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I’ve always thought shareholders were a huge part of the problem for our current type of capitalism: while productivity has increased (according to some news I’ve read), labor’s wages have remained flat while all productive gains accrue to the shareholders. This site gives an example of what I have read quite a few times: Economic…
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…
I think the moment that I’ve been dreading is here. Since around 2013 or 2014, I’ve always wondered how to prepare for when everything in finance is automated. Artificial intelligence has come for banking. Fortune: Beware, finance bros: AI is coming for banking before any other kinds of jobs, Citigroup warns. Forbes: AI Could Displace…
So, during my almost 2 months of poor internet access, I read a lot of books. One book I read was Behavioral Economics for Dummies by Morris Altman, which was an interesting psychological look at human behavior. I’m not going to dwell on a lot of the what the book has to say because it…