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Can Silver deliver higher returns than Gold and What’s driving the Prices Up? 

Trade Brains

Russia’s Draft Federal Budget for the upcoming year includes plans for the State Fund to continue adding gold, platinum, and palladium to its reserves, and now, for the first time, silver as well. Historical data shows that silver prices have underperformed compared to gold and palladium since 2011. million ounces.

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What to Do About These High Interest Rates

Mr. Money Mustache

Interest rates, which have been gliding along at close to zero since before the Dawn of Mustachianism in 2011, have suddenly shot back up to 20-year highs. Interest rates are like a giant gas pedal that revs the engine of our economy, with the polished black dress shoe of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell pressed upon it.

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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

The Big Picture

We actually have a budget for risk management and technology and tools. And it’s, it’s why you saw in 2010, 2011, 2012, a lot of the investment policy statements of pension funds changed from saying equity and fixed income to saying growth risk and diversifying risk. And, but Goldman Sachs has fewer constraints.

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2017 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

It doesn’t manage for quarter-to-quarter earnings, provide earnings guidance or have budgets at the parent company, though many of the subsidiaries do. Berkshire is extremely decentralized, with just 25 employees at its corporate offices and the rest at over 90 separate operating companies. Berkshire is unusual among public companies.

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2017 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

It doesn’t manage for quarter-to-quarter earnings, provide earnings guidance or have budgets at the parent company, though many of the subsidiaries do. Berkshire is extremely decentralized, with just 25 employees at its corporate offices and the rest at over 90 separate operating companies. Berkshire is unusual among public companies.

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Top 10 Stock Market Movies That Every Investor Should Watch!

Trade Brains

Stock Market Movies #7 – Too Big to Fail (2011) This movie is written by Andrew Ross Sorkin, directed by Curtis Hanson and released in 2011. Stock Market Movies #8 – Margin Call (2011) A thought-provoking dramatic movie directed by J.C.Chandor. This was a thirty-five million budget movie nationwide.

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U.S. Debt Crisis – Is it time to use the nuclear option?

David Nelson

Déjà vu all over again In 2011, when we went down this path, markets we’re fairly sanguine about the coming deadline. The Budget Control Act of 2011 ended the crisis, increasing the debt limit immediately with several measures to reduce spending. Here is what could happen if we take it right up to the edge of the cliff.