Well, thank you, sweet Baby Jesus:

That in itself constitutes a heartwarming, complete post, but I’ll augment it with some charts.
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Well, thank you, sweet Baby Jesus:

That in itself constitutes a heartwarming, complete post, but I’ll augment it with some charts.
(more…)Gosh. 2.6 whole percentage points. Now I can see why everyone is falling all over themselves for just a taste of this action! Over the past half-year, the stock is up 200%.

In case you were wondering how America got obese and how diabetes has, in a few decades, gone from virtually-non-existent to, presently, 30% of the population (and growing fast) – – look no further than the biggest success stories, measured over decades, in the stock market (McDonald’s and Pepsi reported this morning, and Coca Cola reported yesterday morning):
