8,000 Churches Closed in Rwanda

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background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.2; font-family: "Chronicle Display A", "Chronicle Display B", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rwanda Restricts Fasting as 8,000 Churches Closed in</h2><p class="deck spacer-inner-bottom-5" style="font-weight: inherit; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 0.8rem; line-height: 1.5; font-family: "Gotham A", "Gotham B", sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(57, 57, 57);">New law requires pastors to obtain theology degrees and forbids urging lengthy fasts.</p><div class="spacer-top-5" style="font-weight: inherit; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 5px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="byline js-authorView" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 0.75rem; line-height: 1.5; font-family: "Gotham A", "Gotham B", sans-serif; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-transform: uppercase; position: static;">IGNATIUS SSUUNA IN KIGALI</p><p class="article-postdate uppercase" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 0.75rem; line-height: 1.5; font-family: "Gotham A", "Gotham B", sans-serif; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-transform: uppercase; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); letter-spacing: 0.02em;">AUGUST 07, 2018 9:30 AM</p></div></div></div></div><p><img alt="Rwanda Restricts Fasting as 8,000 Churches Closed" class="spacer-top-5" src="https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/83011.jpg?w=400" srcset="https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/83011.jpg?w=800 2x" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 5px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%;" title="Rwanda Restricts Fasting as 8,000 Churches Closed" width="400"></p><div class="image-credit" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 0.55rem; line-height: 1.5; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Image: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/adam_jones/7689396056/in/album-72157630785425198/" style="text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Adam Jones, Ph.D. / Global Photo Archive / Flick</a></div><p class="text" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.7; font-family: "Chronicle SSm A", "Chronicle SSm B", serif; margin: 10px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="dropcap" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 6rem; line-height: 0.8; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(213, 27, 30); height: 80px; float: left; font-family: "Chronicle Display A", "Chronicle Display B", serif !important;">A</span>bout 8,000 official and unofficial churches, as well as 100 mosques, have been closed in Rwanda for <a class="" href="https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2018/may/rwanda-church-closures-weeding-church-plants.html" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(213, 27, 30);" target="_blank">failing to comply</a> with health, safety, and noise regulations. This includes 4 in 10 congregations belonging to a nationwide association of 3,300 Pentecostal churches.</p><p class="text" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.7; font-family: "Chronicle SSm A", "Chronicle SSm B", serif; margin: 10px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And authorities indicate such shutting down of houses of worship in the East African nation will continue until congregations meet the strict requirements of a new law adopted by Rwanda’s parliament on July 27.</p><p class="text" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.7; font-family: "Chronicle SSm A", "Chronicle SSm B", serif; margin: 10px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The latest requirement: Pastors must now have a degree in theological education from an accredited school. The law also prohibits church leaders from urging their followers to fast for lengthy periods—like Jesus’ 40 days in the wilderness—in order to better secure God’s blessing; authorities claim this is a form of starvation.</p><p class="text" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.7; font-family: "Chronicle SSm A", "Chronicle SSm B", serif; margin: 10px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Many churchgoers look at the new law as a form of harassment and restriction on freedom of worship. But many also <a class="" href="https://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/coe/rwanda-six-pastors-arrested-following-shutdown-700-churches/" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(213, 27, 30);" target="_blank">fear to speak out</a>, saying it’s a directive from the government and Christians should not oppose authorities.</p><p class="text" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.7; font-family: "Chronicle SSm A", "Chronicle SSm B", serif; margin: 10px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The law also requires churches and “prayer houses”—unofficial places where Christians gather to pray and worship—to explain their sources of funding, while donations received must be kept on a known bank account.</p><p class="text" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.7; font-family: "Chronicle SSm A", "Chronicle SSm B", serif; margin: 10px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lawmakers even debated imposing limits on how much churchgoers could tithe to their church, given the numerous complaints about pastors who collect money from impoverished worshipers while living luxurious lives. The Council of Protestant Churches in Rwanda even “<a class="" href="http://ktpress.rw/2017/11/protestant-leader-declares-war-against-immoral-pastors/" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(213, 27, 30);" target="_blank">declared war</a>” on such “bad pastors” last year.</p><p class="text" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.7; font-family: "Chronicle SSm A", "Chronicle SSm B", serif; margin: 10px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Robert Kayitare, a businessman who attends St. Peter’s Anglican church in Kigali’s Remera neighborhood, believes the law by the government will sort out such pastors. “The source of the money must be known and how the money collected from churchgoers spent should be known,” he told CT.</p><p class="text" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.7; font-family: "Chronicle SSm A", "Chronicle SSm B", serif; margin: 10px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“The government gets irritated when you start preaching the type of American prosperity gospel which many African preachers are learning from American television and YouTube,” Charles Mugisha, founder and chancellor of Africa College of Theology, recently <a class="" href="https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2018/may-web-only/rwanda-christian-church-shut-down.html" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(213, 27, 30);" target="_blank">told</a> CT’s Quick to Listen podcast. “The government becomes protective of its citizens if a church or preacher begins to manipulate it.”</p><p class="text" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.7; font-family: "Chronicle SSm A", "Chronicle SSm B", serif; margin: 10px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Anastase Shyaka, head of the Rwanda Governance Board (RGB), the government body in charge of regulating faith-based organizations, <a class="" href="https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2018/may/rwanda-church-closures-weeding-church-plants.html" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(213, 27, 30);" target="_blank">previously told CT</a> the government is not targeting churches. He said the closures are only aimed at keeping Rwandans who visit these churches safe, since some buildings are in poor condition and life-threatening.</p><p class="text" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.7; font-family: "Chronicle SSm A", "Chronicle SSm B", serif; margin: 10px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“The closures do not infringe on the freedom to worship, but rather address the alarming proliferation of places of worship in dilapidated and unhygienic conditions,” the RGB stated on July 27, “as well as troubling behavior of unscrupulous individuals masquerading as religious leaders.”</p><p class="text" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.7; font-family: "Chronicle SSm A", "Chronicle SSm B", serif; margin: 10px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The RGB, which drafted the new religion law, accused Rwandan religious leaders of <a class="" href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/26/africa/radio-station-shutdown-rwanda-africa/index.html" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(213, 27, 30);" target="_blank">insulting women</a> and other religions, and of forcing followers to fast “to the point of death from starvation.”</p><p class="text" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.7; font-family: "Chronicle SSm A", "Chronicle SSm B", serif; margin: 10px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The right to religion is guaranteed in Rwanda’s constitution, written in 2003 and amended in 2015. But the latest RGB report on faith-based organizations stated the constitution’s relevant Article 37 has led to the founding of too many churches and the establishment of too many religious denominations: 1,000 as of 2017, reports <em style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.5; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">KT Press</em>, a pro-government newspaper.</p><p class="text" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.7; font-family: "Chronicle SSm A", "Chronicle SSm B", serif; margin: 10px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“We discovered that the number of churches were bigger than the number of villages in the country,” Shyaka recently <a class="" href="http://ktpress.rw/2018/07/new-law-on-religious-institutions-due-next-week/" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(213, 27, 30);" target="_blank">told</a><em style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.5; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Inspiration on Sunday</em>, a morning program on pro-government KT Radio. “The number itself is not a problem. But in some buildings, three or four different denominations would hold prayer services at the same time, resulting in unbearable levels of noise and unsafe environment for occupants.”</p><p class="text" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.7; font-family: "Chronicle SSm A", "Chronicle SSm B", serif; margin: 10px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The new law amends Article 37 and its regulations on churches, mosques, and other faith-based organizations. World Watch Monitor <a class="" href="https://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/2018/07/more-than-8000-rwandan-churches-closed-following-government-directive/" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(213, 27, 30);" target="_blank">listed many of the changes</a>, including where churches must locate their toilets and how roofs, walls, parking lots, and other infrastructure must be constructed. Churches in turn have complained about the high cost of such improvements, as well as the short turnaround time allotted: 15 days.