by Ken Chase | Jan 8, 2023 | Banks, News
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes By: Ken Chase The state of Kentucky officially put eleven financial firms on notice this week, vowing to act if those banks engage in boycotts of fossil fuel energy companies. According to Kentucky State Treasurer Allison Ball, the...
by Ken Chase | Jan 8, 2023 | Banks, News
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes By: Ken Chase It seems like only yesterday that the U.S. banking industry was reeling from the aftermath of a financial crisis that saw them receive billions of dollars in bailout funds to prevent an industry-wide collapse. Now, more...
by Ken Chase | Jan 3, 2023 | Banks, News
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes By: Ken Chase Tens of millions of American workers receive income as independent contractors or via gig work as part of the growing gig economy—a segment of the U.S. economy that now includes roughly a third of all workers. In recent...
by Ken Chase | Jan 2, 2023 | Banks, News
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes By: Ken Chase Earlier this month, Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon told Bloomberg that he saw “bumpy times ahead” that would lead to cuts in the bank’s workforce. In this week’s annual year-end memo to the bank’s staff, Solomon went...
by Ken Chase | Dec 29, 2022 | News
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes By: Ken Chase The world’s ongoing fight against stubbornly high inflation is likely to result in a global recession, according to economic forecasters from the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR). The British consultancy...