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Photo by Ahsanization ッ on Unsplash Continuing my walk through the characters of Wall Street, we have Carl Fox, Bud's father - played by Charlie Sheen's real life father, Martin Sheen. Where Bud Fox seems imbued with the spirit of Manhattan in the 1980s - looking...

Subtitled: Jaime Dimon has a war room   Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay "Jamie Dimon reveals JPMorgan has a ‘war room’ that will meet up to 3 times a day as a ‘potentially catastrophic’ default approaches" -https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jamie-dimon-reveals-jpmorgan-war-085029322.html It's funny to me - in a sad way - how the fat cats...

[buzzsprout episode='12808286' player='true'] Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 5/8 - 5/12. ✔️Are wealthy Americans hit harder or are they pulling back precisely because they don't want to go broke in the middle of this mess? ✔️Profiteering from bank failures?! Say it ain't so. 😒 ✔️The fat cats will also find...

Another bad flashback was a time when I found out I was underpaid at a job, particularly in light of my performance there. When I confronted management about it, the President of the company told me, "Well, I mean, look at it this way: you're...

[buzzsprout episode='12822014' player='true'] Hopefully, none of this is a surprise to you. If it is, I imagine it's like being tossed out of a warm bed into a bathtub of ice water. Key topics: ✔️ By the time someone on an MSM outlet is "allowed" to publish anything...

It's cliché but true: what goes up must come down. These insane-o markets do not last forever. I'm old enough to have lived through more than one boom/bust cycle with oil and gas and more than one completely nutso real estate market. People paying $500K...

Photo by me of my wild mule boy. "Well now I am not gonna do it!"   I have a mule and yes, he's stubborn. The cliché of someone being stubborn as a mule rings true. A similar expression is: a hard head makes a soft @ss....

Image by Frantisek Krejci from Pixabay   "'In the 58 years we’ve been running Berkshire, I would say there’s been a great increase in the number people doing dumb things, and they do big dumb things,' he said, meaning that there will be more opportunities to make money down the...

Image by Pexels from Pixabay Well. Here we go again: "There is no doubt that remote or virtual work is more efficient for white collar workers. And it may be more effective in some cases. But the tragedy of the commons may be coming into play with organizations that encourage...

[buzzsprout episode='12760014' player='true'] Key topics: ✔️ ICYMI news, 5/1 - 5/5. ✔️"The worst of the banking situation is over." Two days later: oops, ha ha. ✔️ Somehow, in the face of so many layoffs, budget cuts, and hiring freezes, we now have an even lower  unemployment rate. What an absurd...