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This summer is a summer for reading in an effort to keep machines turned off (for cooling purposes). One book I’m going to touch very briefly is Deep Finance by Glenn Hopper. I say briefly because it’s not a book I’m going to say to go run and buy. It’s not a bad book but…
I’ve been reading and watching the news about the submersible drama that ended badly. With all of the bad news, the heat, and such and now the poor ending to the undersea drama, I’m a little depressed and don’t want to do anything. But that drama did bring up the topic of risk taking, and…
We are in the age of constant learning and unlearning, but it sure is hard to keep up. Lately, I’ve been trying to learn Python (for data science and AI purposes – just to understand those fields), learn ChatGPT/Bing AI, and learn the new Microsoft stuff that is exploding out of that company. It is…
So, for the last decade I’ve been thinking and worrying about automation wiping through finance and eliminating jobs; thus, I’ve been trying to figure out an alternative approach to finance or some other type of job I could slide into using my skills. Well, it looks like Armageddon is practically on our doorsteps. Here’s a…
Okay, I wasn’t prepared for this quick development. Yesterday (Sunday), a second bank failed but I have no idea what precipitated the failure although I can imagine it was a bank run, probably driven by panic. There’s a lot of talk on LinkedIn in the finance groups about this turn of events. Of course, as…
Hmmm, I don’t deny that reading about the failure of Silicon Valley Bank hasn’t got me concerned. Reading that this is the second largest bank failure in US history is not a joy to read, with 2008 Lehman Brothers failure still rattling around my brain. The memory isn’t fresh, but it is exactly dim either….