Wall Street is home to all types of securities and strategies that traders can use to make some extra cash. One of the lesser-common securities is the unit, which offers traders some flexibility down the road to capitalize on good market conditions. Below, we are going to talk about units and why companies offer… Continue reading What Are Units and How Do They Work in the Stock Market?
Investigating Antidepressants’ Surprising Effect on COVID Deaths
Researchers reported last month that an inexpensive, widely available pill substantially reduced hospitalizations and deaths in a large study of individuals with mild COVID symptoms who were at high risk for complications. It is the only existing oral medication with promising peer-reviewed data from multiple randomized COVID trials—and it is already used by millions of… Continue reading Investigating Antidepressants’ Surprising Effect on COVID Deaths
The Great Resignation: American Workers Suffering a Crisis of Meaning
Americans are quitting their jobs in record numbers. This phenomenon has been dubbed the Great Resignation and created significant shortages of workers for businesses. To understand and address this issue, attention might need to be paid to noneconomic factors in addition to economic ones. There are more U.S. job openings available today than ever, nearly… Continue reading The Great Resignation: American Workers Suffering a Crisis of Meaning
The Single Best Investment Of All Time? From $8000 To $5.7 Billion In 14 Months
In August 2020, Bitcoin had just breached $10,000, and anyone who bought was in for a six-bagger just 14 months later. The most popular Altcoin, Ethereum, was hovering around $400, making it a 10-bagger today. And the most popular ‘shitcoin’ – DOGE, made it to $0.0033, a respectable 7,172% return if held through Wednesday. That… Continue reading The Single Best Investment Of All Time? From $8000 To $5.7 Billion In 14 Months
Zombies! (Real, Haitian Zombies!)
Podcast: Download MYS159: Zombies have become a staple of pop culture, but as Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss, they are a real and recognized phenomenon in the nation of Haiti. What are these zombies, what causes them, and are they really the dead brought back to life? Get all new episodes automatically and for… Continue reading Zombies! (Real, Haitian Zombies!)
Using VWAP to Time a Pullback Entry
The basic idea behind a pullback trade is to try to enter a strong established trend on short-term weakness, hoping the trend will continue after some momentary hiccups. Trend trading is a well-accepted trading strategy across all time frames. Institutions sell trend-following products to their clients to ride trends across several months or years,… Continue reading Using VWAP to Time a Pullback Entry
Catholics Will Lead: Jeff Cavins on Bible in a Year and How God is Working in and through His Church
Over 25 years ago, I took my first deep dive into studying Scripture with Dr. Scott Hahn as a freshman theology student at Franciscan University of Steubenville. Although a cradle Catholic with 13 years of Catholic education behind me, I was astonished to find that I knew next to nothing about salvation history, and I… Continue reading Catholics Will Lead: Jeff Cavins on Bible in a Year and How God is Working in and through His Church
The Brain Processes Speech in Parallel With Other Sounds
Because opportunities to monitor those areas are so hard to come by, their recordings were “super precious data, and exciting,” Boebinger said. The researchers had hoped to be able to fill in details about how the brain transforms the low-level sound representations in the primary auditory cortex into more complex representations of speech sounds in… Continue reading The Brain Processes Speech in Parallel With Other Sounds
Medical Journals Pour Forth Hundreds of Articles on Race and Racism
Part 2 of 2 Articles (Part 1 Here) The prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association and its JAMA network of other periodicals have published about 950 articles on race, racism, and racial and ethnic disparities and inequities in the past five years – about a third appearing in just the past year. A search… Continue reading Medical Journals Pour Forth Hundreds of Articles on Race and Racism
US Pending Home Sales Unexpectedly Tumble In September
After surging an unexpected 8.1% MoM in August, and on the heels of rebounds in new- and existing-home sales, Pending Home Sales in September were expected to scrape out a modest 0.5% MoM rise, but that was a long way off as Pending Home Sales tumbled 2.3% MoM… Source: Bloomberg That is the 3rd monthly… Continue reading US Pending Home Sales Unexpectedly Tumble In September