From the beginning of 1995 to April 2000, the S&P 500 increased 227% from 466 to 1,524; even more impressive, the NASDAQ 100 index increased more than 12 fold from 347 to 4,692. This was the Dot-Com boom period, described by Federal Reserve Chair, Alan Greenspan, at the time as one of “irrational exuberance”.

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Over the past 50 years, the investment industry has seen stock market and real estate bubbles, interest rates approaching zero, the emergence of hedge funds and private equity companies, the globalization of financial markets, the proliferation of derivative securities, and the growth of securitized assets and structured financing.

An old economics professor always would start his principles classes by telling his students a trite story about some average person ...

The impulse to push boundaries and to seek new and unknown environments has been an integral part of American culture since the country’s founding.

The prestige of the Supreme Court stems from its impartiality and its ability to make decisions that are consistent with the Constitution. Political parties, personal beliefs, and public opinion aside, the Court is solely concerned with the integrity it holds under the Constitution to make objective decisions.

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How a fight for gas has reignited disputes in the eastern Mediterranean

Many people’s knowledge of Rwanda is limited to the 1994 genocide. Since then, though, the country has undergone a remarkable transformation. Twenty-six years after a genocide in which up to a million people were murdered in a hundred days, Rwanda surprisingly shows only a few obvious scars from the tragedy.

“This is the fundamental fact on which the whole philosophy of individualism is based. It does not assume, as is often asserted, that man...

In an interview with CBS, Dr. Nannerl Keohane, the former President of Duke University, was asked what she thought was the real mission of her university. After some reflection, Dr. Keohane responded that she saw the mission of Duke as one of making each student a more interesting person.

Bloomberg's Cincinnati Index is a weighted Index Measuring the Equity Performance of the Equity of the Cincinnati Area’s Companies...

In the fourth quarter of 2021, The U.S. economy moved into a moderate recovery stage with GDP reaching its pre-pandemic level. However, the slow labor market recovery, supply-chain disruptions, energy price increases, product and material shortages, and transportation bottlenecks, combined with the unprecedented expansionary fiscal and monetary policy stimulants, contributed to a high inflation rate of 7%.