</p><p class="text" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.7; font-family: "Chronicle SSm A", "Chronicle SSm B", serif; margin: 10px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 17.6px;">Shyaka told </span><em style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Inspiration on Sunday</em><span style="font-size: 17.6px;"> that 14 percent of all churches closed nationwide had been allowed to reopen. For example, he said the Association of Pentecostal Churches of Rwanda had 1,381 of its 3,300 congregations closed. Pastor Charles Ndimubayo, leader of the association’s northern region, confirmed to CT that 300 have since reopened.</span><br></p><p class="text" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.7; font-family: "Chronicle SSm A", "Chronicle SSm B", serif; margin: 10px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Some religious leaders agree with the new law, believing that government intervention is indeed necessary to preserve the health and safety of churchgoers.</p><p class="text" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.7; font-family: "Chronicle SSm A", "Chronicle SSm B", serif; margin: 10px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pastor Jonas Matabaro, representative of the Restoration Church in Rwanda’s Northern Province, says the safety of churchgoers is important, and a degree in theology is necessary.</p><p class="text" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.7; font-family: "Chronicle SSm A", "Chronicle SSm B", serif; margin: 10px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I support the government’s action to have all poor structures used as prayer houses be closed. We need also to have pastors who are trained in theology, so as to teach the right doctrine,” he said. “Churchgoers and pastors ought to know the government is doing all this in good faith.”</p><p class="text" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.7; font-family: "Chronicle SSm A", "Chronicle SSm B", serif; margin: 10px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Other Christian leaders protest the move, saying preaching is a calling and not something necessarily learned from school. Example No. 1: Jesus.</p><p class="text" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.7; font-family: "Chronicle SSm A", "Chronicle SSm B", serif; margin: 10px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Jesus was a successful preacher, but he didn’t have a degree in theology as this government demands. Some of the disciples were simple fishermen,” the administrator of one of the <a class="" href="https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2011/december/pentecostalrwanda.html" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(213, 27, 30);" target="_blank">many Pentecostal churches</a> in Kigali, who declined to be named, told CT.</p><p class="text" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.7; font-family: "Chronicle SSm A", "Chronicle SSm B", serif; margin: 10px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bishop Murekezi Masasu, leader of the Christian Churches’ Forum in the Rubavu district of Rwanda’s Western Province, said the government’s intervention was timely because many of the unofficial prayer houses were in disgraceful condition and needed to be closed.</p><p class="text" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.7; font-family: "Chronicle SSm A", "Chronicle SSm B", serif; margin: 10px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"I don’t agree with some pastors who say the action is a form of harassment,” he said. “You cannot turn your house into a church and expect the government not to act.”</p><p class="text" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.7; font-family: "Chronicle SSm A", "Chronicle SSm B", serif; margin: 10px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But churches will need help with compliance. Evalister Mugabo, bishop of the Lutheran Church in Rwanda, <a class="" href="https://religionnews.com/2018/07/11/after-shuttering-700-churches-rwanda-proposes-stricter-clergy-guidelines/" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(213, 27, 30);" target="_blank">told</a> Religion News Service that many denominations lack the higher education resources and accreditation to deliver on what the law requires.</p><p class="text" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17.6px; line-height: 1.7; font-family: "Chronicle SSm A", "Chronicle SSm B", serif; margin: 10px 0px 25px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Most of the pastors [only] have certificates from local Bible schools,” he said. “Global missions must look at this as an emergency.”</p>

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<p>As Hiroshima observes 73rd anniversary of atomic bombing, UN notes ‘stalled’ progress on nuclear disarmament</p><p>Courtesy : UN News</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSL8d-85srUDruB0aYUg0xNSj47aQrXQxLENb7emL8hNTIf81O9wGwEkD5vj2hWCiDQHlLu7kDzfeM-Ttlyt5e1a3l4dCvSmiBQ_Px-kdZOO69WNEUCBzkPTaiO-SsaP70AyBOQ4PZGzY/s1600/%255BUNSET%255" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" data-original-height="" data-original-width="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSL8d-85srUDruB0aYUg0xNSj47aQrXQxLENb7emL8hNTIf81O9wGwEkD5vj2hWCiDQHlLu7kDzfeM-Ttlyt5e1a3l4dCvSmiBQ_Px-kdZOO69WNEUCBzkPTaiO-SsaP70AyBOQ4PZGzY/" /></a><br></p><p>UN Photo/Yoshito Matsushige</p><p>Injured civilians, having escaped the raging inferno, gathered on a pavement west of Miyuki-bashi in Hiroshima, Japan, about 11 a.m. on 6 August 1945</p><p>The world needs the continued moral leadership of the people of Hiroshima, the top United Nations disarmament official said on Monday, commemorating the 73rd anniversary of the atomic bombing that devastated the city while lamenting that after decades of momentum towards a nuclear-free world, “progress has stalled.”</p><p>“Tensions between nuclear-armed States are rising. Nuclear arsenals are being modernized and, in some cases, expanded,” said Izumi Nakamitsu, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, speaking on behalf of Secretary-General António Guterres at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony.</p><p>The 6 August 1945 bombing of Hiroshima by the United States, killed tens of thousands of people, many of whom succumbed to their injuries in subsequent months. Those who survived the bombing there, and at Nagasaki a few days later, are referred to in Japan as hibakusha</p><p>“It is a privilege to pay tribute to the citizens of Hiroshima and all those who perished in the blinding flash of nuclear destruction, and in the weeks, months and years that followed, and to stand in solidarity with the Hibakusha and their families,” continued Ms. Nakamitsu, underscoring that what had occurred on that day in 1945 “cannot and must not ever happen again.”</p><p>“The future of our children and of our children’s children depends upon it,” she stressed.</p><p>According to the UN disarmament chief, the legacy of Hiroshima is one of resilience: “The city we see today, this bustling metropolis, is testament to that fact,” she elaborated.  “You, the people of Hiroshima, are not only brave survivors of the atomic bomb, but courageous activists for peace and reconciliation.</p><p>Ms. Nakamitsu offered her sincere thanks to the people of Hiroshima for their decades of educating the world about “the threat nuclear weapons pose to our global, national and human security.”<br></p><p>She pointed to last year’s adoption of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons as demonstrating international support for permanently ending the nuclear threat, as well as frustration at the slow pace of achieving this goal.</p><p>“World leaders must return to dialogue and diplomacy, to a common path towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons and a safer and more secure world for all,” she stated.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwJ3He4NzXu-ljYKmNKmRr7e20S3GJfrUEf8L8ED2putxVNkvehNNeMAC_s2RRHST2Ohoab0qa0F1kTAIbM9_MhbdVL6Lc9OGa4M5XlCVfOkPNPJjULYuyf8m0DxxG6aP73rdcvLF2SMI/s1600/%255BUNSET%255" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" data-original-height="" data-original-width="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwJ3He4NzXu-ljYKmNKmRr7e20S3GJfrUEf8L8ED2putxVNkvehNNeMAC_s2RRHST2Ohoab0qa0F1kTAIbM9_MhbdVL6Lc9OGa4M5XlCVfOkPNPJjULYuyf8m0DxxG6aP73rdcvLF2SMI/" /></a><br></p><p>UN Photo/Yuichiro Sasaki</p><p>The remains of a wristwatch found in the ruins of Hiroshima, Japan, records the moment of the atomic bomb explosion at 8:15 a.m. on 6 August 1945.</p><p>The Secretary-General is leaving UN Headquarters in New York on Monday night, to take part in the 73rd Nagasaki Peace Ceremony on Thursday.</p><p>He is also due to meet Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and with Foreign Minister Taro Kono during his visit, to honour the hibakusha, and deliver his message that leaders must return to dialogue and diplomacy.</p><p>NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT</p><p><br></p><br>

73rd anniversary of atomic bombing "Hiroshima observes"

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Happy single and married Life, Don't miss this opportunity

<p>√Are you a lady?</p><p>√Are you single or married ?</p><p>√Are you tired of just existing and not living?</p><p>√Do you find it difficult to influence people with your passion?</p><p>√You desire to make a significant difference in your world?</p><p>√You want to model your character  in line with the lady of influence?</p><p>√ Are you hungry for more of Jesus?</p><p>√You want to learn what it takes to influence your man?</p><p>√You want God to use you but you have no idea how?</p><p>√Or you feel God has given you a platform to make a difference and you desire to make the best use of it.</p><p>Then this program is just for you, I mean you you reading this post.</p><p>You cannot afford to miss this program. Always a time of encounter.</p><p>Don't let me continue ooooo</p><p>Too much to write</p><p>You see Influence is just like salt shaken out ,its hard to see but its flavour is hard to miss.</p><p>We are the salt of the earth. A city set upon a hill cannot be hidden.</p><p>By the time you are back home you will discover the hope,strength, and encouragement to be a Lady of Influence within your world .</p><p>God Bless you.</p><p>©Grace Diyaolu</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2OFpmMBW1EE4rpJIf-1Pt1U_UkLle6KVGP2VqPlQ-kjqq-eYPJOjgk0sdXr7nPi2Bzmp9uu34WjwZZ6HiZs7s5q6Tmx0bOhqa6jT2NBEm3XiLtk6zpLTp3tdWKCZdJ-XYFDTg5_vuMyA/s1600/%255BUNSET%255" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" data-original-height="" data-original-width="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2OFpmMBW1EE4rpJIf-1Pt1U_UkLle6KVGP2VqPlQ-kjqq-eYPJOjgk0sdXr7nPi2Bzmp9uu34WjwZZ6HiZs7s5q6Tmx0bOhqa6jT2NBEm3XiLtk6zpLTp3tdWKCZdJ-XYFDTg5_vuMyA/" /></a><br></p>

Happy single and married Life, Don't miss this opportunity

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Earth at risk of becoming 'hothouse' if tipping point reached,

