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Something a little different tonight: talking about pricing. I’m not talking about pricing models created to figure out what to charge for a service or product. That topic is a typical FP&A topic. Not tonight though. It’s economic. It’s terminology which I have never really thought about before: price controls versus price fixing versus price…
At the beginning of this year, I dreaded this year because it was an election year because I feared political violence. I just wasn’t prepared for what happened yesterday. I thought the violence would be something like the Proud Boys or such ilk fighting folks like the antifas or some intimidation at the polls. I…
The first storm of this hurricane season has hit Houston, Texas on Monday as a Cat 1. Now I can stop worrying about this hurricane as it is done with. Fortunately (?!?) it hit as a Cat 1 instead of anything worse. When it rampaged through the Caribbean, it went up to a Cat 5…
Yesterday, Beryl was just a tropical storm; today it is a Cat 4 beast! The multiple news are describing hurricane Beryl as having rewritten the history book of records. Here is one from Axios providing the most horrifying details about this hurricane breaking records: “Stunning stat: “Hurricane Beryl took just 42 hours to go from…
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about a book EveryData and the data the author was using, specifically the relationship between amount of weekly exercise and mortality rate. The more hours a week you exercise, the lower your mortality rate is. But there was a curiosity in the data: Some people apparently were exercising…
Everyday is another day full of news about extreme weather and deathly heat. As I sit here in this sweltering room, I wonder if the malaise pervading through my body is related to the hot room or is something else. Maybe my mind is making it all up due to the numerous news coming across…