Tag: United States
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Buffet’s Clean Energy Project in the Coal State of Ohio – The Economics and Why it Matters to Malaysia
As the smoke bellows above,The people down coughs,Shoveling coal, digging for oil,To power nations, addicted to,Producing and consuming,When will it end? I find myself attracted to articles that talk about renewable projects these days. Maybe it’s my wife’s influence as she is a strong believer in zero waste and anything…
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Fresh From the Oven Newsletter (Mid-Sept 2023)
This newsletter was first published in Slice of P.I.E LinkedIn page here. There’s Debt Troubles Brewing in the World In last month’s newsletter, we highlighted the growing concerns over debt in the U.S. and China also. The U.S. had its credit rating downgraded to AA+ from AAA, causing a sudden…
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Your Smartphones, EVs Could Be More Expensive – Here are 5 Things You Need to Know about China’s Export Restriction on Germanium and Gallium
An eye for an eye,Makes the world go blind. It was 2018. Trump was in power and he just fired his biggest trade bomb halfway around the world to China. “Build the wall” was perhaps his most famous quote, meant for Mexico in curtailing the inflow of immigrants into the…
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Here are the 5 U.S. Tech Stocks on Nasdaq that Benefited from the AI Mania
It comes and goes,Up and down,Its grip, relentless,The mania is found. The investing mania has found itself on the shores of AI-related companies. It started with the release of ChatGPT late last year w% here it went viral for the amount of information it scraped and analysed. Answers were so…
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Here are 5 Things to Know about the U.S. Economy Halfway through 2023
Half foot in the grave? Or not? The U.S. economy seems to be chugging along fine halfway through 2023, defying recession doom-sayers. Many thought that the high interest rates and inflation will reduce economic activities such as consumption and investment. That has happened to some degree but not much. If…
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Nvidia is a US$1 trillion Company Now – Here are the 5 Key Takeaways from Nvidia
This is the picture of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2050 that I got in 2017. Back then, I was still starting fresh in my career and got a bit of money to invest in a personal computer (PC). I budgeted about RM3,000 and I am still using that PC today.…
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Here’s 5 Things You Need to Know About Eli Lily & Co
Eli Lily and Co is a U.S. based pharmaceutical company. Eli Lily and Co (Eli) researches and sells medicine and pharmaceutical products in the U.S. and other countries around the world. Most of its sales are concentrated in the U.S., encompassing about 64% of its total revenue. Meanwhile, Eli’s main…
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Is Grab Worth Grabbing Now? 5 Things You Should Definitely Know
Ah, Grab. How I remember the times when it was just MyTeksi in 2012. I was just an intern back then, fresh off the boat, not knowing how the world works. Then, in 2014 and 2015, they rebranded to Grab, and the war between Uber and Grab started. We all…
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Let’s Look at SVB and See How It Got into This Mess
A man by the name of John used to live in the center of town. He was brilliant, and every young innovative person in town trusted him with their money as he was known to be great at protecting and growing their money. For a while, John was the talk…
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If I Were to Explain “Contagion” and the Current SVB Debacle to the Regular Person on the Street
Follow and subscribe to get on my email list for my Medium and WordPress to get updates on my latest writings! Picture this. You are going to the bank to withdraw your money. You put in your ATM card and press your password. A moment later, a red pop-up message…
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