Washington’s latest inflation report shows prices rising by 8.3% over the past year and core inflation (which excludes volatile food and energy prices) continuing to accelerate. Real wages have failed 2.7%. Moody’s Analytics and Penn-Wharton estimate that inflation is costing the average household $300 per month. A Harris poll reveals that 84% of Americans are […]
Dear Quentin, I’m due to retire in two months and I have already moved to my new home in the sun. I have not sold my apartment in a major US metropolitan area on the east coast, as I wanted to see how I settled into my new life. It’s a quiet, but beautiful city […]
Dave Chappelle was finishing his set for “Netflix Is a Joke” at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles when a man from the audience, Isaiah Lee, jumped onstage and attacked him. In his possession was a switchblade knife, a deadly weapon. I don’t know about you, but this sounds like a premeditated criminal act to […]
Take aim at one more hypocritical COVID celeb: The big musical theater turns out to be a ranting mask (no mask) Karen. A viral video shows the Tony and Grammy winner yelling “fuck you” at a patron for refusing to wear a mask after a performance of “Company” at the American Theater Wing. However, LuPone […]
Something miraculous happened Tuesday night at NYU’s Skirball Center in lower Manhattan, and no, it was not seth meyers killing with David Moyes jokes. the Men in Blazers podcast returned to a live recording format after several very challenging years off. Thanks to the cultish devotion of football fans (or “soccer” fans, for most of […]
One of the main aspects of on-chain analysis is to examine transactions over the network. Unlike exchange-involved transactions, which often lead to price volatility, transactions outside of exchanges demonstrate the network utility as possible payments among users. It makes a positive contribution to the development of the network over the long term if users are […]
This past week, the S&P 500 index plunged to new relative lows. It is now trading at prices last seen in March 2021. This latest move downward violated support at 4100-4200 and prompted a swift move down toward possible support at 3900. The next support area below that is 3700 – the lows of February […]
Labor costs are driving up inflation. But will inflation also drive more people back to the workforce? The annual rate of inflation slowed to 8.3% in April from 8.5% the previous month, helped by a fall in gasoline prices, but consumers still face rapidly rising costs. The March reading was the highest since 1981. The […]
Malbek, providers of an AI-fueled Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) platform, is introducing availability expanded platform capabilities and a new CLM Value Assessment tool, putting the spotlight on real time Redline Recommendations. Using the platform’s proprietary Lifecycle AI running NLP Heuristics with Semantic Analysis, this functionality helps to identify all contracts with similar asks received from […]
May 10, 2022 12:46 p.m. ET E85 fuel at a gas station in Nevada, Iowa. Photos: Jason Reed/REUTERS Tom Hazelleaf (Letters, May 2) is right about letting markets lead the fight against climate change, but wrong about imposing a carbon tax. Gasoline is the largest emitter by far of new carbon dioxide. The price elasticity […]