Monthly Archives: November, 2020

Why Your Next Diamond Might Be Grown in a Lab

In The New York Times, Victoria Gomelsky reports on how the closure of the Argyle Mine in Western Australia will change the way the...

This Rivals the Dotcom Mania

The most famous book on the history of financial bubbles was written by Charles Kindleberger. He called it, Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History...

How to Hire Investment Counsel: This is the Way

Real quick. You’re interested in hiring a financial advisor—one who’s held to a fiduciary standard by law, not some silly suitability one. You know...

Will Work PCs Become a Thing of the Past?

ComputerWorld's Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols outlines the future of PCs as he sees it, writing: Ready or not, here comes Windows as a Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) for...

Be a Shepherd. You’ll Be Happier. Greed Kills

I was talking with a client yesterday. He emailed me earlier in the afternoon. The subject line read “New Customer.” His neighbor recently retired. She...

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The Power of a Compound Interest Table

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Great Solar Wall Plans Unveiled

The US Energy Information Administration reports that China’s utility-scale...

Trade War Forces Chinese Plastics Factories to the Brink

According to Nicholas Lua of Bloomberg, China's plastics factories,...

Policy Failures Push Australia Toward Costly LNG Imports

The Oxford Institute for Energy Studies reports that Australia’s...

Five New Petroleum Lines Strengthen U.S. Energy Flow

The US Energy Information Administration reports that in 2024,...

Could Gold Hit $4,500 Amid Trade Tensions?

The Economic Times reports that experts predict gold could...

The Mysterious ALS Cluster in the French Alps: Is It Linked to Toxic Mushrooms?

Terence Monmaney of Popular Science reports that in Montchavin,...

Australia’s Rare Earths Surge Amid China’s Export Curbs

Nic Fildes of Financial Times reports that following China’s...

The Rise of Healthy Sodas: Fizz Meets Wellness

Deena Shanker of Bloomberg reports that a new wave...