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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,…

September 11, 2023 - The Guinness World Record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute is held by Vesna Vulović, a Serbian flight attendant. (more…)

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. (more…)

July 16, 2023 - Across the globe, the colossal sum of approximately $50 trillion is spent by consumers each year. (more…)

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…

May 7, 2023 - There are plenty of odd, but accepted, norms in the investment management industry. Specifically, one revolution around the Sun is noteworthy for measuring everything from a loan interest payment schedule to income tax frequency to bond duration, etc. (more…)

April 8, 2023 - The "Fed put" is the perceived policy action from the U.S. Federal Reserve to intervene in the financial markets during times of economic distress and market volatility to support asset prices and stabilize the financial system. (more…)

March 12, 2023 - "I have not seen it like this since I went $5 bid for half a million shares of Citi group and got hit in 1990!" said Jim Cramer on live TV, quite hilariously, in the fall of 2007 as the Global Financial Crisis entered its first…

February 12, 2023 - Entering 2023, the consensus outlook forecast that the first half would feature weak stock market performance with a recovery in the back half of the year. (more…)

January 14, 2022 - While 2022 was challenging for most investors, it offered valuable learning opportunities. (more…)