central bank digital currency (CBDC)
Request: Also called digital fiat currency. It is said it could lead to loss of personal privacy and governments would be able to control us even more than they do.
Business
The Fiat Standard: The Debt Slavery Alternative to Human Civilization
Ammous analyzes global political currencies by analogy to bitcoin: how they're "mined" whenever government-guaranteed entities create loans, their lack of inherent restraints on inflation, and the rampant government intervention --goodreads.com
scalable.capital (stocks)
Wealth management / broker for the European market.
Sam Bankman-Fried
one of the richest people in crypto, thanks to his FTX exchange and Alameda Research trading firm, before his empire came crashing down in November 2022 --forbes.com
strike (business)
"a refusal to work organized by a body of employees as a form of protest, typically in an attempt to gain a concession or concessions from their employer" -- Google dictionary
Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
From the time we learn to speak, we’re told that if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. While this advice may work for everyday life, it is, as Kim Scott has seen, a disaster when adopted by managers --goodreads.com
scalping (a trading activity)
buy at the Bid price and sell at the Ask price, in order to gain the bid/ask difference... It normally involves establishing and liquidating a position quickly, usually within minutes or even seconds --wikipedia
Happy money, by Ken Honda
The Japanese art of making peace with your money
The Billion Dollar Secret
20 Principles of Billionaire Wealth and Success, by Rafael Badziag
DreamTrips International (MLM)
a member-driven service that offers curated travel packages, price match guarantees, and two levels of membership with various, other benefits --request
T/F: differentiating a product from competitors increases likelihood of success
Is it better to imitate or come up with ones own unique solution to a problem to differentiate from competitors? --request
Ask-Socrates (AI analysis platform)
"tools intended to help individuals and organizations better research and interpret the global economic and political environment" --ask-socrates.com
401(k)
a retirement savings plan sponsored by an employer —request
global minimum tax
OECD countries (including the EU and the US) want to obligate big companies to pay a 15% tax all around the world. Would it do more good than harm? —request
Repair Your Credit Like the Pros
How credit attorneys and certified consultants legally delete bad credit and restore your good name --subtitle