Recently I read an article on Braeden’s blog regarding a once powerful, wealthy man Eike Batista and how he went from a multibillionaire to a multimillionaire. Was is a gambling problem that got to Batista? No. It was greed. Batista promised investors that his oil company would be able to pump out 400,000 gallons a day. The company stock was flooded with investors and ballooned to over $21 a share. When the actual date to mine came, it only pumped […]
In the US, roughly 30% of Americans have bachelor’s degree. To increase the economy in the US, President Barack Obama has proposed to increase the number of years in high school from 5 to 6. One school in the US already offers this program with students graduating from it not only earning a high school diploma but also an associates degree. It is an interesting concept considering almost 70% of Americans only have a high school diploma. There are a […]
To this day, almost everybody you or I know has a Facebook account. Everything from a person’s personality to the types of people associated can be found on Facebook. Because of this, many job candidates are having their Facebook account checked out before they are considered fit for the job. According to the article, more than 40% of recruiters have reconsidered one’s application after processing a candidate’s Facebook account and 60% say poor grammar and use of slang will think […]
How would you like to get paid for doing nothing? This could potentially be true in Switzerland as Swiss activists delivered a public referendum proposing to give the public around $10,000 a year for simply being Swiss. Everyone is entitled to the money no matter how rich, poor, hardworking, or lazy they are. The main object of course is to eliminate poverty but there are many problems with this proposal that I’ve noticed. The first and foremost is that a […]
