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Business Bytes
First Wednesdays 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Join Mish Schneider, Chief Market Strategist at MarketGauge.com, and Jim Werbel, Retired Professor of Management, the first Wednesday of each month at 6 PM as they unpack the top local, national and global business stories and trends impacting you. Mish and Jim share their skills as educators and humanitarians to bring Wall Street to Main Street.

email: mschneider@ksfr.org

  • In this production of Business Bytes, Mish and Jim discuss the sources for the growing demand of electricity, and how can we transition from fossil fuels to sustainable energy. We discuss, the need to reduce energy consumption, as well as the choices Public Utilities face in creating low cost energy, reliable energy to meet peak demands, and sustainable energy sources. We discuss the array of options and interview Ms. Williams who is responsible for Integrated Planning with PNM and their efforts to reduce green house gasses with low cost energy production.
  • Mish and Jim talk with Ian Aarons about owning Endo, a dispensary in New Mexico. How does one compete in a competitive market and what could be done to help grow our cannabis businesses in the state
  • Mish and Jim interview Todd Stevens with the New Mexico Cannabis Control Division about the Canabis Business in the State of New Mexico.
  • Mish and Jim talk about bitcoin. We discuss how bitcoin is traded like any currency with rules of supply and demand. We explain how bitcoin was created and how it operates independently of country governance. This means the ability to expand the supply of the currency is very limited. We talk about the risks of trading bitcoin. Finally we discuss why one might be interested in purchasing bitcoin.