Education Corner – The Beetle Syndrome

The practice of hitting someone on the arm and saying “Punch Buggy Red” every time you see a red Volkswagon Beetle came from a marketing campaign by Volkswagen started in 2009, the “Punch Dub” campaign. It was the very commercial usage of something I have always known as the “Beetle syndrome”.

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Education Corner – Seven Deadly Sins

In life there are seven deadly sins. Pride, Avarice (Greed), Lust, Envy, Gluttony, Wrath (Anger) and Sloth (Apathy). And there are seven corresponding virtues. Humility, Charity, Chastity, Patience, Temperance, Kindness and Diligence. In the stock market there are quite a few Deadly Sins. Some of them are the same. Greed, Gluttony, Sloth, Ignorance, Wrath and…

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