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Vaccination Impact: Saving Lives and Shaping a Healthier Future
Over the last 50 years, efforts around the world to get people vaccinated have saved at least 154 million lives, which breaks down to saving about 6 lives every single minute of each year. A huge researc...
Mikey D. Hits the Big Time
WSJ: "United Home Loans President Mike Dulla said he thinks the worst of the housing market slowdown “is behind us". "A potential recession has dampened some of that enthusiasm,” Mr. Dulla said. “People have been so ...
Donald Trump: "I'm not Going to the Moon. Bitcoin Might"
His words. Not mine. "Bitcoin is going to the moon!!!" (Donald Trump; Nashville; July 2024) Of course he wants votes. A person lost in the Sahara will say or do nearly anything for water. A perso...
Lollapalooza, The Mideast & Where is all the Laughter?
Grant Park, Chicago. Lollapalooza. No, I wasn't there, in case you're wondering. My concert days quieted down after I came with an inch of my life at Knebworth in London a lifetime ago. Ask me about it some...
Prediction Markets Coming to Trump - Harris (But not in the U.S.)
Do polls matter? And can we trust them? What about political betting markets? These three questions have been on my mind a lot lately. I love data. Am enamored with politics; have a profound inter...
Housing Options on the Rise as Bonds Rally, Interest Rates Fall
The good news train keeps motoring on. Ten-year yield a truly lovely and low 3.82%. Vix mid teens. That print in the 60s a week ago was just that - a print. Thing are back to normal. Markets are powerful. ...
Down With Maduro, Cubs Pitcher Adbert Azolay Gets the Save
"Dictator Nicolas Maduro is Threatening the people in Venezuela with banging all social media including Whatsaap witch is the app must Venezuelans uses to talk to our family’s .. he just want the world to n...
Russia Under Attack (Not Fake News)
Russia is under attack. No one in the West seems to notice or care. Discuss. In a move that reportedly surprised "even American officials" (doubtful), Ukraine is now on the offensive and grabbing large swathes of land in Russia...
Have Central Bankers Lost the Plot (Again)?
Pandemonium in financial markets suddenly as, more than anything, central bankers have lost control. In Japan, a withering currency forced a real dilemma: how can the economy grow if the yen has no value? Solution: raise inte...