I came across the below funny map of Europe according to Vladimir Putin in 2014 by author Yanko Tsvetkov of Atlas Prejudice. In a blog post, he wrote about how humor has morphed into horror in 2022. Putin’s view of Ukraine at that time is also shocking as the author has marked it as “EuroFascists”. The same …
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Growth stocks are getting hammered this year for good reason. In a rising interest rate environment growth stocks perform poorly relative to value stocks. When rates increase investors are reluctant to pay premiums for companies whose profits are projected in the future. Companies with no earnings but great ideas or projections fare even worse. Many …
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Many emerging markets have held up well so far this year relative to their developed world peers. These markets are performing well for many reasons including rising commodity prices. Countries such as Brazil, Chile in Latin America, South Africa in EMEA and Malaysia in the Asian region are in the positive year-to-date. With that said, …
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The BBC published an article last on the gun culture in the U.S. The article listed many shocking facts. The following are three charts from that piece. The U.S. is the top civilian gun-owning country in the world with a ratio of 120.5 firearms per 100 residents. The second top country in the ranking is …
Intra-year declines in the equity markets are a common occurrence. At the risk of stating the obvious, stocks never only go up always. In any given year, stocks decline significantly though the course of the year for any number of reasons but end up the year with a positive total return. Stomach-churning volatility can shake …
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