They Flew A Drone Over Auschwitz, And What They Captured Is More Devastating Than You’ll Expect.
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The Mongol Empire
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in defence economics, economic history Tags: age of empires, Mongol Empire
7 May 1945, 02:41 Central European Time, Germany signed the Allied "Unconditional Surrender"
08 May 2016 Leave a comment
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The decline in the US nuclear weapons stockpile
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The Vice Fund (now the Barriers Fund) continues to outperform S&P 500
03 May 2016 Leave a comment
in defence economics, energy economics, entrepreneurship, financial economics, health economics Tags: BDS, efficient markets hypothesis, entrepreneurial alertness, ethical investing
Source: VICEX – USA Mutuals Barrier Fund Investor Class Shares Mutual Fund Quote – CNNMoney.com
The Vice Fund has outperformed the S&P 500 since 2004 as shown by the green line. This mutual fund invests invest in sinful stocks as its managers describe it:
Designed with the goal of delivering better risk-adjusted returns than the S&P 500 Index. It invests primarily in stocks in the tobacco, alcohol, gaming and defence industries. Vice Funds believes these industries tend to thrive regardless of the economy as a whole.
The Vice Fund is now known as the Barrier Fund because it extended out of sinful stocks into industries with high barriers to entry. Minimum Investment is $2,000.
The Barrier Fund primarily invests in the following industries: Aerospace/Defense, Gaming, Tobacco and Alcoholic Beverages. These four industries were chosen because they demonstrate one or more of these compelling and distinctive investment characteristics:
- Natural barriers to new competition
- Steady demand regardless of economic condition
- Global Marketplace – not limited to the U.S. economy
- Potentially high profit margins
- Ability to generate excess cash flow and pay and increase dividends
The Barrier Fund believes numerous investment opportunities in these industries which have been largely overlooked by other funds.
The Fund has high management fees of 2%. Americans can buy Vanguard’s or Fidelity’s index funds and pay only 0.1% in expenses.
Why Are There Still Palestinian Refugees?
03 May 2016 Leave a comment
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World War I: Every Day
25 Apr 2016 Leave a comment
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Map of Europe if the Central Powers won World War I
25 Apr 2016 Leave a comment
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Who are the Kurds?
19 Apr 2016 Leave a comment
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Israel: The World’s Most Moral Army
19 Apr 2016 Leave a comment
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Top 10 Infamous Barrier Walls Throughout History
07 Apr 2016 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics, international economic law, international economics, International law, law and economics Tags: economics of borders
Michael Walzer on Just War in Iraq
28 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics Tags: Iraq war, just war theory, Micheal Walzer

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