bottle makers and alternative packaging types could reduce margins in the region. Glass-making has been around for millennia , but it took a giant leap forward at the turn of the 20th century when Michael J. Owens invented the automatic glass
idiosyncratic event that occurred centuries ago in one particular part of the world. Gold has been a store of value for millennia . While Mr. Buffett is quite right that gold neither produces income nor has any practical use, several thousand years
By Dustin Moore : The desire for clean air and water has been a concern of mankind for millennia . But as the world becomes increasingly industrial and population explodes, governments and businesses are looking for ways to
plays that role. Gold is a universal alternative to the man-made monetary system. It's been used as a money for millennia , and so when people have least faith in the man-made financial architecture, gold tends to be a decent store of value
2. More than Oil The extraction of materials from nature has been important for many years, even centuries, if not millennia . The heaviest degree of media attention focuses on oil and natural gas, but mining companies and those involved in
consumers use paper products to read, to publish, to clean, and to package. Indeed, paper has been with us for over two millennia , and while consumption of certain kinds of paper faces undeniably stiff headwinds, society's demand for paper isn
shall be 3 score and ten" (Psalm 90 verse 10) for you MBAs out there, a score is 20 so that is 70 years. So in 2 millennia we have managed, with all our genius, to improve average life spans by 10%. If you owned a stock that only appreciated
somehow they can graft Jeffersonian democracy onto ancient Mesopotamia, a land bathed in blood and ruled by terror for millennia . When they're wrong, they never admit it." I agree. We will never graft any form of Western-style Democratic