Health care in the US is a cruel joke. Among the developed countries, the health care “system” is the worst in the world in terms of pretty much everything from spending to outcomes. One can easily write a voluminous book on the reasons for this disaster that all of us have to deal with. Too …
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Tourism is an important industry in many countries of the world. The industry accounts for billions of dollars in economic activity and millions of jobs around the world. In some of the small countries such as those in the Caribbean, tourism is the main industry that the country’s economy depends on. Below are some of …
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Data is being created at an astonishing rate today.From Youtube to Twitter to everything in between, billions of people around the world are creating content every day. The dramatic growth in social media in recent years has led to the creation of even more data, For example, millions of videos are uploaded onto Youtube, Facebook, …
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Extreme financial hardship brought dramatic changes in the past to Germany and the US according to an article by Niels Clemen Jensen at ARP Investments. In Germany, hyperinflation in 1923 and the following Depression brought Hitler to power and led to the rise of Nazism. The Great Depression in the 1930s led to the dumping of …
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The Periodic Table of Commodity Returns with 2019 data has recently been published by U.S. Global Investors. Palladium was the top performing commodity last year with a return of over 54% followed by crude oil. Click to enlarge Source: U.S. Global Investors