we talked about this in teacher school and a huge reason is because about 15-20 years ago, we stopped teaching phonics and started teaching something called "whole reading"
Pushy investors prime Japan Inc for new phase - @hudsonlockett.bsky.social - tinyurl.com/4s5tae29
"Hey Lou, for that pro-heterosexuality column, what do you think of this cartoon of a man and woman who've beaten each other black and blue?"
"I love it Jim, but that headline's gotta go. How about we use attraction to paper over gender inequality?"
"I like how you think, Lou."
Ah yes, slashing tariffs to boost investment in US industry after hiking tariffs to boost investment in US industry--a masterful gambit. Trump is clearly embracing Watterson's Greater Calvinball Theory of Industrial Policy
Come on, no. Shorts act as a stabilizer here, as they will cover if stocks tank. Record short positioning may indicate a fall is coming however.
Japan’s shareholder meetings run on bunk clockwork - @hudsonlockett.bsky.social - tinyurl.com/2393asr6
They did an “I was saying Boo-urns” but for real.
Oops.
“For mathematicians this is terrifying and exhilarating, but I’m not a mathematician and I don’t know what the unit distance problem is; I want to hire a caterer”
No one else doing it like Sam Kriss rn samkriss.substack.com/p/if-you-let...
Half of firms in the $8.6 trln market will hold AGMs in June led by Toyota and Kioxia, with most in the same week. Mob-linked investors once justified circling the wagons. Those days are gone but...
Activists like Elliott and Oasis targeted firms worth $110 bln in the first quarter, with 56 campaigns in 2025 topping Europe's tally. Backing from local money managers clears the way for great...
so an interesting thing here is that the *very sharp* decline in recent years - which virtually every educator I know has remarked upon - seems to be *largely* a U.S. pattern rather than a European one. That to me suggests that we can't just blame the phones.
CITIGROUP WARNS SURGE IN SHORT SELLING IS RAISING RISKS FOR U.S. STOCK MARKET CITI FLAGS RECORD SHORT POSITIONING AS POTENTIAL RISK TO MARKET STABILITY
