Archive for October, 2020
It’s not hard to pick out the banker in a Western. Just look for someone sporting sleeve garters and a translucent visor. This is a rare case in which Hollywood actually gets things right. In the late 19th century, sleeve garters served a practical purpose. Back then, you couldn’t walk into Nordstrom and ask for […]
As if we need more reasons to long for the pandemic’s end There is no shortage of articles that, while acknowledging the horror that is the COVID-19 pandemic, observe or predict a resultant upswing in digital payments. More frequent use seems all but assured by the need to self-quarantine and shop from home. I have […]
Some thieves take on smart ATMs with high tech gadgetry. Others, you could say, have a shorter fuse. The United States Department of Justice recently sent notifications to 2,000 residents in my home state of Utah. Recipients are presumed victims of one Alexandru Cosmin Licsor, freshly extradited from Romania. The purpose of the letter was to inform […]
Not even George Orwell foresaw a time when the topic commanding a large share of media attention would be … the media. No, not the old-style broadcast and print media. Dominating the headlines these days are media the likes of Facebook, TikTok, WeChat, and, just to round things out, Netflix. All except Netflix have implications […]
MOST AMERICANS would gladly opt out of their long-term relationship with the Internal Revenue Service. To that end, a good many of us pay CPAs to ensure we don’t give the IRS one penny more than we must. So when sundry people and corporations manage to avoid paying billions in arguably due taxes, you’d think we might celebrate […]