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55th Edition Greetings folks and a warm welcome to the 55th Edition of Friday Finance, On Thursday, the market wiped $2.9 trillion off the S&P 500 because investors suddenly weren’t sure what AI is worth. Meanwhile, at an auction in Los Angeles, someone knew exactly what
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54th Edition Greetings folks and a warm welcome to the 54th Edition of Friday Finance, The ultra-rich are running out of places to park. McKinsey estimates there were about 210,000 yachts longer than 12 metres (39 ft) in the world last year, competing for about 160,000 suitable
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53rd Edition Greetings folks and a warm welcome to the 53rd Edition of Friday Finance, Scammers in Norway have found a new way to collect. According to Finans Norge, the country’s banking lobby, victims are being persuaded to buy gold as an investment, with a promise that “others will
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52nd Edition Greetings folks and a warm welcome to the 52nd Edition of Friday Finance, A former British civil servant is on trial in London, accused of secretly holding up to 5 full-time government jobs at once. Prosecutors say Kashim Chowdhury, 55, worked for 8 public bodies between 2020
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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