Published earlier in July 2016 in my earlier Blog – Ported here in Aug 2017: As the dust settles and UK has officially elected to leave the EU with the BREXIT referendum, an event of epic geo-political implications that has sent shockwaves across financial markets, raised doubts over the fate of the European Union and forced the British Prime Minister Prime Minister to resign. Leading up to voting day, the vast majority of polls predicted the remain side would prevail. However the final results gave the leave side a victory margin of more than one million votes. The inaccurate Brexit prediction is
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Silicon Valley Tech Titans Succession Planning
Published earlier in Sep 2015 in my earlier Blog – Ported here in Aug 2017: As you may have noticed, some of the original Tech Titans, who have founded great Tech companies and have changed our lives for the better forever, are now slowly planning their retirement. We saw this earlier this year with Google appointing a new CEO while Oracle a little while ago appointed two Co-CEOs. We believe that Messrs. Larry Page, Sergei Brin and Larry Ellision would have considered what happened to Steve Jobs, earlier in the 1980s, where he lost control of Apple to Sculley, and had to
Microsoft: The Boss is back – le bon temps roulette
Published earlier in Feb 2014 in my earlier Blog – Ported here in Aug 2017: You may have seen the news recently that Microsoft will now have a new CEO in place of Steve Ballmer. This had to be done in response to Wall Street angst with the direction that MSFT has been heading under Steve Ballmer. Along with this announcement came the news that Bill Gates will now assume the new role as “Founder and Technical Advisor” and spend considerable time “assisting” the new CEO and the technical teams. Microsoft is now at a crossroads and this was an opportunity for
Why do people always vote against their economic self interest?
Published earlier in Jan 2015 in my earlier Blog – Ported here in Aug 2017: We always wonder during elections why the middle class generally vote for candidates with conservative values (right side of the aisle) while the wealthy typically vote for liberal (left leaning) candidates. We believe that this occurs because middle class voters identify more with parties with conservative values who are typically socially conservative with pro-life, pro 2nd Amendment, anti-abortion, religious with family values agenda while wealthy voters tend to gravitate towards liberal parties who have a more “progressive” agenda with a pro-choice, anti 2nd Amendment, pro-abortion and non-religious
Protect your Financial Health on the Internet
Published earlier in 2012 in my earlier Blog – Ported here in Aug 2017: The internet has made life very simple in many ways but has introduced a new set of challenges particularly in the area of personal finance. I have provided some very simple steps that you could take to protect your financial health when using Internet safely in the 21st Century: User ID or Name: Make sure Userids are generic and you do not reveal any personal information. For example, I know of some folks who include their Birthday in their userid e.g. adam07041991. You need to realize that