Tag: public markets
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Backing Frank: West High Yield Resources (WHY.V) is the legacy of a 45-year entrepreneurial career
When the phone rings and I’m writing, I’ll almost never answer it. My mother knows, and is constantly frustrated, by this. If I’m writing, researching, storytelling, conjuring humour, figuring out marketing strategies, the last thing I need is one of my sales guys using me as Google. There are two exceptions to this rule; Chinese…
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TBT: Market Crashes and Lindsay Lohan
Every other day it seems I’m confronted with throwback pictures of Lindsay Lohan on my Instagram Explore feed. Whether she’s sandwiched between Paris Hilton and Britney Spears on a night out, passed out drunk in a car or posing sexily with kitchen knives in a racy DIY photo shoot, the accounts updating me on Lohan’s party girl past are usually…
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The end of the world, or, how I learned to live with a habitually shrinking PMI
The Institute of Supply Management (ISM) U.S. manufacturing survey was released yesterday and, boy, did it ever raise alarms. Estimations of the ongoing U.S.-China trade war have been on a piecemeal basis up until now: It is common knowledge American soybean farmers are struggling, but calculating the material effects on U.S. business as a whole…