Sam Perera

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Starbucks is bringing back the Sharpie, Spraying Diamonds in the Sky, Google gets a fine larger than the global asset base, Lazy version of kiting cheques, America buys too much for other countries to move away from the USD.

Greetings folks, and a warm welcome to the 16th edition of Friday Finance Weekly. I am sure the world will be a changed place in a week from now as we wait for the US Presidential Elections. I haven’t been this excited since the Canucks were in Game 7

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Munificent Mayweather strikes again, flying taxis, Women and Weed, Funds may be forced to Dump tech stocks, Walmart makes a major move into pharmacy

Greetings, folks, and a warm welcome to the 15th edition of Friday Finance Weekly.  Your feedback is appreciated, as long as it's positive. Totally not finance-related, but seriously hilarious. A pizzeria in the German city of Düsseldorf was busted by police. If a customer ordered a number

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Uber considers buying Expedia, the business of calculating odds in sports, gamble on the US elections and Patek unveils their first new collection in 25 years

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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Private Equity Buys into American Royalty (NFL), Big Tech Goes Nuclear, Ozempic changing waist lines at a national level and the Diamond of all Diamonds

Oct 11, 2024 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 they didn’t

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How cars got their name?, Saudi Oil Production to Increases, War = Profit and Canada is Alabama.

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

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How currencies got their names? Living at Goldman Sach’s, Cards Against Humanity takes on Space X, AI 2041: Ten Visions of our Future

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

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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

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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Costco Houses, Bankruptcy is more complicated, Lego over Diamonds, 6 Day workweek in Greece and Let’s sweat it out

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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Visa Swipe Fee Settlement, Real Estate Meets Fine Dining, Volkswagen Invests in Rivian, Fentanyl Vaccine, Doughnut Economics Explained

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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Citigroup Services is a star, anti-tax counselling, AI transforming the physical world, USD for Life and the New Confessions of an Economic Hitman

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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WNBA is almost as popular as the NHL; Chiquita finances terror; National Bank gobbles CWB; Hallucinogenic Beer; and Moonwalking with Einstein.

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

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