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Legendary investor Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway.
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Berkshire Hathaway: Up 3,641,613% Since 1965 and Counting

In 1965, an investment group led by Warren Buffett took over textile company Berkshire Hathaway. Since 1965, the per-share market value of Berkshire Hathaway is up 3,641,613%, compared to the 30,2...

Price of Crude Oil - 70 year historical chart.
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

What Is The Highest That Oil Has Ever Traded?

On July 3rd, 2008, the price of a barrel of crude oil on the NYME rose to an intraday high of $145.85, while Brent crude futures hits $146.69 on the ICE Futures exchange. These prices represent th...

The approval rating for the current president Joe Biden have fallen since early 2021.
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Slaughter of the Dems? What Betting Markets Are Saying About the 2022 Midterm Elections

If you are a supporter of the Democrats, you probably won't like what you are seeing in the betting markets as of this moment. Things can obviously change, though things are not trending in a good...

The issue of repealing an amendment.  Can it be done, and if yes, how?
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

How Hard Is It To Repeal An Amendment?

How hard is it to remove an amendment from the Constitution? Does a sitting President have the power to repeal an amendment? In most Presidential election cycles, we hear fear-mongering about how a...

Asset Markets - Illustration of simplified zig zag chart.
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Investors Going "Risk Off" As Frothy Assets Tank

The expected "Santa Rally" is looking like it won't come to fruition as fear ramps up in the market, which has led investors to take a "risk off" approach. Over the past few months, many of the ma...

The presidential elections in the United States of America are just around the corner.
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

When Do People Usually Announce That They Are Running For President?

In this day and age, Presidential campaigns never really stop. It seems as though Presidential campaigns get longer and longer with each passing election. For the non-incumbents who are runnin...

The longest ever tenure in congress.
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Who Was The Longest Serving Member of Congress?

Don Young, a House Republican from Alaska, is nearing 50 years in Congress. Young, who has been in office since the Nixon Administration, is nearly 90 years of age. Despite his ultra-impressiv...

Volatile opening week of trading for the company.  What happens next?
GENERAL MARKET NEWS

Volatility Reigns Supreme As Robinhood IPOs

The same people who wanted zero commission trading company Robinhood destroyed were responsible for ramping its shares earlier this week. If you'll recall, at the height of "meme stock mania" earl...

The optics of the purchase (stink).
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Should Nancy Pelosi and Her Husband Be Allowed To Buy Millions of Dollars Worth of Stock Options?

A few weeks ago, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi released a "Periodic Transaction Report" that detailed a number of very large stock options purchases. In the past, we've detailed a number of ve...

The (not so) Big Short - The sequel.
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Michael Burry Isn't Short $500 Million Plus of Tesla

The media had a field day reporting on Michael Burry's reported $500 million short position of Tesla. Burry, who was immortalized in the movie "The Big Short", purchased 8,001 puts on Tesla someti...

Warren Buffett made his own rules - Illustration.
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Warren Buffett: My Original Plan Was To Retire at 25

If things had gone just a bit differently, there is a very good chance that you would have never have heard of the "Oracle of Omaha", Warren Buffett. You see, Warren Buffett's original dream wasn'...

One of the biggest, if not the biggest, influencer in the world - Elon Musk.
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Did Tesla Sell All Its Bitcoin Holdings?

February of 2021 was a great time to be a Bitcoin holder. Now? Not so much. In February of 2021, Elon Musk finally decided that he liked Bitcoin after years of panning the cryptocurrency. ...

The business of sports.  Illustration.
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

What Pandemic? Value of World's Most Valuable Sports Franchises Soars

You'd think that the runaway valuations of the world's biggest sports franchises, including the likes of the Dallas Cowboys, New York Yankees and New York Knicks, would have dropped in 2020. After...

Crypto in the spotlight - Dogecoin
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

State of the Market: Dogecoin Surges on Hopes of Elon Musk "Saturday Night Live" Mention

In 2013, software engineers Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer started "Dogecoin". The cryptocurrency featured the face of the Shiba Inu dog and was essentially an inside joke on the Internet for a n...

The successor of Warren Buffett and the new CEO of Berkshire has been revealed.
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Greg Abel Will Be The Next CEO of Berkshire Hathaway

The next CEO of Berkshire Hathaway will be Greg Abel. In the past, Warren Buffett had famously said that the identity of his successor at Berkshire Hathaway was written on a piece of paper that wa...



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