Girl Scout economics: Thin mints, thick margins
Girl Scout Cookies are clearly lucrative. But how much profit is made per box? Who’s profiting? And how does the cookie money flow?
Since the beginning, we’ve been dedicated to analyzing unique investment ideas. And boy, there is simply a ton of interesting stuff to collect, invest, and put your money into.
We take alts very seriously, but we also like to have some fun. While the offbeat stuff doesn’t necessarily give the best returns (or even hold its value particularly well) it’s fascinating to learn more about the world of options out there.
Girl Scout Cookies are clearly lucrative. But how much profit is made per box? Who’s profiting? And how does the cookie money flow?
Welcome to the shadowy world of data brokers — the personal info aggregation companies that are legal, but starting to get serious public scrutiny.
The company bounced back to profitability after Covid. But their memberships are very expensive, and the stock is still down from the IPO.
Is this “luxury fitness experience” company a worthwhile investment?
The streaming market is completely overrun. We explore the media bundling pendulum swing. How it works, where we are in the cycle, and and why re-bundling is an inevitability.
Today, we explore Brightline: The only privately-owned and operated intercity railroad in the USA. (Think of it like America’s biggest transit startup.)
People don’t think much about ATMs, but there’s fascinating stuff going on behind the scenes. If you ever wondered about the “plumbing” behind ATM machines, this issue is for you.
Today, we’re looking at In-Q-Tel, the secretive firm funding some of America’s leading tech companies, operated by none other than the CIA.
In this issue we argue that accreditation laws based on money instead of education are flawed, and introduce our new community for accredited investors.
Millennials and Gen Z dominate the headlines, despite the fact that half of all global consumer spending is by people aged 50+. Let’s explore the silver economy.
CLEAR, the company that runs a private line-cutting service, has a monopoly on the airport ID verification market. But how did they make this happen? Here’s the inside story.
Anecdotes, community replies, corrections, and other fun follow-ups.
America’s skiing market is dominated by Vail and Alterra — both of which are thriving. But this market has unique supply & demand qualities, and a very uncertain future.
We create indices for eclectic modern alts. We’ve got a vinyl index, a whiskey index, and more. This helps us find the best buying opportunities for our alternative investment fund
We wrap everything up with a rich qualitative analysis. You’ll understand the pros & cons of investing in all sorts of alternative asset classes.
Disclaimer: The authors of Alt Assets, Inc. are not finance or tax professionals. They are self-taught accredited investors, sharing information, research, and lessons learned. The published content is unique, based on certain assumptions and market conditions at the time of publishing and is intended to serve solely as research, not financial advice. Alts I LLC (the “Fund”) is an affiliate of Alt Assets, Inc. and the Fund has conducted a private placement offering under Rule 506(c) of Regulation D of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. The Fund may invest in one, several or all of the alternative asset classes that Alt Assets, Inc. publishes content on its site. Any published articles on Alt Assets, Inc. that an alternative asset has a “buy”, “pass”, “overvalued” or “undervalued” designation does not factor into the asset classes that the Fund through its manager ultimately invests in, and thus, any of the Fund’s investments that have positive designations on the Alt Assets, Inc.’s site are purely coincidental as the Fund is actively managed and guided by its own investment parameters as summarized in the relevant private placement memorandum.
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