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Noteworthy: About the Stock Market

March 9, 2022 · 1 min read

Since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the average market drawdown from geopolitical shocks has been just 5%. And the market bottomed, on average, 22 days later and recovered within 47…

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Have you heard about the million-dollar public toilet?

November 8, 2022 · 1 min read

Last month, San Francisco unveiled plans to build a 150-square-foot public toilet for $1.7m! Here’s a breakdown of the cost: * Base construction contract: $750k * Planning and design: $450k * Architecture and…

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Why The Oxford Comma Deserves A Second Look

March 3, 2019 · 1 min read

For most of my career as a writer, I have followed the NYT stylebook with regard to the comma. in particular, I have eschewed the Oxford comma — which insists on adding a comma at the end of a series. For…

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How The Civil War Created America's Income Tax

May 18, 2020 · 1 min read

Fighting the Civil War cost us a fortune. We ended up going into serious debt – equal to 100% of the country’s GDP at the time. Since there were relatively few taxes back then, Abraham Lincoln imposed the…

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Teenage Guitarist's Virtuoso Performance Stuns Internet Viewers

September 25, 2020 · 1 min read

I don’t know enough about guitar playing to know for sure, but is this young woman amazing or what? Are there rock guitarists that can do what she is doing here?

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