by Andrea James | Dec 20, 2016 | How the world works, Politics
The clothes washing machine disrupted modern life. The automobile disrupted cities. In 2009, Apple disrupted the mobile phone market. In 2009, Blackberry stock traded near $140. It trades around $7 today. In that time, AAPL went from $12 to $100. Tesla is disrupting...
by Andrea James | Aug 22, 2016 | Curiosity, How the world works, Wall Street logic
“And so God made the world and stocks and bonds.” —Geoff Dodd, my hilarious and competent Series 7 instructor. What is Wall Street? What’s the difference between a stock and a bond? Why do we even have a stock market? You are not alone if you...
by Andrea James | Aug 9, 2016 | How the world works, Politics, Wall Street logic
Something fascinating is going on with negative interest rate policy: It’s having the opposite of its intended effect. A negative interest rate is a simple concept — it means that money in a bank account shrinks over time, rather than grows. It takes the...
by Andrea James | Jul 30, 2016 | Curiosity, How the world works
“Time. We kill time, spend time, lose time, make time, beat time, take time, waste time; but we virtually never consider time, much less understand it.” –Richard Berendzen, physicist, astronomer and my university professor The Atlantic contains a...
by Andrea James | Jul 15, 2016 | How the world works
I thought it’d be fun to write up a bulletin the way I did for my Wall Street clients. The only difference between this and the kind I used to do is that this doesn’t contain stock recommendations. Don’t hammer me on syntax or political correctness...
by Andrea James | Jul 4, 2016 | How the world works, Inspiration, Politics
The greatest human experiment in self rule lives another year! Government of the people, for the people, and by the people. But do we TRULY mean it? What does it mean to you to be sovereign, not a subject? To stand before your god with no man standing between you?...
