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First lithium stock bubble sparked by this world changing event?

Lithium Corporation of America shares soared 461% for the year in 1954 due to the company’s connection to the U.S. hydrogen bomb project, code name Operation Castle. UCLA professor Armen Alchian, while working at RAND, successfully identified lithium deuteride as the fusion fuel through publicly available financial data. At the time, Lithium […]

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Fairfax Financial Holdings: What’s in a name?

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Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd (TSX: FFH) came up with the name ‘Fairfax’ as a shortened version of “fair and friendly acquisitions,” reflecting the company’s guiding principle of doing business in a fair and amicable way. Fairfax was founded in 1985,

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5 weird facts about gold

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1. There’s gold inside your body: You read that correctly – the average human body contains about 0.2 milligrams of gold, mostly in the blood. It doesn’t serve a known biological purpose; it’s just there. 2. The world’s oceans are

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