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▫️ John Bogle Warned Three Firms Would Control the Whole Stock Market.
He put the figure at more than 30 percent, and called it against the national interest.
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▫️ Washington Is About to Make the Stock Market Almost Never Close.
NYSE Arca has already been cleared for longer hours and Nasdaq has a proposal out for comment.
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▫️ Berkeley Lab Counted the Power Projects Waiting to Reach the Grid.
About 8,200 of them, and the median wait to switch on now runs past five years.
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▫️ The Census Bureau Says 2034. Almost Nobody Is Acting on It.
That is the year Americans over 65 are projected to outnumber children under 18.
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▫️ The Senate Called Its Final Report "Crisis Averted." Others Called It Waste.
Most documented domestic incidents turned out to be minor, localised and over within hours.
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▫️ The SEC Took Three Months to Work Out What Broke the Market.
At the low, nobody in the entire market would put up $25 million to buy it at a discount.
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▫️ Someone Can Legally Drill Your Land. You Get a Letter First.
A 1993 amendment requires notification before entry and gives the landowner no power to refuse.
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▫️ America's Nuclear Command Ran on Floppy Disks Until 2019. Ask Why.
A 1970s IBM computer handled functions for missiles, bombers and tankers, and replacing it kept losing.
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▫️ Every Industry Gets Cheaper With Scale. Mining Does the Opposite.
Theodore Wright measured the same effect in aircraft in 1936, and it still describes new technologies.
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▫️ One Rocket Booster Has Flown Thirty-Five Times. Nobody Priced That In.
Divide the same hardware cost across thirty-five flights and every number downstream of it reprices.
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▫️ Nobody Warns You About the First Five Years After the Salary Stops.
Selling into a fall in year two removes capital that would have compounded for the next twenty.
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▫️ A 1996 Commission Found 1.1 Points of Bias. Everything Changed.
The largest component is what homeowners estimate their own houses would rent for, not a payment.