Daily Archives: September 7, 2024

The Material

I love this new novel by Camille Bordas: * How “rape” used to mean someone being dragged into an alley by a stranger, gagged, beaten up, savagely penetrated, and left for dead behind a trash can. How “rape” had now … Continue reading

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The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend

Rob Copeland writes in this great 2023 book: * Amid Pure Alpha’s extraordinary growth, the Bridgewater founder continued to give frequent media interviews in which he identified imminent market crashes that rarely happened. Dalio predicted a bear market coming in … Continue reading

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Nobody Runs Society

Philosopher Michael Huemer writes Sep. 7: * While Joe Biden was still running for President, people were saying that he was a puppet, controlled by some other forces. A popular theory on the right is that this was “Obama’s third … Continue reading

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