ToplineThe legendary striker Duncan Ferguson bought the first round of beer for Everton fans at venues near the club’s home stadium in Liverpool Saturday morning ahead of its match with…
Overview Total spot trading volume at $2.21 billion, the 30 day average is $1.06 billion. Total futures notional at $601.4 million. The top traded coins were, respectively, Bitcoin (-10%), Ethereum…
At the New York firm his father and uncle started in 1933, he was said to have personally conducted more auction sales than anyone else in the industry.Harvey G. Stack,…
The Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) plans to present Major League Baseball with an in-person counteroffer scheduled to take place on January 24th. Since the December 2nd announcement of…
WheatstonesJan 21 · 10 min readIntroductionThe Internet is riddled with the same old inaccurate statements about Bitcoin, which we will address using Tweets as examples.Bitcoin is a Tulip BubbleWe chose…
Paul C.Jan 22 · 3 min readFor this seems quite anecdotal in the context of conflict between Moscow and Washington around Ukraine, the cryptocurrency market has been swept by two…
A genetically modified pig's heart has been successfully transplanted into a human for the first time.The operation, performed in Baltimore in the United States on Friday, offers a potential future solution to…
So, how’s James Gunn’s Peacemaker, his HBO Max series spun out of his Suicide Squad movie, doing compared to the rest of the DCEU? Well, four episodes in, the series…
This week, we speak with Tina Vandersteel, who is the head of GMO’s Emerging-Country Debt team. Prior to joining GMO in 2004, she worked at J.P. Morgan in fixed-income research developing…
Gary Russell Jr. hasn’t stepped into a prizefighting ring in nearly two years. Even though the featherweight titlist is one of the best pure boxers in the sport, his lack…
Though the likes of Bored Apes and Pudgy Penguins take the headlines, and the potential for decentralized finance (DeFi) and play-to-earn gaming is undeniably grand and exciting, the marketing potential…
On Saturdays we catch up with the non-finance related items that we didn’t get to earlier in the week. You can check out last week’s edition here. Have a great…
Parents who bought their children the Oculus Quest 2 for Christmas could be in for a surprise as there have been several instances of child grooming within one of the…
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has long stood out as one of the most science, technology, and innovation-focused US federal agencies. It should come as little surprise then that…
Archive 81 has fought the good fight, surprising everyone to land itself as the #1 show on Netflix in the US’s top 10 list, but now it’s lost that crown…
A coronavirus-focused linkfest is a weekly feature here at Abnormal Returns. Please stay safe, get a booster shotat a vaccination site near you. You can read last week’s edition here.…
by Calculated Risk on 1/22/2022 08:11:00 AM The key reports scheduled for this week are the advance estimate of Q4 GDP and December New Home sales. Other key indicators include…
Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times,The British Medical Journal (BMJ) has demanded the full and immediate release of all data related to COVID-19 vaccines and treatments, saying it is…
For the second year in a row, the World Economic Forum’s annual in-person meeting was delayed because of the pandemic. Did anyone miss it?The DealBook newsletter delves into a single…
ToplineAn omicron-driven spike in U.S. coronavirus cases may have begun leveling off this week, but intensive care unit occupancy has continued to rise as Covid-19 patients flood hospitals — and…
NFTs have taken the world by storm. Their very existence has created many new industries. Most notably, NFTs as an art form have been predominant in the web3 space. It…
The number of countries experiencing more deaths than births in a given year is steadily increasing. As Statista's Katharina Buchholz details below, an analysis of U.N. data by the Federal…
China’s birth rate continues to fall. “Last year’s 10.62 million births, down from 12.02 million in 2020, barely outnumbered the 10.14 million death,” according to the Wall Street Journal. China’s…
John List has been chief economist for UBER and for Lyft. He’s also run experiments for United, the United Way, and the Chicago schools. In his new book, The Voltage…
tecmeupJan 22 · 6 min readSince the NFTmania exploded, creating low-cost NFTs has been a matter of debate. With everyone jumping onto the blockchain in search of monetizing their artworks,…
Authored by Richard Bernstein, submitted by RealClearInvestigations, Read Part 1 here...The online class on gender, feminism, and the law was underway when Lisa Keogh, a 29-year-old student and mother of…
