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Greetings, folks, and a warm welcome to the 14th Edition of Friday Finance Weekly. I am sure you are all looking forward to the unusually warm Vancouver weather this weekend. Just kidding. Politics aside, I am genuinely concerned for Trump. He stopped a rally and did an awkward dance for
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Sam Perera Oct 11, 2024 • 10 min read Greetings, folks, and a warm welcome to the 13th Edition of Friday Finance Weekly. I am sure everyone has heard about Tesla’s robo-taxi prototype. It felt very Robocop-like, to be honest. For the life of me, I don’t know why
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Greetings, folks, and a warm welcome to the 12th edition of Friday Finance Weekly! A keen reader, Liam, made an interesting point as a follow-up to my previous post. In Post 11, I commented on how confusing it was to see how the dollar got its name, but there is
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Greetings Folks and a warm welcome to the 11TH Edition of Friday Finance Weekly. My apologizes, as I really stretched the ‘weekly-ish’ timeline. The real estate debt markets continue to affect my mood, but with decreasing interest rates, the tone should be more upbeat. I’ve started a section on
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Solar power sizzles, Buffett’s enormous wealth, Dior’s €53 handbag, How much are your body parts worth?, Guinness is trendy 10th Edition Greetings folks and a warm welcome to the 10th edition of Friday Finance Weekly. I will be away for a few weeks, so if I am tardy,
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Greetings, folks, and a warm welcome to the 9th Edition of Friday Finance Weekly. Can't believe it's been over 2 months already. This edition is coming to you from Toronto. I must be a fortune teller because there's an interesting update on the branded
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Greetings Folks and a warm welcome to the 8th Edition of Friday Finance Weekly. I’ll try to keep this a little shorter than the 7th edition. Let’s start with a random fact. According to the Department of Homeland Security, the TSA collected $517,978.74 in loose change
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Greetings, folks, and a warm welcome to the 7th edition of Friday Finance Weekly. Hopefully, my East Coast readers are finding ways to keep cool. Yesterday was the summer solstice – the first day of summer in the northern hemisphere and the longest day of the year. The first human observation
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Greetings folks and a warm welcome to the 6th edition of Sam’s Friday Finance Weekly. For those of you ‘working from home’, be careful as it appears that employers are cracking down. Wells Fargo said former employs tried to ‘create the impression of active work’ through ‘simulation of keyboard
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Poppi Poops, A New Anti-Woke Exchange, Ultra Basic – less than basic fares, Shein Shines, the Richest Man to have ever lived and advice from Nasir of Bablyon Greetings, folks, and a warm welcome to the 5th Edition of Friday Finance Weekly. I hope everyone has come back to earth after
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Greetings folks and a warm welcome to the 4th edition of Friday Finance Weekly. I trust everyone is gearing up for the weekend, and if you’re in Vancouver, I hope the sun stays up. This week, the word "unprecedented" lost all meaning after former President Trump was
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Hi Folks and welcome to the 3RD Edition of Friday Finance Weekly. I am traveling so this may not be the usual flavour. Let’s dive right into things. Interesting week overall with Canadian inflation continuing to come down so hopefully there is a rate cut. Joe Biden is a