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On March 2, 1901, a group of prominent American businessmen, including J.P. Morgan, Charles Schwab and Andrew Carnegie, came together to form the largest business enterprise the world had ever seen. Through the consolidation of Carnegie Steel Company along with several other steel and iron businesses, they formed US Steel.
Located in Mediterranean Sea about halfway between Greece and Turkey is the island of Crete… which has attracted human civilization for more than 100,000 years. Today roughly 600,000 people call the island home. But millions of tourists also visit the popular vacation spot each year. It’s known for it’s beaches,
[Editor’s Note: Today’s article was written by a colleague who recently traveled to Russia. These are his observations about the current situation on the ground.] Today in Russia, there is unmistakable tension in the air. You definitely don’t want to speak out against the war or the current regime— it’s
On November 5, 1605 Guy Fawkes was caught in the cellars of the Parliament building in London in what became known as the Gunpowder Plot— a conspiracy to assassinate King James I and restore a Catholic monarch to the English throne. Guy Fawkes was arrested, tortured, and executed. And his
Dwight Eisenhower had a huge problem in 1948. After winning the war in Europe and defeating the Nazis, “Ike” was one of the most popular and recognizable men in the world… and publishing houses were falling all over themselves for his memoirs. Doubleday, a New York based publisher, won the
If you saw Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster Oppenheimer, you might remember the scene in which Dr. Oppenheimer travels to Chicago to meet with physicist Enrico Fermi, who had just achieved the world’s first ever self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. This really happened– it was December 2, 1942, and Enrico Fermi’s experiment was
At 3:15 in the morning on May 10, 1774, King Louis XV of France passed away after a grueling, two-week battle with smallpox. Upon hearing the news, his heir and grandson– 19-year old Louis XVI, reportedly cried out, “God protect us, I am too young to rule. . . I
Carolyn Maloney must be furious. This career politician with five decades of experience, as I wrote in at the very beginning of the year, was the chief architect of a completely ridiculous law known as the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) which went into effect on January 1st. The CTA was
It’s hard to say with a straight face that an asset hovering near its all-time high could be a “contrarian” investment. But I’m going to say it anyhow– I think gold may be a contrarian play right now. Now, it would be easy to assume that gold is near its
In the year 1218 on the great plains of central Eurasia, a Mongolian trade caravan was on a long expedition across the Silk Road when it reached the city of Otrar in the Khwarazmian Empire (modern day Kazakhstan). The governor of the local province– a career politician named Inalchuq– was
Almost one year ago to the day– on February 24, 2023– Silicon Valley Bank released its 2022 annual report. And senior executives must have been pretty nervous since the report showed that the bank was nearly insolvent. The bank had acquired a massive portfolio of more than $100 billion of
Early in the spring of 1956, only weeks after Elvis Presley released his debut studio album, and actress Norma Jean Mortenson had her name legally changed to Marilyn Monroe, a budding 25-year-old businessman from the American Midwest fatefully registered his first-ever company. His name, of course, was Warren Buffett. And
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