Wall Street may not have intended its policies to go this far, but the outrage and approaching Civil War level divisiveness in America today are a direct result of its strategies. …
Journalist David Sirota’s new podcast “The Meltdown, available on Audibles, begins with a reference to a scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark when Indiana Jones tells everyone they’ve been digging in the wrong place. …
We read daily of events that make us believe we have returned to the prescientific, pre democratic Middle Ages. Angry voters, now large in number, no longer want democracy, they want control. Who are they and what motivates their outrage?
As with any phenomenon, there are a number of causes…
I got your invitation to join the conversation. Your blog appears to examine the way millennial's (or younger) can achieve some career success, which means a fair paying job that holds their interest, and a satisfactory lifestyle.Yet, …
• A new deregulation gift from the Trump administration to Wall Street will hurt workers and increase their support for Trump
• Now private equity funds can prey on pension funds
• A decade ago Warren Buffett exposed the con used by money managers to exploit clients, now confirmed by…
Trump supporters point to the SNP 500 index setting new highs day after day. On August 28, it set a record high of 3500. Yet everyone knows the economy is in its most unpredictable state in decades — if not ever. The smart money should be fleeing to safe bonds.
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Kimberly Latrice Jones, a black author and screenwriter, was out filming anti-racism and anti-police brutality protests when she explained in a you tube video why the focus in all discussions on the rioting in the protests was wrong. …
Well before the pandemic-crisis struck, analysts were sounding warnings that corporate debt had reached such dangerously high levels that a normal downturn in the business cycle would see many corporate bankruptcies. But the analysts did not count on the rescue by the COVID-19 stimulus package. Now, just as in 2008…
We are not experiencing one crisis caused by the Corona virus calamity, but four. The other three are hidden under it. They remain largely undetected in the mainstream media. They are about to surface for, as that intrepid investor Warren Buffet once quipped, “It’s only when the tide goes out…
Jan D Weir
Trial lawyer, has taught Business Law at the University of Toronto, Author, Critical Concepts Canadian Business Law @JanWeirLaw | http://jdweir.com
