It was in 2012 that newly appointed creative director, Hedi Slimane announced that Yves Saint Laurent’s ready to wear line would simply be known as Saint Laurent. There was a lot of furor, but it was a direct nod to history. The ready to wear line was launched in 1966 as Saint Laurent River Gauche, […]
Month: July 2015
Can Trump Finance a Presidential Campaign?
A few days ago, Mark Cuban ripped Presidential hopeful, Donald Trump about his ability to self-finance a presidential run. Now, the Maverick makes good points about net worth versus actual, honest to God, cash in the bank. But I do think that, were Trump legitimately trying to be President, he does have enough money to […]
The Trump Life: A Detailed Look at the Donald’s Financial Empire
No one thought he was going to do it, but a few days ago, Donald Trump released disclosures of his financial empire as part of the requirements for his presidential run. And boy, was it long?! My first point of curiosity was the $10 billion figure the man pegs his net worth at. I did […]
Toshiba Just Gave Japan It’s Worst Accounting Scandal Ever
Since the days of Enron and Arthur Anderson, US laws (especially Sarbanes-Oxley) have tightened the rules of accounting and made the management responsible for the books to such an extent that any sort of ‘innovation’ in accounting is too difficult and too costly to be worth it. In America. In Japan, however, it appears things are […]
Should You Take A Fixed Or Variable Rate Student Loan?
Hi guys, Today I want to share a discussion I had with my friend Henry, whose non-picture I have up there in the header. Henry is getting an excellent but ridiculously expensive education. It’s absolutely worth it, because once he’s done, he’s going to be making somewhere in the neighborhood of $200,000 a year, to […]
Elon Musk Announces Model S Updates
It’s been a while since we talked about Tesla on here (mostly since the company itself hasn’t said much.) We’re still expecting the Model X by September in the US, and early 2016 in China. However, today, the company held a press call to announce some new features and improvements to their Model S which […]
A Model to Predict IPO Performance.
I’ve had some luck with IPOs, in the few years I’ve been investing. The two clear cases where LinkedIn, in which I doubled my investment over a weekend (bought Friday, sold Monday) and Facebook which I rightly surmised was overvalued on IPO day, but which I later bought once it fell from around $39 to […]
