalism or face pitchforks. This week McKinsey came out with their 50th anniversary “magazine” where Nick Hanauer proposed capitalism needs rethinking. Unilever’s chief executive also said the capitalism needs to evolve. Then there were a couple…

Today an incident happened that reminded me of the times when I used to work for a Dutch IT company that will remain nameless. Apparently there were some overdue bills and the vendor was kind enough to let us know the date of expected payment or face delayed services. My boss wanted me to devise something…

Last week, a well-known writer wrote an article where he basically said, “businesses are in the business of maximizing shareholder value and just that.” Oh, really? What about customers? Businesses are not in the business of producing products or services that customers will buy? What about your communities and the surrounding environment? Maybe you don’t believe…

There’s a new financial trick going on whereby a company acquires a foreign company and then moves headquarters to the foreign country where taxes are lower. So instead of doing the hard work of improving the business by delivering what customers want at a sustainable price, corporations do financial shuffling of headquarters. The problem is:…

This topic falls in the realm of finance in a very obtuse way: it falls in the realm of making money. Since I’m always interested in how people make money or how businesses get and stay profitable, this topic hits my radar. A week or so ago, there was a flurry of articles concerning how…

Lately, I’ve been practicing drawing and “painting” on my iPad app called Paper 53. I stare at the blank page wondering if I will be able to draw the subject. In the beginning, nothing goes well…the eyes, nose and mouth are out of alignment, the head may be too big or too small, the body…