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Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

In Indigenous Asháninka belief, bees were once spirits in human form. Stories tell of a woman who enjoyed making masato, a ...

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This study addressed the alarming rate of public school teachers leaving the profession and the leadership factors influencing it. The research explored two questions: 1) What factors affect teachers’ ...

Nonqualified dividends are taxed higher than qualified ones; rates match the ordinary income tax rate. Knowing your dividend type and stock holding period is crucial for tax planning in investments.

An inherent principle of publication is that others should be able to replicate and build upon the authors' published claims. A condition of publication in a Nature Portfolio journal is that authors ...

An obsession with the numbers can sink your strategy. by Michael Harris and Bill Tayler Tying performance metrics to strategy has become an accepted best practice over the past few decades. Strategy ...

If you could save lives by producing vaccines in transgenic bananas, would you? In the debate over large-scale commercialization and use of GMOs, where should we draw the line? Vaccines Tobacco ...