Barron's - October 31, 1932.
S&P 500 EXTENDS RALLY FROM PANDEMIC BOTTOM TO 100%
Berkshire Hathaway Portfolio holdings as of June 30, 2021
This is reportedly an image inside a crowded U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III plane evacuating Afghans from Kabul. Audio from the crew estimated that they had ~800 passengers onboard, which would be the second most passengers ever carried on a single airplane.
(Via JoePompliano/Twitter)
Shipping bottlenecks and resulting supply-chain disruptions are "the single biggest threat the economy faces at the moment...Imagine if oil went up from $20 per barrel to $200 per barrel, then that would be tantamount to what’s happening now."
(Via lisaabramowicz1 )
An interesting newspaper article from 1963
"Your personal experiences make up maybe 0.00000001% of what's happened in the world but maybe 80% of how you think the world works." —Morgan Housel
Number of artificial intelligence (AI) company acquisitions since 2010:
Apple: Â Â Â Â Â Â 29 acquisitions
Google: Â Â Â Â 15 acquisitions
Facebook: 13 acquisitions
Microsoft: 12 acquisitions
Amazon: Â Â Â Â 7 acquisitions
Source: CB Insights
The S&P 500 1-year performance. Turns out stocks do only go up.
Revenue generated every minute:
Amazon: $873,360
Apple: $628,320
Google: $476,640
Microsoft: $356,640
AT&T: $339,506
Facebook: $225,000
FedEx: $174,383
Disney: $131,173
Nike: $95,216
Tesla: $91,680
Coca-Cola: $78,164
Starbucks: $57,870
Netflix: $56,640
McDonald’s: $45,448
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