<p>Earth at risk of becoming 'hothouse' if tipping point reached, report warns</p><p>By Euan McKirdy, CNN</p><p>Updated at 0747 GMT (1547 HKT) August 7, 2018</p><p>Courtesy : <b>Driftxposa</b></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHvYtaa_fEN1JOUbQi9PsmiBfxhKCfKycut6AztnT2WF1DbbLNCsNrQHtBmjZHrYVJqS-1unD2ogiyMo8pbNDI6mTQqEMgncyKpA-Axom8S7f4Q9kr3EUtya2BaJbiluXd_WmvMsgGgf8/s1600/%255BUNSET%255" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" data-original-height="" data-original-width="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHvYtaa_fEN1JOUbQi9PsmiBfxhKCfKycut6AztnT2WF1DbbLNCsNrQHtBmjZHrYVJqS-1unD2ogiyMo8pbNDI6mTQqEMgncyKpA-Axom8S7f4Q9kr3EUtya2BaJbiluXd_WmvMsgGgf8/" /></a><br></p><p>(CNN) — Scientists are warning that a domino effect will kick if global temperatures rise more than 2°C above pre-industrial levels, leading to "hothouse" conditions and higher sea levels, making some areas on Earth uninhabitable.</p><p>The report, "Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene," published Monday in the American Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, said "hothouse" temperatures could stabilize 4°C to 5°C (39 to 41 Fahrenheit) higher than pre-industrial levels.</p><p>"Human emissions of greenhouse gas are not the sole determinant of temperature on Earth. Our study suggests that human-induced global warming of 2°C may trigger other Earth system processes, often called 'feedbacks,' that can drive further warming -- even if we stop emitting greenhouse gases," lead author Will Steffen of the </p><p><b><u>Australian National University said</u></b></p><p>Hotter temperatures could result in sea level rise up to 60 meters (32 to 197 ft) from today's shorelines, swamping coastal populations and forcing communities inland. This summer dozens of people have died in wildfires and heat waves from the US to Asia, giving the world an insight into what could lie ahead.</p><p></p><p>The report says that if the "threshold" -- a theoretical point-of-no-return -- is crossed, this "would lead to a much higher global average temperature than any interglacial in the past 1.2 million years and to sea levels significantly higher than at any time in the Holocene," referring to the geological age which began at the end of the last ice age, around 12,000 years ago</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicRvt5ZbVpylNBtLlZF9k-DYjLfcqrZALmiwtxd7yAphgI51uUhnesaL4xQPx9sJhn5OGB6gOVs87BF2mRcnhLW7ySj8Q3JMU5MrkCYckCZTp6BoURT2dapqPjF5muSLO4KSR7CLnbA0s/s1600/%255BUNSET%255" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" data-original-height="" data-original-width="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicRvt5ZbVpylNBtLlZF9k-DYjLfcqrZALmiwtxd7yAphgI51uUhnesaL4xQPx9sJhn5OGB6gOVs87BF2mRcnhLW7ySj8Q3JMU5MrkCYckCZTp6BoURT2dapqPjF5muSLO4KSR7CLnbA0s/" /></a><br></p><p>Related Article: Our climate plans are in pieces as killer summer shreds records</p><p>Many scientists argue that we have entered a new geological era, the Anthropocene, in which human activity is directly affecting the planet.</p><p>Katherine Richardson of the University of Copenhagen, one of the report's co-authors, told CNN the idea of a tipping point is not new. "We've always realized there might be a point of no return," she said.</p><p>"The implications are that if we can't stop it we're in a hell of a mess. Our societies could not continue the way they are now with an average temperature increase of 4°C to 5°C (and) 10 to 60 meter sea level rises. It would simply be unbearable for our society."</p><p>"Avoiding this scenario requires a redirection of human actions from exploitation to stewardship of the Earth system," Steffen said.</p><p>More than 200 countries pledged to take action on climate change under the Paris Accord struck in 2015. The agreement pushed signatories to work together to keep temperatures from rising more than 2°C above pre-industrial levels. However, there are no binding targets, and the US later pulled out, dealing a blow to global efforts to form a united front against climate change.</p><p><b>Opinion: Clearly the climate crisis is upon us</b></p><p><b><u>Key interactions</u></b></p><p>The report highlights the consequences of how the interactions between a variety of climate change factors, such as the loss or weakening of carbon sinks, forest dieback, ice retreat and increased bacteria respiration, could combine to form a feedback loop which accelerates climate change.</p><p>"These tipping elements can potentially act like a row of dominoes," said Johan Rockstrom, co-director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and another of co-author of the report.</p><p>"Once one is pushed over, it pushes Earth towards another. It may be very difficult or impossible to stop the whole row of dominoes from tumbling over. Places on Earth will become uninhabitable if 'Hothouse Earth' becomes the reality.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXqJl37kEo5GbRF5ZLT2NqrC-xE6DgcMz3KTHoCstiWOAVZxeq80HRKHCzHbjf0OkhLW3E5UigC28xaFhG-RBGEvnSWxpg0G98Nr6xlz0uux1PB83EeMy_Y6AfxzH6iGGYVG5uwne9jWk/s1600/%255BUNSET%255" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" data-original-height="" data-original-width="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXqJl37kEo5GbRF5ZLT2NqrC-xE6DgcMz3KTHoCstiWOAVZxeq80HRKHCzHbjf0OkhLW3E5UigC28xaFhG-RBGEvnSWxpg0G98Nr6xlz0uux1PB83EeMy_Y6AfxzH6iGGYVG5uwne9jWk/" /></a><br></p><p>2018 is on pace to be the 4th-hottest year on record</p><p><b>Raging fires, heatwaves</b></p><p>The report comes as much of the northern hemisphere struggles with deadly heatwaves and raging wildfires, which most scientists attribute to man-made climate change.</p><p>Richardson says that while the current weather can't in isolation be used as proof of the effects of climate change, the summer's extreme heat means that people may be more receptive to the urgency of the situation.</p><p>"People getting a taste of the heatwaves, this is what climate change is all about," she said.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh616JUkGctVFlI16zgFWOhlaIii0E95wARkP8NIKSkDSTlL52ppBKv3luovbh8G0MwLpX3uFAEVKE9ESm-p3neE3EK4TV1zBXZK1_V7OhQVdvS6OzJJNrfTAky6qS4DLxLtMAclPrimF0/s1600/%255BUNSET%255" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" data-original-height="" data-original-width="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh616JUkGctVFlI16zgFWOhlaIii0E95wARkP8NIKSkDSTlL52ppBKv3luovbh8G0MwLpX3uFAEVKE9ESm-p3neE3EK4TV1zBXZK1_V7OhQVdvS6OzJJNrfTAky6qS4DLxLtMAclPrimF0/" /></a></p><p>Related Article: Deadly heat waves becoming more common due to climate change</p><p>"What this is all about is humanity is recognizing the fact that we need to manage our resources at a global level... When we can see that we can impact the climate, then it becomes part of our responsibility to maintain the earth system.</p><p>To reverse this potential domino effect, climate change needs to be combated on all fronts, the report says, with "collective human action" is required to steer us away from this potential threshold, including "decarbonization of the global economy, enhancement of biosphere carbon sinks, behavioral changes, technological innovations, new governance arrangements, and transformed social values."</p><p>Richardson said that rather than considering the report a "doomsday prophet," it should give hope that if action is taken now, the world can avert the most dire predictions.</p><p>"I think this paper has a positive message. If we understand this system and how it works, then we have the power to go in and trick the system.</p><p>"Knowledge is power -- the more we know the more possibilities to manage it to our positive outcome (we have,)" she said.</p><p>Gulf Stream system at its weakest in 1,600 years, study shows</p><p><br></p>

Earth at risk of becoming 'hothouse' if tipping point reached,

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Ketamine is a powerful anesthetic medication used in hospitals

<h1 style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.25; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; font-size: 26px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: CNN, Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">Ketamine offers lifeline for people with severe depression, suicidal thoughts</h1><div style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: CNN, Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><p class="cnnds_txt_grey_small" data-type="byline-area" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 8px; color: rgb(115, 115, 115);">Courtesy : <b><u>Driftxposa</u></b></p><p class="cnnds_txt_grey_small" data-type="byline-area" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 8px; color: rgb(115, 115, 115);"><b><u><br></u></b></p><p class="cnnds_txt_grey_small" data-type="byline-area" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 8px; color: rgb(115, 115, 115);">By <a href="https://edition-m.cnn.com/profiles/ben-tinker" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;">Ben Tinker</a> and <a href="https://edition-m.cnn.com/profiles/sanjay-gupta-profile" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;">Dr. Sanjay Gupta</a>, CNN</p><p class="cnnds_txt_grey_small" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(115, 115, 115);"><span class="timingText" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Updated at</span> 1236 GMT (2036 HKT) August 4, 2018</p><p class="cnnds_txt_grey_small" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(115, 115, 115);"><br></p><p class="cnnds_txt_grey_small" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(115, 115, 115);"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_rLyaANZiMDIpGxErYlvzpvCGrexWRAMzApVN84YP3rv5DAPPVZU17HE5m2IS0mlDB5isr8jMX17T9hREkA-3ji2D-VBQz4ffuX-7hkI5DXm0MXxXMimlYnYTB1wnL_MdODEOO6FFlSs/s1600/%255BUNSET%255" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" data-original-height="" data-original-width="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_rLyaANZiMDIpGxErYlvzpvCGrexWRAMzApVN84YP3rv5DAPPVZU17HE5m2IS0mlDB5isr8jMX17T9hREkA-3ji2D-VBQz4ffuX-7hkI5DXm0MXxXMimlYnYTB1wnL_MdODEOO6FFlSs/" /></a><br></p></div><div class="_53039000 storyHighlightsGlobal styles_storyHighlights__1IpdF _2df25e03" style="box-sizing: inherit; padding: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px; border-width: 2px 1px 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 0, 0) rgb(230, 230, 230) rgb(230, 230, 230); border-image: initial; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: CNN, Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><ul class="styles_list__1_Bwk" style="box-sizing: inherit; list-style: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><li class="styles_highlight__1bpMD cnnds_txt_small" data-area="normal-highlight" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 4px 8px; font-size: 14px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230);">Ketamine is a powerful anesthetic medication used in hospitals</li><li class="styles_highlight__1bpMD cnnds_txt_small" data-area="normal-highlight" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 4px; font-size: 14px; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 0px;">Scientific studies show promise in treating severe depression</li></ul></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: inherit; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: CNN, Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span data-type="sourceText" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Mount Horeb, Wisconsin (CNN)— </span><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">A few months ago, Alan Ferguson decided he was ready to die -- for the third time. In 2014, he attempted suicide twice, and the persistent thoughts of "I need to be dead" were echoing in his brain once again.