We have clearly not yet reached peak clown world…

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GameStop Entering NFT And Cryptocurrency Markets; Stock Surges In a desperate attempt to recreate the short squeeze from a year ago, GameStop stock is surging after hours after a report from the WSJ that the company which once was a video game retailer and now nobody really knows what it does, is launching a division to develop … Read more

BMW just unveiled its first color-changing car, and you have to see it to believe it

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BMW debuted a fascinating and futuristic new concept at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show: A car with the ability to change colors on-the-fly. Rather than standard metal panels, the concept car features e-ink technology — the same tech that’s used to power Amazon’s wildly popular e-reader, the Kindle — as a means of changing colors … Read more

The Investment Landscape Is Set Up For A Wipeout

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What’s going to happen when all the recent inflows, which exceed the combined inflows since 2001, get nervous and decide to exit? What happens if they do it when the bid isn’t very deep (which is very likely)?The investment landscape is set up for a wipeout. pic.twitter.com/QCeTCeEzKk — AnilVohra1962 🇬🇧🇨🇦 (@AnilVohra1962) January 6, 2022 2/ … Read more

Real Estate Hedge Against Inflation? Housing And REITs Did Better Than Inflation, NCREIF Not So Much

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by confoundedinterest17 Now that inflation has reared its ugly head, how can investors protect themselves against the ravages of inflation? Back in 1977, Fama and Schwert showed that housing acted as a hedge against inflation. Over the past year as inflation has reached its highest levels in 40 years, home prices have outpaced inflation by 19.08% to … Read more

YOU REALLY SHOULD READ THIS: The Price of Dissent: A Reuters Data Scientist Questioned the Black Lives Matter Narrative–So the Company Fired Him.

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Zac Kriegman had the ideal résumé for the professional-managerial class: a bachelors in economics from Michigan and a J.D. from Harvard and years of experience with high-tech startups, a white-shoe law firm, and an econometrics research consultancy. He then spent six years at Thomson Reuters Corporation, the international media conglomerate, spearheading the company’s efforts on … Read more