Optimistic Ows...

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Not the bookies' favourite but I predict Arsenal will win the Premier League this season. 



Chart from Statista 

Follow-up comment in the comments :-(

Optimistic Ows...

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Not the bookies' favourite but I predict Arsenal will win the Premier League this season. 

Chart from Statista 

Follow-up comment in the comments :-(

Optimistic Ows...

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Not the bookies' favourite but I predict Arsenal will win the Premier League this season. 

Chart from Statista

Olfactible oast offering...

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A beer for pussies? No, a beer from pussies: the first beer with specific lactic acid bacteria from a selected vagina. Polish brewer* Order of Yoni have produced a beer containing the 'quintessence of femininity.'



Zero Hedge has the details: "Polish 'Vagina Beer' Contains 'Essence' Of Two Smoking Hot Models". "The secret of the beer lies in her vagina". No really, that’s what the Order of Yoni have on their website. And those worried about health issues fear not: the beauties in question "had undergone gynecological [sic] examinations, and then the material was double-checked in the Poznan lab to make sure that the lactic acid bacteria were isolated from the smear." Right, now I’m losing my appetite a bit...



In the Order of Yoni's FAQ they reveal in fact that they don’t brew in their own brewery but that they are ‘a craft brewery’ “that commissions brewing to our befriended, partner breweries”. Not sure whether it’s a joke or not, but they go on to say they are looking for supermodels, actresses, celebrities etc., for a future launch of a special series of beers with, for example, edible gold and saffron. Their strap-line “Bottled Instinct” sounds like a poor translation to me; will it have a yeasty aftertaste?

Olfactible oast offering...

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A beer for pussies? No, a beer from pussies: the first beer with specific lactic acid bacteria from a selected vagina. Polish brewer* Order of Yoni have produced a beer containing the 'quintessence of femininity.'

Zero Hedge has the details: "Polish 'Vagina Beer' Contains 'Essence' Of Two Smoking Hot Models". "The secret of the beer lies in her vagina". No really, that’s what the Order of Yoni have on their website. And those worried about health issues fear not: the beauties in question "had undergone gynecological [sic] examinations, and then the material was double-checked in the Poznan lab to make sure that the lactic acid bacteria were isolated from the smear." Right, now I’m losing my appetite a bit...

In the Order of Yoni's FAQ they reveal in fact that they don’t brew in their own brewery but that they are ‘a craft brewery’ “that commissions brewing to our befriended, partner breweries”. Not sure whether it’s a joke or not, but they go on to say they are looking for supermodels, actresses, celebrities etc., for a future launch of a special series of beers with, for example, edible gold and saffron. Their strap-line “Bottled Instinct” sounds like a poor translation to me; will it have a yeasty aftertaste?

Oakus opportunities...

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...of the US Oak! :-)



Interesting chart on the Visual Capitalist of milestones for US companies, prompted by Apple's recent trillion USD market valuation, "through a period of over 200 years of U.S. market history. It was inspired by this interesting post by Global Financial Data, which is worth reading in its own right."



Interesting indeed, for example, there I learnt that before 1900, the London & Northwestern Railway was the largest railroad and the largest company in the world (before that the Bank of England held the honour).



The Visual Capitalist post also mentions that Apple is not in fact the first company globally to ever hit the one trillion USD landmark: the "feat was achieved momentarily by PetroChina in 2007, after a successful debut on the Shanghai Stock Exchange that same year." Momentarily because after the one-day tripling of stock value it subsequently collapsed by nearly 80%.



What I find more interesting is the drop by more than a third in the number of companies: from 7912 in 1995 down to 5186 this year. In fact the total number of companies peaked at 9,850 in 1999;  so a drop of very nearly 50% in the first 18 years of this century.

Oakus opportunities...

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...of the US Oak! :-)

Interesting chart on the Visual Capitalist of milestones for US companies, prompted by Apple's recent trillion USD market valuation, "through a period of over 200 years of U.S. market history. It was inspired by this interesting post by Global Financial Data, which is worth reading in its own right."

Interesting indeed, for example, there I learnt that before 1900, the London & Northwestern Railway was the largest railroad and the largest company in the world (before that the Bank of England held the honour).

The Visual Capitalist post also mentions that Apple is not in fact the first company globally to ever hit the one trillion USD landmark: the "feat was achieved momentarily by PetroChina in 2007, after a successful debut on the Shanghai Stock Exchange that same year." Momentarily because after the one-day tripling of stock value it subsequently collapsed by nearly 80%.

What I find more interesting is the drop by more than a third in the number of companies: from 7912 in 1995 down to 5186 this year. In fact the total number of companies peaked at 9,850 in 1999;  so a drop of very nearly 50% in the first 18 years of this century.