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Google’s Money Chart

Wanted to share this informative pie chart showing which words pay Google the most.

Be ready to pay up if you want to advertise insurance, also random to see “Cord Blood” made its way into top 20!

World’s Richest City: Singapore

Wanted to share this interesting video from WSJ’s new segment “WSJ Money,” which details the worlds most cash rich city: Singapore. The stability of the city-state attracts many tastemakers.

Looks like DUBAI is now a thing of the past

RiskTakers: Elon Musk

Entertaining profile video below on Elon Musk, which delves into the intricacies of his amazing business endeavors and examines his risk taking.

USA Wealth Distribution Perceptions/Realities

Great video below on perceptions and realities of wealth distribution in the United States.

Marketing Lessons from The Grateful Dead

Pretty interesting video on how The Grateful Dead had a different business model compared to other bands at the time.

High cost music production forced the band to focus on touring only and provide their recorded music free of charge, claiming 100% of touring revenue instead of a fraction of album sales.

Hedge Fund to Pizza Delivery

This guy is fortunately back on his feet with a job now but really interesting story from 20/20 if you all had not seen it previously.

How Low Can You Go

Facebook suffered its biggest one day drop this week since its inception on Friday. Pretty interesting article from Market Watch. Facebook is basically half of what it IPO’d at ($38), with some saying it could go as low at $10/share. Article Link below.

Market Watch – Is 20 The Floor for Facebook

Carlos Slim buys stake in YPF


A stock I have been following for a while, simply because of the HUGE dividend (32%) is YPF, the large Argentinean energy company.

YPF has a very interesting back story, as the government of Argentina recently took over the company. The Argentinean government is basically demanding YPF to use its earnings to develop the country instead of paying dividends to investors.

This fact, in addition to the current oil market, has driven down the stock price to the lowest it has been in 10 years. It is currently at $10.45 with a high EPS of 3.

Very interestingly enough Carlos Slim (wealthiest man in the world) acquired an 8.4% stake today.

Definitely worth taking a look at, and this announcement will most likely boost YPF’s price. Not sure how I feel about it yet. If you are looking for high yield with no government drama, albeit not as high a dividend, check out AGNC which I purchased recently and has done well for me.