Queens Jewish Link
Connecting the Queens Jewish Community For the longest time, copper was the Rodney Dangerfield of metals – it “didn’t get no respect, no...
When most people look at Storey County, Nevada, all they see is a huge, desolate area. There are no buildings, there are no stores, and no one lives there. Nearly all of its 67,000 acres are covered by a desert plant called rabbit brush, and the only living things there are some wild horses and other animals that roam the desert.
Money makes money, and the money that money makes makes money
- Benjamin Franklin
Even as millions of Americans were losing their paychecks because of the virus, others were hard at work on scams that would cheat ordinary people out of emergency relief funds as well as their savings. Unfortunately, they did this job all too well.
People infected by COVID reacted to it in different ways. Some had such mild symptom that they were hardly aware of them, while others became severely ill. Interestingly, industries that were impacted by the virus also reacted very differently.
There’s been so much attention given to the soaring price of Bitcoin and the amazing gains in some heavily shorted stocks that other business stories are getting lost in the shuffle. But one of these, while not as immediate or as dramatic, is quietly gaining momentum and if this trend continues it will change the way we define money and, more important, the way we use it.
Everybody wishes they had as many Bitcoin as Stefan Thomas has, yet nobody would want to be in his shoes. Even Thomas feels uncomfortable in them.
