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Transatlantic Slave Trade: A Look from West Africa

Following up on Trans-Saharan Trade Network: The Ancient Kingdom of Ghana (Wagadu), this week we’ll start to look at...

Trans-Saharan Trade Network: The Ancient Kingdom of Ghana (Wagadu)

Following up on Champagne Fairs: An Important Center for European Trade, this week we’ll go back and discuss the...

Champagne Fairs: An Important Center for European Trade

Following up on Trade Routes: Kashgar, an Oasis Along the Silk Road, this week we’ll discuss the annual Champagne Fairs...

Trade Routes: Kashgar, an Oasis Along the Silk Road

Following up on Trade Routes: Trade in Byzantine Constantinople, this week we’ll discuss trade in Kashgar, a central...

Trade Routes: Trade in Byzantine Constantinople

Following up on Trade Routes: Indian Ocean Trade Route, this week we’ll discuss trade in Constantinople, one of the...

Trade Routes: Indian Ocean Trade Route

Following up on African Trade Routes: The Trans-Saharan Trade Network, this week we’ll discuss a history of the Indian...

African Trade Routes: The Trans-Saharan Trade Network

Following up on What Will the Dominant Economic System of the Future Look Like?, this week we’ll discuss the...

What Will the Dominant Economic System of the Future Look Like?

Following up on Plagues: Effect on the Economy and Inequality, this week we’ll attempt to address the question, “what...

Plagues: Effect on the Economy and Inequality

Following up on The Black Death: A Pandemic Along the Silk Road, this week we’ll how pandemics affect the economy by...

The Black Death: A Pandemic Along the Silk Road

Following up on Food Economy: Historic Famines Across China, India, Ireland, Russia and the Ukraine, this week we’ll...

Food Economy: Historic Famines Across China, India, Ireland, Russia and the Ukraine

Following up on Chinese Economy: A Brief History of Agriculture & Irrigation, this week we’ll discuss 10 historic...

Chinese Economy: A Brief History of Agriculture & Irrigation

Following up on Chinese Economy: Silk Industry, this week we’ll discuss the Chinese Economy from the standpoint of...

Chinese Economy: Silk Industry

Following up on Chinese Economy: Iron Industry, this week we’ll discuss the Chinese Economy from the standpoint of its...

Chinese Economy: Iron Industry

Following up on Chinese Economy: The Introduction of Paper Money, this week we’ll discuss the Chinese Economy from the...

Chinese Economy: The Introduction of Paper Money

Following up on World Systems Theory: Core, Periphery, Semi-Periphery, this week we’ll discuss the Chinese Economy from...

World Systems Theory: Core, Periphery, Semi-Periphery

Following up on Capitalism: The Motive to Make a Profit, this week we’ll discuss World Systems Theory.which was...

Capitalism: The Motive to Make a Profit

Following up on Commodities Trading 101: Investing in Silver, Gold or Water, this week we’ll discuss capitalism which...

Commodities Trading 101: Investing in Silver, Gold or Water

Following up on What Is the Average Return of the US Stock Market?, this week post is a compilation of past articles on...

What Is the Average Return of the US Stock Market?

Following up on Long Term Investing: Buy & Hold Regardless of Short Term Fluctuations, this week we’ll discuss the US...

Long Term Investing Buy & Hold Regardless of Short Term Fluctuations

Following up on Stock Market Indexes 101: Tracking Public Companies, this week we’ll discuss long term investing, a buy...

Stock Market Indexes 101: Tracking Public Companies

According to the Library of Congress, in 1884 the first Index was created. It was originally known as the Dow Jones...

Efficient Market Hypothesis: A Way to Beat Market Returns?

Following up on 4 Notable Market Bubbles in History, this week we’ll discuss the efficient market hypothesis (EMH)....

4 Notable Economic Market Bubbles in History

Following up on What Are Fractional Shares, this week we’ll discuss market bubbles and review four economic bubbles in...

What Are Fractional Shares?

Following up on Investing in Index Funds, this week we’ll discuss fractional shares, which is essentially holding a...

Investing in Index Funds

Following up on Shorting a Stock: What Does It Mean?, this week we’ll discuss investing in index funds, a passive...

Shorting a Stock: What Does It Mean?

Following up on Put Options: A Deeper Dive, when we discussed that put options give the investor the right to sell a...

Put Options: A Deeper Dive

Like calls, put options are a type of options contract. The difference is that they give an investor the right to sell...

