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25 Shocking Facts About The Water Resources ,Read Point Number 11 & Think About it

  
Analysis, Education
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War, famine, mass extinctions and devastating plagues – all of these are coming unless some kind of miraculous solution is found to the world’s rapidly growing water crisis.  By the year 2030, the global demand for water will exceed the global supply of water by an astounding 40 percent according to one very disturbing U.S. government report.  As you read this article, lakes, rivers, streams and aquifers are steadily drying up all over the planet.  The lack of global water could potentially be enough to bring about a worldwide economic collapse all by itself if nothing is done because no society can function without water.  Just try to live a single day without using any water some time.  You will quickly realize how difficult it is.  Fresh water is the single most important natural resource on the planet, and we are very rapidly running out of it.  The following are 25 shocking facts about the Earth’s dwindling water resources that everyone should know…

#1 Right now, 1.6 billion people live in areas of the world that are facing “absolute water scarcity“.

#2 Global water use has quadrupled over the past 100 years and continues to rise rapidly.

#3 One recent study found that a third of all global corn crops are facing “water stress“.

#4 A child dies from a water-related disease every 15 seconds.

#5 By 2025, two-thirds of the population of Earth will “be living under water stressed conditions“.

#6 Due to a lack of water, Chinese food imports now require more land than the entire state of California. (more…)

The Very First Stock Warren Buffett (And Other Famous Investors) Ever Bought

  
  Education

Everybody has to start somewhere.

It’s easy to look at investing “gurus” like Warren Buffett and Peter Lynch, and feel as if you could never hope to emulate their success.

But the Buffett’s and the Lynch’s of this world were once naïve newbies. In this post we’ll take a look at the very first stock Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch and other famous investors ever purchased.

We’ll look at what their investing rationale was and how it worked out for them. Then we’ll see what you can learn from their successes or mistakes.

Peter Lynch

What He Bought and Why: As a teenager in the 1950s, Peter Lynch worked as a golf caddy. While he was carrying bags and handing out putters, he used to make a mental note of the stocks he heard people talking about, and looked them up later on.

When he was in college and had some money to invest, he started researching the air freight industry and “thought this air cargo was going to be a thing of the future.” He put his first $1,000 investment into a company called Flying Tiger. (more…)

Nassim Taleb’s Risk Management Rules of Thumb

  
  Education
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Rule No. 1- Do not venture in markets and products you do not understand. You will be a sitting duck.

Rule No. 2- The large hit you will take next will not resemble the one you took last. Do not listen to the consensus as to where the risks are (that is, risks shown by VAR). What will hurt you is what you expect the least.

Rule No. 3- Believe half of what you read, none of what you hear. Never study a theory before doing your own observation and thinking. Read every piece of theoretical research you can-but stay a trader. An unguarded study of lower quantitative methods will rob you of your insight.

Rule No. 4- Beware of the nonmarket-making traders who make a steady income-they tend to blow up. Traders with frequent losses might hurt you, but they are not likely to blow you up. Long volatility traders lose money most days of the week.

Rule No. 5- The markets will follow the path to hurt the highest number of hedgers. The best hedges are those you alone put on. (more…)

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