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Do You Want to Be a Bank?

July 3, 2023

7/3/2023 One of the hot areas in the financial markets is private debt, also referred to as private credit. What is private debt, how does it work, and why is it growing? The two types of traditional investing are owning…

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Russian Rebellion

June 26, 2023

6/26/2023 This weekend’s rebellion attempt in Russia by Wagner Group mercenary leader, Yevgeniy Prigozhin, has left us with many questions. We do not even know whether this was a real threat to Putin’s rule or a sham rebellion meant to…

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Sports Streams

June 20, 2023

6/20/2023 It seems clear that Apple is determined to make its way into the world of sports. Around this time last year, the tech giant announced that its streaming platform, Apple TV, had acquired all global rights to the Major…

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The Trillion Dollar Club

June 12, 2023

6/12/2023 When Groucho Marx was invited to join an exclusive country club, he reportedly said, “I don’t want to belong to any club that would have me as a member.” I was thinking about Groucho’s comment recently when Nvidia joined…

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Investment Lessons From the NBA

June 5, 2023

6/5/2023 The Miami Heat have reached the NBA finals, which is only the second time in NBA history for a No. 8 seed (the first being the NY Knicks in 1999).  The Heat have shown themselves to be giant killers,…

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