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JULY 31, 2024

government bonds. Bonds Bonds are doing okay in 2024, except for duration. capitalspectator.com) Bonds drive markets. allstarcharts.com) The case for central clearing of U.S. ft.com) Finance SPAC IPOs are back from the dead. sherwood.news) PE fundraising is down in 2024.

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JULY 29, 2024

government continues to move Silk Road Bitcoin. (sherwood.news) Why forecasting is so difficult. mrzepczynski.blogspot.com) Crypto Politicians are falling all over themselves to cater to the crypto crowd. downtownjoshbrown.com) The U.S. coindesk.com) Finance Convertible bonds are having a moment this year.

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The Big Picture

JULY 21, 2023

@TBPInvictus here; Let’s cut to the chase : A popular video on YouTube claims the poor are much less poor than the official statistics suggest because those statistics ignore government welfare programs like Food Stamps and Aid to Dependant Children and lots of other safety net programs. It is untrue. ” Was this ignorance?

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OCTOBER 15, 2024

economist.com) Governments are finding it difficult to boost birth rates. (wsj.com) Some brands have entered their DGAF phase. fastcompany.com) AI is coming to 'optimize' work schedules. slate.com) Global Rally aside, are Chinese stocks really investable? wsj.com) Economy The wealth effect helped keep us out of recession in 2022.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

This yield curve subtracts the return on short-term government bonds from long-term government bonds.” Bond markets are also showing signs of uncertainty, with the 10-year minus 2-year Treasury yield curve acting as a prime example. ” The post Visualizing Interest Rates Since 2020 appeared first on The Big Picture.

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JULY 4, 2024

asteriskmag.com) Longreads America is thriving in spite of government ineptitude. (bitsaboutmoney.com) American history It's hard to overstate the impact of AT&T on America in the 20th century. construction-physics.com) How did the RAND Institute turn into just another think tank?

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Flying blind, with things about to get much worse, the government responses were: 1) Operation Warp Speed, a commitment to getting a COVID vaccine ready; 2) CARES Act 1, a $2.2 And without those government-ordered mitigation measures, cases and deaths would have surged uncontrollably.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

riabiz.com) Policy Government agencies, like the BLS, revise data all the time. (humbledollar.com) Finance The CBOE ($CBOE) has launched a platform to trade shares in private companies. finance.yahoo.com) Vanguard is now a 'no' on ESG shareholder votes. bloomberg.com) Bring more smart people to America!

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JUNE 30, 2024

npr.org) The debate is on about government drinking guidelines. (downtownjoshbrown.com) Policy The Supreme Court has overturned the Chevron doctrine. axios.com) Cities can now punish the homeless for sleeping in public places. wsj.com) More states are imposing package delivery fees.

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AUGUST 11, 2022

My morning train WFH reads: • Private Equity Doesn’t Want You to Read This : Not only do private equity partners make money even if their companies blow up; they also get a pretty good deal from the government on what they earn. New York Times ). • They helped us imagine the “mission accomplished” speech Putin might give. New York Times ).

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OCTOBER 18, 2024

slate.com) Global Japan's government bond yields now exceed China's. (tomtunguz.com) Data centers are reaching some size limits. semafor.com) Automattic Automattic is in turmoil. 404media.co) Can users still rely on Wordpress and more importantly Matt Mullenweg? ft.com) The West is coming to terms with the extent of Chinese espionage.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 20, 2023

What are the differences between insured depositors getting their cash back, a private sector rescue orchestrated by the Fed or the Swiss government, and a taxpayer-funded bailout? This is the government financially rescuing people despite—or perhaps because of— their own enormous recklessness and incompetence.”

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MAY 28, 2024

ft.com) Modi's government harasses opponents in the U.S. (spyglass.org) Another company is pulling from the MicroStrategy ($MSTR) Bitcoin playbook. blockworks.co) Global The prospects for space warfare are growing. wsj.com) The Suez Canal is effectively closed to shipping. calculatedriskblog.com) Teenagers are working more.

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Pragmatic Capitalism

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Bond vigilantes reflect the idea that bond investors can attack a government debt market and dictate terms that the government wouldn’t otherwise desire. I’ve never liked this concept as I [ … ]

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Nerd's Eye View

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

government is the largest employer in the country, it can be especially helpful for advisors to be familiar with the ins and outs of (and recent changes to) the Federal government’s own defined contribution plan: the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP). But given that the U.S.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 20, 2022

government to sanction foreign government officials worldwide who are deemed to be human rights offenders, freeze their assets, and ban them from entering the U.S. Browder sought justice for this violent crime, eventually driving the United States and 30 other countries to pass the Magnitsky Act.

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JANUARY 14, 2024

vox.com) Threats of violence against elected officials and government officials are on the rise. (gothamgal.com) 15 states have rejected a new, federally funded summer program to give food assistance to hungry children. washingtonpost.com) Measuring economic inequality is harder than it looks.

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MARCH 7, 2024

youtube.com) An excerpt from "Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State" by Byron Tau. Books An excerpt from "The Trading Game: A Confession" by Gary Stevenson. nymag.com) Hannah Rosin talks with Kara Swisher about her new book "Burn Book."

