Jesse Singer articles

These are the 50 most profitable companies in the world last year—according to data from Fortune's Global 500 list.

Imagine you find five dollars in your pocket. These days, with rising prices and inflation, it might not be that exciting. But in the past, that simple 5 dollar bill would've got you....

What company brings in the most consolidated revenue in the world? How many of the 50 largest revenue companies are American? We think the answer to both questions might surprise some people.

While many of us have tossed our cassette tape collections, those who held on could be holding on to a whole lotta cash. You'll be surprised to know how much some of these rare (and not so rare) cassette tapes sell for these days. Like this one...

When it comes to the photographs on this list—they are worth way more than a thousand words or even a thousand dollars or a hundred thousand dollars. We're talking millions here. But how many millions. Take a guess...Now see if you're right.

Although to the younger generation DVDs are ancient technology—the truth is that they were only introduced in 1996 and didn't really become big until the 2000s, which isn't really that long ago. But, even with that being said, there still is a nostalgia factor that has led to some rare DVDs being worth quite a bit of money.

We can't predict the future, but here we are a little over month into the new year and these are the stocks that have been doing the best so far. These are the stocks we wish we'd bought at Christmas time instead of all those fruit cakes and ugly sweaters.

Vinyl records have been making a comeback over the last few years, but we aren't here to talk about the latest LP in our collection. Rather we want to point out the ones that—should you find them in your collection—well, they could be worth some big bucks.

Super Bowl ads have become an industry unto themselves with companies shelling out huge bucks and huge ideas to get all those eyeballs watching and then buying their products. These are the best and the most memorable Super Bowl commercials of all time.