Remove business stock-markets
article thumbnail

What Gets You Down?

A Splintered Mind

In the meantime, I’m watching the crypto market implode…again. I decided to get into crypto last Spring—two days before China cracked down on Bitcoin miners and the Chinese banks that did business with them. China’s crackdown caused the market to crash. He lost his business. I had only invested $10.

article thumbnail

The Effect of Covid-19 on Homelessness

Famcare

The pandemic has forced businesses to close, disrupted global supply chains, and caused global stock markets to plummet. Countries are taking drastic measures to try to control the virus's spread and subsequent variants. Millions of people have died as a result of the virus, and many more have been infected.

52
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How investing teaches social service strategy

Save the Social Worker

Yes, I invest in stock markets. I want to share my stock portfolio so you see that I have significant ‘skin in the game’. This is not to say that you should buy these stocks. In his framework of how companies move from Good to Great, business philosopher Jim Collins shares, First who, then what. Manage your boss.

article thumbnail

20 Success Stories: Mental Health, Family Reunification, Foster Care and Adoption Support Transform Lives

KVC

I’ve run a successful business for over 20 years, married an incredible woman, raised two great kids and am able to support different charities. Foster Parent Shares Her Fostering and Adopting Journey – Kelsey Stock, KVC Kansas Foster Parent. Submitted by Charles Robertson, KVC supporter.

article thumbnail

My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

Beautiful Voyager

I think it was just too much stimulation: a crowded parking lot and store, negotiating a large unwieldy shopping cart between other shoppers and employees stocking shelves. I kept leaving and then coming back to items, all the time fighting carts, kids and shoppers going about their business. I decided that would be my start.

article thumbnail

Are the Chickens Coming Home to Roost?

Beyond Advocacy

Stock market watchers such as British investor Jeremy Grantham believes bubbles created by the longest bull market in history, interrupted briefly in 2020 by the Covid-19 pandemic, are about to burst. At the start of the record bull market in 2009, the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet was just shy of $900 billion.