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Lia

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  • bimodality is not a statistical curiosity confined to the US. It is a global phenomenon,
    Uncertainty - by Quantitativo - Quant Trading Rules
  • Volatility 5 20-Year 5.7% 8.7% 10-Year 5.0% 7.1% 5-Year 6.1%
    GIC Report on the Management of the Government's Portfolio for the Year 2024/25
  • you don’t have to anymore. I have been given lavish things. I’m aware of that. I have been offered more. I am selective about what I accept. Not because I don’t appreciate generosity, but because I know what accepting can cost when the giver believes the gift was a transaction. I have watched women accept things that came with invisible invoices. I have watched the dynamic shift the moment the balance tilted. I refuse to be on the wrong side of that ledger. Some people call that pride. I call it the only form of self-respect I learned to trust. But when the few men I have truly loved have give…
    Why am I obsessed with money - by Umi - Composed Desire
  • There are only three sources of growth: population growth, natural resource utilization, and technology.
    The Techno-Optimist Manifesto - Marc Andreessen Substack
  • I really liked this paper by Supreet Kaur and coauthors on consumption smoothing and memory. Just documenting how people misallocate such that they (consistently!) go hungry in life-or-death situations is interesting enough, but they show that cueing and memory heuristics can dramatically help people plan for the future
    markets ± design
  • The energy-price shock from the Middle East conflict has sharply lifted near-term inflation expectations
    Bank of Canada to Hold Rates Steady While War Worries Brew - WSJ
  • Eventually, I incorporated peptides. TB-4 for repair. GHK-Cu for skin. Tesamorelin for signaling. KPV for inflammation. Semaglutide for control. What began as a small ritual gradually expanded into something that resembled a system, or at least what I believed was one. I organized everything the way most people do: metabolic regulation, anti-glycation, antioxidant defense, connective tissue support, regeneration. On paper, it looked complete.
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  • I have been given lavish things. I’m aware of that. I have been offered more. I am selective about what I accept. Not because I don’t appreciate generosity, but because I know what accepting can cost when the giver believes the gift was a transaction. I have watched women accept things that came with invisible invoices. I have watched the dynamic shift the moment the balance tilted. I refuse to be on the wrong side of that ledger. Some people call that pride. I call it the only form of self-respect I learned to trust. But when the few men I have truly loved have given me something, I keep it.
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  • Why work this hard when there’s an easier door. He didn’t say it. He didn’t have to. The woman beside him was the sentence.
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  • I am obsessed with making my own money. Not money. My own. There is a difference so wide you could build a life inside it. Money can be given. Money can be inherited. Money can arrive on the arm of someone who will remind you where it came from every time you forget to be grateful. My own money arrives because I clocked in. Because I studied. Because I passed the exam. Because I built the thing. It has no memory of someone else’s generosity and no strings that tighten when I try to walk away. My own money doesn’t change its mind. Doesn’t leave. Doesn’t ask me to be softer or quieter or more ag…
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