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April 7, 2024 – The North Star, also known as Polaris, is a prominent star that has held significant importance throughout history for its use in navigation. It is located nearly directly above the Earth’s North Pole, making it an almost stationary point in the night sky ..read more
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March 10, 2024 – A generation ago for today’s market participants, the late 1990s featured a historic stock market bubble concentrated in technology and telecom stocks. The dot-com bubble, as we now call it, was driven by a “new economy” thinking that a hot emerging technology, the internet ..read more
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February 10, 2024 – In 1952, Nobel Prize-winning economist Harry Markowitz introduced the concept of Modern Portfolio Theory, which aimed to maximize return while minimizing risk. Modern Portfolio Theory formalizes the concept of diversification, showcasing that an investor can achieve an optimal portfolio with the maximum expected return ..read more
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January 14, 2024 – The late, great Hyman Minsky was an influential American economist known for his theories around financial instability and his work on the causes and characteristics of financial meltdowns. A key figure in post-Keynesian economics, Minsky focused on the inherent instability of financial markets ..read more
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November 12, 2023 – Amongst investors, the “R-word” is rearing its ugly head again. A much-predicted and dreaded recession, classically defined as two consecutive quarters of negative real GDP growth, is upon us. Last week, Statistics Canada released preliminary GDP estimates for September, indicating a -0.1% annualized ..read more
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6M ago
October 13, 2023 – In his trademark humorous style, Mark Twain offered a whimsical take on the perils of stock market speculation with this memorable quip: “October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May ..read more
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September 11, 2023 – The Guinness World Record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute is held by Vesna Vulović, a Serbian flight attendant. In 1972, while working on a Yugoslav Airlines flight, a bomb exploded, causing the plane to be torn into three pieces at ..read more
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8M ago
August 13, 2023 – The highly anticipated film “Spider-Man: No Way Home” was released to much fanfare in December 2021. The movie became the most financially successful film of 2021, grossing a whopping $1.92 billion globally. What made “Spider-Man: No Way Home” unique was its incorporation of the concept ..read more
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July 16, 2023 – Across the globe, the colossal sum of approximately $50 trillion is spent by consumers each year. As global wealth and GDP per capita increase, those consumers reaching the upper echelon of affluence have made premium goods more popular than ever. Whether it be ..read more
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11M ago
June 12, 2023 – Mr. Market, as legendary value investor Ben Graham once called it, can be a fickle guy. One day, he could panic, wanting to sell his businesses far below their intrinsic value, as occurred briefly in the spring of 2020. Then, just a ..read more