Author of From Burning to Blueprint: Rebuilding Black Wall Street After a Century of Silence. Bylines at @businessinsider, @FortuneMagazine #HamptonU
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Today, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the nation’s 16th largest bank, COLLAPSED. Here is a rundown of what happened in plain English. 🧵
I've been quietly sitting on shares of $ORLY for a mightly long time lol😭
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Who do you blame most for inflation? ⬇️📈
11%Trump
13%Biden
19%The Fed
57%Corporations
70 votes • Final results
Kevin L. Matthews II, M.S. retweeted
If you believe no one needs permanent life insurance, you don’t understand personal finance
If you believe everyone needs permanent life insurance, you don’t understand personal finance
We have to find a way to outlaw airlines forcing you to pay for a seat after you have already paid for a damn ticket.
If that wasn't already apparent, WTF were you paying for then?
🚨BREAKING: ConocoPhillips to Acquire Marathon Oil in $22.5 Billion Deal according to Bloomberg
🚨BREAKING: T-Mobile to buy US Cellular's wireless operations in deal valued at $4.4 billion…I totally forgot U.S. Cellular existed.
One of the most popular arguments against it was:
Why should the waiter in Iowa who didn’t go to college pay for the loans of some grad in New York?
Why should taxpayers who didn’t go to college foot the bill?
Whether it is student loans, DEI, diversity scholarships and programs, affirmative action, even Civil War history, if it stand to benefit African Americans, there is going to be a fight.
That concludes today's lesson.