Tears in the Rain – RIP Rutger Hauer
Favourite scene from a favourite film
Highest and Lowest Paid S&P500 CEO’s
I am always interested in the relationship between the level of compensation for a CEO and their level of shareholder return. Full graphic here – howmuch
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Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds
In 1975, researchers at Stanford invited a group of undergraduates to take part in a study about suicide. They were presented with pairs of suicide notes. In each pair, one note had been composed by a random individual, the other by a person who had subsequently taken his own life. The students were then asked…
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What Economists Have Gotten Wrong for Decades
In a House hearing on monetary policy last week, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell made a telling confession in response to a question from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). The topic was the so-called natural rate of unemployment: the idea, believed by many economists and policymakers, that there is a rate at which unemployment could get so low…
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Why the Future Belongs to China
I guess you would get the same answer if the question was asked here. More here – ArsTechnica
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Time For Some Beauty
PS I don’t understand a word but I don’t think that matters
How To Recover When The World Breaks You
There is a line attributed to Ernest Hemingway — that the first draft of everything is shit — which, of all the beautiful things Hemingway has written, applies most powerfully to the ending of A Farewell to Arms. There are no fewer than 47 alternate endings to the book. Each one is a window into how much…
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The Doctors Prescribing Nature
In recent years, a grassroots movement of physicians have begun prescribing time outdoors as the best possible treatment for a growing list of ailments, from anxiety and obesity to attention-deficit disorder and high blood pressure. Meanwhile, research institutes for nature and health are opening at major medical centers and a couple bold insurance companies are…
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