Walgreens Poaches Starbucks Executive Rosalind Brewer for CEO Starbucks said Tuesday that Ms. Brewer, its chief operating officer and group president, was leaving both the company and board of Starbucks at the end of February for a new role at another public company. Before joining the coffeehouse chain, Ms. Brewer was CEO of Walmart Inc.’s Sam’s Club division…
Crowdsourced Pump and Dump
Listen to this post here: This week, I witnessed the craziest thing I’ve ever seen in the stock market. A merry band of traders, congregating on the popular internet message board, Reddit, successfully pulled off a massive short squeeze on shares of retailer GameStop (GME). That sentence was a mouthful. Let me try to explain….
This Week in Women
Queen’s Gambit, Female-led SPAC, Raises $300 Million The company is led by Chief Executive Officer Victoria Grace. She is a founding partner of Colle Capital Partners, which gets its name from another opening move in Chess. Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff Breaks Gender Barrier by Quitting Job to Support the Vice President Emhoff, a 56-year-old entertainment lawyer at international…
How to Make Millions in Bitcoin
While scrolling through social media the other night, I came upon this doozy of a headline from the New York Times: Lost Passwords Lock Millionaires Out of Their Bitcoin Fortunes Of course I click to read the article, and it’s even more horrifying that I imagined. Stefan Thomas, a programmer in San Francisco, owns…
This Week in Women
This was a difficult week to be an American. Watching a mob scale the walls of the Capitol building, break windows, vandalize, and trash the greatest symbol of our democracy was painful. The tragedy that lives were lost makes these actions inexcusable. That our own President fanned the flames is unthinkable. But our Congressional leaders…
This Week in Women
Women Take the Lead in Vaccine Development The core work behind the mRNA approach comes from Katalin Karikó, a Hungarian-born émigré who came to the U.S. to work on RNA-related issues. Her career had its fits and starts, including problems with raising research money and a bout with cancer, but she persisted. Argentina Legalizes Abortion, a Milestone in…
Best of The Belle Curve in 2020
Happy New Year! Thank you so much for following and reading the Belle Curve this past year. I am always humbled when someone tells me they read a post and what it meant to them. Like many of you, I look forward to a brighter 2021, but I honestly have no justification to complain about…
Lock It In
I might take a lot of heat for writing this, but I’m going to write it anyway. If you’ve made life changing money in one or more of the high flying stocks this year, it’s time to lock in some gains. When I read about investors making millions on Tesla in the Wall Street Journal,…
This Week in Women
Congress Approves New Museums Honoring Women and Latinos Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, was one of three senators who introduced a bill to create it in 2003, but it was not until 2014 that a congressional commission recommended building an American Museum of Women’s History at a prominent location in Washington. How Covid-19 Exacerbated Finance’s Gender Gap…
Squad Goals
Prospective clients always ask me, “What sets your firm apart from other wealth managers?”. My answer is simple, the people. One of my favorite things about working at RWM is being part of a team of elite financial advisors. These are the rock stars behind the scenes. The ones you don’t see as often on…
