You might expect that buying BABA in your brokerage account means you own stock of the Chinese e-commerce giant. But, alas, you don’t. China restricts foreign ownership of its companies. So, instead you own a synthetic security that depends entirely […]
“It was the first formally organized all volunteer fire company in the colonies and was shaped after Boston’s Mutual Fire Societies. The difference between the fires societies of Boston and Franklin’s Union Fire Company was that the former protected its […]
“[H]ow do the economies of the individual US states stack up against other countries? California’s economy is about the size of the United Kingdom’s, while Texas’s matches up with Canada’s. Who’s on par with Sri Lanka or the Czech Republic? […]
A detailed account of a white American male who has lived and worked in Japan for a decade. The first section’s title quickly grabbed my attention: “The Company Is Father. The Company Is Mother.” | learn more
“Movable type was an 11th-century Chinese invention, refined in Korea in 1230, before meeting conditions in Europe that would allow it to flourish—in Europe, in Gutenberg’s time.” | learn more
This is surprising, especially in the face of the “people are fleeing [insert city]” narrative. “A new study identifies powerful psychological factors that connect people to places, and that mean more to them than money.” | learn more
This is clever! Indians have taken to using zero rupee notes, created by a nonprofit, when asked to pay a bribe, “as a means … to register their refusal to participate in bribery.” | learn more
I just had to know, so I looked it up. This article discusses the surprisingly interesting nuances of font sizing. “That’s because the point-size system is not absolute—different fonts set at the same point size won’t necessarily appear the same […]
A fun infographic highlighting the top gamblers among celebrities and athletes, with a special highlight for the biggest gambling losers among them. | learn more