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Our most-read article of the 2022.

Originally published January 5, 2022.

Dear Parents,

Hope you had a wonderful, relaxing break with family and friends. We’re delighted to welcome you back to school as we celebrate a return to normalcy. We want to assure you that schools are open, safe, and operating completely as usual. However, we did want to alert you to some policy changes to ensure a robust learning environment for all!

Your child’s classroom will have no teachers. Understandably, many of our educators have been reluctant to return to school, with COVID cases and hospitalizations reaching an all-time high and emergency rooms on the brink of collapse.

Before his FTX cryptocurrency empire collapsed, many of Sam Bankman-Fried’s public statements indicated that he made decisions “as though he had no risk aversion,” according to Victor Haghani, the founder and chief investment officer of Elm Partners Management and a co-founder of the Long-Term Capital Management hedge fund.

Our 2nd most-read article of the 2022.

Originally published January 14, 2022.

The War on Drugs
You make your own paella and take super long naps on Saturday. Like over two hours, consistently. You prefer the smallest possible hardware store with the oldest possible employees. You used to sincerely call male friends “brother,” but you stopped.

The National
You should have moved to Brooklyn when you had the chance. You never had the chance. At what point does the artisanal whiskey interest become just alcoholism with a higher word count? You used to think you were once great at soccer, but now you’re not so sure you were ever good at soccer. This is causing a very low-level existential crisis that will vanish in three years.

Text from an insider in NY politics: “The so called progressives have now completely politicized the selection of chief judge.” https://t.co/GUkPRnbOVv

— Gerson Borrero (@GersonBorrero) December 30, 2022

It seems that the NYT wants to push a story of declining homeownership rates, but the data refuse to cooperate, so they ignore it.  

The post The NYT Doesn’t Have Access to Census Data: We Do Not Have a Record Number of Renters appeared first on Center for Economic and Policy Research.

Russia is a major metals producer and exporter. According to Institut Polytechnique de Paris, last year the country held a 13% market share for titanium production, 11.2% for nickel, 10.5% for platinum, 5.4% for aluminum, 4% for copper and 4.4% for cobalt. It is the world’s top producer of palladium, a rare metal used in car manufacturing, accounting for 37% of production in 2021.…

Russia is not only a major producer of primary aluminum but it is also embedded in the global supply chains needed to make the metal....