Call Options: A Deeper Dive

Call options, in particular, gives the investor the option to purchase a security, such as a specific stock, at a...

Options Contracts: What Are They?

Option trading allows you to speculate whether an asset’s price will rise or fall from its current price, how much an...

Forward Contracts: What Are They?

One of four financial derivatives, forward contracts, like future, don't trade on an open exchange. They can be used...

Futures Contracts: What Are They?

Futures contracts are typically traded on a stock exchange, which sets the standards for each contract. Regardless of...

What is the Russell 1000 Index?

Established on January 1, 1984, the Russell 3000, Russell 2000 and Russell 1000 indexes are maintained by the FTSE...

What is the Russell 2000 Index?

One of the most popular stock indexes used to small-cap stocks, the Russell 2000 is a market capitalization-weighted...

What is the Russell 3000 Index?

One of the broadest indices that is tracked by investors, the Russell 3000 Index contains six times as many stocks as...

What is the NYSE (New York Stock Exchange) Composite Index?

In the U.S., the most broadly followed indexes are the Standard & Poor's 500 Index, the Dow Jones Industrial Average,...

2024 Stock & Bond Market Holidays

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has a history that goes back to 1792 when two dozen stockbrokers met on Wall Street...

What is the NASDAQ Composite Index?

The NASDAQ is the world’s first electronic stock exchange. Launched on Feb. 5, 1971, it transformed the financial...

What is the DJIA: Dow Jones Industrial Average

The major U.S. market indexes are the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), the NASDAQ, and the S&P 500. The Dow Jones...

What is the S&P 500: Standard & Poor's 500 Index

There are approximately 5,000 U.S. indexes. The three most widely followed are the S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial...

Alpha vs Beta: Measures of Investment Performance & Risk

Alpha and beta are measures used by investors to evaluate the performance and risk of an investment security or...

What is the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission?

When the U.S. stock market crashed in October 1929, securities issued by numerous companies became worthless. As an...

Leveraged Buyouts: Utilizing Debt to Acquire Interest in a Company

The first leveraged buyouts started in early 1980s with high yield bonds invented by Michael Milken (commonly called...

Rule of 72: Doubling Your Investment with Compound Interest

When investing in the stock market, The Rule of 72 can be a helpful tool to give you an idea of how long it will take...

2024 Important Tax Deadlines & Dates for Individuals & Businesses

The IRS will open for business on January 29. This is the day the agency will start accepting and processing tax...

Portfolio Rebalancing: Reduce Volatility in your Portfolio

Many investors prefer to invest more aggressively at younger ages and more conservatively as they approach retirement...

Margin Accounts: Potential for Higher Returns, but Greater Risks

Cash accounts are the default type of accounts at brokerage firms. They require that all purchases of securities be...

Margin Call: What They Are, How They’re Triggered & How to Avoid Them

Cash accounts are the default type of accounts at brokerage firms. They require that all purchases of securities be...

How to Calculate IRR and How it Compares to ROI

Across all types of investments, return on investment (ROI) is more common than internal rate of return (IRR), largely...

Dollar Cost Averaging: What It Is & How It Works

Dollar-cost averaging, or DCA, is an investment strategy that tries to minimize your risks by making multiple purchases...

Business Resource: 30+ Ways to Save Money, Improve Cash Flow, & Reduce Taxes

In today’s competitive environment, information is power. With these 30 tips, you'll have the beginnings of a...

Inflation: Definition, Types, Causes, Benefits

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is used to determine the rate of growth of consumer prices, better known as inflation....

Currency Risk: What Is It?

Many U.S. investors never consider the impact that changes in foreign exchange rates can have on their investments....

Commodities Trading: Investing in Water

Like gold and silver, water is a commodity—and it happens to be a rather scare commodity.

Commodities Trading: Investing in Silver

Silver is the second most-common precious metal. It's an important industrial metal used in the electrical,...

Commodities Trading: Investing in Gold

Commodities trading (or investing) is the buying and selling raw materials such as agricultural products, livestock and...

Building Long-Term Wealth with Stock Dividends

A dividend is a distribution of a portion of a company's earnings. Companies can choose to regularly reward their...

Investing in Bonds: Portfolio Diversification, Market Size, Credit Rating

According to the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), the global bond market was worth $126.9...

Value Stocks: A Wonderful Business at a Fair Price

As mentioned in Growth Stocks: Industry Disruptors That Generally Do Not Pay Dividends, value stocks are seen on the...

