Month: May 2018

from Eric Peters: New cars have become so “safe” they’re becoming dangerous. They have systems which make an accident more likely – while touting how much more crashworthy they are now vs. previously. Arguably, the safer policy would be to avoid the crash. But that’s getting harder to do when the car second-guesses your steering inputs – and … Read more

by Jeremiah Johnson As you have undoubtedly seen in the news, there is a fresh outbreak of the disease Ebola in Africa and in the past, there have been fears that the deadly virus is mutating. One of the main differences with this particular outbreak is that the WHO (World Health Organization) and experts from the CDC … Read more

From Visual Capitalist: In the ocean ecosystem, plankton is the raw material that fuels an entire food chain. These tiny organisms on their own aren’t that remarkable, but en masse, they have a huge impact on the world. Here on dry land, the massive volume of content and meta data we produce fuels a marketing research … Read more

Via Reason Los Angeles firefighter Donn Thompson had a busy year in 2017. If his pay stubs are to be believed, he literally never stopped working. Data obtained by Transparent California, a project of the Nevada Policy Research Institute, show that Thompson pulled down $300,000 in overtime pay during 2017, on top of his $92,000 salary. … Read more

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by Lance Roberts With the markets closed for Memorial Day yesterday, our analysis remains. In case you missed it, we updated our potential pathways following last week’s stagnation as follows: “As shown by the reddish triangle, the ongoing consolidation process continues. Eventually, this will end with either a bullish or bearish conclusion. There is no ‘middle … Read more