There are no solutions, there are trade offs.
The world's energy crunch is a battle between platitudes and physics.
Leather vinyl interior.
Argentine lineage.
The president abrogated an old law.
How to make sense of Xi Jinping, China’s enigmatic ruler.
You would never call a banana "an elongated yellow fruit," or say "prevaricate" when a friend is lying.
Sizzle Or Fizzle?
In contrast, the U.S. central bank is steadfast in its mission to stamp out inflation.
Barring China (and possibly India), things haven't quite materialized, but some say that could make a country like Brazil attractive given its current valuation.
They’re not wrong on purpose, he might say, they’re just cut off from truth.
Scratch the surface.
It was a moment of collective grief and anger, with a heavy dose of shame, guilt and despair.
In the recent past, Chinese officials have been leery of letting the yuan cross the 7-per-dollar threshold, only doing so in periods of intense stress like the Trump trade war and the early COVID days.
on the pedestal.
hot water
The Bitcoin notion I suppose in some sense is you have an unerring marker for that now.
The U.S. dollar (USDOLLAR) is on the back foot Tuesday morning, but the move down looks more like a one-day reprieve after the jump in the previous session and greenback strength is expected to continue.
What a great meetup last night. We know we have the right topic when the audience quickly begins asking questions and they never let up.
If your car is a clunker, it might be time to drop collision and comprehensive insurance, which pay for damage to your vehicle.
I was T-boned on Custer Road between Renner and George Bush, immediately in front of Tom Thumb.
He felt slighted. He was in Michael's shadow.
he was really starting to grate the media onslaught.
Michael becomes irate and refuses to talk to the media.
people build you up to tear you down. It happens in sports all the time. If a team wins too much, you want them to lose.
If you weren't aware of these rapidly shifting monetary machinations, it's time to shuffle your media.
The telecom sector offers a cautionary tale: When Voice-Over-Internet-Protocol (VOIP) was invented in 1995, most people disparaged it as a technology that couldn’t scale and wasn’t a threat to the telecom giants.
“Money Over Internet Protocols” at scale are truly a threat to traditional banking because they enable money to move outside the traditional, antiquated payment rails.
At its pivotal juncture telecom was a heavily regulated industry, just like banking is today at its pivotal juncture.
rear end.
It that means that we are losers in the eyes of others, then so be it.
Being a loser isn't a bad thing in itself, it's what we make of it.
Don't wish to be a general, or a senator, or a consul, but to be free. And the only way to this, is a contempt of things not in our control.
If a person speaks ill of you, it's either true, or false. If it's true, then you should accept it as who you are. If it's false, then accept them as foolish, and their opinion can be disregarded.
Our rational faculty enables us to transcend our brute, animalistic nature. So instead of being servant to our passion, we have the power to override them with reason.
A favorite of Stoic philosophy, it is a reminder of the certainty and inescapability of death. It is not intended to be morbid or dark—but to clarify, illuminate, and inspire.
Banks can substantiate, with voluminous data, that banking relationships are very sticky.
We’ll talk later about some of the fascinating hybridization of service which the industry has experimented with, which received a major accelerant when many branches were forced to temporarily close or limit services during the global pandemic.
The 2015 Honda Fit comes in three trims: LX, EX, and EX-L. All three are good choices.
Premeditatio Malorum: The Stoic Art of Negative Visualization
The COVID-era period when passengers could breeze through airports is over, with customers suffering delays and overcrowding across the U.S.
Indian residents living near a border region claimed by both Beijing and New Delhi have accused the Indian government of ceding part of the disputed territory to China.
There are the obvious changes—a new life that takes precedent over my own, less sleep, and the increased importance of patience.
frontload
China’s rulers seem resigned to a slowing economy
Gone are the days when they led the world in recession-busting.
Stoicism is about “the domestication of emotions, not their elimination. - Nassim Taleb
The West has called out the referendums, set to be held between Sept. 23-27, as sham votes, and compared them to the illegal one held in Crimea back in 2014.
“Leisure and hobbies” is another superfluity.
Sorry broke bigot.
Residents were relegated to watching it played on television, while daydreaming of a time when they too could play it live in the state that it originated from.
Last week, we culled for you the top hacks on how to form good habits. Today, we're bringing you advice — from expert interviews and research studies — on how to shed the bad ones.
After a few days of faux fall, we're back to mid-90s all week.
In Texas, millions were earmarked for jail renovations, updates to police buildings and revenue replacement to cover staffing.
You may inadvertently communicate anxiety, frustration, or other discomfort when you present by exhibiting any of the following gestures.
Greatness, happiness, contentment…these things are what life can be. But only if we choose to experience them. Only if we slow down. Only if we show up and stay, in the moment.
Although they never gave us their exact reasons, it’s pretty easy to deduce. Because corruption is a betrayal of the public trust.
A focus on achievement and education as 'thinking'... Oversimplified, but I feel like a lot of more studious, educated people fall into this description.
They read with a purpose to affirm or to attack. They resist inconvenient truth since everyone wants to be on the side of the angels. Just as we start wars to end all wars.
