The number of retail, or non-professional, investors has grown exponentially in the U.S. throughout the pandemic. Large retail trading sites such as E TRADE, TD Ameritrade, and Charles Schwab saw their number of new users increase by 103% compared to last year. At the same time, Robinhood had 3 million new accounts opened in the first quarter of 2020, almost double the first quarter of 2019. Half of Robinhood’s 3 million new accounts reported themselves as first-time investors. Teenage and young adult first-time investors with little to no knowledge are putting themselves at risk through retail investing.
The two primary reasons for this significant jump in retail investing numbers are the pandemic and the rise in investment-based social media accounts. A lack of live sports is one of the primary reasons for the significant increase in retail. Specifically, many of these new investors began investing during the pandemic to replace sports betting. Men aged 25-34 years old
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For thousands of years, people around the world have relied on medicinal folklore, herbal treatments and rituals to heal an array of ailments. Now, researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have created an online platform featuring hundreds of thousands of these traditional therapies. Spanning seven continents and 200 years, the Archive of Healing draws on such sources as anthropologists’ field notes, scholarly journals, oral histories and folktales. (UCLA’s David Shorter was quoted.)
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A man reportedly left a dead cat in the parking lot of the Mad Bucher Meats Co. Author: Giacomo Luca (ABC10) Updated: 11:23 PM PST February 24, 2021
SACRAMENTO COUNTY, Calif. The Sacramento Police Department has opened a hate crime investigation after a man left a dead cat in the parking lot of a Chinese-American business near 6400 Florin-Perkins Road.
The man, reportedly a customer who had purchased from the Mad Bucher Meats Co. just moments prior, was caught on camera placing a box filled with the dead cat in the parking lot of the business.
“Based on information gathered, this incident will be investigated as a bias/hate-related crime,” said department spokesperson Sgt. Sabrina Brigg. “If anybody has any information regarding this incident they are urged to contact the Sacramento Police Department.”