by Robert White | Sep 27, 2019 | Bulletin
Things have been looking good for the stock market. Since the dog days of the summer, the US benchmark S&P 500 index is up 8.8%. It’s just 1.7% from the all-time highs. And the VIX index, which measures investors’ expectation of volatility, is bumping along near...
by Robert White | Sep 25, 2019 | Bulletin
In 2013, a group of scientists from British biotech company, Oxitec, embarked on a risky experiment in a remote region of Brazil. They wanted to study the impact of releasing a new strain of mosquitoes into the wild. Mosquitoes have been a terrible scourge in this...
by Robert White | Sep 17, 2019 | Bulletin
It’s been a spectacular fall from grace. For the last few months, Neil Woodford has experienced death by a thousand cuts, as his several of his flagship funds have gone into lockdown, preventing investors from withdrawing their money, even as his value evaporates. My...
by Robert White | Sep 13, 2019 | Bulletin
Donald Trump is well known for using Twitter to get his message out. And as we’ll explore today, it’s become an important force in our world of money and market madness. Because how he uses it can have substantial effects on market prices. Beware the Trump-tweet...
by Robert White | Sep 10, 2019 | Bulletin
It is a scourge. A brittle, reddish disease that eats away at every metal structure we put up. The most familiar form of rust is the reddish coating that forms flakes on iron and steel, but rust also comes in yellow, brown, orange, and green. And it causes a...
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