On March 26, 2021, the financial world awoke to the news that rattled some of Wall Street’s biggest players. To the outside world, and at the center of it all were some unfamiliar and obscure names—Archegos Capital and its Founder Bill Hwang. The word on
After this extremely hard year that we have all had, the world is finally starting to look normal again. The number of cases are decreasing, the weather is getting warmer, and it’s finally starting to feel like we are heading in the right direction. And
Theranos’s groundbreaking proprietary technology promised to revolutionize healthcare with just a drop of blood from a finger prick. The company, led by its founder Elizabeth Holmes, would raise over $900 million and become a darling in the tech community. That is until a Wall Street
The pandemic this, the pandemic that. COVID-19 has taken more things away from us than just our ability to see and hug our friends without the fear of catching something. It’s taken our economy. It’s taken our livelihood. It’s even taken our cars and our
We all know about the insane storm that hit Texas recently, and if you don’t know about it…well, Texas literally froze over. And I mean single digit degrees, froze over. It was a horrible and sudden event that Earth decided to throw at Texas, taking
The U.S. unemployment rate has sky rocketed in the past year. Yet despite this, many essential businesses struggle to find employees that stick around. Business owners and managers alike are desperate to find extra help during these busy times. They have increased their wages, enrolled
Last week, Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd made headlines for becoming one of the world’s rare female billionaires. With her massive stake in Bumble, she joins the likes of MacKenzie Scott, who has also been making waves for the generous donations she has made to
The last day of January past and we are officially one month and a few weeks into the new year. The sense of hope for our community was magnified when President Joe Biden took office and immediately went to work to get our country back
Over the course of the last year, we as a country have made a ton of online purchases. Because the pandemic forced us all to go online, it was only expected that returns be online as well. If you end up not wanting or not
The International Space Station is speculated to be the most expensive object ever built. Hundreds of billions of dollar were poured into building the space craft into what it is today. Upkeep costs are also in the billions. On top of that, each shuttle trip
The past year has been tough economically speaking. We have experienced one of the quickest economic downfalls in history, but we are improving at a fairly fast rate. Almost instantaneously we have seen tech companies bounce back from 2020. Consumer demand is at an all-time
Symbolically on the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr, minimum wage workers all over America staged walkouts and virtual protests. These protests were part of the movement demanding higher wages and paid sick leave. The Fight for $15 movement is hardly a new one. In
Thanks to the pandemic, a huge chunk of grocery shoppers have found a new love for cooking. Not only are they loving this hobby in quarantine, but they admit that they will continue cooking for themselves more often, post pandemic. The companies benefiting highly from
Oil companies have had a hard year, but it doesn’t look like the pandemic did much to its failure. Over the years, oil companies have had to worry about their impending future of going oil-free. Since even before the pandemic, oil companies were looking at
Last night, President-Elect Joe Biden outlined his strategy to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic. While his plan is ambitious, it does mean big spending for the U.S. government. His relief plan will cost $1.9 trillion dollars, which does sounds like a massive amount of money, but
Are you a frequent user of the mobile app “Venmo?” Have you ever heard of it? Well, it’s a cool banking app that is mostly used to transfer your funds to people’s bank accounts automatically. It makes it easier when you’re going halfsies on dinner.
President Elect Joe Biden has faced tons of questions regarding his economic plan during his upcoming four years as the President of the United States. From the pandemic emergency funds to who is going to pay more taxes than another, people have pressed the President-Elect
All throughout 2020, it felt like we were waiting for something big. It turns out, that was because 5G came out last year along with a bunch of other things that made 5G look like an infant’s toy. Throughout all of last year, 5G was
