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Trading FX? You need to look at (international) trade data. With the greenback still overvalued against most currencies, currency investors are scouring for market where the USD is most likely to weaken. Stephan Kessler, head of research for the alternative strategy team at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, has been using trade-related data to evaluate the […]

“Are your sperm in trouble?” Columnist Nicholas Kristof worries (quite literally) about the future of our species. As usual, it’s the fault of the human male. One of many troubling quotes he marshals, from the respected editor of the journal Endocrinology: “Semen quality and fertility in men have decreased. Not everyone who wants to reproduce […]

Policy uncertainty costs real money. That’s the conclusion of a Chicago Booth paper that tries to quantify the cost to markets of political risk. In a study of options prices from 20 countries, researchers found out that prices of options spanning disruptive political events are on average 5.1% higher than options that don’t overlap with […]

Whether you’re into foreign policy or just like spy novels, you need to read Alex Finley’s How the CIA Forgot the Art of Spying for Politico Magazine, which argues that the “new, more militarized way of gathering” that come into fashion thanks to the ‘Global War on Terror” needs to be re-thought. We need more […]

Are Facebook likes are the first “digital drug” to dominate our culture? The same thing applies to Facebook likes. “It’s hard to exaggerate how much the like button changed the psychology of Facebook use … A post with zero ‘likes’ [isn’t] just privately painful, but also a kind of public condemnation: either you didn’t have […]

Is puberty before age 10 a “new normal”? If you have a pre-teen. Heck, even if your kid just turned six — and especially if yours, like ours, is a bright, sensitive girl — you want to read this story in the New York Times.

We are re-thinking our opposition to the Oxford comma. From Quartz: “A Maine court ruling in a case about overtime pay and dairy delivery didn’t come down to trucks, milk, or money. Instead, it hinged on one missing comma. Delivery drivers for local milk and cream company Oakhurst Dairy have been tussling with their employers […]

Explorers find a long-lost mythical city in the depths of the Honduran jungle — only to return home with its curse: Aided by advanced LIDAR technology and armed with a lot of gusto, a team of brazen explorers ventured into the belly of the Honduran Mosquitia Jungle — one of the earth’s last unexplored regions […]