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Slidell contractor with ties to First NBC founder Ashton Ryan charged with conspiring to defraud bank BY RICHARD THOMPSON | rthompson@theadvocate.com May 15, 2018 - 1:52 pm First NBC Bank failed in April, resulting in a $1 billion cleanup making it the costliest failure of an American bank...

“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” - Wayne Dyer

ETF flows show tech is back in vogue Even after regulatory and demand concerns cast a shadow over the industry, the S&P 500 Information Technology Index remains the best performer of 2018, gaining more than 10%. Last week, Facebook Inc. shares surged past their price before the Cambridge...

Whole Foods Amazon, which bought Whole Foods last year, is giving its Prime members more deals and discounts at the grocery chain. Prime members will get an extra 10% off items that are on sale. Whole Foods is discounting more items as it tries to shake off its pricy reputation, and with Amazon...

Soros and Tesla Soros Fund Management has become a major backer of Tesla, buying $35 million worth of its bonds. Tesla is hemorrhaging money and leans heavily on bond offerings right now. George Soros's fund, which recently dumped all its Amazon stock, has also sold its small stake in Twitter...

Soros and Tesla Soros Fund Management has become a major backer of Tesla, buying $35 million worth of its bonds. Tesla is hemorrhaging money and leans heavily on bond offerings right now. George Soros's fund, which recently dumped all its Amazon stock, has also sold its small stake in Twitter...

"Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself." - Marcus Aurelius

UPS finishes one of its largest infrastructure investments outside U.S. United Parcel Service Inc. has built a 105,000-square-foot package sorting and delivery facility about 25 miles from London. (Business Journals)

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“I like to think of ideas as potential energy. They’re really wonderful, but nothing will happen until we risk putting them in action.” - Mae Jemison

Soros Exits Hungary Viktor Orban's relentless campaign against George Soros's pro-democracy foundation has finally prevailed. After the Hungarian government announced a "Stop Soros" bill designed to clamp down on non-governmental organizations, the Open Society Foundations (OSF) said it was...

Google Resignations A dozen Google employees have reportedly resigned in protest over the company's decision to provide AI technology to the Pentagon, to help it identify images of people and objects from drone footage. "Over the last couple of months, I've been less and less impressed with the...

Gap Gaffe Gap has annoyed people in China by selling a T-shirt (in Canada) that portrays China without Tibet, Taiwan and the South China Sea islands to which Beijing lays claims. After photos of the offending T-shirt went viral, Gap apologized, saying it "respects China's sovereignty and...

After the Bell: Dow Gains 68 Points, But Is That a Warning Sign I See? By Ben Levisohn May 14, 2018 5:56 p.m. ET The Dow Jones industrial and the other major indexes managed to hold onto their gains today. In today'sAfter the Bell, we... ILLUSTRATION:BLOOMBERG NEWS •...explain why the market...

"Inflation is a modern way that governments default on their debt." - Mike Epstein ( MTA, MIT Sloan Lab for Financial Engineering)

"There is a lot of talk about self esteem these days. It seems pretty basic to me. if you want to feel good about yourself, you've got to do things that you can be proud of." - Oseola McCarty ( Simple Wisdom for Rich Living 1908-1999)

"Whoso would be a man, must be a non conformist. Nothing is at lats sacred but the integrity of your own mind." - Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 1803-1882)

“We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” - Joseph Campbell