Notre Dame rises again National Geographic (David L) Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen Master, Dies at 95 Tricycle (David L) A Rio Grande Valley Woman Just Broke the U.S. Record…
The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of Danish blend coffee, grab a seat by the fire, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • Can We Really…
Bitcoin (BTC) refused to stem recent losses during Jan. 22 as predictions of a flight to $33,000 and lower looked increasingly likely to become a reality.BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp).…
After the Argentine switched to Paris Saint Germain as a free agent, Ansu Fati was commended for his bravery in stepping and taking Lionel Messi's number 10 jersey at FC…
Formula E is aiming to make its new season the best yet for the electric motor racing series. In the UK, season 8 is being marked by the announcement of…
Yves here. Yours truly has long been saying “no” to doctors pushing tests and treatments that look to be beside the point…but how many are wired that way? Particularly when…
The Uniswap decentralized exchange (DEX) is the most popular DEX built on the Ethereum blockchain. For users wondering, "What is Uniswap?," this article provides an overview of what it is…
Yves here. As much as Leonard Mlodinow’s book about emotions sounds plausible, the review gives the impression it may not go far enough. We humans tend to think over-much of…
Brenda Gentry, a former USAA mortgage underwriter from Texas, believes that the cryptocurrency ecosystem offers a fighting chance to overcome the generational curse of poverty. Gentry, a.k.a. MsCryptoMom, left her decade-long…
[Editor's Note: White coat investors can make solid money by participating in paid surveys, a side gig that’s easy to do during your downtime. So, which survey companies should you…
Weekend Wordlers, hope your Saturday is off to a wonderful start! We’ve been solving these Wordle puzzles all week together and it’s time for another. The viral word-game is a…
Ireland was not a story of overbuilding caused by laissez-faire policy, or an experience that defied standard economics. Ireland built very few ghost towns – housing excesses, where they occurred,…
The Central American country of El Salvador has added 410 Bitcoin (BTC) to its central reserve as BTC prices trade below $37,000, a price last seen on July 26th, 2021. The…
Carts could hold the key to lifting retail sales at financially hard-pressed airports around the country. A trial at San Diego International Airport has shown that they have the power…
Commentary authored by Victor Davis Hanson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),In modern times, as in ancient Rome, several nations have suffered a “systems collapse.” The term describes the sudden…
Automation has rapidly expanded in businesses of all sizes to cope with rising wages and labor shortages. Robotics help firms streamline otherwise inefficient tasks and slash labor costs amid an…
Authored by Harry Lee and Nicholas VandenNieuwenhof via The Epoch Times,Federal health agencies haven’t recognized ivermectin as an effective treatment for COVID-19 patients. According to Doctor Leland Stillman, the reason…
AEW Rampage live advertised Jon Moxley’s return to in-ring action and Jade Cargill’s first defense of the TBS Championship against Anna Jay. AEW Rampage Match Card Jon Moxley vs Ethan…
The Nasdaq Composite is now undergoing its 66th correction since its inception in the year 1971. A correction is a drawdown of greater than 10 percent from a high. In…
In the preamble to Forbes World’s Most Valuable Sports Empires 2022 list, there is, without doubt, some positive news for the sports industry. For some, the pandemic has proven so…
The president said passage of a China competition bill was needed “for the sake of our economic competitiveness and our national security.”The $20 billion investment would bring the new plant…
The company co-producing Tom Cruise's upcoming space movie revealed on Thursday new plans for the world's first space-based entertainment studio that will attach to the International Space Station (ISS). Space Entertainment Enterprise (SEE),…
Authored by Michael Shellenberger and Leighton Woodhouse via substack (emphasis ours),San Francisco Mayor London Breed generated national news media coverage last December when she announced a sweeping crackdown on open…
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory warned Thursday of a "significant solar flare" event. The powerful burst of energy from the Sun, classified as an M5.5 class flare, sparked radio blackouts across the Indian…