Ferdinand Magellan is generally credited as the first person to ever circumnavigate the globe, from 1519 – 1522. He left Seville, Spain, with five ships and about 270 crewmen. However, he never returned, being killed about half way through on a beach in what is now known as the Philippines. Only one of the five […]
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What is a SPAC? That would be a special purpose acquisition company. A SPAC is essentially a fund working to take a firm public via a merger. About 250 SPACS were created in the U.S. in 2020 raising about $83 billion. An average of five per working day are being created this year. A SPAC
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The series of fierce winter storms that froze most of the nation the week of February 15th hit unprepared Texas extremely hard showing a major weakness in its electrical grid. The storms hit many states, and some others had electrical shortages, but only Texas found itself with a near catastrophic grid collapse. How did this
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When you first start to take trading in the stock markets seriously, your goal naturally would seem to be to buy low and then sell high. That way you would always make money with every trade. Sounds like a great strategy until you try to put it in place. Timing the market is very difficult.
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The battle to contain Covid-19 has impacted most economies by putting a lid on the amount of economic activity that can transpire, which in turn spawns economic output declines, followed by recessions. The nature of the pandemic inhibits retailing the most, and particularly services such as hair salons, health spas, movie theaters, lodging, food, and
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Value investing is defined as an investment opportunity having a low price relative to recent profits and/or future profit potential, or relative to the book value of the assets of the target investment. This approach dates back to the 1930’s, and has been more recently popularized by Warren Buffett. However, owing to the nature of
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The Trojan War has been the subject of substantial scrutiny over the many centuries since it took place during the Bronze Age. Scholars have generally dismissed the accounts provided by Homer in the Iliad and the Odyssey as largely fiction, but some support for the existence of the event has arisen since the 1870’s when
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Much is known about marketing to the millennial generation with their attachment to their cell phones, their pastime with computer games, and their social habits. This has helped to create the enormous cell phone industry with all it’s various communications methods and applications. But what does all this mean to millennials when it comes to
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Like any other innovation, for Green technology to succeed in our society copious amounts of venture capital would be required. In many respects Green technology is still unproven and not ready for major influxes of capital. For many investors the long wait until returns are achieved provides a huge barrier to entry. Nonetheless, in 2019
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The world’s oceans are beleaguered by fishing, mining, drilling for oil, and other man-driven activities. Only seven percent of the world’s oceans have any type of protection from these activities or from the dumping of trash and waste. Only about one third of that protected ocean has a high enough level of protection for marine
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