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

Economics of morality, Flip Flop Mafia, Saudi Arabia retreating from Sports, Pan Am is a hotel brand and the $4.25M deli platter

32nd Edition Greetings folks and a warm welcome to the 32ND Edition of Friday Finance, Trump’s financial disclosure dropped this month and it shows roughly 3,700 trades in Q1 2026, about 40 per day. Among the 36 largest positions, each between $1 million and $5 million: Nvidia, Apple,

Coal explains AI spend, Blackberry is in 275M cars, IRS 'settles' with Trump, SpaceX is ready for launch and get ready for the Enhanced Games

31st Edition Greetings folks and a warm welcome to the 31st Edition of Friday Finance, Earlier this year, xAI asked its own employees to submit personal US tax returns as training data for Grok. The incentive was $420 per submission (can’t make this up). The offer was extended to

Shadow Fleets exposed, jet fuel made from the sun, Hermes and his gardener, AP sells a $400 watch to flex

30th edition Greetings folks and warm welcome to the 30th Edition, Two Miami-Dade sheriff's sergeants are suing Ben Affleck and Matt Damon for $21M they did not steal. In June 2016, Jason Smith and Jonathan Santana led the raid on a Miami Lakes house where they found

GameStop tries to buy eBay, FIFA's fans may not show up, Economic warfare targeted at Iran, Every $1 of good data = $25 of benefit, Labubu bubble is here

29th edition Greetings folks, and warm welcome to Edition No 29, On Wednesday morning at Jogye Temple in central Seoul, a 130-centimeter humanoid robot wearing Buddhist robes pressed its palms together, bowed to senior monks, and was ordained as a lay Buddhist follower under the dharma name "Gabi.