King Farouk's $20 Coin, Fake CIA Program, Starbucks to buy Chipotle?, AI Music and Soybeans skirting tariffs

51st Edition Greetings folks and a warm welcome to the 51st Edition of Friday Finance, Michael Smith, a 54-year-old musician from North Carolina, was sentenced to 18 months in prison by a federal judge in New York on Tuesday. It is the first criminal case of music-streaming

$7 Trillion earning 0.1%, AI Pricing, Turkey's Enron moment, Financial Astrology and Shoppers to Own Boots?

50th Edition Greetings folks and a warm welcome to the 50th Edition of Friday Finance, Zara pulled a children’s Halloween costume from its website on Wednesday. It was a grey and blue striped cardigan and shorts, priced at £39.99, which social media users said resembled the uniforms worn

Toys R Us is back, Venezuela moves gold to the US, Iran's economy, War Risk Premiums and McDonald's is betting on chicken

49th Edition Greetings folks and a warm welcome to the 49th Edition of Friday Finance, Dorsia is a members-only app for restaurant reservations. A basic membership is $175 a year. The top tier is $25,175. Neither includes a table. What you buy is the right to prepay a

Singapore selling evidence, Refund on Love, Surveillance Wages, 50% tariff on salt and 'Associate' EU membership?

48th Edition Greetings folks and a warm welcome to the 48th Edition of Friday Finance, A 9 year-old who runs a Minecraft channel called Mighty Mike Plays has reportedly spent about $118,000 on YouTube advertising using his father’s company credit card. It started with a $20 promotion

Utah-UK connection, Japan and the bond market, 3 days work in Luxembourg = 160 in India, Mixue is bigger McDonald's, BRICS Meets

47th Edition Greetings folks and a warm welcome to the 47th Edition of Friday Finance, Beyoncé turned 45 last week and marked it by selling a wooden box for $948.01. The price is not arbitrary, it is her birthday, September 4 1981, written as a number. The Bey Keeper

$100K before you buy the car, GTA Holiday, Pentagon Oil Co, $499 toothbrush, Apple Vs OpenAI

46th Edition Greetings folks and a warm welcome to the 46th Edition of Friday Finance, Researchers at Southern Illinois University have made cookies out of plastic bottles. The process breaks down PET and discarded corn stalks using water and oxygen at high temperature and pressure, feeds the resulting carbon to

Moscow Hustle, Blue Apron and Concentration Risk, Interest Costs more than Defence, A380 and Emirates and Shein Loses its Shine again

45th Edition Greetings folks and a warm welcome to the 45th Edition of Friday Finance, Donald Trump signed an executive order yesterday renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America, effective immediately. The legal reasoning is that because the deepest water sits on the American side, the United States claims most of

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