Today was an interesting day. I had to sell all my Aurora Cannabis Inc. stock today, which is kind of a bummer. That was the one real financial bright spot in my life over the past year. I bought it at roughly $2/share, and sold it for $8.67/share.… Continue Reading
Category: Finance
Unless You’re Rich, Don’t Sweat The Dow Drop
So the big news today is that the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which is an index of 30 of the top companies in America, dropped more than 1100 points,, or more than 4% of its total wealth. This is the largest single day point drop in history, and it comes on the heels of a 666 point drop on Friday, which was 2.5% of total wealth.… Continue Reading
The Asian Financial Crisis of the Late 1990’s
“The Asian Crisis and the Search for a New Global Financial Architecture: Market Discipline/Fundamentalism Meets Developmental/Crony Capitalism.” (Written in Summer 2009 while a Visiting Researcher at The Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Jakarta) … Continue Reading