Illegal immigration, and the status of illegal immigrants (or undocumented workers if you want to be politically correct), is a divisive issue on the American political landscape. One group wants to provide all sorts of benefits to illegal immigrants and a path to citizenship and the opposing group wants to deport many of those same …
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I Googled the search term “bad companies.” Other than one result that was for the rock band Bad Company, the leading search results were about companies that according to the various authors are “bad.” The headlines include: The 18 Worst Companies in America, the 20 Worst Companies in the World to Work for, 10 Most …
Many companies have transitioned from storing documents in filing cabinets to storing documents electronically. The process has both positive and negative repercussions. On the positive side, filing cabinets take us space, and as the number of documents grow the documents must be put into storage boxes, labeled, and then stored somewhere. For paper heavy companies, …
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As someone who lives in the greater Los Angeles area, I spend a lot of time driving. Even though we have clogged freeways and bad traffic, the worst thing about spending a lot of time on the road is the other drivers. In Los Angeles (and I presume many other places in the world) drivers …
Recently the president of the university where I teach accounting and finance to the CEOs and CFOs of tomorrow sent an email announcement following the verdicts in the Kyle Rittenhouse and Ahmaud Arbery cases. I applaud the president for issuing statements in response to high profile matters in the news. I think it sends a …
A friend sent me a meme with the picture (not sure it if is a photo or a drawing) of a Native American person and the following words: “The biggest genocide in human history didn’t occur in Nazi Germany but on American soil. 100 million Native Americans were slaughtered and lost their homeland. Historical fact: …
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Yuval Noah Harari has become one of the leading thought leaders of today. Wikipedia describes him as a “public intellectual, historian and professor. “I know what an historian and a professor are, but I wasn’t too sure about the “public intellectual” part so I looked it up. Again, according to Wikipedia, “The term public intellectual …
Recently the financial website creditcardinsider.com asked me to answer several questions about applying for credit cards, having credit cards and common mistakes with credit cards. Below are my responses: Should everyone have at least one credit card? Yes, everyone should have at least one credit card. Having a credit card can do three things. First, …
Three economists were awarded Nobel prizes for their work in studying the effects of minimum wages on unemployment. The prize was awarded for their methodology. The study of economics can be enhanced by “empirical experiments” as opposed to relying on computer models which always require reliance on assumptions, which may or may not be correct. …
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Michael Manahan is an author, financial strategist, consultant, and professor. He has been featured and quoted on the financial websites Yahoo Finance, WalletHub, MoneyGeek and The Motley Fool for his advice on personal finance his work with the Polk Institute, and he is the host of Biz Rap podcast. He is the co-founder of the Polk Institute Foundation. His publications include “The Secrets to Raising Capital,” “The Key to Landing a Job – The Interview” and “The Secrets to Job Success.” Mr. Manahan served as chief financial officer for three publicly traded companies, has started and owned seven small businesses, and as an advisor has worked with more than 150 management teams. As a teacher of finance and accounting at California State University Dominguez Hills, Mr. Manahan is educating the CEOs and CFOs of the future.
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