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Private Equity firms are looking to consolidate health care providers... One company that has a great pulse on what's going on in the land of private equity ("PE") and venture capital ("VC") is PitchBook Data. PitchBook operates a Software as a Service ("SaaS") business in the capital markets space. It helps investors get a […]
- AMEH
The pandemic has caused some devastating changes to the travel industry... Even though leisure is the most common reason for air travel, profitability in the airline business doesn't hinge on families taking vacations. Rather, the real moneymaker has always been in corporate business travel. Business travel used to be considered a sure-fire income stream for […]
- RTX
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 […]
- ATVI
- 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 […]
- BIO
- 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 […]
- ORCL
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 […]