The feds will pay interest on some tax refunds — but there’s a catch.
— Read on www.cnet.com/personal-finance/some-people-will-get-an-interest-payment-from-the-irs-in-2020-find-out-if-youre-one-of-them/
As late as April 2019, Origin, an independent research firm, found that 75% of consumers still carried cash.
Restaurants and retailers all over the country have stopped accepting cash. And you can blame COVID-19 for this rapid shift away from paper to plastic.
Techcrunch reported that Google is experimenting with a debit card. Ultimately, it could make cash obsolete for more than a billion Android phone users worldwide.
— Read on www.forbes.com/sites/jonmarkman/2020/05/24/pandemic-rings-death-knell-for-paper-cash/
Michael Gibson still remembers his first day working for Peter Thiel. Like many of Thiel’s hires, he’d met the contrarian investor through several of the PayPal founder’s variously eccentric political ventures. A onetime self-described “unemployed writer in L.A.,” who’d left a doctoral program in philosophy at Oxford, Gibson had met Thiel through his work at the Seasteading Institute, a Thiel-funded attempt to create a libertarian “floating city” in international waters. Then Thiel asked him to help teach a class at Stanford Law School on philosophy, technology, and politics. And then Thiel asked him to work for his hedge fund. Gibson had no intention of working in finance, or any experience in doing so, but he and Thiel had, he felt, “gelled philosophically,”
— Read on www.city-journal.org/peter-thiel
When Nicholas Yung wouldn’t sell his land to railroad baron Charles Crocker, Crocker built a 40-foot fence around his house and blotted out the sun.
— Read on getpocket.com/explore/item/the-man-who-built-a-40-foot-spite-fence-around-his-neighbor-s-home
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— Read on www.vox.com/recode/2020/1/28/21080122/avoid-hack-hacker-theft
“Our entire understanding of commerce and capitalism seems to have fallen under the sway of short-term, finite-minded thinking.”
Need to get back to what capitalism was at the time of our founding fathers – putting people first, not short-term stock market gains.
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