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11 Sep 2023

Out of 28,114 publicly-listed U.S. companies analyzed over the last century, the 25 best stocks have created nearly a third of all shareholder wealth

Put another way, as Visual Capitalist detail below, just 0.1% of stocks have added over $17.6 trillion to investors’ wallets. This graphic, using data from Henrik Bessembinder of Arizona State University, show the best stocks of the last century.

11 Sep 2023

One of the reasons we are not in recession yet. Despite rate hikes US corporate net interest payments are going down so far👇

Source: Michel A. Arouet

11 Sep 2023

Comparing the market capitalization of Big Tech stocks to the GDP of nations, Apple and Microsoft emerge as giants. They would rank 8th and 9th respectively if they were countries

$AAPL $MSFT $GOOGL $AMZN $NVDA $TSLA $META Source: Beth Kindig

11 Sep 2023

Nalanda Capital's approach to investing

Source: What I learned about investing from Darwin by Pulak Prasad Illustration: Vishal Khandelval

11 Sep 2023

The Bitcoin Supply Formula

Source: documenting bitcoin

11 Sep 2023

Over 80% of all US money created (US Dollars printed) took place between 2020 and 2023

Source: Win Smart

11 Sep 2023

Investing Mindset

Source: Mind Matters Money

11 Sep 2023

Worldwide App Downloads

Despite Chatgpt's meteoric rise this year and with over 10M app downloads in August, it still lagged behind traditional giants like TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook, each of which had over 50M downloads in the same month. Source: Beth Kindig, Business of Apps

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