Growth Stocks: Industry Disruptors That Generally Do Not Pay Dividends

From the railroads of the late 1800s, the invention of the automobile, the first airplane, the television, household...

Preferred Stocks: A Deeper Dive (Comparison to Common Stocks & Bonds)

Generally sold with institutional investors in mind, preferred stocks are a form of fixed-income security. Like bonds,...

Common Stocks: A Deeper Dive (Voting Rights, Risks, Dividends)

Companies sell stocks to raise money, which they then use for initiatives like general corporate purposes, growth or...

Investing in Stocks: Stock Types, Market Capitalization, and Market Sectors

Investing in stocks means buying shares of ownership in a public company with the goal yielding higher returns when...

How To Start Investing: Goals, Risk Tolerance, and Investment Securities

Investing is a way to make your money work so that it's worth more tomorrow than today. It means buying and holding...

How Do You Sell Your Purchased Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)

One reason that you may decide to sell your NFT is because it appreciated in value. When calculating your possible...

How Do You Create Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)

Created in 2012, Colored Coins are considered the first step towards Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). We discussed that NFTs...

How Do You Purchase Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)

We discussed that Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) aren’t actual cryptocurrencies but instead tokens on a blockchain that...

What Are Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)

Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) are tokens on a blockchain that represent ownership of a digital creation such as art,...

Mining Cryptocurrencies: Proof of Stake vs. Proof of Work

Since cryptocurrencies are decentralized and not under the control of financial institutions, proof-of-stake (PoS) and...

Blockchain: Valuing Cryptocurrencies & Cryptoassets + Survival Checklist

In a publishing by Keith Black, PhD, CFA®, CAIA®, FDP, he states that while there are more than 20,000 cryptocurrencies...

Blockchain: How Decentralized Finance Can Help Low Income Populations

According to a 2020 publication by Acuant, the number of people unbanked globally was listed at more than 2 billion....

Blockchain 101: Cryptoassets and Smart Contracts

Remember Investing 101: How Investing Works? This week, I present to you Blockchain 101. I recommend that you bookmark...

Blockchain: What Are the Benefits of Smart Contracts?

One of the most important features of blockchain is that the data it holds is not stored in a centralized location....

Blockchain: What Are Smart Contracts?

According to Fool, “Smart contracts are programs written on the blockchain that self-execute when certain conditions...

What Are Advantages & Disadvantages of Investing in Cryptocurrencies?

This week, we’ll cover the advantages and drawbacks of investing in cryptoassets. Why would anyone choose...

How Do You Purchase Cryptocurrencies?

With more than 20,000 cryptocurrencies in circulation—Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tether, Cardano, Solana—you should know that a...

How Many Cryptocurrencies Are There & How Are They Taxed?

Currently, there are more than 20,000 cryptocurrencies in circulation from Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tether, Cardano, Solana,...

What Are Cryptoassets?

Cryptoassets include cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, tokens, and other digital assets. More than 20,000 different...

Investing 101: How Investing Works

This post is a compilation of recent articles and covers topics such as value investing, the stock market crash of...

How to Pick Stocks for the Long Term: A Brief Overview

When you own a stock, you’re a partner with an expanding business. With the purchase of a bond, you’re essentially...

Bear Markets: A Brief Overview

A bear market is generally defined as a decline of 20% or more in a major market index like the S&P 500 or the Dow...

Value Investing: The Way of Berkshire Hathaway

Warren Buffett, also known as the Oracle of Omaha, began buying shares of Berkshire Hathaway in 1962. He picked them up...

Value Investing: Where to Look for Hidden Value?

The essential task of a value investor is to determine the intrinsic value of a security in order to take advantage of...

Macro & Microfundamentalist Value Investing: Does It Work?

Value investing, as defined by Benjamin Graham, is a strategy of buying securities only when their market prices are...

Black Tuesday: Vanished Hopes on Wall Street

Throughout the 1920s, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) served as the financial heart of the United States.

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Notable People in History Podcast

Come along with me and explore the lives of Archimedes, Autherine Lucy, Abraham Lincoln, Cleopatra, Thomas Edison, Harriet Tubman, Galileo Galilei, Madeleine Albright, Albert Einstein, Wangari Maathai, Ctesibius, Valentina Tereshkova, Chiune Sugihara, … and others who’ve greatly influenced society.

Wang Zhenyi: Astronomer, Mathematician, and Poet

In this week's Notable People in History podcast, we’ll take a look at the life of Wang Zhenyi. Despite societal norms which prohibited female education, she made accurate findings and observations as to the relationship between the lunar and solar eclipses.