(Akiit.com) Lending money is not, as they say, rocket science. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, in the last quarter of 2021, of the total of all outstanding business loans from all commercial banks, 1.08% were delinquent. Per the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, as of ...
(Akiit.com) The news of Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter had many people wringing their hands in consternation of what this will mean for the social media platform. Count me among those concerned about how Musk could change the platform to allow hate speech, harassment, etc. to flourish on Twitter as ...
(Akiit.com) I don’t know about you, but I am sometimes confused about circumstances that dictate our compliance and action, and what those appropriate actions must/should be. COVID created that type of conundrum for me and millions of others. The 81 million U.S. COVID cases and the 990,000 American COVID-related deaths ...
(Akiit.com) New Twitter owner Elon Musk is vowing to reform the social media platform. “Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated,” Musk said in a statement after his $44 billion bid ...
(Akiit.com) America these last 14 months resembles a dystopia. It is becoming partly the world of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, and partly the poet Homer’s land of the Lotus-Eaters. Nothing seems to be working. And no one in control seems to care. The once secure border of 2020 vanished. Two-million ...
(Akiit.com) I begin by noting that the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJ) located in Fairfax County, Virginia, is a public institution that is funded by Virginia taxpayers. Those taxpayers include Black Virginians. TJ’s admissions requirements were based on scores made on the entrance exams. Asian students ...
(Akiit.com) I know, I know, I have lamented several times over the years about the abysmal service we get from the vaunted U.S. Postal Service. It seems that just about anyone I speak to has his or her own story about postal problems. And yes, I am in the midst ...
(Akiit.com) In March, inflation jumped 8.5%, the biggest spike since 1981. Economic growth is expected to slow. Voters are expected to be angry. Yesterday, press secretary Jen Psaki warned, “We expect March CPI (consumer price index) headline inflation to be extraordinarily elevated due to Putin’s price hike.” Today, her future ...
(Akiit.com) It is not uncommon to have an unexpected crisis or hardship become the catalyst that guides a person to new opportunities and success. Amid challenging times, the situation may no longer be tolerable or even available as an option, forcing a person to move on to what can potentially ...
(Akiit.com) In the beginning, the rich nerds who launched tech startups saw themselves as “disruptors.” They had power, swagger and money. But a funny thing happened on the way to their revolution: The tech startups became giants, and then the giants became enforcers of the status quo. The erstwhile disruptors ...
(Akiit.com) The criminal justice system in the United States is a labyrinth of laws and criminal charges. These criminal records have an impact on your life that can last for years, or even decades to come. A criminal record is a life-long stigma that can affect everything from your ability ...
(Akiit.com) Imagine a social media platform where people can say whatever the hell it is they want to say; where the only limitation is whether or not what you post is legal or illegal. It’s a pretty simple concept – threats, calls for violence, child pornography, etc., are banned, everything ...