I will go to my grave… believing that really loose monetary policy greatly contributed to the Financial Crisis. There were obviously problems with regulation, but when we had a 1% Fed Funds rate in 2003 after, to me, it was pretty obvious that the economy h…
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Month: March 2020
Improving Investor Behavior: Investing in panic as stock market plunges
A lot can change in 30 days. One short month ago, markets were knocking on the door of all-time highs, businesses were doing well, and Joe Biden was behind several candidates in the Democratic primaries. Oh, how things change quickly. Very quickly. Even whe…
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Apple closes stores outside of China and asks employees to work from home
Apple Inc. has closed all of its global stores outside mainland China until March 27 because of coronavirus contagion fears as the company attempts to respond to arguably the biggest global health crisis in a century. Apple, which announced the move on Frida…
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Opinion | What the coronavirus crisis reveals of human nature – Livemint
A few months ago, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, a winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry, explained to me the relationship between sex and death. Nature gifted us sex to shuffle the card deck of genes” and see which combination thrives. But the lottery of life al…
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Skateboards Are More Challenging Than They Seem
People have been talking about the skateboard for a long time. The idea makes sense on the surface: load all the powertrain, suspension, and other important bits in a flat skateboard-like package so you can drop several different bodies on top. A truck, sedan…
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