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Ualá benefits from surging interest in cashless services during pandemic

Governments ought to raise a glass to the paper stuff.

Just a general question about melting bronze. I have a number 10 crucible and was wondering what the melt time is to pour. I know I know it will vary for the most part but.... I'm using propane for heat in a small furnace. I don't have a way to check temperature on my melt times. Right now I'm about 30 to 35 minutes on my poor which I'm not sure is going to be hot enough due to the fact that some of my molds are not filling properly. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

So I was reading one of the bentone data sheets and it mentioned that VG-plus was 94-100% quaternary ammonium bentonite. So it just so happens that I have a few litres of a "Quat" or quaternary ammonium compound lying around as a 40% water based solution. So with a scoop of western bentonite into a jar and a very generous splash of the quat, I stirred it thoroughly. I thought it was going to be too wet as I added a fair bit of the stuff to the bentonite but the bentonite sucked it all up...

Making bentone experiment

Welcome to the latest episode of The Compound & Friends, a new podcast from your favorite financial and investing commentators. This week, Michael Batnick, Allison Schrager, Sam Ro, and Downtown Josh Brown discuss: ►The stock market has actually gotten cheaper this year ►Labor has the upper hand ►Baby Bonds and Universal Basic Wealth ►What do we do with Chinese stocks? ►The social aspect of physically going...

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Más inyección de fondos en el deporte. Menos de 24 horas después de que se aprobara el acuerdo entre LaLiga y CVC para invertir 2.100 millones en el fútbol español, la UEFA da un paso adelante con otro macroplan: ultima un paquete de rescate de 6.000 millones de euros para ayudar a los clubes a recuperarse del impacto de la pandemia, según Bloomberg. Leer

The country’s biggest music streaming company must find a new business model

How an ex-BlackRock executive lost faith in sustainable finance, and why PRI says delay is not defeat

My end of week morning train WFH reads:

• MacKenzie Scott’s Money Bombs Are Single Handedly Reshaping America With almost $8.6 billion in gifts announced in just 12 months, Scott has vaulted to the tippy top of philanthropic giving, outspending the behemoth Gates and Ford Foundations’ annual grants — combined. But, for someone who is single handedly reshaping nonprofits, Scott, who declined to comment for this story, has only given the public glimpses into the thinking driving her decisions. (Bloomberg)

• Who Wants To Return To The Office? the question isn’t whether working from home will stick — it’s whether executives will take into account the findings of this widespread work-from-home experiment to reevaluate who the system is working for. (FiveThirtyEight)

• The Ultimate Diversifier: What Real Assets Are Gaining in Allocator Portfolios Infrastructure such as bridges and tunnels, plus farmland and other natural resources, is winning new favor. (Chief Investment Officer)

• Let’s Make A Deal: Who’s For Sale In Hollywood And For How Much? Studios behind hits like Godzilla Vs. Kong, La La Land and 8 Mile are ready to be gobbled up — and their price-tags are surprising. (Forbes)

• U.S. Inflation Is Normalizing: The temporary inflation spike associated with reopening is already beginning to fade as prices that were depressed during the pandemic continue to normalize and as consumer demand for motor vehicles continues to moderate.. (The Overshoot)

• This Is a Terrible Time for Savers In an upside-down world of financial markets, expected returns after inflation are at record lows. (New York Times)

• Smart Cities, Bad Metaphors, and a Better Urban Future Shannon Mattern’s new book, A City Is Not a Computer, digs into the data, dashboards, and language that keep people from building better, safer communities. (Wired)

• Reiki Can’t Possibly Work. So Why Does It? The energy therapy is now available in many hospitals. What its ascendance says about shifts in how American patients and doctors think about health care. We were putting adaptogens in our coffee, collagen in our smoothies, jade eggs in our vaginas. We were microdosing, supplementing, biohacking, juicing, cleansing, and generally trying to make ourselves immaculate from the inside out. (The Atlantic)

• America has a long history of vaccination mandates. Why should the worst plague in a century be any different? Ever since George Washington forced his troops to be inoculated against smallpox in 1777, Americans have routinely complied with vaccination mandates. Such mandates are, in fact, as American as apple pie. As Scientific American noted: “Every state and Washington, D.C., requires routine vaccinations, such as for measles, mumps and rubella, as a condition of school attendance.” (Washington Post) see also What Is Biden Waiting For? The Delta variant is making clear what the Administration should have done back in January: mandate vaccines, mandate passports and crack down on the denialists. Now time is running short. (Medium)

• This Boy Band Is the Joy That Hong Kong Needs Right Now The popularity of the group, called Mirror, has offered the city a rare burst of unity and pleasure after years of political upheaval. (New York Times)

Be sure to check out our Masters in Business interview this weekend with Greg Becker, CEO of Silicon Valley Bank. The bank has helped fund more than 30,000 start-ups, 50% of venture-backed tech and life science companies in the US, and 69% of U.S. VC-backed tech + life science companies with an IPO banked with SVB.