</span></div><div class="" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: CNN, Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: inherit; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: CNN, Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">Now 54 years old, Ferguson was diagnosed with <a href="https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/depression/index.shtml" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;" target="_blank">clinical depression<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"></span></a><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"></span>when he was 18. Since then, he estimates, he's been prescribed more than a dozen medications -- <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0087089/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;" target="_blank">SSRIs, SNRIs, tricyclic antidepressants</a> -- all to little or no avail.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: inherit; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: CNN, Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">"I never got to the point that I thought, 'OK, I'm feeling good,' " he said. "It was always, 'OK, this is tolerable.' But yet those thoughts [of wanting to die] were still there."</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: inherit; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: CNN, Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">If you suspect someone may be suicidal:</span></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: inherit; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: CNN, Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">1. Do not leave the person alone.</span></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: inherit; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: CNN, Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">2. Remove any firearms, alcohol, drugs or sharp objects that could be used in a suicide attempt.</span></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: inherit; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: CNN, Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">3. Call the U.S. National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).</span></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: inherit; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: CNN, Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">4. Take the person to an emergency room or seek help from a medical or mental health professional.</span></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: inherit; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: CNN, Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Source: American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. For more tips and warning signs,</span><a href="http://www.afsp.org/preventing-suicide/risk-factors-and-warning-signs" style="font-size: 14px; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;" target="_blank"> click here.</a></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: inherit; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: CNN, Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">In early May, Ferguson abruptly stopped taking all of his medications, quit his job and gave away his dog, Zeke. That evening, he called his sister, Linda.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: inherit; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: CNN, Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">"It was a very good conversation," he said. "Linda<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;"> </span>and I disagree on a lot of stuff, and that night I avoided the hot-button topics because I did not want her to have bad memories or bad thoughts of what I thought was going to end up being our last conversation."</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: inherit; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: CNN, Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">As luck or fate or professional intuition would have it, on a prescheduled call the very next day, Ferguson's psychiatrist offered to refer him to a ketamine clinic in Milwaukee, about an hour and a half from his home.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: inherit; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: CNN, Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK470357/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;" target="_blank">Ketamine</a> is a powerful medication used in hospitals primarily as an anesthetic, but <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4382138/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); transition: color 0.4s ease; outline: 0px;" target="_blank">recent scientific studies</a> have shown significant promise with treatment-resistant depression and suicidal ideation.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: inherit; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: CNN, Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">Ketamine is also used recreationally, and illegally, as a club drug known as "Special K." It generates an intense high and dissociative effects.</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: inherit; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: CNN, Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">"I knew of the drug from having been a police officer, so I knew of its street use -- illicit use -- but I'm a pretty open-minded person too, and after all the traditional medications I've been on with no success, I thought, 'Well, maybe they're on to something here with this,' " Ferguson said. "I wasn't worried about trying something I had never tried before. I was worried about trying something else that wasn't going to work."</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: inherit; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: CNN, Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">A last hope</span></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: inherit; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: CNN, Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">Ferguson put off his plans to end his life for another week and made his way to <a href="http://www.ketaminemilwaukee.com/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;" target="_blank">Ketamine Milwaukee</a>. The clinic operates once a week, on Fridays, in a space subleased from a weight-loss clinic in a nondescript strip mall just outside the city</div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: inherit; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: CNN, Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcD9yW5egvRKOeTz8XMFmxKm2xhyWN1ni8or2PXZK9CYlif7hyWorLpTZ7_RJQ88TDIfUbcvUoY0rrabwrgnT8N61KfVgqqz85i5-zMXpH4HlRK875cQaGwvJ3OqaWwxYpCxifda5abYA/s1600/%255BUNSET%255" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" data-original-height="" data-original-width="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcD9yW5egvRKOeTz8XMFmxKm2xhyWN1ni8or2PXZK9CYlif7hyWorLpTZ7_RJQ88TDIfUbcvUoY0rrabwrgnT8N61KfVgqqz85i5-zMXpH4HlRK875cQaGwvJ3OqaWwxYpCxifda5abYA/" /></a><br></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: inherit; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><font color="#262626" face="CNN, Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif">Related Article: Party drug ketamine closer to approval for depression</font></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: inherit; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><a href="http://www.ketaminemilwaukee.com/aboutus.html" style="font-family: CNN, Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); transition: color 0.4s ease;" target="_blank">Dr. Kevin Kane</a><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: CNN, Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">, a practicing anesthesiologist, is Ketamine Milwaukee's medical director. Referring to the fact that there haven't been any new classes of drugs developed to treat depression in decades, Kane said that using ketamine to successfully treat the disorder's most stubborn cases might just be "the biggest breakthrough in mental health in the last 50 years." He estimates that it is effective for 70% of patients with treatment-resistant depression.</span></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: inherit; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: CNN, Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">"It's indicated right now for ... somebody who has tried and failed at least two medications, but that's really not who we're seeing," Kane said. Instead, the patients who seek his care have tried more medications than they can count. Some of them have been depressed for as long as they can remember.</span></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: inherit; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><span style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: CNN, Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;">"The people we're seeing aren't walking off the street because [they're] feeling a little down," he said. "They've been struggling without relief for a long time."</span></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: inherit; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: CNN, Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><br></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: inherit; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: CNN, Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><br></div><div class="styles_BodyText__195s6 _9db439e9 speakable" style="box-sizing: inherit; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: CNN, Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif;"><br></div><div class="_53039000 " style="box-sizing: inherit; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; margin-bottom: 20px; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: CNN, Helvetica, Arial, Utkal, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div id="ad_rect_atf_02" class="ad-ad_rect_atf_02 _405de6b1 _146ce769 _18afb79b" data-google-query-id="COeX4aLr09wCFUiB7QodJo8EcA" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 100%; text-align: center; overflow: hidden; margin: 0px auto 20px;"><div id="google_ads_iframe_8663477/CNNi/health/leaf/vls_1__container__" style="box-sizing: inherit; border: 0pt none; display: inline-block; width: 300px; height: 250px;"><iframe frameborder="0" src="https://tpc.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-29/html/container.html" id="google_ads_iframe_8663477/CNNi/health/leaf/vls_1" title="3rd party ad content" name="" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" width="300" height="250" data-is-safeframe="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-width: 0px; border-style: initial; vertical-align: bottom;"></iframe></div></div></div>

