This is probably because the economist who first looked into relationship between the yield curve and recessions used 10y-3m [0]. His reasoning is that the 3m gives a better outlook of the conditions happening at the…
I don't know if $45B is a line item to them, but to give you a sense of scale of how much money the Saudis have, Aramco had a net income of about $34B in the first half of 2017 [0]. [0]…
In Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise, Ericsson had chess grandmasters look chess boards of real games, and they could recreate the board in a pretty short fashion. But when they took chess boards of…
Matt Levine wrote an article (with charts!) on VIX[0] back in 2014 that basically says the same thing: VIX is more of a measure of past volatility than an indicator of future volatility. [0]…
> 1. Crime pays less than it used to. Back in the good old days, people carried more cash on them. Pickpocketing and mugging was reasonably profitable when everyone had money. These days, everyone has credit cards. I…
AFAIK, Uniqlo only hems, and the jeans probably don't fit in other ways (e.g. thighs, calves). I would, however, love to be wrong.
This is probably because the economist who first looked into relationship between the yield curve and recessions used 10y-3m [0]. His reasoning is that the 3m gives a better outlook of the conditions happening at the…
I don't know if $45B is a line item to them, but to give you a sense of scale of how much money the Saudis have, Aramco had a net income of about $34B in the first half of 2017 [0]. [0]…
In Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise, Ericsson had chess grandmasters look chess boards of real games, and they could recreate the board in a pretty short fashion. But when they took chess boards of…
Matt Levine wrote an article (with charts!) on VIX[0] back in 2014 that basically says the same thing: VIX is more of a measure of past volatility than an indicator of future volatility. [0]…
> 1. Crime pays less than it used to. Back in the good old days, people carried more cash on them. Pickpocketing and mugging was reasonably profitable when everyone had money. These days, everyone has credit cards. I…
AFAIK, Uniqlo only hems, and the jeans probably don't fit in other ways (e.g. thighs, calves). I would, however, love to be wrong.