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Amazon’s Alexa Goes Full Samuel Jackson; Peloton’s Pricey IPO September 26, 2019 Great Stuff Say “Alexa” Again, I Dare You No, it’s not 2001. We’re way past that at this point. Alexa is taking over. Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) held a major reveal yesterday. There were no spiffy invitations like you get for Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) events … so you might have missed it. At the event, Amazon […]
Storming Area 51; Uber and WeWork “Almost Worthless”? September 20, 2019 Great Stuff Friday Four Play: The “Storm Area 51” Edition Are we alone in the galaxy? Today, some quirky millennials are going to try to answer this existential question — while “Naruto running” past government military security. It’s officially “Storm Area 51” day. This bizarre mess all started as a joke on Facebook. Millions of people signed […]
Fear Did Not Win on September 11, 2001 September 11, 2019 Great Stuff Fear Did Not Win I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing on this day 18 year ago. It’s one of those memories that’s forever burned in my brain … like January 28, 1986. On September 11, 2001, I was working as an inventory database specialist at a small manufacturing plant in […]
China’s Breakthrough Tweet; Slack Gets Cut; Kellogg’s Incogmeato September 5, 2019 Great Stuff A Tweet Chinese Surprise I’m watching the markets tick higher today with amusement. The Dow is up 200 … 300 … 400 points. For some reason, I’m hearing this in Bono’s voice from “Bullet the Blue Sky.” And he’s peelin off those dollar bills, slappin them down. One hundred, two hundred. As Great Stuff predicted […]
Hong Kong: 1 Less Brick in Wall Street’s Wall of Worry September 4, 2019 Great Stuff Another Brick out of the Wall Chalk one up for the little guy. Who says protests don’t work anymore? Tensions are easing in Asia this morning after Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam withdrew a controversial extradition bill. The bill, which would have allowed extradition of Hong Kong citizens to mainland China, was one of […]





