NASDAQ moves to 23 hr trading, $30B press release, Swiss Banking Regulators, PublicSquare finances guns, Keystone XL back?

44th Edition Greetings folks and a warm welcome to the 44th Edition of Friday Finance, On Wednesday November 18, at 2:16:07 in the morning Pacific time, Voyager 1 will be 16,094,799,096 miles from Earth. NASA has calculated it to the second. At that moment it

Forced LA Lakers sale, The Eddie Murphy Rule, Venezuela wants its gold back, Transit passengers on the move and 'Situational Awareness'

43rd Edition Greetings folks and a warm welcome to the 43rd Edition of Friday Finance, There is a messaging app called Carrier Pidge that delivers your texts at the speed of an actual carrier pigeon, 110 mph, timed off the real distance between you and whoever you are writing to,

LIV becomes employee owned, Starlink Mobile, 2,000 year trade history, its a service fee not a toll, Saudi-Turkey-Pakistan pact

42nd Edition Greetings folks and a warm welcome to the 42nd Edition of Friday Finance, T-Pain explained this week why he sold his music catalogue, and the arithmetic is hard to argue with. The buyers showed him what the catalogue earned in a year and offered him roughly a

X 'Bank', Tax data crossing borders, Cocaine Supply Glut, Don't blame Taco Bell, Milliseconds for sale

41st Edition Greetings folks and a warm welcome to the 41st Edition of Friday Finance, Arizona State, the largest public university in the country, will now sell you a four-year Bachelor of Arts in being an influencer. The Cronkite School’s new content-creation degree teaches personal branding, audience

IRS wins the World Cup, Two locked doors, Enron's creative accounting is back, Apple goes rental, Southwest ships oil

40th Edition Greetings folks and a warm welcome to the 40th Edition of Friday Finance, Olive Garden brought back its Never-Ending Pasta Pass last week for the first time since 2019, $100 for 13 weeks of unlimited pasta, soup, salad and breadsticks, and all 10,000 of them were

Clear Coca-Cola, Merck's $29B problem, QR codes vs Visa/MasterCard, A bank with wings, World Cup financial scorecard

39th Edition Greetings folks and a warm welcome to the 39th Edition of Friday Finance, Somewhere in New York you can now pay $500 for a woman in black to turn up at your funeral, weep quietly at the edge of the crowd, speak to nobody, and vanish before anyone

Mega Gas Stations, $130B bet on Jeff Bezos, The anti-Zara retailer, Big Pharma in Space and Stubhub is run by a scalper

38th Edition Greetings folks and a warm welcome to the 38th Edition of Friday Finance, Uganda’s Chief of Defence Forces, General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, went on X last week to inform Jay-Z that he is, in fact, the poorer man, on the grounds that Jay-Z owns no Ankole

'Healthier' Nicotine, the new Air Force One, $50M FIFA Trophy, Chanel buys Charvet and the Internet tried to save Wendy's

37th Edition Greetings folks and a warm welcome to the 37th Edition of Friday Finance, A 38-year-old man in North Carolina who says he has the world’s smallest penis has raised over $12K on GoFundMe to have it enlarged, comfortably clearing his goal in the first couple

Nord Stream Pipeline (porn) Pirates, Nose Job as a Subscription, China's Humanoid Workforce, AI and Philosophy, GTA is $80 (cheaper in real terms)

36th Edition Greetings folks and a warm welcome to the 36th Edition of Friday Finance, Two weeks ago a gang walked into a Philadelphia warehouse and drove off with 1,800 cases of bourbon, around 10,800 bottles, worth more than $500K. They didn’t pick a lock or pull

Billionaires fund shows about themselves, the vague Iran deal, cocaine boom, Guinness outperforms and the $30B in smuggled gold

35th Edition Greetings folks and a warm welcome to the 35th Edition of Friday Finance, Let me start by saying what a win for Canada yesterday, the city is still buzzing. A man in Chennai, India now has a memecoin ticker tattooed across his forehead, and he is not getting

North Korea is booming, Longevity as an asset class, 3 IPO's want $200B, Swiss population cap and $43K seats for the Knicks

34th Edition Greetings folks and a warm welcome to the 34th Edition of Friday Finance, This week the Trump family began selling UFC commemorative coins priced from $249.99 to $11,999.99, timed to a championship fight on the White House South Lawn this Sunday, which is both Flag

Curry picks Li-Ning, DeepSeek Vs American AI, Super El Nino, $570B in Classic Cars, European Pension Structure is Flawed

33rd Edition Greetings folks and a warm welcome to the 33rd Edition of Friday Finance, Last Saturday a 16-year-old boarded United flight 236 from Newark to Palma de Mallorca and named his Bluetooth speaker “BOMB”. About 90 minutes into the transatlantic crossing, another passenger spotted it in their