Business Adventures by John Brooks (Book Recommendation)

"Business Adventures" by John Brooks is like a fiction touch in a non fiction book. It is jam packed with facts and lessons from great stories that probably shaped business histories. From history of stock market fluctuation, a case of insider trading, the mistakes of a big corporation like Ford in its Edsel model, the challenges and rise of Xerox, history of income taxation, employment issues with regards to intellectual property, to British pound historical devaluation and rescue. Each story presented in such a way that can put you at the edge of your seat.

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Pixar’s Inside Out and the Stock Market

After watching the latest animation movie from Pixar, several thoughts came to my mind and these are few of those. The characters resemble the emotions we put when investing specially in stocks. The following article contains spoilers for those who haven’t watch the movie. "Inside Out Review!" by AntMan3001 is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 Joy Joy is the first thought that will come, as we are new in the stock market, we are excited to buy our first pick. Aiming to have our initial gain, our first share of dividends, our goals instantly pop out from our minds associated with those investments when target appreciation was realized. We are always eager to check the news regarding our picks, their projects, income, and rumors and disclosures. Sadness We waited days, months, years, checking portfolio with hitting some buy and sell transactions. We realized that it is not easy. We gain some, we lose some. We hit some curved balls for a ...

HMO, Health Insurance, and Hybrid Medical Plan

The COVID-19 pandemic crisis may have few positive impact in our lives and one of those is awareness to health. Health is wealth as sickness can drain wealth or worst lead to untimely demise.Sickness can have a factor of protection and prevention which involves the topics of immunity, lifestyle, stress, environment, vitamins, diet, genes, and exercise. Due to vast origin and complex human nature we cannot escape facing illnesses at least few times in our lives. When we got sick, we usually go through different stages. Diagnosis, wherein we go to a physician for checkup. In this stage there are also specialized equipment and tools necessary to determine the cause of our sickness. After proper diagnosis, the doctors would then recommend medicines or treatment procedures to cure our sickness until recovery. Each of the stages during diagnosis, treatment, and recovery requires substantial amount of money depending on the nature of illnesses. Oftentimes, it is difficult to face illness...

Philippines Super Payment Apps

Photo by Rami Al-zayat on Unsplash This year is a great year for the Philippines in terms of development in available payment apps. BSP pushing more use of electronic retail payments by 2020 is a boon for these payment apps. There are also mergers and acquisitions that made those resources behind the apps bigger and better. What are the advantages of one from another and who are the leads and runner ups so far? Below are few of the unique features GCash GCash Forest You can help plant in Ipo watershed thru earning green energy. Green energy can be collected thru walking and using the functionalities of the app. Instapay Transfer Free transfers instantly to any local bank account. 100K monthly limit Invest Money Investment fund which offers the lowest initial and top up with just 50 pesos GSave Save money as high as 3% per annum in partnership with CIMB Philippines Paymaya Virtual Card This is like a debit card which can be used ...

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