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Lessons From Nomadland
Read more: Lessons From NomadlandIn the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis a shift occurred in how some older people lived their lives across the USA. For the most part it wasn’t a choice. It was forced. As home prices fell while jobs and savings evaporated, holding onto a house became a struggle. For some it became impossible. The keys to the house were tossed back and replaced with keys to motorhomes and modified vans. Some bristled at the term homeless, they were houseless. This older cohort went on the road, doing seasonal work where they could find it. One of the consistent…
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The Lies of Melissa Caddick
Read more: The Lies of Melissa CaddickFeet. They have been washing up on the coast of the Pacific Northwest of North America intermittently since 2007. The foot, due to the weakness of the ankle, is the body part most likely to detach during decomposition. When said foot is inside a running shoe, it’s more likely to be buoyant. Depending on the currents and tides, it will eventually find itself washing ashore somewhere as a grim discovery for a local beachcomber. Much has been made of this phenomenon, but there’s no foul play involved. The departed, who once wore the boots and running shoes washing ashore on…
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Greenlights & Redlights
Read more: Greenlights & RedlightsA great relationship, a newborn son, and a successful career as an actor. In 2008, Matthew McConaughey was feeling pretty good about his life in California. Then an unexpected family health emergency took him back to his home state of Texas. Of all places, McConaughey and his young family ended up renting a home in a retirement community to be closer to his mother. There he found a motley group of retirees who lived life without pretence and offered plenty of unsolicited advice about good living. The family emergency, the newborn and the experience with the seniors had him reconsidering…
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GameStop Saga Will Have Hangover
Read more: GameStop Saga Will Have HangoverGameStop. Hedge Funds. Wall Street Bets. Robinhood. What is going on? You can read about the story pretty much anywhere at the moment, so we’ll briefly run through it and then take a look at a few other areas we think are important and unlikely to see as much attention. A group of people on ‘Wall Street Bets’, a subsection of an internet forum called reddit, essentially took a dislike to the fact a video game retailer called GameStop was being shorted by a group of hedge funds. Shorting is essentially where you borrow a stock to sell it in…
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The Big Lie of Social Media Trading Coaches
Read more: The Big Lie of Social Media Trading CoachesSocial media has been blamed for being the cause of many ills over the past decade. The ability to analyse our behaviour and micro target us with advertising may become the biggest ill of all. Being able to blatantly tell lies and distort the truth to a narrow group of people is regarded as a serious problem. It’s harder to address than general advertising. If deceptive ads were more widely seen, they would be more likely to be flagged and exposed. Much of the focus to this point has been on political campaigns, but the investment world is quickly catching up.…
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