by Michael Mandaville | Jan 16, 2021 | Economics and Finance, Filmmaking
http://news.ambest.com/newscontent.aspx?AltSrc=104&RefNum=230926 Best’s Insurance News & Analysis – January 12, 2021 10:10 AM (EST) Bullet Points – Article (Below) •Film production claims account for about 60% of entertainment losses at...
by Michael Mandaville | Apr 15, 2020 | Economics and Finance, Filmmaking, Headlines, Ideas, Trends-Economic
Disney (DIS) stock has been cycling up and down in this volatile climate, replete with the Coronavirus, a frozen economy, a quarantined populace and considerable uncertainty for Social Public behavior for the vast majority of American consumers – the absolute...
by michael.m | Aug 10, 2017 | Economics and Finance, Ideas
In the continuing parade of overpromising benefits and underdelivering on profitability to make payments, we have the USPS which is very overextended. The key news here is that there is a default of almost $7 Billion in payments. Who is going to be on the hook? The...
by michael.m | Jun 10, 2017 | Economics and Finance, Ideas, Michael's Articles
Uber and Lyft have continued to disrupt patterns in the transportation grid, primarily in the cab business. I can speak from personal experience on a trip to Miami. Cab driver = rude, dangerous, expensive. Uber driver=courteous, inexpensive, clean, safe. I was...
by michael.m | Jun 3, 2017 | Economics and Finance, Ideas, Michael's Articles
In the last week, headlines have captured a number of economic disruptions in the government and infrastructure fabric that will bring dire cicumstances in the near future: Puerto Rico – the bombshell of incompetence and mismanagement. Puerto Rico owes a ton...
by michael.m | May 11, 2017 | Economics and Finance, Ideas
I am fascinated by economics because this field is based upon math, markets and human behavior. Humans seems to be the most unpredictable variable in economics. The stock market – if reduced to charts like Japanese Candlesticks – explain how humans will...
