It’s a happy Friday Five this week as we look at President Joe Biden’s inauguration. It’s a new day in America and here are our five inauguration winners.
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In all the drama of the presidential election, there were a number of noteworthy ballot initiatives in states across the US. From a few states legalizing marijuana to Oregon legalizing all drugs, here are our top five.
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This week our Friday Five is dedicated to who else but Kamala Harris. The putative Democratic Vice Presidential nominee is fascinating in so many ways.
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This week’s Friday Five focuses on the use of social media as a tool to voice dissent. Curated by Amplia Group Co-Founder, Darren Katz.
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As part of the youngest cohort of Baby Boomers, I accept that we have completely screwed the world. I’m talking, of course, about what is euphemistically called climate change. That phrase is probably part of the problem. It sounds like what happens when you fly from Chicago to the Caribbean. For that you can probably thank Frank Luntz, the famous Republican message guru, who correctly asserted that “climate change” was a much more user-friendly sounding disaster than “global warming.”
A blog post by Darren Katz, Founding Partner Amplia Group
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Perhaps more than any other president in history, Donald Trump has hitched his wagon to the stock market. As astute followers of the market know, the president has very little impact on the ebbs and flows of the market. In fact, the chair of the Federal Reserve probably has more influence by an order of magnitude. Perhaps its not a coincidence that the recent market tumble coincided with the changing of the Federal Reserve chair.
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