When the China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, an up-and-coming economy soon became an economic powerhouse with dynamic 6-10% plus growth in GDP year after year. The Chinese stock markets became the market of choice for many foreign investors to take their money for great, and sometimes outsized, returns. For sundry reasons this […]
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On March 6, 1836, an abandoned mission near San Antonio de Bexar in the Mexican state of Tejas that was upgraded to a military fort, was overrun by Mexican Army forces, and the 185 Texian revolutionaries inside were all killed. The siege that lasted thirteen days, and notoriety of some of the revolutionaries helped to
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The football season in America has recently ended with Super Bowl LVIII that crowned the National Football League’s champion for the season that began in September. The championship game was exciting being won by the Kansas City Chiefs in overtime and viewed by perhaps as many as 120 million people worldwide. Although injuries do exist,
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Life insurance companies do not always make a profit from the insurance underwriting portion of the business. Most of the profit comes from investing the policyholders’ premiums and realizing the financial returns. In a way this amounts to a double-edged sword of risk taking—first in the underwriting of insurance policies, and secondly in the management
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