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Sneakers
Reselling Nike x Off-White Dunks
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Got a rare win in a Nike SNKRS app raffle! With a $170 retail price, the pine green dunks are the newest addition by Virgil Abloh to the Off-White x Nike collaborations. I sold these immediately after the raffle for $615. Currently, the lowest asking price on Stockx is almost $1000. I should’ve waited to…
Business
Capital Losses? Getting the Tax Deduction for Oil Stock (or Any Stock) Losses While Not Missing the Next Gains
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Let’s say some of your oil stocks have suffered from the current lull in oil prices, which has continued it’s roller coaster for the past 5 years. You know it’s almost guaranteed there will be a relatively big bump in the prices in near future, based on the half-decade pattern, and you don’t want to…
Entertainment
Roc-A-Fella Records: Where Are They Now
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Business
The Cost to Start a Vineyard in Napa Valley
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10 acres of land in Napa, CA: -10.12 acres land: $2 million (current listing on zillow) -Annual tax: $12,400 Building a barn to house the wine distillery: –Permit fees $3500 (Distiller Magazine) –metal barn $16,300 (ebay) –Labor: $25,000 (Home Advisor) Grape Fermentation Equipment –30BBL FERMENTER/UNITANK: $13,800 x 4 = $55,200 (Apex Brewing Supply) –Refrigeration System:…
Business
Bridging the Gender Wage Gap
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This Bureau of Labor Statistics’ study found that: “In 2018, women who were full-time wage and salary workers had median weekly earnings of $789. That was 81.1 percent of the $973 median for men who were full-time wage and salary workers. Women had lower median weekly earnings than men in most of the occupations for which we have…
Sneakers
Stumbling Across Human Made Clothing Brand
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Step 1: Found comment on Instagram post noting “Pharrell looks like a 15 year old even tho he’s 50”. Step 2: Went to Pharrell’s Instagram account and noticed Human Made clothing. Step 3: Stopped by Billionaire Boys Club website and noticed collaboration. Step 4: Googled Human Made/BAPE company owner, Nigo, and found his Closets episode…
Business
Tumblr Tumbles Without Pornography
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In 2013, Tumbler sold for 1.1 billion (The Washington Post). TechCrunch published that Tumblr’s site was visited more than Facebook by youth at the time it was acquired. The same TechCrunch article, titled “Tumblr is Not What you Think”, provided that pornography accounted for some of the most popular content on the site. Forbes reported…
Interviews
Forgot a Guitar Pick and the Keyboard Broke – Clark DiLullo
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Business
Oil Stocks – It’s that Time of the Year Again Folks
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Since the recent collapse of oil prices, explained in NinthandSuperior’s Buying the Dip article, the sector has been on a pretty predictable and profitable annual cycle for about 4 years. Starting in 2014, Nymex Crude prices dip in the winter and rise in the summer. Moving drastically in both ways, for a commodity at least.…