Frank Paiano Professor Emeritus (Fancy way of saying I retired from full-time teaching) School of Business and Technology Southwestern Community College Chula Vista, California Aye, Paquito! Spring 2021 Started February 1st! Quick Links:  BUS-123, Introduction to Investments, Spring 2021  SWC Investment Club, Spring 2021  Must Watch! A True Patriot! Archive:  BUS-121, Financial Planning & Money Management, Fall 2020  BUS-123, Introduction to Investments, Spring 2020  SWC Online Student Support Services  SWC Student Services and Campus Resources  Very Cool! Lectures are available on class websites (links above), iTunes, YouTube, and 3cMediaSolutions Please see links on class website for presentations on YouTube, iTunes, and 3cMediaSolutions. YouTube has closed-captioning but it is not very good. 3cMediaSolutions has excellent, ADA-compliant closed-captioning. NutritionFacts.org  Check it out! Dr. Greger teaches you "How Not to Die" Visitors, please feel free to peruse presentations, listen to lectures, view handouts, e-mail questions, etc.

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Introduction to Investments -- Spring 2021

BUS-123 - Introduction to Investments - Spring 2021
Section	Code	Syllabus	Days	Times	Room
BUS-123-01	625366	Syllabus  Please listen to Lecture 1, February 1st, on Class Web Site for syllabus commentary.   (Or listen to online syllabus commentary below. They are essentially the same.) Class Website Your Humble Professor Introduces Himself Your Humble Professor Introduces Himself (CC) Text Book Information	Tuesday and Thursday mornings	8:35 am to 10:00 am	Remote via Zoom
BUS-123-502	625368	Syllabus Syllabus Commentary Class Website Your Humble Professor Introduces Himself Your Humble Professor Introduces Himself (CC) Text Book Information	Online Class	Online Class	Online Class
Presentations, Handouts, Assignments, Audio Lectures Downloads, Textbook info, etc.

Instructor Availability

Instructor Availability	Spring 2021 Office Availability
Chula Vista Campus Office: 18A-112, formerly 210H	Thursday Nights 7:00 to 7:55 pm Online (Via Zoom Room Virtual Office Hour or by phone or at a determined location)   See BUS-123, Introduction to Investments, for Spring 2021 for office hour schedule Or make an appointment at the office or in the Zoom Room Virtual Office   To attend the Zoom Room Virtual Office, visit: Zoom via PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android   URL: https://swccd-edu.zoom.us/j/212931852     Or call: +1-408-638-0968 or +1-646-558-8656 (US Toll)     Meeting ID: 212 931 852 Please Contact Me! You are invited to our BUS-123, Introdution to Investments, live Zoom sessions on Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 8:35 to 10 am, Pacific time
E-mail: fpaiano@swccd.edu
Office Phone: 619-421-6700 x 5692   Email is better.
Message Phone: 619-223-5264   E-mail is better.

Resources for Online Students

Southwestern Online Learning Support Southwestern Student Services and Support California Online Education Initiative Student Success Resources California Online Education Initiative Readiness Resources What it takes to be a successful online student  Watch this video! I mean it! It will help! Really! Don't blow it off! Are You Ready for Online?  Take the Online Readiness Assessment Quiz Canvas Online Tour for Students Jaguar Justice  Legal resources at Southwestern College Even more student services links from the Student Services Folks in Admissions - Fall 2020 Stay Enrolled!  Don't Give Up! Never Give Up! The Industry Needs You! Financial Services Industry Knows It Needs More Women and Minorities Careers in the Financial and Investments Services Industries  Yours Truly interviews Jack Schweitzer, December 2020 The Advice of Yours Truly is Sometimes Sought After  (Hard to believe, huh?) Expert Advice: Understanding Full Coverage Car Insurance  You have to scroll down to get to the part where they ask me about full coverage. Expert Advice on Comparing Car Insurance Quotes & Rates  Ditto. Scroll down until you see my smiling face, Free Software Open Office -- Free office software Libre Office -- More free office software Google Docs -- Even more free office software Free Presentation Viewer Worried about how much Google and Facebook know about you? How to download your Google data and what you will find  And how to delete it! Here's how to download and delete your Facebook data

"I pledge allegiance to the Corporations of the Citizens United of America and to the Billionaires, for whom they benefit, one nation, under SuperPACs, economically divided, with liberty and justice for the 0.1%."

Wealth and Income Distribution in the United States Pale Blue Dot Do you have $2,385,036? No? Then you are not in the wealthiest 1%.  Scroll down for a very good video. "There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning." -- Warren Buffett, CEO, Berkshire Hathaway 35 Years of Income Distribution in the USA -- 1985 to 2014 Goal setting lesson from Nestor  14-year-old creates a goal and accomplishes it 10 years later. Update: Community steps forward Through a Tijuana Turnstile and Into Tacos and Tortas Food! There are so many fabulous places to eat in TJ. Check 'em out! A Republican Guide for Handling Mass School Shootings Don't Panic! Sage Advise for When the Market Crashes ... on a 3 x 5 card Lunch Atop a Skyscraper  The iconic photograph that you can never forget Watch two crazy liberals debate immigration policy  Ronald Reagan and George Bush, the Elder New York Daily News re: Very Ugly Sick Man CNN's Fahreed Zakaria re: Very Ugly Sick Man The Madness of King Putin Ignorance is Strength Ugly Sick Man Loves Putin -- Putin Loves Ugly Sick Man Ugly Sick Man rewrites the poem at the base of the Statue of Liberty Same arguments as during Fascism in the 1930's and 1940's. Ugly Sick Man is delivering exactly what they wanted -- white male supremacy Ugly Sick Lies, Lies, Lies Averaging 15 lies per day in 2018 Yes, as a matter of fact, Fox News Viewers do live on a different planet Ugly Sick Man is a Scandal-Ridden Scoundrel The Law is Coming, Ugly Sick Man Ah, Yes, Collusion is a crime But it is not called collusion. It is actually called conspiracy. (Scroll down for video.) David McWilliams Videos: Punk Economics - David's Website Lessons from the 2008/2009 banking crisis How to spot a financial crisis before it spots you From North Korea, With Dread Number of deaths in World War 2 by country In the first days of World War 3, this number will be five to ten times higher Awesome Political Ad for Woman Running for Congress in Texas She only lost by 3% which is amazing for Texas, the Lone Star Hate

"Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit." -- Aristotle

Be Not Afraid! We Did It! He Will Be Gone Soon! Yes, he is a proven racist and misogynist. Yes, he has stoked hatred of and encouraged violence against people of color, women, immigrants, and the disabled. Yes, a large number but not a majority of voters were afflicted with the horrible diseases of anger, fear, and ignorance. Yes, he has violated every code of ethics and professional behavior from every honorable organization in the last 100 years. Yes, he has his supporters enacting fascist rituals that are directly out of The Lord of the Flies. Yes, he believes that an example of a good leader is Vladimir Putin, a man who secretly sends his troops into a foreign country and then calls them "volunteers" when they are caught or killed. Yes, he believes democracy is a tool to be used to his own ends, claiming fraud if he loses and claiming victory if he wins. Yet it is important to understand that this sick man only took advantage of deep divisions already present. His election is more a symptom than a cause. We will not be afraid. We stand against him. There is no doubt that some of his supporters will resort to violence. The KKK is celebrating victory. Anti-Semitism is running rampant. Attacks against minorities and immigrants are almost sure to follow. We will bear witness to the upcoming crimes against humanity and will we not back down. Jesus and Ghandi and Martin Luther King, Jr. will be by our side Do your part. Pledge to stand in solidarity against the monster's agenda of fascism, racism, sexism, xenophobia, and hatred. "The moral arc of the universe in long, but it bends toward justice." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. P.S. I spoke with two of my friends who are moderate Republicans. They both believe that the inflammatory rhetoric and fascist rituals will be replaced with what is essentially a typical center-right Republican adminstration and they downplay the fascism, racism, sexism, xenophobia and hatred and believe that it was all just to get elected. I pray that they are correct. However, we have seen in the past what has happened when certain segments of a society are demonized and de-humanized. Personally, I believe there are forces of hatred and xenophobia that have been irrevocably unleashed in the United States and it will be difficult to impossible to tame them until after much blood is shed. P.P.S. They were both wrong. BUT, here is hope for our future! Undividing America? The mother says she is a Born-Again Christian. Yet she voted for a monster who brags about grabbing pussies, separates children from their families and places them in cages, demonizes entire countries and religions, mocks the disabled, lies continually, and attacks war heros who were shot down by multiple surface-to-air missles and spent 5 years being tortured while he got a deferment from the Vietnam War because of supposed born spurs in his ankle, yet he was still able to play sports. What a fraud!

Fight Ignorance -- Read!

Good Deal for Students from Amazon Music from Trash  This is good. Scroll down and play the video. A Little Girl Gives Coins To A Street Musician And Gets The Best Surprise In Return A Girl in Mexico Attached Her Christmas List to a Balloon. A Man Across the Border Found It. Agribusiness Comes To Mexico  And the results ain't pretty. What is the world's population percentages of the three major races?

Ending Prohibition II  Uh, it's about time, dontcha' think? "We Couldn't Have Done Worse If We Tried"  Orange County Judge / Prosecuter says it is time to end the War on Drugs It's High Time to End Prohibition II What Science Says About Marijuana  Psst! It is far less dangerous than alcohol and tobacco Why Is Marijuana Illegal?  Can you say, "Racism?" Sure you can! The Injustice of Marijuana Arrests Did anyone say, "Racism?" Sure they did! An alternative view of the relationship of Mexico, the US, and the War on Drugs

Climate change? What climate change!?  Shhh. Don't show this to your Republican friends. Southern Florida is in big trouble  And their ex-governor, now senator, refused to allow state employees to say the words "climate change." And Greenland's glaciers and ice sheets are melting  Courtesy of Yale Climate Forum. Yale? Wasn't that where W went to college?

Scams Untold Riches Can Soon Be Yours!  Real estate scam

CFOs give their best personal finance advice in one minute and 12 seconds Excellent advice from an 84-year-old financial planner A Wall Street Money Manager Criticizes the Republicans Inferior People Should Not Be Allowed to Vote!

Benjamin Graham Financial Network - Buy When Stocks Are On Sale! - Commentary Mr. Bogle sticks it to the insurance companies  And Senator Hatch is not amused... An hour of TV takes 22 minutes from your life! The National Institute of Health's quick take on the study Remembrance of Sir John Templeton Quotes from some of the best investors of the last 100 years This is what buying low feels like -- A bit of humor What's that McRib made of, anyway?  Uh, maybe you do not want to know... The Standard Model of Physics is Given a Shot in the Arm by Cris Fitch  Here is the latest version of the paper that might change the world. The World According to Cris Fitch  Saved for posterity. Quite possibly a new understanding of sub-atomic particles.

Just for Laughs!

Canadian Screaming Severed Head (Yes, it is funny. Not scary.) This guy is crazy! FireFox or Chrome or IE? Guess the Web Browser! I don't ever want to drive in Russia ... Spurious Correlations   Per capital consumption of cheese and civil engineering Ph.D's!

In Loving Memory Of

Silvia Arechiga-Pearce

Administrative Secretary II
1960-2000

(Has she really been gone this long?)

We Miss You Very Much