Friday Fun

America’s Treasury Department removed the designation of currency manipulator from China five months after the moniker was given.  This seems reasonable since the two countries were in the process of negotiating the now-signed “phase one” portion of a larger trade agreement.  Pejorative monikers probably don’t make deliberations easier.

One hundred years ago our global economy was entering the Roaring Twenties.  After a rough start, it was a period marked by economic prosperity in the West.  America was leading the way in finance.  Metropolitan regions were experiencing extraordinary growth.  Even Judy Garland wondered how they were going to keep ret

The Land of Oz was ruled by The Wizard of Oz in the children’s novel from 1900, The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum.  His subjects held the mysterious man in high regard. Dorothy and her friends even traveled to Emerald City, the capital of Oz, because they were certain he was the only person capable of solving their issues.

Did you hear the good news?  The Los Angeles Lakers played a fantastic first half of their opening pre-season game!  Anthony Davis, their new power forward, scored 22 points, and future Hall of Famer Lebron James added 15 himself.  While this first half was an encouraging 24 minutes of basketball, it doesn’t count toward the season’s tally, so plans for a championship

Insensitivity is on the rise.  It’s taking the world by storm.

Disruptor is an aging buzz word in the American lexicon.  For years we’ve been hearing about disruptive technology (sometimes it only disrupts one’s inner tranquility when it doesn’t work).

Are you paying attention?  This Saturday's Powerball jackpot is already north of $625 million and climbing.  Let me spell that out: that's $625,000,000+ bucks, clams, scratch.  And with just a little bit of luck, it can be yours for a skanky little $2 bet.  Think about it: one Jefferson and you rake in racks.  Yeow!

Here we are on the last day of 2018, and it’s unclear to me how the year should be filed.  It started off on a tear.  Before reaching the end of January, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), a mathematical index comprised of just 30 publicly traded companies which cannot be invested in directly, reached a record level. Put it down in the history books.