September 2024 at Disney World: Crowd Calendar & Info
Facebook Twitter Pinterest Our guide to September 2024 at Walt Disney World offers a free crowd calendar, when to visit, red flag dates to avoid, new attraction openings & closures,…
The Fed and Jerome Powell are too data dependent, analyst says
The problem isn’t that the data is bad; in fact, most of it seems to be trending in the right direction. It’s that the Fed is relying on it too…
In election race, prediction markets are challenging traditional polling
But it isn’t just traditional election predictors that show Harris pulling Democrats back into the race. This month, Polymarket, the controversial cryptocurrency betting site that accurately called JD Vance being…
Fed Chair Jerome Powell can’t keep ignoring the climate elephant—or its impact on inflation—at Jackson Hole
This week at the Jackson Hole symposium, the annual gathering of the Federal Reserve in the Grand Tetons, the people who guide our financial markets will discuss the state of…
From Darwin to Wall Street: Harnessing Evolutionary Theory for Smarter Investments
Many of the businessmen I know are well-versed in economics, but none uses the science in their daily work. No other science is so thoroughly ignored by its practitioners. The…
The rise and fall of America’s AI mayoral candidate
If elected mayor, Victor Miller, 42, told voters he would govern Cheyenne, Wyoming, a town of just shy of 65,000 residents, via an AI chatbot modeled on OpenAI’s GPT-4. He…
Doritos teams with SpaceX for new chips
The astronauts on SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission will have a snack waiting for them when they finish the first civilian spacewalk in history. Doritos has teamed with SpaceX to send…
Companies are monitoring employees, and they’re okay with it
Employers are increasingly listening in on their workers, and a surprising number of employees don’t have a problem with it. When asked whether they would voluntarily give their company access…
What’s a rage ritual retreat?
Ask me about the last time I had a full-on temper tantrum, and my answer will no longer be, “My 8th birthday party.” It was actually a couple of weekends…
AI, Search, and the Travel Creator
Last year, Google rolled out something called “the helpful-content update” (HCU). It felt that too many websites were over-optimized for search and not run by real people providing real answers…