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<h1 class="g1-mega g1-mega-1st entry-title" itemprop="headline" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 1.80203rem; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(230, 230, 230); line-height: 1.067; font-family: Poppins, Roboto, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.05em; clear: both;">The 10 Most Legendary Investors Who Have Ever Lived</h1><h2 class="vc_custom_heading" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 1.42383rem; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(230, 230, 230); line-height: 1.125; font-family: Poppins, Roboto, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.025em;"><p class="entry-meta entry-meta-m" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; 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padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18.6px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 19.8px; background-color: transparent;">"</span>Finding the best person or the best organization to invest your money is   one of the most important financial decisions you’ll ever make.”</strong></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18.6px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Age: 74 , Cofounder of <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18.6px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-weight: bold;">PIMCO<br style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></strong>Assets Under Management (AUM): <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18.6px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-weight: bold;">$1.75 trillion</strong></p></div></div><div class="wpb_single_image wpb_content_element vc_align_center" style="margin: 0px 0px 35px; 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text-decoration: none; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; color: rgb(171, 171, 171); font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px;">twitter</a></p></div></div><div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element " style="margin: 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(230, 230, 230); color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18.6px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">This heavy-hitter is known as “the King of Bonds” – referring to his wild success in fixed-income investments that has led to him becoming known as one of the best investors of all time. Bill Gross founded a little investment management company called PIMCO, which currently has $1.77 trillion in assets under management (AUM). At one point in time, Mr. Gross was the biggest bond fund manager (by value) at one point in time, and PIMCO actually sunk when he moved to work for Janus Capital Group back in 2014.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18.6px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Bill Gross is a different kind of big-time investor, and warns would-be capitalists against investing in “zombie corporations” – by putting money into the real economy with corporations that you feel good about both ethically and financially. He also stressed diversification and taking chances that are rooted in exhaustive research, as well as maintaining enough liquid cash on the side.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18.6px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><br></p><h2 class="vc_custom_heading" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 1.42383rem; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 1.125; font-family: Poppins, Roboto, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.025em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><u>Peter Lynch</u></h2><div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element " style="margin: 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Famous Quote:<br><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-weight: bold;">“Your investor’s edge is not something you get from Wall Street experts. It’s something you already have. You can outperform the experts if you use your edge by investing in companies or industries you already understand.”</strong></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Age: 74 , Managed <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-weight: bold;">Fidelity Investments</strong><br>Assets Under Management (AUM): <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-weight: bold;">$2.4 trillion</strong></p></div></div><div class="wpb_single_image wpb_content_element vc_align_center" style="margin: 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: center;"><figure class="wpb_wrapper vc_figure" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: top; background: transparent; display: inline-block; position: relative; max-width: 100%;"><div class="vc_single_image-wrapper vc_box_border_grey" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: top; background: transparent; display: inline-block; max-width: 100%;"><img alt="" class="vc_single_image-img attachment-large lazyloaded" data-expand="1" data-src="https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/peter_lynch.png" data-srcset="https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/peter_lynch.png 562w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/peter_lynch-300x247.png 300w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/peter_lynch-364x299.png 364w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/peter_lynch-58x48.png 58w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/peter_lynch-117x96.png 117w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/peter_lynch-313x257.png 313w" height="462" sizes="(max-width: 562px) 100vw, 562px" src="https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/peter_lynch.png" srcset="https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/peter_lynch.png 562w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/peter_lynch-300x247.png 300w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/peter_lynch-364x299.png 364w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/peter_lynch-58x48.png 58w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/peter_lynch-117x96.png 117w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/peter_lynch-313x257.png 313w" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: top; background: transparent; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.175s ease-in-out;" width="562"></div></figure></div><div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element content-img-src" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative; top: -20px;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; color: rgb(171, 171, 171);">Image source: <a href="https://twitter.com/peterlynchstock" rel="noopener" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; color: rgb(171, 171, 171); font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px;" target="_blank">Twitter</a></p></div></div><div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element " style="margin: 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">When it comes to playing it safe, index funds that encapsulate the market as a whole have been very solid investments over the years. For decades, diversified portfolios have been fattening up a lot of people’s retirement funds – thanks to the overall global growth that we’ve witnessed (interrupted by some sporadic recessions). The S&P500 Index has done very well, and only some of the most talented investors around have managed to generate better returns – and you can include Peter Lynch in that list.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Lynch is known mostly from his management of the Fidelity Magellan fund, where he beat the S&P500’s annual growth for 11 of the 13 years that he was there (up until 1990). He consistently achieved more than double the index’s yearly returns and helped lift the organization’s assets from $18 million to $14 billion in value. This legendary investor coined the phrase “invest in what you know” – which I bet you’ve heard before!</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><br></p><h2 class="vc_custom_heading" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 1.42383rem; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 1.125; font-family: Poppins, Roboto, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.025em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><u>Warren Buffett</u></h2><div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element " style="margin: 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Famous Quote:<br><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-weight: bold;">“We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.”</strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Age: 87 , CEO of <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-weight: bold;">Berkshire Hathaway<br style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></strong>Assets Under Management (AUM): <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-weight: bold;">$702.1 billion</strong></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Twitter: @WarrenBuffett (1.4 m followers)</p></div></div><div class="wpb_single_image wpb_content_element vc_align_center" style="margin: 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; 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padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: top; background: transparent; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.175s ease-in-out;" width="662"></div></figure></div><div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element content-img-src" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative; top: -20px;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; color: rgb(171, 171, 171);">Image source: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:P071811PS-0254_(5951720542).jpg" rel="noopener" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; color: rgb(171, 171, 171); font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px;" target="_blank">wikimedia</a></p></div></div><div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element " style="margin: 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">This is a name that you’ve certainly heard before: Warren Buffett. Across the globe, he is widely known as being the most successful investor in history – mostly because of the small amount of money he started out with (he is currently worth close to $85 billion). Mr. Buffett is referenced constantly in all sorts of financial publications, and investor hopefuls take his advice extremely seriously.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">If you open up the front pages of news sites like Business Insider or Forbes, you are likely to see a link with Buffett’s name mentioned – and there is a reason for that. He heads Berkshire Hathaway, and literally makes markets move wildly in either direction by just making a simple comment. His students have learned to understand the value of companies by paying attention to earnings conference calls and understanding their balance sheets – as well as only evaluating the price of a share after properly having confidence in the organization.