What is a recession? For the vast majority of the world, a recession is defined as at least two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth. Last week, however, the Biden Administration went on...
On Friday afternoon, Elon Musk and his team of lawyers officially called off his planned takeover of Twitter. While he was mingling with other billionaires at the Sun Valley Conference, Elon Musk ...
In order to be eligible for run for the White House, a potential candidate must satisfy a number of criteria, including being at least 35 years of age. Ron DeSantis is currently the betting favori...
The betting and prediction markets can give us tremendous insight as to what might happen in any upcoming major political event. There was over half a billion dollars bet on the 2020 US Presidneti...
CDPQ, aka Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, is Canada's second largest pension fund. The fund, which was founded in 1965, manages total assets of over $400 billion. L...
The record for highest-ever gasoline prices in the United States belongs to 2022. With the average price of a gallon of gasoline recently ticking over $5/gallon in the country, we are officially i...
The "Periodic Transaction Reports" from Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi are absolute must-reads if you are somebody that is trying to make money in the markets. After all, Pelosi and her husband...
Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett has cultivated the absolute best reputation in the finance world. After many decades of leading Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett has largely stayed ou...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...