A bit of AI-aided investment research Research Date: June 30, 2025 Macroeconomic Transition and the Rotation into High-Beta Alpha The macroeconomic baseline of mid-2025 is characterized by a significant transition in global financial markets. Following a multi-year cycle of aggressive central bank tightening, borrowing costs are declining as the Federal Reserve eases its benchmark lending [ ]
Why does The New York Times let people like Reid Blackman with an obvious self-serving agenda publish terrible pieces like this one about Signal? The moment you take into account how many governments in the world pose a real danger to citizens with democratic values all of the author's arguments fall apart like a house of cards.
It's the World Cup. It's the knockout stage. Your whole country is watching. The world is watching. You lose and it's all over for you, your team and your country. The opponents are a tough defensive team full of highly experienced professionals who are excellent at disrupting all your best laid plans. Their manager is well versed in strategy and tactics. They know you are the most dangerous…
The other day came across version 2 of the first ever smartphone from Russia. It has specs on par with some of the leading smartphones and runs the latest version of Android, but its main differentiating factor is an a second display on the back of the phone which is similar to e-readers (2nd version [ ]
Read significantly faster with under five minutes of training? Sounds too good to be true yet a new startup called Spritz, that recently came out of stealth mode, promises exactly that by making you read even long pieces one word at a time. Let me hand it over to them for a short explanation of [ ]
Woke up this morning to bad news (and not even in my own inbox). imo messenger, my favorite chat client that combines most chat services into one and has a slick user interface has made the decision to cut support for all the third party messengers and become yet another stand alone client. I was [ ]
I don t post about sports here, but I have to make an exception this time around because I am originally from Latvia and hockey is one of my passions. If you are a hockey fan, or even if you re not, you ve probably heard of Latvia s amazing performance in the Olympic hockey tournament in Sochi. If [ ]
This is a rather long read, but very interesting. There s a lot here that I didn t really know about Mitt Romney and Business Week makes a case that this was precisely the problem with his campaign. He ran against Barack Obama rather than stand on his own record. I didn t vote for Mitt, but I [ ]