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Lessons from the fall of the Roman Empire, Apple's Secret (its in the wrist), Its not just oil, $25B Platform with no banking and the KitKat heist.

24th edition Greetings folks (yes I know it’s not Friday), On March 26, Donald Trump became the first sitting US president in 165 years to put his signature on American currency. The new bills will replace the Treasurer’s signature with the President’s, starting with $100 notes in

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Operation Hormuz Shield

The US is thinking about taking over the Strait of Hormuz. A thought experiment on what it would cost, what it would look like, and why a better option exists. President Trump has stated he is "thinking about taking over" the Strait of Hormuz. On March 23 he

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Russia and China are winning the war in the Middle East (they aren’t even fighting), Nobel Peace Prize misses, the markets that knew before the markets knew, how capable AI actually is and Carney talks K-Pop with Monocle in Tokyo.

21st edition Greetings folks, We all (well most of us) lost an hour of sleep on Sunday, which feels like a good time to remind you that people used to pay someone to shoot peas at their window at 3am. Before alarm clocks were affordable, Britain had an entire profession

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Inside the assignation of Khamenei, Nightmare oil prices (but relax hopefully), Crime actually doesn’t pay, A school thats actually harder to get into that Harvard and how Chinese EV’s are much cheaper.

Greetings folks and a warm welcome to the 20TH Edition of Friday Finance, I took liberties with the weeklyish concept, its been almost a year and a half since I posted. What a week. We started it watching a billionaire’s son outbid Netflix for Warner Bros, and ended it

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Meta’s Global Data Cable, Holiday Returns, U.S. Investment Boom, and Bitcoin’s Big Milestone

Greetings folks and a warm welcome to the 19th Edition of Friday Finance Weekly. Apologies for missing the last 2 weeks, but I am back for the home stretch. Great news about the rate cuts, and it seems like the Bank of Canada will continue on this path. The Canadian

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T-Pain releases ‘Get Low’, Cheese Bandits, Canada’s nuclear ambitions and Amazon launches Haul

Greetings folks and a warm welcome to the 18th Edition of Friday Finance Weekly. It’s the Grey Cup this weekend (in case you didn’t know) and it’s Toronto vs. Winnipeg (also in case you didn’t know). In other news, I am sure everyone is being inundated

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Neocloud companies stockpile processing power, Pay your taxes with Crypto and President Musk

Greetings folks and a warm welcome to the 18th Edition of Friday Finance Weekly. It’s the Grey Cup this weekend (in case you didn’t know) and it’s Toronto vs. Winnipeg (also in case you didn’t know). In other news, I am sure everyone is being inundated

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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