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Does the Forever Stamp Make Cents?

Posted 1 year ago by Andrea Dickson

Filed Under: Frugal Living

The United States Postal Service announced that they may issue a "forever stamp" - that is, a stamp that you can buy now, at a given price, that will be good into eternity. Like all hedging, this sounded like a good idea at the time, but fortunately, there are people much smarter than me out there to crunch the numbers.

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Explaining the climax scene of "Trading Places"

Posted 1 year ago by Will Chen

Filed Under: Investment

Trading Places

Eddie Murphy's Trading Places is one of my favorite movies of all time. However, I have always felt a twinge of guilt when I watched the movie with other people.

You see, here's my deep dark secret: I don't really understand what happened during the climatic scene at the commodities exchange! Lucky for me, Wikipedia has the answer:

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