In 2018, "Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft: randomized controlled trial" was published in the British Medical Journal.
It sought to determine if wearing a parachute when jumping from a plane had any impact on survivability.
It did not.
Talking to other people about why they became engineers is humbling “oh you had a lifelong calling to make the world a better place through innovation? That’s very inspiring! …me? I really liked Mythbusters, that show went hard”
Omicron, and the collapse of Build Back Better pose the most serious immediate threats to the economic recovery. But another mounting hazard is over-valued asset markets. Stock, bond, real estate, commodity, and crypto markets are frothy and bordering on speculative.
If I ever drop a mixtape the first song will start just like Chief Keefs “love sosa” except it’ll be me going off about how Aldi is an underrated grocery store
@mtgreenee The instrumentalization of the tragedy of Jews who suffered, were humiliated, marked with a yellow star, isolated in ghettos & murdered during the Holocaust, in a debate on different systems that aim at protecting public health is a sad symptom of moral and intellectual decline.
My latest comment includes a discussion of valuations, internals, deficits, and a section titled “The two forms of quantitative easing” with notation that’s a hat tip to Ben Hunt’s brilliant work on Narrative @EpsilonTheory.
Miss it at your peril. 😱😀
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