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NYT - Feral Pigs Roam the South. Now Even Northern States Aren't Safe. - Jim Robbins 12/16/19 Ranchers and government officials here are keeping watch on an enemy army gathering to the north, along the border with Canada. The invaders are big, testy, tenacious — and they’ll eat
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Bloomberg TicToc_The Ocean Cleanup 10/27/19 (YouTube Video) Boat that picks up plastic from rivers before reaching the oceans. Pretty sweet. Bloomberg - Leading Maggot Farmer to Expand From Cape Town to California - Antony Sguazzin 10/30/19 The company behind the world’s first industrial-scale maggot farm
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Bloomberg - Bees Are Dropping Dead in Brazil and Sending a Message to Humans - Bruce Douglas and Tatiana Freitas 8/19/19 Around half a billion bees died in four of Brazil’s southern states in the year’s first months. The die-off highlighted questions about the ocean of pesticides
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Worthy Insights / Opinion Pieces / Advice Bloomberg - Forget Banks and Worry About High Stock Prices - Nir Kaissar 6/29 * "It’s time for investors to stop fighting the last war. The next downturn most likely won’t be triggered by another meltdown of the financial system." * "Investors didn’
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Perspective WSJ - Marriage Is Out of Fashion. So Why Is Tiffany Selling More Engagement Rings? - Suzanne Kapner 6/20 * Please note that the Y-axis base is 45% (still meaningful). Tax Foundation - To What Extent Does Your State Rely on Property Taxes? - Ben Strachman and Katherine Loughead 6/20 Worthy
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Worthy Insights / Opinion Pieces / Advice Economist - Faced with a housing crisis, California could further restrict supply 5/10 * "Rent control sounds appealing but is counter-productive." Economist - The meaning of the Vision Fund - Leaders 5/12 * "Succeed or fail, Masayoshi Son is changing the world of technology
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Perspective WSJ - Daily Shot: OECD - Levels of Working Poor by Country 5/8 Worthy Insights / Opinion Pieces / Advice A Wealth of Common Sense - Bad Advice Can Be Expensive - Ben Carlson 5/6 Bloomberg Businessweek - The Future of News - John Micklethwait 5/3 * "…is journalism really in such a parlous
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Perspective NYT - By Day, a Sunny Smile for Disney Visitors. By Night, an Uneasy Sleep in a Car. - Jennifer Medina 2/27 Worthy Insights / Opinion Pieces / Advice Economist - How Putin meddles in Western democracies - Leaders 2/22 FT - A world of debt mortgages our economic future - Derek Scissors 2/22
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Perspective Visual Capitalist - Over the Next Year, Germany Will Hit a Scary Demographic Milestone - Jeff Desjardins 1/16 WSJ - Daily Shot: Amerisleep - The State of Sleep 1/17 Worthy Insights / Opinion Pieces / Advice Mauldin Economics - The Fed Has Put Itself Out of Business, Where to Now? - John Mauldin / Lacy Hunt
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Perspective Visual Capitalist - Visualizing the Money Made Per Second by Top Companies - Jeff Desjardins 12/18 NYT - A Bitcoin Hedge Fund's Return: 25,004% (That Wasn't a Typo) - Nathaniel Popper 12/19 * "There are hedge funds with blockbuster returns. Then there is the Pantera Bitcoin
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Perspective NYT - Why Aren't Paychecks Growing? A Burger-Joint Clause Offers a Clue - Rachel Abrams 9/27 * "As economists try to understand why wages have stagnated across the country’s economy, they are examining the cheap labor part of the equation closely. A few have zeroed in
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If you were to read only one thing… FT - To coin a craze: Silicon Valley's cryptocurrency boom - Richard Waters 9/13 * "So-called initial coin offerings, or ICOs, like this have turned into the year’s most striking financial craze. More than $1.8bn has been raised