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Leveraging college majors into real job

A hundred years ago when I went to college, I told my father I was majoring in accounting.  He told me that he hoped I liked “shoe stores”.  The only other person whom he knew that ever majored in accounting worked as a manager of a shoe store. Apparently, he knew no...

Biden’s scary tax proposal

While at this writing the Biden tax proposal hasn’t been voted on but has been described to include very scary items. First off this is supposed to only “tax” the uber wealthy.  But the tax code itself was to do the same thing in the beginning. Tax a very small...

Who are the world’s movie theater giant today?

I was surprised when I investigated who were the movie monster screen chain in the world.  I expected most to be in China owned and operated, based purely on population. But number one is AMC with 11,041 screens, started in Kansas City Number two is Cineworld, based...

Moviegoers

In a recent Gallup poll, they tracked U.S. adults’ movie attendance using this question periodically between 1988 and 1995 and then more regularly from 2001 through 2007. The latest reading is from a Dec. 1-16 Gallup poll, the first since 2007, and it shows a...

Who owns AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc.

I was talking to a client the other day about movies and they were somewhat resentful that the AMC theaters were mostly China owned.  I thought he was wrong put didn’t say anything.  I thought I had read something different but didn’t remember the details. China’s...

Biggest wealth increase in Congress, 2008-2018

Not all politicians come into office wealthy – but many leave that way. Here are the top 10 winners of the past decade. No one ever said Congress was not the place to grow your wealth       Name Growth Percentage Avg. Wealth 2008 Avg. Wealth 2018  Grace...

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