Weekend May 19, 2024 23% of Americans with a mortgage owe more than the home is worth. Let one spouse lose their job and I expect they walk away from the debt. The interest on the Federal debt is more than the defense budget. And with rates on the way  up that will only get…

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Tues Feb 6 224   For decades MCD has braged it sold billions of burgers, but they never claimed it was a great burger. Now MCD is making that very claim. Will Wall Street and patrons literally buy into the story? In ACCT 2302 we study managerial accounting which includes Dr. Edward Deming's Total Quality…

Friday Jan 5 2024 AMC was one of the zero earnings firms that speculators  piled into, click to see what happened

THursday Dec 21 2023 Customers are wondering where are their cars?   I was quite skeptical this franchise would be re buuilt, and sure enough the link contains refernece to DeLorean NFTs and other malarkey. Here is another example of goovernment speculating with other people's money In April, it unveiled plans for a futuristic, wing-shaped…

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11/17/2023   Alert  student Ana Montalvo posted this review of the 1/15/2023 SA IMA meeting. ________   Yesterday I attended the monthly CMA meeting. I really enjoy attending these meetings because I get to meet new people in the accounting field in San Antonio and I also get to hear from speakers on very relevant…

During the trial for disgraced crypto-wunderkind Sam Bankman-Fried, the courtroom artist did an inspired, almost abstract evocation of his parents at the moment of the crushing verdict. His father is bent over, white head in his hands, his mother is covering her face; the shadowing of their dark clothes merges them into a single mountain…

10/22/31   Interesting analysis of Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber in Die Hard

10/10/23 Stephanie Olin stole about $9K from the University of Houston downtown campus. Ironically she worked in the dept charged with raising money for the school. Like      alicia Padilla at Centro she was a very poor fraudster. Her purchases at amzn were easily traced right to her apartment. Notice the rash of female…