Author: tremendousblog
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A German Shepherd barks viciously and strains at his chain. A red Tahoe pulls up to a a large industrial building. The sky is grey. A hulking man steps out. This is Barone Sanitation, which featured prominently in The Sopranos as a front for Tony’s illicit interests. In one my…
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+ Cosa Nostra, HBO, Jersey, Jersey City, Mafia, New Jersey, NJ, Series, Sopranos, Television, The Sopranos, Tony Soprano, TV+
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AMC stock has doubled in just ten days, extending a 13-fold rally this year: Investors shorting the meme stock AMC Entertainment are estimated to have lost $1.23 billion over the last week as the shares rallied more than 116% since Monday, according to data from S3 Partners. AMC was the…
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+ Business+ AMC, Financial markets, Hedge funds, Meme stocks, Money, Personal finance, Reddit, Short sellers, Short squeeze, Stock Market, Stocks+
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In the birthplace of baseball and Frank Sinatra, on a quiet street near the waterfront, lie the offices of one of the hottest tech companies in the world: Attentive. We’re used to thinking of the tech startup scene as confined to the Bay Area. Maybe a few in New York…
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+ Angel Investing, Garden State, Hudson County, New Jersey, NJ, NYC, Startup, Startups, Tech, VC, Venture Capital+
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It’s not just about the Bay Area anymore. Indian startups have raised venture funding at a record pace this year, on track to double from 2020: Startups raised total investments of $7.8 billion in the first four months of this calendar year, which is almost 70% of the overall corpus…
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+ Angel, Angel Investing, Angel Investor, Asia, India, Investing, Software, Startup, Startups, Technology, VC, Venture Capital+
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There have been a lot of winners in GameStop’s dizzying, over tenfold rise in the last year. An unlikely one is the Mormon Church, which made over $8 million on GameStop shares through its investment arm: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ play for stock in GameStop paid…
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+ Business+ Gamestop, GME, Invest, Investing, LDS, Meme stocks, Money, Mormon, Personal finance, Stock Market, Stocks, Utah+
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It’s no secret that GameStop shares have gone vertical, up more than ten fold this year. Besides making millionaires of a lot of Redditors, this also lets GameStop sell more shares at high prices, enabling them to raise capital with ease. And raise they did, to the tune of $550…
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+ Business+ Finance, Gamestop, GME, Investing, Meme stocks, Money, Personal finance, Reddit, Stock Market, Stocks, Wallstreetbets+
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This is overdue. Tony Soprano At the driver’s seat of a long black Lincoln, a well dressed man peruses a magazine. Behind him pulls a red SUV. A large figure emerges, walking purposefully in shiny brown wingtips. This is how one of my favorite scenes from The Sopranos begins, as…
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+ HBO, Jersey, Jersey City, Mafia, Mob, New Jersey, NYC, Series, Sopranos, Television, The Sopranos, Tony Soprano, TV+
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As I walked up the beginning of a trail covered in red and orange leaves last fall, I saw a dark form to my left. What is that, a rock, a downed tree? As I got closer, I realized it was the shell of a vintage automobile. Coming closer, I…
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+ Bergen County, Crime, Hiking, Mafia, Mob, Mysteries, Nature, New Jersey, NJ, NYC, Ringwood State Park, Trails, Tristate+
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As you round a clear blue lake, a second, smaller path winds away from the main trail. Up this path, on a peak covered with flowers, lie the remains of a vast stone edifice. This is Van Slyke Castle in Ramapo State Forest in Oakland, NJ, just 30 miles from…
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A heavyset man sits in a seat pulled from a junked car, reading Waste News. Around him are cars in various states of disassembly. A Mercedes pulls up… This is Salvatore “Big Pussy” Bonpensiero’s body shop from The Sopranos, Cleveland Auto Body. It features in one of my favorite episodes,…
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+ HBO, LCN, Mafia, New Jersey, Newark, North Jersey, NYC, Series, Sopranos, Television, The Sopranos, Tony Soprano, TV+
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Tremendous 