Dear Professors — It’s been a minute, right? A few months ago, you were talking smack about my year in a cabin. Now you’re trapped in your condo in Yonkers or the backside of Amherst or wherever, and you’d trade it in a heartbeat for 150 square feet and a whole forest full of owls and frogs and…

In places like Alaska, the Spanish flu exacted a terrible toll. But while some communities suffered many deaths, others nearby escaped the carnage. How? Filthy and frightened, the three young children staggered up the beach. Their tiny frames were feverish and behind them, on board the small…

In mid-2003, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency launched an ambitious program aimed at recording essentially all of a person's movements and conversations and everything they listened to, watched, read and bought. The idea behind the LifeLog initiative was to create a permanent,…

TheFacebook launched on the exact same day DARPA’s LifeLog project was reportedly killed. The vision of LifeLog is congruent with current Facebook practices. After all the scandals, are you really buying what Facebook is saying about being privacy-focused? TheFacebook Launches on the Same Day…

I get a lot of emails asking me to describe position sizing, methodology and/or process by which I partake to trade well. There isn’t one way to trade. We all have our tools and instincts and methods, none are better than the next. The only thing that matters is the net result. I have found, through…

In the week or so after my 5-year-old’s Washington, DC, school closed, my wife or I used to take him sometimes to the playground across the street so he could ride his scooter to burn some energy. He was prohibited from using the climbing equipment, but with appropriate disinfecting, I would let him…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Californians weary of stay-at-home orders that have left millions unemployed staged displays of defiance Friday, with hundreds of flag-waving protesters gathering at the Capitol and along a famed Southern California beach, while a sparsely populated county on the Oregon…

Homes stand in Oakland, California, U.S. Photographer: Michael Short/Bloomberg Photographer: Michael Short/Bloomberg About 7.3% of U.S. mortgages entered forbearance plans in April, providing temporary relief to more than 3.8 million borrowers who have lost income during the coronavirus pandemic.…

Below is a chart and brief excerpt from today's Early Look written by Hedgeye CEO Keith McCullough. What else in the #process isn’t random this morning? A) US Dollar – great spot to buy more at the low-end of my Risk Range for the US Dollar Index if it gets there today B) FX – process had me waiting…

The guest commentary below was written by Jesse Felder of The Felder Report We’ve just entered the heart of earnings season and it’s during this time I typically like to take a look at a wide variety of stocks and how their valuations compare with their fundamentals. One of my favorite ways to do…

Hillary Clinton continues to hover in the wings, ready to step forward should Joe Biden fail. Don’t look now, but Joe is failing. Not only has his campaign been rocked by sexual assault allegations from one-time staffer Tara Reade, but the public is beginning to give up on the former vice president.…

An employee checks packaged meat at a 365 by Whole Foods Market grocery store in Los Angeles in 2016. (Mario Anzuoni/Reuters) The answer could affect people’s dinner tables — and Trump’s reelection chances. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A merica’s meat processing-plants are hard-hit by COVID-19. Speculation…

This year we’ve had a string of fairly terrible experiences buying software at little ol’ SaaStr: With one well-known SaaS vendor, an employee e-signed a 2-year contract without permission . We never deployed the software, and yet the vendor threatened to sue us if we didn’t pay for Year 2. Even…

Dear startup CEOs: It’s time to shift your mindset. Last week might have been about growth and funky new initiatives. It could have been about hiring employees and closing that new financing round and launching that new product. Last week was about shiny things. Growth was your religion, and your…

Top highlight Your customers are like salespeople who’ll pay you to work Eva Gutierrez ✍🏼 Mar 13 · 6 min read Photo via Piqsels I get emails from startups asking me to write content for them on a monthly basis. All of these startups are running on fumes and cheap coffee, hoping to get themselves…

Q: What are the next big trends in SaaS? I think the new trend, which is brand new — is that “Innovation” as a reason to buy SaaS is dead. For now . And maybe for 18+ months. But … this will be combined with a rapid acceleration of Digital Transformation. What do I mean? Well, the IT spend into SaaS…

StumbleUpon The Primary Precondition of Deflation By Robert Prechter, CMT Elliott Wave International The following was adapted from Bob Prechter’s 2002 New York Times and Amazon best seller, Conquer the Crash – You Can Survive and Prosper in a Deflationary Depression . Deflation requires a…

StumbleUpon During a recessionary environment, people often wonder what you should and should not do, especially during deflation. The following article provides some insight into these concerns based on studies done on previous periods of deflation. 10 Things You Should and Should Not Do During…

StumbleUpon The "Great Depression Stock Chart Series" contains charts I've put together displaying how the stock market performed during this devastating time period. I initially had one page with a few charts on it from this time period but have since decided to spend more time researching this…

Below is a complimentary excerpt from a Demography Unplugged research note written by Hedgeye Demography analyst Neil Howe. Click here to learn more and subscribe. According to a new Pew study, just 23% of Americans believe that the economy is doing well. At the same time, the majority of people…