Males May Be More Susceptible to Priming Effect Than Females, Researcher says.
"Odds are, the latest office debate or family squabble isn't worth winning. Most arguments are only tangentially related to your end goal.
He's going out with an empty-headed bimbo half his age.
The S.E.C. May be feckless, but they're not incompetent.
But we make our worst, impulsive, foggy decisions when our emotional RPMs are always redlining.
Instead, modulate — and moderate — your reactions in tense times.
People are sometimes leery of the idea of purchasing a car with a rebuilt title, but there are specific laws in place to prevent most problems.
It's nice to have someone you can offload your problems onto.
We’re using Tuesday’s market drubbing to buy more shares of a high-quality holding.
when I was younger I would play this song literally every day. Still a banger to this day
The monarchy’s secret weapon: insincerity.
Work-from-anywhere is a gift. I've found new hobbies, and I live a far more well-rounded life.
We may have discussed the idea of 'Sleeping Intuitives' and the possibility that the oft-cited 25% of the population being intuitive types is a severe undercount.
Dragnet: Chinese transnational policing gone wild (Safeguard Defenders).
Don't scant the butter when you make a cake.
You’re teetering on the line of what’s acceptable in this office.
Not to belabor the point, but we're running out of time.
3300 on the S&P 500 in Feb 2020, We had a cataclysm March 2020 down to 2200 than it more than doubles up to 4800 in Jan 2022.
gun shy
I think the merge is probably going to go ahead without a whole lot of sort of consternation.
tail risk
Couchsurfing members are astonishingly friendly and helpful.
You gonna ask yourself how are we going to really tourniquet this whole thing and prevent a much bigger contagion like frieburg just talked about.
in a heartbeat.
The recruiter said, “I have observed that Unix hackers scowl or become annoyed when I ask them how many years of experience they have in a new programming language. Why is this so?”
How does the British monarchy’s line of succession work?
In the Middle Ages, a favorite punishment was to gouge out a prisoner's eyes.
A jug of whiskey.
social fabric.
It's growing on me.
upper hand
One gets unsettled, depressed, and inclined to be querulous.
Avoid company bashing. Piling on a former employer may only serve to feed rumination (thinking about all the "what-ifs"), or even fuel self-bashing.
Although honey adulteration is illegal in most countries, it remains a widespread problem.
I had been operating under the assumption that my crush was unrequited.
Good thing I look spiffy in a mustache.
Is it an uplifting experience for you up there in Washington?
I was expecting it being a slog.
You make a mistake, he's gonna scream at you, he's gonna belittle you. He demands almost perfection.
Splits, or “windows” in Vim parlance, are a foundational skill every Vim user must master.
This balsamic comes from one of the oldest vinegar makers in Modena.
She led a tranquil life in the country.
wiggle room
Unlike you, I do not have exalted ancestors, I make my living by trade.
Endless narratives, metaphors and allegories.
I don't like the odds
Long-term holder supply denotes the number of coins that have not moved in 155 days or more, the threshold at which the probability selling and spending in the future diminishes dramatically.
Monitoring the methane menace.
We had a little reprieve from mid-June to mid-August in terms of equity market, now we have a test of this rally.
We were in a period especially after 08-09, where the FED was basically laying low, and just let the economy heal. We had extended period of very low interest rates.
in the 70s, bond yields just kept going up inexorably, that's not happening right now.
leading indicator vs lagging indicator
broad-base
Traditional gas powered vehicle sales are floundering.
The contour of economical cycle.
head fake.
Reflexive rebound.
if you're still short, it could rip your face off.
The FED is following contemporaneous macroeconomic indicators like the unemployment rate or JOINT's job openings.
The CPI so much of it's imputed.
If we say we're going to swing from plus six to minus two, you know as well as I do that you'd have been carried out in a gurney.
do you know how sad it makes me to know that you only braised it to boink me?
Canete's mouth twisted in a contemptuous sneer.
They use opium as a sedative, rather than as a narcotic.
His palms were excoriated by the hard labor of shoveling.
Kate's new boyfriend is a very couth youth.
The relics were objects of veneration.
The village seethed with life.
Water seethed in the caldron.
The antipode of love is hatred.
The British charachter is often said to be phlegmatic.
The four temperaments are: choleric, melancholic, phlegmatic and sanguine.
Connected a large number of impoverished people in those regions to global capital markets and developed market consumers.
However, this growth engine is potentially running out of steam.
I had been operating under the assumption that my crush was unrequited.
Good thing I look spiffy in a mustache.
I mean, somebody asks me where is Israel, I don't fly off the handle.
If that means that we are losers in the eyes of others, then so be it.
Being a loser isn't a bad thing in itself, it's what we make of it.
I can pay for it vs I'm happy to pay for it.
If I were to move out, I will give you at least 30 days notice ahead.
Defeat at Guadalcanal put Japan on its back foot, a position from which it could not recover.
The veil of the Japanese Army’s supposed invincibility was lifted and the US went on to convert its enormous energy and industrial advantages into total victory.