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Bill Ackman who made so much noise about antisemitism on campus, helping to force out the Harvard president, now says he is considering voting for Donald Trump, an openly antisemitic politician who praised neo-Nazis at Charlottesville & hosted a Holocaust denier for dinner in FL.

It occurs to me that college professors are never really taught how to teach, as public school teachers are. You get a PhD and are then thrown into a classroom with no real guidance as to how to develop a lesson plan, choose textbooks, give a lecture etc. You just wing it.

This is New Hampshire Republican State Rep Jess Edwards arguing in favor of child marriage this week and referring to girls as “ripe” and “fertile.”

Thankfully, the bill passed and child marriage will soon be illegal in New Hampshire.

I still think that Trump's racism is underestimated as the foundation of his philosophy and political power. nytimes.com/2024/05/04/opi…

So right-wing billionaires are reducing contributions to elite universities because of student protests. It really doesn't matter because they already have huge endowments that they never spend, just keep getting bigger. They are like hedge funds that don't pay dividends.

And 30 years to pay off their mortgage.

For those too young to remember the college protests of the Vietnam era, this movie is a very accurate depiction of that time when I was in school. Also, a pretty good movie. imdb.com/title/tt006577…

Seeing the various college protests, I am reminded that the original neoconservatives were motivated to abandon the left when some 1960s radicals threatened to burn down the Harvard library.

Insight into right-wing 'journalism.' vanityfair.com/news/story/how…

Note the pathetic job creation numbers during the previous administration. bls.gov/opub/ted/2024/…

The real numbers are pathetic. bls.gov/charts/usual-w…

Hot coffee and iced coffee taste great, but lukewarm coffee tastes terrible. Why's that?

For every 1°C increase in avg temps, the Southeastern coast should expect storms to cause a 2-4 p.p. increase in the capital depreciation rate.

More county-level estimates from UChicago Economics' Esteban Rossi-Hansberg & Adrien Bilal:

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The demented rapist's media company is worthless and so is its stock. A year from now the price will be zero. cnn.com/2024/05/03/med…

The stock market likes a weak jobs report, improves the odds of Fed easing. wsj.com/market-data/qu…