 

There’s a big shift happening in the housing market

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La vacuna Spikevax de Moderna genera anticuerpos neutralizantes contra las variantes Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon e Iota durante los seis meses posteriores a la segunda dosis, según un estudio publicado en publicado en Science que reafirma los buenos resultados hallados anteriormente. Leer

A history of squandered opportunity bodes ill for technology growth

Cars from the pre-war era are not where most of my automotive interests lays. But even I can appreciate the mechanical excellence and beauty of this giant Packard Twelve Convertible. It is an important milestone in America’s automobile history.

The car below was purchased new by Colonel Robert R. McCormick, owner of the Chicago Cubs and the Chicago Tribune. MSRP in 1939 was a heady $5,400. It was a chauffeur-driven model, and McCormick’s told his driver to get him from downtown Chicago to his home in Wheaton, Illinois in 45 minutes, which the big V12 was more than capable of.

Powered by a 473ci L-head V12 paired with a column-shifted three-speed manual transmission with overdrive, it made a big 175HP. The massive upright chromed grill, topped by the crystal eagle hood ornament, defines the elegant look of the car. This was the final year for Packard Twelve, the top-of-the-line production body style.

Only 446 were built in 1939, there are a dozen known left of the aptly named Twelve, making this a rare and desirable automobile.

These go for $100-200k, including recent sales og $170,500, $160,600, and $106,400. The version below was bid to $112,200, but RNM and was not sold. You can pick it up for $199k here.

 

Source: Bring A Trailer

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Investors can take their own risks but should receive what they were promised

It is rash to pretend that withdrawal of support for bond markets will be straightforward

The FTSE 100 made a modest gain as the spread of the delta variant caused concern and a second day of falls for oil, while Avon Protection plummeted on order delays.

One of Tesla’s most influential fund manager foes has dropped a long-standing short bet against the Elon Musk-led firm.

La multinacional con sede en Amer (Girona) tiene previsto fabricar 400 millones de dosis de su vacuna del Covid en 2022, la más avanzada en España, 0que ha conseguido el visto bueno de la Agencia Española de Medicamentos y Productos Sanitarios (AEMPS) para pasar a la fase de ensayos clínicos. Leer

The £19bn FTSE 100 investment giant dives into the debt market in bid to keep positively geared after a year of dramatic growth in its disruptive technology investments.

Así, Daniel Marburger, director General de coininvest.com nos ofrece 5 claves para profundizar en ello y tener en cuenta a la hora de invertir:

- El oro, nueva buena inversión. Según el experto, los españoles tendemos a invertir nuestro dinero en activos tradicionales como una vivienda o en terrenos. Pero hay vida más allá y muchos beneficios al invertir en metales preciosos. En el oro, por ejemplo, no tiene tarifas adicionales, ni comisiones, ni contratos. Es simple y puro.

- Una inversión a medio-largo plazo. No a corto. Según describe Daniel, en los últimos 5 años, una onza de oro ha aumentado casi un 80% su precio y la plata lo ha duplicado. Un impulso todavía más rápido para una cartera de inversiones fue el platino, cuyo precio subió un 100% el año pasado. Es una inversión que tiene que ser paciente pero que puede ofrecer excelente rentabilidad en plazos medios-largos.

- Pensar en la cantidad a invertir y en la calidad. Si se está buscando invertir grandes sumas, los lingotes son una excelente opción. Sus precios son un poco mejores por gramo de oro puro que en las barras más pequeñas. Y hay que tener en cuenta la calidad. Por ejemplo, las barras de la refinería suiza Valcambi serán más fáciles de revender a un precio más alto que las barras de refinerías menos conocidas. En cambio, si se desea invertir una cantidad menor, entonces debería considerar las monedas de oro.

- También es fundamental pensar si se desea tener un fácil acceso a las inversiones. Es importante tener en cuenta que la capacidad de fracción del oro es un factor fundamental a la hora de disponer de nuestro dinero en caso de necesitar liquidez. Tanto en opciones como el lingote, con un valor de unos 4.000 euros, como en barras de menos tamaño y, sobre todo, monedas, es muy sencillo disponer de esos formatos diferentes que se ajusten a las opciones que consideremos más prácticas según nuestras necesidades.

- Por último, es bueno comprar oro de distribuidores fiables. Hay que comprobar si son miembros de la LBMA (London Bullion Market Association). Garantizan los niveles de integridad y transparencia en la industria mundial de los metales, por lo que puedes estar seguro de que estás comprando a un distribuidor con buena reputación y que sigue los estándares de la industria.

“Invertir en metales preciosos hoy en día puede parecer algo del pasado, pero es una alternativa muy actual en cuanto a dinamismo y rentabilidad. Además, no hay que contar con un gran capital inversor y los diferentes formatos de compra permiten hacer adquisiciones modulares que nos den acceso un rápido al efectivo en caso de necesitarlo. Ahora que tenemos tiempo en vacaciones y que nos planteamos cómo vamos a abordar nuestras futuras inversiones, es un momento perfecto para valorar la compra de oro, plata o platino”, explica el CEO.

En general, el precio fluctúa con diferentes caídas y ahora es buen momento para comprar.

El ratio riesgo beneficio a obtener en caso de ruptura es un buen aliciente para plantearse una entrada en el valor.