Business

Google to Start Offering Checking Accounts in 2020

Google

At first glance, it might seem pretty odd that the world’s most popular search engine would get into the banking business. Google offering banking actually makes sense. Google is a huge internet company that already has a big footprint in our lives. It all started with an idea to improve upon search engine performance on […]

McDonald’s Board Turfs CEO and Pays the Price

McDonald's

McDonald’s CEO Steve Easterbrook had been guiding the company very well over his 4-year tenure. He was unceremoniously dumped this week, for reasons that should startle us. Steve Easterbrook started his career with McDonald’s in 1993 as a manager of one of their restaurants in London. The fast food industry, including McDonalds, has never been […]

Taking Advantage of the Salmon Boom Sustainably

Salmon Farm

The backlash against salmon farming is just beginning. Not all salmon farms are dangerous though, and one Norwegian company has found a safer way to do this. One of the reasons why salmon or any seafood doesn’t come close to the volume of sales that chicken, pork, and beef do is that the supply for […]

China Rolls out 5G Friday, Apple Left Out in the Cold

5G in China

Apple had a fabulous fourth quarter and easily beat the expectations on the street. The 5G iPhone is at least a year away, and in the meantime, China is rolling out 5G now. In spite of just rolling out a stellar quarterly earnings call, which saw Apple earn $3.04 per share versus the consensus estimate […]

Why the Auto Industry is Struggling in One Sentence

Auto Industry

Ford gets 150% of its profits from the sale of trucks, including SUVs. This in itself tells us a great deal about their business. Sales matter a lot, profit, obviously not so much. In spite of car sales have declining, truck sales in the United States are still booming. A full 70% of the vehicles […]