by Caleb Jones | May 27, 2017 | Finance / Investing
Just a few weeks ago, Bitcoin was around $900. Today it’s $2200. A few days ago it was as high as $2700. What the hell? It’s now hundreds of dollars past gold, which is still floating around $1250 as it usually does. I check the values of certain indexes and...
by Caleb Jones | Mar 22, 2017 | Economics, Finance / Investing
A week ago, the Federal Reserve, the corporatist entity that actually runs the US (and thus the world) economy, raised interest rates a little, going from .75 percent to 1 percent. Remember that the Fed set interest rates to zero back in 2008 to keep the US economy...
by Caleb Jones | Feb 25, 2016 | Finance / Investing
My feelings regarding the Walt Disney Company are ambivalent to say the least. On one hand, I’m upset with them for forever warping the perception of billions of women (and a decent amount of men) regarding relationships and marriage, and doing so for decades, from...
by Caleb Jones | Jan 18, 2016 | Finance / Investing
One. Decades ago in my first job at a large software company, we had to do customer surveys regarding our product. The overwhelming response we received was that our customers liked our software, but considered it too “full.” There were too many features, and that...
