Money

Amkor(Nov 23)  USA: Peoria, Ariz.  $2B  Advanced packaging, test  Secured about 55 acres of land; clean room to be over 500,000 sq-ft; first client is Apple  Air Liquide(July 23)  Taiwan & South Korea  Almost $200M  Advanced materials   Expected to start … Read more

By the time a dormant penny stock company known as Applied Sciences managed to wrangle a listing on the Nasdaq in April 2022, it had reinvented itself as a cloud hosting service for bitcoin miners and changed its name to … Read more

Pricing Money This is the whole of the book Pricing Money; PDFs being available in both A4 and US Letter = 8½″×11″ (though some green boxes in the HTML are not yet in the PDFs). But these are not quite free: there … Read more

From January to September 2022, permit fees for The Wave amounted to $958,020. Of this amount, Recreation.gov made $876,582. The park? $81,438. To protect the sensitive landscape around The Wave, the Bureau of Land Management set up a lottery to … Read more

Continuing from our discussion of Know Your Customer (KYC) regulations, we have the closely related duty of financial institutions to have anti-money laundering (AML) policies. Much like KYC, I think there is more nuance here than broadly appreciated. But before … Read more

I lost $209,640 of my own money trying to start a business. Writing about failure sucks. But here’s the real story: Context: Me and my wife started a marketplace for last-minute tours and activities. Think of it as Hotel Tonight … Read more

If you’re at all familiar with the ongoing DCG/Genesis/Gemini saga, you may have heard yet another “G” company and its related acronym: Grayscale Investments and GBTC. What is GBTC? How does it work? Why is it so central to the … Read more