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><br></p><h2 class="vc_custom_heading" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 1.42383rem; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 1.125; font-family: Poppins, Roboto, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.025em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><u>John “Jack” Bogle</u></h2><div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element " style="margin: 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="font-size: 19.8px; background-color: transparent;">Famous Quote:</span><br><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-weight: bold;">“The grim irony of investing is that we investors as a group not only don’t get what we pay for, we get precisely what we don’t pay for.”</strong></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Age: 89 , Founded The <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-weight: bold;">Vanguard Group<br style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></strong>Assets Under Management (AUM): <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-weight: bold;">$5.1 trillion</strong></p></div></div><div class="wpb_single_image wpb_content_element vc_align_center" style="margin: 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: center;"><figure class="wpb_wrapper vc_figure" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: top; background: transparent; display: inline-block; position: relative; max-width: 100%;"><div class="vc_single_image-wrapper vc_box_border_grey" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: top; background: transparent; display: inline-block; max-width: 100%;"><img alt="" class="vc_single_image-img attachment-large lazyloaded" data-expand="1" data-src="https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/John_C._Bogle.jpg" data-srcset="https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/John_C._Bogle.jpg 865w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/John_C._Bogle-300x200.jpg 300w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/John_C._Bogle-768x511.jpg 768w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/John_C._Bogle-364x242.jpg 364w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/John_C._Bogle-758x505.jpg 758w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/John_C._Bogle-608x405.jpg 608w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/John_C._Bogle-72x48.jpg 72w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/John_C._Bogle-144x96.jpg 144w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/John_C._Bogle-313x208.jpg 313w" height="441" sizes="(max-width: 662px) 100vw, 662px" src="https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/John_C._Bogle.jpg" srcset="https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/John_C._Bogle.jpg 865w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/John_C._Bogle-300x200.jpg 300w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/John_C._Bogle-768x511.jpg 768w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/John_C._Bogle-364x242.jpg 364w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/John_C._Bogle-758x505.jpg 758w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/John_C._Bogle-608x405.jpg 608w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/John_C._Bogle-72x48.jpg 72w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/John_C._Bogle-144x96.jpg 144w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/John_C._Bogle-313x208.jpg 313w" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: top; background: transparent; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.175s ease-in-out;" width="662"></div></figure></div><div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element content-img-src" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative; top: -20px;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; color: rgb(171, 171, 171);">Image source: <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_C._Bogle.jpg" rel="noopener" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; color: rgb(171, 171, 171); font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px;" target="_blank">wikimedia</a></p></div></div><div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element " style="margin: 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">This investor is an absolute legend in that he founded a company that is essentially a household institution at this point in time: The Vanguard Group. Most Americans at least recognize this name as a source of low-cost mutual fund investments, but John “Jack” Bogle is known for so much more than that. In fact, Fortune magazine named him as one of the “four investment giants of the 20th century” back in 1999, and his book “Common Sense on Mutual Funds: New Imperatives for the Intelligent Investor” is a widely-read classic that’s highly regarded in the investment community.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Bogle is perhaps most noted for founding the first index mutual fund that was available to the general public – which happened in 1976 when he founded the Vanguard Investment Trust, which would later become the Vanguard 500 Index Fund.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><br></p><h2 class="vc_custom_heading" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 1.42383rem; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 1.125; font-family: Poppins, Roboto, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.025em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><u>Bill Miller</u></h2><div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element " style="margin: 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Famous Quote:<br><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-weight: bold;">“Value investing means really asking what are the best values, and not assuming that because something looks expensive that it is, or assuming that because a stock is down in price and trades at low multiples that it is a bargain”</strong></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Age: 68 , former Chief Investing Officer of <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-weight: bold;">Legg Mason Capital Management<br style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></strong>Assets Under Management (AUM): <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-weight: bold;">$752.3 billion</strong></p></div></div><div class="wpb_single_image wpb_content_element vc_align_center" style="margin: 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: center;"><figure class="wpb_wrapper vc_figure" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: top; background: transparent; display: inline-block; position: relative; max-width: 100%;"><div class="vc_single_image-wrapper vc_box_border_grey" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: top; background: transparent; display: inline-block; max-width: 100%;"><img alt="" class="vc_single_image-img attachment-large lazyloaded" data-expand="1" data-src="https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/gettyimages-626919420-1024x754.jpg" data-srcset="https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/gettyimages-626919420-1024x754.jpg 1024w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/gettyimages-626919420-300x221.jpg 300w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/gettyimages-626919420-768x566.jpg 768w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/gettyimages-626919420-364x268.jpg 364w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/gettyimages-626919420-758x558.jpg 758w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/gettyimages-626919420-608x448.jpg 608w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/gettyimages-626919420-1152x848.jpg 1152w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/gettyimages-626919420-65x48.jpg 65w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/gettyimages-626919420-130x96.jpg 130w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/gettyimages-626919420-313x230.jpg 313w" height="487" sizes="(max-width: 662px) 100vw, 662px" src="https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/gettyimages-626919420-1024x754.jpg" srcset="https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/gettyimages-626919420-1024x754.jpg 1024w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/gettyimages-626919420-300x221.jpg 300w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/gettyimages-626919420-768x566.jpg 768w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/gettyimages-626919420-364x268.jpg 364w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/gettyimages-626919420-758x558.jpg 758w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/gettyimages-626919420-608x448.jpg 608w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/gettyimages-626919420-1152x848.jpg 1152w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/gettyimages-626919420-65x48.jpg 65w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/gettyimages-626919420-130x96.jpg 130w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/gettyimages-626919420-313x230.jpg 313w" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: top; background: transparent; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.175s ease-in-out;" width="662"></div></figure></div><div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element content-img-src" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative; top: -20px;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; color: rgb(171, 171, 171);">Image source: <a href="https://letstock.net/" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; color: rgb(171, 171, 171); font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px;">url to replace</a></p></div></div><div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element " style="margin: 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">One short phrase comes to mind when one thinks of Bill Miller: track record. When it comes to winning streaks, Mr. Miller is one of the most widely-known successes in the investment community. For 15 solid years, between 1991 and 2005, his Legg Mason Value Trust beat the S&P500’s yearly return. Back in 1999, he was named the “Fund Manager of the Decade” by Morningstar.com.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Miller successfully grew his fund from a measly $750 million to over $20 billion (assets under management) up until 2006. Even last year he was cranking out similar success: his Opportunity Trust beat the S&P500 by nearly double at certain points last year. He is considered to be a value investor, but heavily believes that any stock has the potential to be a value stock “if it trades at a discount to its intrinsic value.”</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><br></p><h2 class="vc_custom_heading" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 1.42383rem; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 1.125; font-family: "Abril Fatface"; letter-spacing: -0.025em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><u>Hui Ka Yan</u></h2><div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element " style="margin: 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Famous Quote:<br><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-weight: bold;">“We should focus investment on youth development.”