Gradually and surreptitiously this Orwellian transformation has begun... The power of nonsense words is pretty astonishing and is not at all limited to the pandemic...
Strict lockdowns have devastated millions of families' incomes while failing to bring success in suppressing covid mortality. This failed experiment must be brought to an end...
Similarly, in modern America, so long as a sizable portion of the American electorate stands behind a ceaseless expansion of the size and power of the federal government, a politician will not suffer by taking the same position...
...we are in for the battle of our lives. A constellation of state and state-extended apparatuses has openly declared war on liberty, on us. We are all thought criminals now...
As the regression modeled by Goldman shows, the further temperatures drop with a modest lag between the summer and the winter, the more extreme the surge in COVID-19 cases...
...the celebration of Joe Biden’s election as a “unifying” and “healing” moment has been lost on many who are calling for blacklists and retaliatory actions against anyone viewed as “complicit” in the Trump period...
The paper concluded that selling a security after a "herding event" and then buying it back five days later would deliver a 3.5% return consistently... where the "herding event" was more extreme, the returns were "nearly double"...
...bitcoin, in conjunction with the big move into stocks, is signaling the move of market players away from assets with higher counter-party risk towards assets with lower, effectively, default risk.