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

But the latest statistics show that nearly all jobs that are being created in California are government jobs. Between January 2022 and June 2024, total California jobs grew by about 156,000, with government jobs accounting for 96.5 percent of that growth. (De-empahsis

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JULY 14, 2024

wsj.com) Why Medicare Advantage costs the government more the traditional Medicare. (on.ft.com) How Polymarket became the go-to election prediction market. wsj.com) Medicare How Medicare got taken for billions by Medicare Advantage providers. marketwatch.com) Society As a society we don't take extreme heat seriously enough.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

morningstar.com) The Texas Capital Government Money Market ETF ($MMKT) has launched. (fa-mag.com) (sherwood.news) Finance The hidden costs of options trading are real. allstarcharts.com) Visa ($V) dominates debit card transaction processing. axios.com) ETFs Low vol ETFs have plodded along.

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AUGUST 9, 2024

sherwood.news) There's no guarantee the government buying Bitcoin would permanently raise its price. (alphaarchitect.com) Bitcoin A “strategic bitcoin reserve” is an absurd idea. theovershoot.co) A strategic 'Bitcoin reserve' doesn't solve any real problem. wsj.com) AI AI bubble? The case for and against.

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AUGUST 18, 2024

nytimes.com) Covid demonstrated what the federal government can do to support people. (axios.com) Mass deportation wouldn't accomplish what advocates think it would. noahpinion.blog) We need better means for legal immigration. crr.bc.edu) Where high schools required to provide financial literacy classes.

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Nerd's Eye View

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

government designed a number of small business relief packages to incentivize companies to keep workers on their payrolls. To stave off a wave of business closures and a subsequent surge in unemployment, the U.S.

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OCTOBER 8, 2023

nytimes.com) Policy Is there a viable fix for the recurrent threat of a government shutdown? (nytimes.com) Immigrants often work to clean up after natural disasters with little thought to their protection. grist.org) How Chicago became a magnet for Venezuelan migrants. theatlantic.com) We need more legislation on personal data privacy.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 3, 2023

Ramit Sethi Authored Book I Will Teach You to Be Rich: No Guilt. No Excuses.

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MAY 31, 2024

open.spotify.com) Stephen Clapham talks sustainability with Carine Smith Ihenacho is Chief Governance and Compliance Officer at Norges Bank, the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund. (flirtingwithmodels.com) John Reeder talks with David Orr about playing poker and shorting value traps.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

theatlantic.com) Not every government in the world is getting older. (theatlantic.com) Americans say they want more children than they actually have. wsj.com) Congress has abandoned their responsiblity over trade policy. semafor.com) More Indian boarding schools have been identified. washingtonpost.com) Economy The U.S.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2023

om.co) The OpenAI fiasco highlights the importance of corporate governance. (bigtechnology.com) Om Malik, "If you are a startup, an organization, or a large company, you need to learn from the past five days [at OpenAI] and start building resilience in your product plans." theatlantic.com) Finance Banks are planning to start.lending again.

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DECEMBER 31, 2023

bloomberg.com) Policy More of government should work like Operation Warp Speed. (avc.com) Health care In a study, private equity-owned hospitals have higher rates of serious medical complications. nytimes.com) Why prices can vary so much by hospitals in the same geography. theatlantic.com) The DOE has successfully timed the oil market.

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DECEMBER 18, 2023

craincurrency.com) Governance What do limited partner advisory committees actually do? (wsj.com) A look at the world's largest e-commerce companies. genuineimpact.substack.com) Why Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce ($CRM), sells stock every day.

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The Big Picture

MAY 20, 2023

She is also a member of Man Group’s senior executive governance committee. As president, she is responsible for corporate sustainability and responsible investing; Man Solutions and Man FRM; central trading, funds treasury and bank relationships; operations; financial crime; corporate real estate; and communications.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

But after this this war period, there was inflation stimulated by government spending. In the past, governments have talked about the peace dividend when the Berlin Wall came down as an example, the shift of government spending from the military and the Pentagon to civilian usage. It’s government spending period.

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The Big Picture

MAY 10, 2023

This has been a unique and (dare I say it) unprecedented set of factors that have sent prices higher despite the intentions of the Federal government and the FOMC. No the current form of inflation is nothing like the 1970s, nor is it similar to what took place in the mid-2000s.

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Nerd's Eye View

AUGUST 2, 2023

The Federal government and some state governments provide tax breaks to help defray "reasonable and necessary" adoption costs.

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OCTOBER 19, 2023

businessinsider.com) Why governments should focus on subjective well-being. (on.ft.com) Longreads Linette Lopez, "China's leader, Xi Jinping, has shifted the CCP's raison d'être to national security over the economy. Getting rich isn't China's big project anymore; the project is power." vox.com) How to get solar power from space to Earth.

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DECEMBER 22, 2022

wsj.com) How Ukraine essentially backed up its government in the cloud. (annehelen.substack.com) Russia How Putin misjudged the war in Ukraine. nytimes.com) Russia's mobilization was characterized by poor training an inadequate gear. latimes.com) This David Letterman interview with President Zelenskyy is worth the time.

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