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MarketInsight | The Greatest Sports Deal of All Time

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The American Basketball Association or ABA operated for about a decade in the 1960s and ‘70s. The new league offered exciting new rules designed to attract fans; the red,Read More

MarketInsight | Fear itself

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt famously remarked in his first inaugural address that “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” In 1904, Russian was at war with Japan. The Read More

MarketInsight | Double, Bubble, Toil, and Trouble

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Tulip Mania swept across Europe in the 1600s. The first bulbs had arrived from Turkey in the hands of an ambassador of the Holy Roman Empire in the late 1500s.Read More

MarketInsight | Life lessons from a golf pro

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Golf legend Johnny Miller came to speak to a group of investment advisors at TPC Sawgrass the other day. I was one of several local journalists in the crowd. We Read More

MarketInsight | The first hyperloop

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The hyperloop has been in the news again recently. If you don’t know what the hyperloop is, let me tell you. The hyperloop is an alternative form of transport popularized Read More

MarketInsight: Hundred dollar bills

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One of my favorite investment stories is that of Ben Franklin’s will. Franklin was the first American hero. He was as much loved in his own time as he Read More

Market Insight | Dysfunctional Thanksgiving Dinners at the Roosevelts’

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By Scott Grant ScottGrant@StJohnsBusinessMonthly.com The 1924 Democratic National Convention in New York is known as the “Klanbake.” Twenty thousand Klansmen marched on Madison Square Garden to protest the potential nomination Read More

Market Insight | The Pursuit of Happyness

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The election of 1800 was one of the most bitterly contested in our history, pitting two of the authors of the Declaration of Independence against each other. Jefferson accused Read More

Market Insight | A family company

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By Scott Grant ScottGrant@StJohnsBusinessMonthly.com A quarter century ago, a woman named Thelma Howard passed away and left half of her estate, more than $5 million, to children’s charities in and Read More

MarketInsight | The British are leaving

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By Scott Grant ScottGrant@StJohnsBusinessMonthly.com Enterprising young men have been meeting on Wall Street for the purpose of trading shares of stock in businesses since way back when George Washington was Read More