The top potato eating country on per capita basis in the world is Belarus. Popular wisdom may hold that it is Ireland but it is not true. The next top potato eating countries are Ukraine and Latvia followed by Russia. The US is not in the top ten countries for potato consumption. Click to enlarge …
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The US equity market plunged dramatically in 1929 triggering the Depression. From the peak of 1929 to the bottom reached in 1932, millions were unemployed and untold misery was brought upon the general population.After FDR was inaugurated as the 32nd President of the United States the economy slowly started to recover. The chart below shows …
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COVID-19 has made the traditional custom of handshakes a big no-no. Handshakes will not be practiced by the general population for the foreseeable future. That does not mean people can’t greet each other. In addition, European ways of hugging and kissing is also out of fashion as well. Some of the many different ways of …
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The World Health Organization(WHO) is based in Geneva,Switzerland and is an agency of the United Nations. WHO is responsible for international public health. The agency tracks global public health crises from epidemics to pandemics and everything in between. It also acts a conduit for sharing critical information between countries with regards to health. For example, …
Railroad stocks have relatively held up well so far thus year compared to the overall market. While stocks in the airlines, hospitality, cruise line sectors have been decimated major North American railroad stocks have also declined but not much. In fact Canadian Pacific(CP) and Kansas State Southern (KSU) are in the positive territory compared to …
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