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Connecting the Queens Jewish Community Many prominent and respected people have been warning that this would happen, and now that it has, we...
People love to travel and not just during the hot summer months. Winter is also a busy time at airports. Some people travel for business purposes, to attend sporting events, to take mid-winter vacations, or to visit relatives and friends. Whatever the reason, lots of luck. If you’re planning on staying at a hotel or motel, you’ll need it.
You’re idealistic, concerned about all the problems in the world, and want to help people. Should you run for president?
Drive around the country and you’ll see great wealth: people living in incredible mansions with rolling, trimmed lawns, amazing new skyscrapers enhancing city skylines, and luxurious cars parked in circular driveways, to name just a few examples of that wealth. All of these are typical of the opulence that exists in certain parts of America. But often - sometimes within walking distance of them -there’s a very different side of modern society: poverty so extreme that it’s hard to believe that both exist in the same country at the same time.
Just when the news becomes so weird, so bizarre, that you’re sure it can’t get any crazier, it does. If you’re skeptical about this, check the latest issue of The Economist, a well-known and respected financial magazine. An article they just ran urges readers to change their diet in order to save the planet. Their recommendation: People should eat bugs.
A tiny Israeli company thinks it has developed a product that can successfully compete in a giant industry. It won’t take long to find out if they’re right because the product will be introduced in the US in 2020 and in Europe a few months after that. If they’re right, significant growth could follow.
Countless people try to figure out whether stocks are bargains or overpriced, but no one on Wall Street can do this better than company insiders. CEOs, CFOs, and other senior executives know everything important there is to know about their companies, and that’s why very recent statistics about their activities are so worrisome. Insiders, you see, are unloading stock at the fastest pace in two decades.