Xiao Yijiu / Xinhua / eyevine / Re​dux Editor's Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers. Find the collection here . Updated at 7:43 p.m. on Feb. 25, 2020. In May 1997, a 3-year-old boy developed what at first seemed like the common cold. When his…

A President who suggests the answer to a global pandemic is…injecting disinfectant…drinking it…and that’s after he cut funding for the WHO. “Lockdown liberation” protesters who call the act of staying at home “slavery.” Government after government which disregarded warning after warning about said…

Whether you work in a factory, a retail store, a restaurant or an office, you're going to have to get used to wearing a mask at work for the foreseeable future. Why it matters: Until there's a vaccine for the coronavirus, or enough people have been exposed that it's no longer a threat, masks will be…

GERMANY faces the prospect of returning to a stricter lockdown after a surge in coronavirus infections and deaths. The country has slowly been easing its lockdown after faring much better than its European neighbors as a result of an aggressive policy of mass testing. 10 Germans out and about as the…

Phys Ed Intense bursts of exercise throughout the day may have surprising metabolic benefits. Credit... iStock Four seconds of high-intensity exertion repeated periodically throughout the day might counteract some of the unhealthy metabolic consequences of sitting for hours, according to a…

Four seconds of high-intensity exertion repeated periodically throughout the day might counteract some of the unhealthy metabolic consequences of sitting for hours, according to a surprising and timely new study of the potentially large benefits of diminutive workouts. The study relied on a…

ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. - Editor's Note: This story has been revised to clarify that the guidelines have only been approved, but are not yet being implemented at businesses in Orange County. OC Board of Supervisors vote unanimously on safety guidelines The Orange County Board of Supervisors…

Disneyland and other California theme parks currently closed by the COVID-19 pandemic can’t reopen for months, possibly until an as-yet-undeveloped coronavirus treatment becomes available, according to state government officials. California Gov. Gavin Newsom and California Department of Public…

Edward Peter Stringham – April 26, 2020 Print Dr. Daniel W. Erickson of Bakersfield, California, is a former emergency-room physician who co-owns, with his partner Dr. Artin Massih, Accelerated Urgent Care in Bakersfield. They are experienced medical professionals who have 40 years of hands-on…

(CNN) Seven coronavirus models show US coronavirus deaths will rise in coming weeks, but how sharply depends on how much "contact reduction" Americans practice , the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. The models estimate the numbers of cases and deaths on the state and national levels,…

Markets Published Tue, Apr 28 20209:36 AM EDT Updated an hour ago @kevin_stank Key Points Hedge fund manager Kyle Bass said Tuesday that he didn’t anticipate the stock market’s current recovery from its coronavirus-driven lows in March. “I’m surprised at the size of the bounce when you look at our…

17,089 total views, 5,001 views today Some great work from @rogerglassel provides us with further insight into the Navy’s position on UAP and also UAS. See below. *Source interview belongs to the work of Roger Glassel. Swedish Magazine UFO-aktuellt Follow-Up Query – Responses 16 September 2019 1)…

© Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times/TNS LOS ANGELES, CA-APRIL 23, 2020: Medical staff, wearing protective gear, work inside a Covid 19 isolation area, inside the emergency department at Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center in Los Angeles, where patients with the virus are being treated. The number of…

Alameda Health System nurses, doctors and workers practice social distancing during a protest in front of Highland Hospital on March 26, 2020 in Oakland, California. Alameda Health System nurses, doctors and workers practice social distancing during a protest in front of Highland Hospital on March…

The death toll from coronavirus may be almost 60 per cent higher than reported in official counts, according to an FT analysis of overall fatalities during the pandemic in 14 countries. Mortality statistics show 122,000 deaths in excess of normal levels across these locations, considerably higher…

The unprecedented threat from the novel coronavirus has confined many Americans to their homes, distancing them from one another at great cost to local economies and personal well-being. Meanwhile the pressure grows on American institutions to do something—anything—about the pandemic. Encouraged by…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — With time growing short and the future uncertain, many high school students are considering skipping college in the fall. The coronavirus pandemic has left many universities uncertain whether they’ll be able to welcome students to campus after summer, and many students don’t…

People pick up food the Food Bank at the New York City mobile food pantry on the Barclays Center plaza on April 24, 2020 in the Brooklyn, New York. Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty Images Why isn’t the stock market much lower? This question is occurring to plenty of observers right now, given the apparent…

Our recent SaaStr Summit: Bridging the Gap was the first time I’ve had a chance to be a participant at a SaaStr event in a long, long time. Too much planning, moderating, etc. I thought I’d share my learnings from the sessions as we put them up on YouTube. My first set of 10 Learnings is from Mark…

This first appeared in The Startup Record unemployment number s are announced and the market goes up. Rising death rates and news of community spread showing up in more places around the world , the market goes up. Alarming declarations that patients can get re-infected once pronounced cured and the…