The Great Lakes that border between the U.S. and Canada, are one of the largest freshwater reserves on the earth constituting about twenty percent of the entire world’s supply. This irreplaceable ecosystem holds as much as six quadrillion gallons of freshwater for the northern portion of the Western Hemisphere. They were created by advancing and […]
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Long term government bond prices have been on a slide since the beginning of 2021. As the economy improved and the S&P 500 continued to rise, it seemed logical that money would move away from the safety of bonds into risk assets such as stocks. This has a tendency to point to the ten-year Treasury
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The U.S. nuclear deterrent for several decades has been a three-pointed spear—land-based Minuteman Missiles in hardened silos, Trident II missiles on board Ohio class submarines, and a wide range of bombs dropped from long range bombers, such as the Boeing B-52 or the Northrup Grumman B-2. Cruise missiles launched from either ships or aircraft can
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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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