A million seconds are close to 12 days, a billion seconds amount to almost 32 years. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Tesla founder Elon Musk has accumulated a net worth of some $238 billion. If the 50-year old started spending a dollar e…
Just something lighthearted to help quell the bear agony:
The list of the world’s most valuable companies is famously dominated by North America, with Apple currently sitting at the top of this prestigious pile. In the infographic below, we pit Apple against the rest of the world to see how each continent’s b…
According to estimates by the trade association American Gaming Association (AMA), the upcoming Super Bowl will invite about 18.2 million U.S. Americans to place a bet on the matchup between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Los Angeles Rams via retail sp…
I was going through some old posts on the site, and I stumbled upon this one from eight years ago, in which I, accompanied by mirthful Slopers, laughed at this tiny house being sold for $2 million.
In October 2021, the WHO’s Independent Allocation of Vaccines Group (IAVG) outlined its Strategy to Achieve Global COVID-19 Vaccination by Mid-2022. In it, the group called for an internationally coordinated vaccine rollout to reach the following objec…
Pfizer reported its fourth-quarter and full-year results on Tuesday, beating profit estimates and falling just short of consensus revenue expectations. The U.S. pharmaceutical giant reported $21.98 billion in net profit on revenue of $81.29 billion for…
From the Department of Deja Vu, I give you this. As I look at this in my old age, I say, “Haven’t I seen this somewhere before?”
So the cucaracha has come out of the many cracks in the market over the past 5 days, leaving his dark and dirty lair …
I’ve mentioned in recent weeks my uneasiness with the surge in paid subscriptions, since I’ve seen this movie before – – – if the market sells off really hard, THEN people show up wanting bear ideas, often when the sel…