Schwab Declares War on Republican Money Managers
The Charles Schwab Corporation allegedly defamed and unlawfully interfered with the investment advisory services of a Republican money manager, according to a $100 million lawsuit filed on April 23...
View ArticleRemodel Your Old Retail Space
If you’re a retailer currently occupying an older space, you need to do some investigation. Customers place such a high value on the organization, cleanliness, and modern look of a store. Displays that...
View Article5 Things To Know About Direct Response Marketing
If you’ve heard of direct response marketing but you’re unsure exactly what it stands for, you’re just like a lot of other people with a budding interest in marketing. This is a known strategy, and in...
View ArticleFDA Approves “Female Viagra” Pill
The Food and Drug Administration today approved a drug designed to boost sexual desire in women. The drug, flibanserin (brand name: Addyi), is made by Sprout Pharmaceuticals and works by regulating...
View ArticleARCTIC ALARM BELLS: SHELL KICKS OUT 60 WORKERS IN HOLLAND FOR DRUG USE
By John Donovan Royal Dutch Shell has expelled 60 workers from a Dutch chemical plant after workers were caught using drugs. The Shell Moerdijk plant in the Netherlands makes chemical products from...
View ArticleFormer Blackjack Pro Sells Startup
You might not know Jeff Ma by name, but there’s a good chance that you’ve heard something of his exploits. As seemingly a jack-of-all-trades, Ma has been involved in many different enterprises, ranging...
View ArticleWill World Acceptance Corporation Stock Go to Zero?
There is a harsh take-down of World Acceptance Corporation (NASDAQ:WRLD) at SeekingAlpha.com today. Here is the link:...
View ArticleEU Sanctions: Bloomberg warns of ‘DefCon 5′ reprisal by Russia on Royal Dutch...
By John Donovan This morning the oil giant Royal Dutch Shell Plc announced its second quarter results. In subsequent news coverage, Bloomberg commentators said they were stunned by the lack of comment...
View ArticleLast Week In Technology News
If you go back in time to the beginning of the 2000’s and hand them an ipad they will be amazed. Tell them that they will have this item in a few short years? Mind blown! Technology is changing at a...
View ArticleShort Payday Loan Stocks: The DOJ and CFPB Want These Companies Dead
The lowest-risk shorting opportunity in the market right now appears to be in the payday lending stocks: Cash America International (NYSE: CSH), DFC Global (NASDAQ: DLLR), EZCorp (NASDAQ: EZPW), First...
View ArticleThere Go Confucian values
Here in Asia, we have a society where the family is the basis for welfare: in disasters, you seek family to help you.. Many people are getting out of poverty because they have family members who...
View ArticleBanking License Aspirants Should Disclose Business Plans to Public
In India, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is gearing itself to grant fresh Banking licenses. 26 applications are now under the consideration of RBI. The applicants include a diverse set of groups which...
View ArticleNSA ignores TOR blocking the bad guys
Back when the people of Iran were busy protesting their election being stolen, I found out about a program called “TOR”. Webpage here. The Tor software is a program you can run on your computer that...
View ArticleKKR Steps in to Help Spain
By just about any metric you can use, Spain is not doing well right now. Nearly 27% of the country is unemployed, their GDP continued to shrink in the last quarter, they have a credit squeeze that...
View Article“Consider This!†Podcast, Episode 31: Raising the Minimum Wage Won’t...
The latest episode of the “Consider This!†podcast is out; let’s talk politics in 10 minutes or less. In this episode, I have a one-track mind. In the President’s State of the Union address,...
View ArticleNaitonal Geographic: Why Ridicule Filipinos? Because China Fights Back
There was a big story by National Geographic last week about illegal ivory being used by Philippino Catholics to make statues. They even named one of our more dubious priests as being involved in the...
View ArticleThe Portion Control Revolution Begins with LifeSize
Last week I wrote about a fascinating new product in America’s war on obesity, known as LifeSize. This nifty little product from a start-up company is starting to garner quite a bit of attention....
View ArticleWhere the Buck stops in a Multinational Corporation
The idea that in the world of Commerce Chief Executives might follow the lead of Harry S Truman and have a sign on their desks saying “The Buck stops here” has had something of a boost in recent...
View ArticleBig Brother Targets the Fatties
Those of us who supported some kind of government health care bill for the 38 million uninsured were duped. Our hope was that a government program could help some who lack health insurance (or the...
View ArticleThe Presidential Fiat: A Disturbing Trend
I think those who live and work in the US for x number of years without papers should get an amnesty, as was done by Reagan, and I support the targeted amnesty by Clinton for refugees from countries...
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