Personally, I don’t believe in reparations as a solution. Handouts are not how wealth is created. That said, I do understand some of the arguments for and against reparations. Reparations, by definition, involve making amends for a wrong by providing payment or other forms of assistance to those who were harmed. Notice the emphasis on […]
Guest post by Adedamola Kolawole Late to the party, but when did I ever care for pressure? When T handed me a copy of this book, The Art of Argument, I was flattered and elated. Flattered because he told me I was the very first person to own it, and also because I could tell that […]
The year was 2018. Tesla was valued at about $59 billion. Elon Musk agreed with Tesla to propose to shareholders a series of increasingly difficult financial milestones which would ultimately boost the car company’s value to at least $650 billion. Alongside this goal were a dozen revenue and adjusted profit targets. In return, Musk would […]
Yesterday, I finished reading “For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug” by Nathan Vardi, published in 2023. Vardi, a seasoned financial journalist and former senior editor at Forbes, has spent decades covering the intersection of big money and biopharma. Most of us take medications without considering their origins or […]
Another year, another set of books read. In a way, this has been a strange year. I probably read the most I have ever read in any year this year but it’s also the year I read the least books. How? Good question. It’s because I wrote tons of articles — both personal and ghost […]
In 1987, Michael Jackson embarked on his inaugural solo concert tour named “Bad.” This world tour comprised 123 shows, commencing on September 12, 1987, in Japan, and culminating on January 27, 1989, in the United States. It raked in an impressive $125 million, securing its place as the second highest-grossing tour of the 1980s. The […]