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Do You Remember?

Do You Remember?
11.17.2023 // Markets & Investing

Written by Paul Siluch
November 14th, 2023

Remember your first concert? It is a defining moment of adolescence. An experience of music deeply personal to you at an impressionable age.

Mine was seeing the band Chicago in 1976 in Edmonton. Right at their peak.

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Day of the Dead...Investor

Day of the Dead...Investor
11.03.2023 // Markets & Investing

Written by Paul Siluch
November 1st, 2023

Since Hallowe’en is a celebration of the dead, let’s have a look at dead investors. What? As it turns out, they are actually surprisingly good investors. A survey years ago by Fidelity supposedly scanned all their accounts to find who were the best investors. The result was rather surprising: the best investors were dead!

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Back to Basics

Back to Basics
10.20.2023 // Markets & Investing

Written by Paul Siluch
October 18th, 2023

Coca-Cola originally contained cocaine. It wasn’t put in the drink intentionally. It came as part of the coca leaf which, coupled with the kola nut for its caffeine, made up the special kick – cocaine and caffeine – of the original 1886 Coca-Cola beverage. The narcotic was removed in 1903 and the recipe revised, but the secret flavour was still good enough to make Coca-Cola one of the leading brands in the world a hundred years later.

Coca-Cola isn’t the topic of this week’s letter, but rather Pepsi-Cola. The number two soda pop producer deserves some attention because it has suffered this year.

Pepsi is not so sexy right now.

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