Global energy demand fell by 4.5% in 2020 - the largest recession since 1945, while carbon emissions from energy use fell by over 6%.

Investors who want to maintain the purchasing power of their portfolio AND their standard of living through inflationary periods will find this article to be not only fascinating, but possibly provocative.

Virtually all the gold in the world that has been mined is still around in one form or another and the following infographic visualizes all the gold in the world that’s above ground and the identified reserves that we have yet to mine.

There is a large degree of variance in the quality of public pension plans around the world and today's infographic, using 2021 data from Mercer CFA Institute Global Pension Index, compares retirement income systems worldwide.

"Equations definitely CAN be dull, and they CAN seem complicated...but you CAN appreciate the beauty and importance of equations without knowing how to solve them.....[My] intention was to locate them in their cultural and human context, and pull back the veil on their hidden effects on history. Equations are a vital part of our culture. The stories behind them --- the people who discovered/invented them and the periods in which they lived --- are fascinating" and some are particularly relevant to anybody affected by the current financial crisis. [Let's take a look.] Words: 2072

10 or so "marijuana" ETFs out there purport to reflect the true state of the marijuana stock sector and the latest ETF from AdvisorShares is no different.

Rarely do I see others writing about stock warrants so I was delighted when Marin Katusa went into detail describing the benefits, as well as the potential risk factors, with warrants as outlined below.

If you want to know and understand what is happening to gold’s price, then you need to know and understand what is happening to the U.S. dollar. The value of gold is constant: its price changes according to changes in actual purchasing power of the US dollar. 

By amassing large data sets, and linking different economic data sets with each other, you can find patterns within the data and I believe that this helps me to predict the markets.

The supposedly first and, supposedly, a "psychedelic" stocks ETF, was launched in the U.S. on May 27th. but it is not a true psychedelic stocks ETF nor is it the world's first psychedelic ETF. This article uncovers what it really is.