</strong></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Age: 59, Founded <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-weight: bold;">Evergrande Real Estate Group<br style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></strong>Assets Under Management (AUM): <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-weight: bold;">$275 billion</strong></p></div></div><div class="wpb_single_image wpb_content_element vc_align_center" style="margin: 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: center;"><figure class="wpb_wrapper vc_figure" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: top; background: transparent; display: inline-block; position: relative; max-width: 100%;"><div class="vc_single_image-wrapper vc_box_border_grey" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: top; background: transparent; display: inline-block; max-width: 100%;"><img alt="" class="vc_single_image-img attachment-large lazyloaded" data-expand="1" data-src="https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/יומ.png" data-srcset="https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/יומ.png 269w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/יומ-221x300.png 221w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/יומ-35x48.png 35w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/יומ-71x96.png 71w" height="365" sizes="(max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px" src="https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/%D7%99%D7%95%D7%9E.png" srcset="https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/יומ.png 269w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/יומ-221x300.png 221w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/יומ-35x48.png 35w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/יומ-71x96.png 71w" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: top; background: transparent; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.175s ease-in-out;" width="269"></div></figure></div><div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element " style="margin: 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Moving to a more modern investing giant, let’s take a trip to China to focus on one of the richest people in the entire East Asian nation: Hui Ka Yan (<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Xu Jiayin</em> in Mandarin). Currently worth over $30 billion USD, he is the chairman and largest shareholder of China Evergrande Group – a massively successful Chinese property develop that has constructed over 500 projects in 180 Chinese cities.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Hui Ka Yan generated unbelievable profits from both residential and office building projects, and a year ago it boosted its share price by a staggering 469%. He was the richest man in China last year, and in 2017 he was the leader of the 26% overall boost in the mainland’s top 400 fortunes. Now, he has slipped to 3rd place – which still isn’t too shabby at all when you think about it.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><br></p><h2 class="vc_custom_heading" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 1.42383rem; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 1.125; font-family: Poppins, Roboto, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.025em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><u>Benjamin Graham</u></h2><div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element " style="margin: 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Famous Quote:<br><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-weight: bold;">“In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine.”</strong></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Lived: 1894-1976 , Founded <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-weight: bold;">Graham-Newman Partnership</strong><br style="margin-bottom: 0px;">Mostly known for his academic work</p></div></div><div class="wpb_single_image wpb_content_element vc_align_center" style="margin: 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: center;"><figure class="wpb_wrapper vc_figure" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: top; background: transparent; display: inline-block; position: relative; max-width: 100%;"><div class="vc_single_image-wrapper vc_box_border_grey" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: top; background: transparent; display: inline-block; max-width: 100%;"><img alt="" class="vc_single_image-img attachment-large lazyloaded" data-expand="1" data-src="https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Benjamin-Graham-fundamental.jpg" data-srcset="https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Benjamin-Graham-fundamental.jpg 485w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Benjamin-Graham-fundamental-243x300.jpg 243w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Benjamin-Graham-fundamental-364x450.jpg 364w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Benjamin-Graham-fundamental-39x48.jpg 39w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Benjamin-Graham-fundamental-78x96.jpg 78w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Benjamin-Graham-fundamental-313x387.jpg 313w" height="600" sizes="(max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px" src="https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Benjamin-Graham-fundamental.jpg" srcset="https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Benjamin-Graham-fundamental.jpg 485w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Benjamin-Graham-fundamental-243x300.jpg 243w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Benjamin-Graham-fundamental-364x450.jpg 364w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Benjamin-Graham-fundamental-39x48.jpg 39w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Benjamin-Graham-fundamental-78x96.jpg 78w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Benjamin-Graham-fundamental-313x387.jpg 313w" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: top; background: transparent; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.175s ease-in-out;" width="485"></div></figure></div><div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element content-img-src" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative; top: -20px;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; color: rgb(171, 171, 171);">Image source: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Benjamin-Graham-fundamental.jpg" rel="noopener" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; color: rgb(171, 171, 171); font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px;" target="_blank">wikimedia</a></p></div></div><div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element " style="margin: 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Known as the “<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-weight: bold;">Father of Modern Investing</strong>,” Benjamin Graham was actually a mentor of Warren Buffett’s. In fact, he is the very investor that is credited with coming up with the concept of “value investing,” which essentially boils down to the idea that we should buy securities that are currently underpriced as to maximize the profit that you can generate when they become fully-realized and profitable organizations.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Graham’s uber-renowned neoclassical investing texts, <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Security Analysis</em> and <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">The Intelligent Investor</em> are historically important in the world of investing – focusing on investor psychology, concentrated diversification, activist investing and minimal debt. Numerous students of Grahams have garnered incredible success, like Buffett, Irving Kahn, Walter J. Schloss and William J. Ruane.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><br></p><h2 class="vc_custom_heading" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 1.42383rem; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 1.125; font-family: Poppins, Roboto, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.025em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><u>Carl Icahn</u></h2><div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element " style="margin: 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Famous Quote:<br><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-weight: bold;">“In takeovers, the metaphor is war. The secret is reserves. You must have reserves stretched way out ahead. You have to know that you could buy the company and not be stretched.”</strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Age: 82 , Founder of <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-weight: bold;">Icahn Enterprises<br style="margin-bottom: 0px;"></strong>Assets Under Management (AUM): <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-weight: bold;">$33.3 billion</strong></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Twitter: @Carl_C_Icahn (354k followers)</p></div></div><div class="wpb_single_image wpb_content_element vc_align_center" style="margin: 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: center;"><figure class="wpb_wrapper vc_figure" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: top; background: transparent; display: inline-block; position: relative; max-width: 100%;"><div class="vc_single_image-wrapper vc_box_border_grey" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: top; background: transparent; display: inline-block; max-width: 100%;"><img alt="" class="vc_single_image-img attachment-large lazyloaded" data-expand="1" data-src="https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/carl.png" data-srcset="https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/carl.png 388w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/carl-214x300.png 214w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/carl-364x509.png 364w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/carl-34x48.png 34w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/carl-69x96.png 69w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/carl-313x438.png 313w" height="543" sizes="(max-width: 388px) 100vw, 388px" src="https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/carl.png" srcset="https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/carl.png 388w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/carl-214x300.png 214w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/carl-364x509.png 364w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/carl-34x48.png 34w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/carl-69x96.png 69w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/carl-313x438.png 313w" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: top; background: transparent; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.175s ease-in-out;" width="388"></div></figure></div><div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element " style="margin: 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Carl Icahn built his reputation as what’s called a <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">corporate raider </em>– an investor who infiltrates a mismanaged company’s board of directors by purchasing enough shares to get voting power. Successful raiders then use their leverage to rearrange the organization in an attempt to make it profitable, or just strip their assets – which Icahn famously did after his hostile takeover of the American Airline TWA back in the 80s.