Introduction to Investments -- Spring 2026

BUS-123 - Introduction to Investments -- Spring 2026
Section	Syllabus	Days	Times	Room
BUS-123-01	Syllabus Class Website Free-to-Read Text Book! Zero Textbook Cost!	Online	Online	Online
Presentations, Handouts, Answer Keys, Assignments, Lectures, Textbook info, etc.

Instructor Availability

Instructor Availability	Spring 2026 Office Availability
Chula Vista Campus Office: 25-115 Make an appointment!	At least six office hours throughout the semester, typically Thursday evenings from 7:00 to 7:55 pm Via Zoom Room Virtual Office Hour or by phone. Please contact me and we can make an appointment that fits your schedule.   See BUS-123 website for full schedule. To attend the Zoom Room Virtual Office, visit: Zoom via PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android   URL: https://wonderprofessor.com/zoom     Or call: +1-408-638-0968 or +1-646-558-8656 (US Toll)     Meeting ID: 212 931 852 Please Contact Me!
E-mail: fpaiano@swccd.edu
Office Phone: 619-421-6700 x 5692   Email is better. Can't pick up my voice messages!
Message Phone: 619-223-5264   Email is better.

Pray for the United States - Slavi Ukraini! I will never understand how the Republicans can attack, attack, attack the Democrats but then conveniently forget what they said it reflects badly upon them. How do they get away with this? Sleepy Don "Russia fought for that land in Ukraine and lost a lot of soldiers doing it, so Russia should keep it." -- Donald Trump, conveniently forgetting that Russia invaded Ukraine after Russia agreed in the early 1990's to respect Ukraine's sovereignty in return for Ukraine surrendering their nuclear weapons. In addition, the United States offered security guarantees to Ukraine. "I was electrocuted, beaten, stabbed in the leg and starved after being captured while defending my home and family in Mariupol. We held back the Putin invasion for several weeks while Russia slaughtered over 25,000 predominantly Russian speaking Ukrainians including women and children. TRUMP IS MAD OR OWNED." -- Shaun Pinner, Soldier in Ukraine "Trump is surrendering America. Trump is the opposite of strong. He is a tiny, weak, small, scared, trembling, sissy, husk of a man. There is nothing manly about his fat, sweaty, smelly, gross, makeup'ed self. An absolute joke." -- Adam Kinzinger, former Republican Congressman "Donald Trump is everything you teach your children not to be. He's cruel, ignorant, and lawless. He's a bully, a coward, a cheat, an extreme narcisist, and a pathological liar. You'd never work with him. You'd never work for him. You'd never want any woman you cared about involved with him. He's a horrible human being. Shame on us for electing him again." -- former Republican Congressman Joe Walsh In Trump's America, an autism awareness tattoo can land you in a hellish prison in El Salvador, but a white nationalist tattoo can get you the title of Secretary of Defense. "The President of the United States is at war with the Constitution and the rule of law." -- Retired Conservative Federal Judge J. Michael Luttig "The fact that Trump's propaganda is so effective is especially sad, because the nation that once stood up to bullies like Hitler, Castro, and Krushchev is now falling into goose-step behind a home-grown bully who seems afraid of everything that isn't part of his entitled life, who responds to his irrational fears the way a child does." -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar "You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic". -- Robert A. Heinlein

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 an Online Readiness Assessment Quiz Great resources for first-time online students 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%."

Nothing is perfect. That includes capitalism. In fact, capitalism might just be the worst economic system ever created ... except for all the others. However, lately something has changed in the world of capitalism and not for the best. I used to be so proud of how many billionaires that the United States had minted. Now we see that some of those billionaires have been using their power to corrupt our political system. If we don't want the United States to wind up as a kleptocracy like Russia, we have to curtail the power of money in our world of politics. Wish us luck! Wealth and Income Distribution in the United States Another Wealth Distribution in the United States video 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 A Texas Representative rages about the racist gerrymandering

Pale Blue Dot 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! 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

"Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit." -- Aristotle "Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants." -- Epictetus "Nothing so undermines your financial judgement as the sight of your neighbor getting rich." -- J. P. Morgan "By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and Third by experience, which is the bitterest" -- Confucius

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