The S&P 500 is up by about 13% YTD. Greece has become one of the best performing markets this year with Athens Stock Exchange General Index soaring nearly 36%. Over 32 people are dead in mass shootings in 2 days this month. Instead of focusing on important things, we have already moved on to buying Greenland. …
The World’s Top Energy Producing Countries in coal, oil, gas, nuclear and hydro are shown in the chart below. China is the world’s top producer and consumer of coal. France is one of the top producers of electricity from nuclear power. Together with the U.S., just these two countries account for about half of the …
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The following inflation-adjusted chart shows the S&P 500 bull and bear markets from 1871 thru July, 2019. The US market as represented by the S&P 500 is in a secular bull market about 60% vs. about 40% in the bear market. Currently we are in a secular bull market which started in Mar-Apr 2009 at …
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The chart below shows the top 15 drugs by revenue in 2018. Abbvie’s (ABBV) Humira was the top selling drug with total sales of over $18 billion. Click to enlarge Source: Gen Eng News Earlier: The Top 20 Best Selling Drugs in 2018: Chart Disclosure: No Positions
The American middle is going deeper into debt to maintain their middle class lifestyle, according to an article in the journal earlier this month. The article discusses a few sample families that are struggling to stay in the middle class. One of the main reasons for the current state of the working class is that …
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