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Icahn was the 26th richest person on the Forbes 400 last year, not to mention the 5th richest hedge fund manager. He also very briefly worked with the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, as a Special Advisor on Regulatory Reform, for a brief stint in 2017. He is currently worth double-digit billions. This legendary corporate raider has his successful finger prints on conglomerates like Yahoo, Time Warner and Blockbuster Video too.</p></div></div><h2 class="vc_custom_heading" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 1.42383rem; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 1.125; font-family: Poppins, Roboto, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.025em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><u>Charlie Munger</u></h2><div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element " style="margin: 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Famous Quote:<br><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-weight: bold;">“It’s waiting that helps you as an investor, and a lot of people just can’t stand to wait. If you didn’t get the deferred-gratification gene, you’ve got to work very hard to overcome that.”</strong></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Age: 94 , <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-weight: bold;">Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway</strong><br>Assets Under Management (AUM):<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-weight: bold;"> $702.1 billion</strong></p></div></div><div class="wpb_single_image wpb_content_element vc_align_center" style="margin: 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: center;"><figure class="wpb_wrapper vc_figure" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: top; background: transparent; display: inline-block; position: relative; max-width: 100%;"><div class="vc_single_image-wrapper vc_box_border_grey" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: top; background: transparent; display: inline-block; max-width: 100%;"><img alt="" class="vc_single_image-img attachment-large lazyloaded" data-expand="1" data-src="https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/4588663010_236c3f4d31_z.jpg" data-srcset="https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/4588663010_236c3f4d31_z.jpg 640w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/4588663010_236c3f4d31_z-300x288.jpg 300w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/4588663010_236c3f4d31_z-364x350.jpg 364w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/4588663010_236c3f4d31_z-608x584.jpg 608w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/4588663010_236c3f4d31_z-50x48.jpg 50w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/4588663010_236c3f4d31_z-100x96.jpg 100w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/4588663010_236c3f4d31_z-313x301.jpg 313w" height="615" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" src="https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/4588663010_236c3f4d31_z.jpg" srcset="https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/4588663010_236c3f4d31_z.jpg 640w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/4588663010_236c3f4d31_z-300x288.jpg 300w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/4588663010_236c3f4d31_z-364x350.jpg 364w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/4588663010_236c3f4d31_z-608x584.jpg 608w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/4588663010_236c3f4d31_z-50x48.jpg 50w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/4588663010_236c3f4d31_z-100x96.jpg 100w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/4588663010_236c3f4d31_z-313x301.jpg 313w" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: top; background: transparent; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.175s ease-in-out;" width="640"></div></figure></div><div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element content-img-src" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative; top: -20px;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; color: rgb(171, 171, 171);">Image source: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nickwebb/with/4588663010/" rel="noopener" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; color: rgb(171, 171, 171); font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px;" target="_blank">flickr</a></p></div></div><div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element " style="margin: 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Here’s another highly successful investor that was mentored by the “Father of Modern Investing,” Benjamin Graham. His name is Charlie Munger, and he is currently Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway – which is currently the 8th-largest private employer in the United States. The CEO of the organization, Warren Buffett, has often described Munger as his partner.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Apart from Berkshire Hathaway fame, Mr. Munger is held in high regard for his success as chairman of Wesco Financial Corporation – a diversified financial institution that he led from 1984 to 2011. He focuses his strategy on investing in a concentration of high-quality companies with products or services he personally believes in. Charlie is also lauded by the investing community for his philanthropic efforts – having donated hundreds of millions to universities around the country, both public and private institutions.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><br></p><h2 class="vc_custom_heading" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 1.42383rem; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 1.125; font-family: Poppins, Roboto, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.025em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><u>Geraldine Weiss</u></h2><div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element " style="margin: 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Famous Quote:<br><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-weight: bold;">“Never is there a better time to buy a stock than when a basicallysound company, for whatever reason, temporarily falls out of favor with the investment community.”</strong></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Age: 92 , Founder of <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-weight: bold;">Investment Quality Trends</strong><br><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-weight: bold;">Known for academic work</strong></p></div></div><div class="wpb_single_image wpb_content_element vc_align_center" style="margin: 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-align: center;"><figure class="wpb_wrapper vc_figure" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: top; background: transparent; display: inline-block; position: relative; max-width: 100%;"><div class="vc_single_image-wrapper vc_box_border_grey" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: top; background: transparent; display: inline-block; max-width: 100%;"><img alt="" class="vc_single_image-img attachment-large lazyloaded" data-expand="1" data-src="https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/GW_07_wk1.jpg" data-srcset="https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/GW_07_wk1.jpg 600w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/GW_07_wk1-282x300.jpg 282w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/GW_07_wk1-364x388.jpg 364w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/GW_07_wk1-45x48.jpg 45w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/GW_07_wk1-90x96.jpg 90w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/GW_07_wk1-313x333.jpg 313w" height="639" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" src="https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/GW_07_wk1.jpg" srcset="https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/GW_07_wk1.jpg 600w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/GW_07_wk1-282x300.jpg 282w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/GW_07_wk1-364x388.jpg 364w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/GW_07_wk1-45x48.jpg 45w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/GW_07_wk1-90x96.jpg 90w, https://trendingstock.today/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/GW_07_wk1-313x333.jpg 313w" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: top; background: transparent; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.175s ease-in-out;" width="600"></div></figure></div><div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element content-img-src" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative; top: -20px;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; color: rgb(171, 171, 171);">Image source: <a href="https://iqtrends.com/about.php" rel="noopener" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; color: rgb(171, 171, 171); font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px;" target="_blank">iqtrends</a></p></div></div><div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element " style="margin: 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">While it has, indeed, undergone a very positive-trending evolution in recent years, the investing world was traditionally very much a boy’s club – so it’s refreshing to add a woman investing legend to this list. Geraldine Weiss is known as the <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-weight: bold;">“Queen of Blue-Chip Dividends”,</strong> having invented a quite genius strategy for investing. While Warren Buffett’s focused on his four principles of investing as a checklist for picking stocks, Weiss only focused on one single metric – which would have generated more profit for Buffett had he followed her game plan.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Even more amazing: She used the name G. Weiss for about a decade before revealing she was a woman, due to the initial rejection her work faced.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; outline: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">She focused on simply dividend yield, buying stocks when they are within 10% of their highest dividend yield and unload them when they get within 10% of their lowest. While her beginnings in investing were heavily influenced by Benjamin Graham’s 10-point checklist, she departed with her own technique and really became successful when she embraced her own instincts. Weiss will always be a true investing legend, and a role model for women investors back in the day.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>

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