Maximilian Bern had saved up 100,000 German marks for what should have been a modest, but comfortable retirement. But in 1923, he withdrew every last cent, and spent it all on one purchase: a subway ticket. He rode around his city one last time before returning home, and locking himself in his home, where he […]
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If it seems like about half the country is on drugs, that is because it is actually true. According to a new survey from the National Center for Health Statistics, almost half of all Americans have taken a pharmaceutical drug within the past 30 days, and that officially makes us “the most medicated country in […]
Investors tend to focus on stocks that hedge funds are buying. Or stocks that mutual funds are buying. But Goldman Sachs has found that it is the stocks that overlap both these categories that are delivering the strongest returns right now. “Great minds think alike,” Goldman Sachs’ David Kostin wrote in a report. “The median shared […]
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