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Roblox goes dark right before Halloween... Roblox (RBLX), a popular gaming platform for kids, was knocked offline for a few days starting last week. The digital outage, which began on October 28, caused a big panic among the platform's millions of young users. Suddenly many had lost their biggest pastime and had to scramble to […]

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• RBLX

We're always looking for macroeconomic outliers... We spend some time digging through the S&P 500 website every month. The site has all kinds of useful data about the biggest companies in the U.S., making it a great resource to start our Uniform Accounting analysis that goes into our Timetable Investor report. The S&P 500 website […]

Aesop's Fables holds meaningful lessons for investors... We often first encounter the short stories of the famous Greek storyteller Aesop either as children or as parents reading to our children. Many of the tales we attribute to Aesop may have been adapted from earlier Indian or Sumerian stories. The referral to Aesop by Greek philosophers […]

Your pet might help find the cure to cancer... Are you a cat person or a dog person?  This question triggered a fantastic debate within our company. Apparently, we are better at picking stocks than picking our favorite animals.  This debate over our furry friends may be more important than many realize... Cats and dogs […]

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• CRSP
• TMO
• TXG

The future looks bright for nonchemotherapy cancer treatments... Cancer was the second leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2019, responsible for more than half a million deaths. Typically, chemotherapy is the default treatment for patients with common forms of the disease like lung or breast cancer. While it can be effective in slowing […]

• BMY

Teaching has brought me back to my roots... As some of my readers know, I have recently taught an immersive short-term course at DePaul University. Alongside that, I am also teaching a 12-week advanced accounting class remotely. It's been many years since I formally practiced accounting. When I was asked to teach it, I was […]

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What happens to the market when taxes increase? A few weeks back, I was guest-lecturing an advanced MBA-level accounting course at DePaul University. Many of my students were asking a relevant question: What happens to the market when taxes increase? There's been a lot of buzz in the financial press around how any potential spending […]

I have had such great discussions with so many of you about the true fountain of youth... I took the opportunity to talk about my journey over the past several years to feel and be younger last month. Here at the 2021 Stansberry Conference & Alliance Meeting in Las Vegas, the subject of biohacking one's […]

Macy's and Amazon are going to war this holiday shopping season... With Black Friday less than a month away, this year's holiday shopping season is upon us... with a few caveats. There are worries that persistent supply chain disruptions could leave retailers with empty shelves come December. These concerns have been evidenced by backlogs at […]

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• TJX

Aluminum prices are surging again in China, but not for the usual reasons... Since China threw construction into overdrive two decades ago, its economic policy decisions have dramatically impacted the prices of many of the world's most important raw materials. The country has ramped up investment in its infrastructure and built massive megacities, which led […]

• CENX