You rely on The Profit Sector to bring you the most honest and profitable investment advice around. We do that every day. But there are so many fascinating things happening around the world that we can’t cover it all.
Some of them are revelatory, some of them are practical, and some of them are just plain bizarre.
Here are a few things we discovered this week that were not fit to print.
Patient Plays Saxophone While Undergoing Brain Surgery
A musician undergoing complex brain surgery in Italy played the saxophone during his entire 9-hour operation.
“Each brain is unique, as is each person,” surgery leader and neurosurgeon Dr. Christian Brogna said.
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The $30 Million Lottery Scam
How a Michigan real-estate broker became convinced he had cracked the lottery — and how he tricked his investors into financing his scheme.
Inside King Charles III’s $25 Billion Real Estate Empire
The new British monarch lords over seven palaces, 10 castles, 12 homes, 56 cottages, and 14 ancient ruins where he can hang up his crown.
This Powerful Team Has the Ear of Governments and Megabanks
This company’s financial markets advisory team dispenses counsel to the Fed, the Vatican, and the Ukrainian president, among others
BlackRock is the world’s largest financial adviser, and millions of people are invested in the stock market through its index-tracking funds. A crack team inside the firm has a different sort of mandate: It counsels heads of state, central banks, and financial institutions in times of crisis.
Elon Musk’s New Enemy: The Fed
The world’s richest man said the U.S. central bank is looking backward and will eventually realize its mistake.
“The Fed is raising rates more than they should,” Musk said during Tesla’s third-quarter earnings call on Wednesday. “But I think they'll eventually realize that and bring it back down again.”
