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Short Circuits: What’s Going On With GameStop Stock

January 27, 2021January 27, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments bed bath beyond, big short, COVID19, derivatives, finance, gamestop, GME, hedge funds, john maynard keynes, macy's, NASDAQ, NYSE, options, reddit, retail apocalypse, retail investors, ridiculous, S&P500, short, short interest, short squeeze, short-selling, speculation, steam, stock market, stock trading, stonks, Tesla

GameStop stock blew up. Should you care? No, not really. But you shouldn’t buy it.

Finance Book Reviews Urban Planning Finance

Book Review: The Firm – The Story of McKinsey and Its Secret Influence on American Business (2014)

January 11, 2021January 11, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments american express, anil kumar, AT&T, bain, Business School, citibank, consulting, duff mcdonald, finance, harvard business school, IBM, intel, james mckinsey, james oscar mckinsey, management consulting, mckinsey, mckinsey & company, merrill lynch, mitt romney, pete buttigieg, raj rajaratnam, rajat gupta, south bend

MCKINSEY. EVERY B-SCHOOL BRO KNOWS THE NAME. Many more Americans learned the name after facing the presidential prospects of a

Business & Economics Finance

I’m Getting An MBA Because You People Are Wrong

August 13, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 2020 presidential election, finance, for-profit prisons, kamala harris, leftism, liberalism, mass incarceration, MBA, policy, policy reform, prison abolition, prison-industrial complex, S&P 500, stocks, stonks

A tweet about Kamala Harris highlights how woefully ignorant many people are about financial markets and how this harms us in the quest for formulating
meaningful policy, change, and discourse.

Business & Economics

How Losers Still Get Paid: Why Bankruptcy Can’t Rein In Executive Compensation

July 20, 2020July 21, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments bankruptcy, coronavirus, corporate debt, corporate finance, corporate subsidies, corporations, covid, debt, equity, executive, executive compensation, finance, Ford, general motors, Hertz, JC Penney, litigation, Neiman Marcus, Pacific Gas & Electric, private equity, reaganomics, retail, retail apocalypse, shareholder value, shareholders, spending a lite fitty, stock market, stock market crash, stocks, stonks, tax, tax policy, Whiting Petroleum

IF YOU’RE ONE OF THE BILLIONS OF ONLOOKERS OBSERVING THE COLLAPSE OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY, you might be wondering: what’s

Business & Economics Finance Finance Public Health

The Fed’s COVID19 Rate Cuts Can’t Stop What’s Coming

March 15, 2020March 15, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments capital markets, corporate debt, debt, economics, federal reserve, finance, jerome powell, saudi aramco, stock market, stocks

Corporate America had beaucoup problems before COVID19 hit the scene. Now, it’s just a matter of time before the corporate debt bubble bursts– with massive implications for the US economy and worker.

Finance

Donald Trump vs. The Stock Market: Electability and the Coming Crash

February 5, 2020February 8, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments derivatives, Donald Trump, dow jones, economy, finance, jobs, markets, NASDAQ, S&P 500, stock market, stocks, valuation, VIX

The Donald Trump stock market seems to post daily records, which has implications for those vying for the White House. But the bull market is not immortal.