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Truth Social, Trump’s New Platform, Is Owned By … The Chinese?

October 21, 2021October 21, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 4chan, china yunhong holdings, digital world acquisition corp, Donald Trump, DWAC, facebook, gab, instagram, parler, pravda, rumble, social, social media, spac, special purpose acquisition company, stock, stock market, stonk, stonks, telegram, trump, truth social, twitter, what is a spac, whatsapp, wuhan, wuhan china

News broke yesterday that former president Donald J. Trump is starting a new social network. Beyond the quotidian ridicule, especially

Business & Economics Finance Politics Finance Energy

You’ve Heard Of Socially Responsible Investing. Now Get Ready For… Socially Irresponsible Investing?!

June 14, 2021June 14, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 2ndvote, candace owens, christianity, conservative christianity, doge, doge to the moon, dogecoin to the moon, ETF, evangelicalism, exchange-traded fund, jacki daily, jason isaac, jeanine pirro, judge jeanine, markets, stock market, stocks, stonk, stonks, texas, texas public policy foundation, tppf

A new conservative investment fund seeks to invest in “socially conservative” products, identifying a market of interested, “un-woke” investors. The only problem? Well, turns out the most profitable companies are all actually pretty socially liberal.

Finance Urban Planning Finance

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.

Business & Economics

Trillion-Dollar Company: “Have You Considered Doing A Free Internship?”

September 16, 2020September 16, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 2020, aspirationalism, Avalon, career, career development, careers, Detroit, free internship, internship, job applications, jobs, networking, new center, professional development, professionalism, stock market, stonks, unpaid internship, untethered

Someone from one of the world’s largest corporations suggested that maybe my best bet is to do an unpaid internship. We’re still doing that in 2020?

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