Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
At age 21, I was handed control of a million-dollar company with more than 250 employees when I was named editor-in-chief of The Daily Tar Heel, the independent student newspaper at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The only reason I ever came to the University of North Carolina was to work for…
First Look: U.S. Dollar Substitute to Go Public on Oct 20th? 04.23.2015 BY Kelly Brown, Stansberry Research IMF headquarters in Washington D.C. expected to release huge money announcement Oct 20th Learn more… The International Monetary Fund is one of the most secretive and powerful organizations in the world. They monitor the financial health of more than 185…
With the Nasdaq sitting at new highs having finally eclipsed the previous record of 5,048 set in March of 2000 and with consumers not-so-eagerly awaiting their chance to get in on the supposed wave of the wearables future by purchasing their very own Apple Watch, we learn that the fate of the tech bubble now…
(Reuters) – President Barack Obama fought back on Thursday against the biggest domestic obstacle to the Pacific trade pact he wants to conclude before he leaves office: the trade skeptics in his own Democratic party. Trade unions, environmental groups and high-profile Democrats like Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts have come out swinging against the Trans-Pacific…
In 1998, Carnegie Mellon researchers warned that the internet could make us into hermits. They released a study monitoring the social behavior of 169 people making their first forays online. The web-surfers started talking less with family and friends, and grew more isolated and depressed. “We were surprised to find that what is a social…
The last few years have been an unmitigated disaster for American law schools, which is excellent news for anyone with even the vaguest interest in getting a legal education. Sure, the job market for new lawyers hasn’t exactly been peachy. Yes, the U.S. has too many law schools, given how uninterested Americans are in law school. And…
In many cities around the world—New York, San Francisco, London—most people find the rent to be unaffordable. Buying is out of the question. Perhaps that is because your city’s housing stock is now just another fungible financial instrument, like pork bellies. You, the middle class resident of a major urban area, may have complained at…
American Apparel’s former chief financial officer allegedly schemed to oust founder Dov Charney last year as part of a plan to sell the company, a former senior manager claimed in a new lawsuit against the company this week. The complaint, filed in Los Angeles on Monday, accuses former chief financial officer John Luttrell of mismanaging…
Gold’s traditional role as a store of wealth has been usurped by contemporary art and apartments in cities such as New York and London, according to Laurence D. Fink, head of the world’s biggest asset manager. “Historically gold was a great instrument for storing of wealth,” the chairman of BlackRock Inc. said at a conference…
(istock) During a recent talk in Washington, Google’s “people operations” chief Laszlo Bock said something notable about fixing the equal pay conundrum. While he admitted that men tend to negotiate more than women, what he didn’t do was suggest — as is so often the case — that solving the gender wage gap is simply a matter of women negotiating more. Rather,…