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CEFC China Energy, the large Chinese energy conglomerate that was among the 10 largest private companies in China and ranked 349th in the Fortune 500 w…
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Spotify is the largest music streaming platform according to Counterpoint Research with over 394 million subscriptions in 2020. While the platform is i…
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'Correlation does not imply causation' is an old adage of science and formal logic. It's a gentle reminder that sometimes, when two distinct events hap…
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Fewer frozen pellets are falling from the sky
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Total foreign contributions—as donations or general payments—to American universities in 2019 almost topped $4 billion. That may only be a sliver of th…
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Asset-backed securities, specifically mortgage-backed securities, were at the center of the 2007-2008 financial crisis. These were the investments crea…
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The Department of Education collects financial statistics from universities that includes expenses such as salaries and benefits in their Integrated Po…
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On a year-to-year basis, inflation was 5.4 percent in July of 2021, the largest increase since 2008, and there are expectations that the consumer price…
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Ten years ago, prices for commodities like corn, wheat, rice, soybeans and cotton spiked three years after the last price spike around 2008. A confluen…
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The generation of boomers set to retire en masse may not be retiring as quickly as some might think. Rates of employment and labor force participation—…
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In June of 2020, an appeals court struck down Wells Fargo's infamous STARS transaction—or structured trust advantaged repackaged securities. It was a c…
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As pandemic restrictions are being lifted across the U.S. and much of the economy returns to what it was, a number of questions remain unanswered about…
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