The Epstein Files, everybody!

Since 1950 the S&P 500 has returned 8.2% over the rate of inflation

But there have been two full decades where stocks returned less than annual inflation

Some thoughts on stocks vs. bonds. vs. inflation:

awealthofcommonsense.com/2025/12/the-...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

"As one of the most vocal opponents of left-wing identity politics, I now see real reluctance from my former anti-woke peers to criticize the new identity politics on the right," Vivek Ramaswamy writes.

Mysterious will for late Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh's $500 million estate is fake, attorneys claim.

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The actor and director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, have died. The police are investigating what they described as an apparent homicide at the Reiners’ home. Follow live updates. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...

Central Park was under a canvas of snow Sunday morning, with its trees, meadows and pathways frosted in a wintry icing after New York City’s first big snowfall of the season. trib.al/1iP7AJr

“It was just carnage.” Australian Jews had been gathering on Sunday on Bondi Beach in Sydney for an event to mark the first night of Hanukkah, when gunmen started firing directly into the crowd.

Two people were killed and eight were injured in a shooting at Brown University on Saturday, officials said. No one was in custody, and a shelter-in-place order remained in effect for the campus. Follow live updates. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...

Taylor Swift dropped the concert film “The Eras Tour: The Final Show” on Disney+ along with the first two episodes of a behind-the-scenes six-part documentary series, “The End of an Era.” Here are five key takeaways.

The Department of Justice posted a faux book cover, “Franklin becomes a deportation judge,” on social media Thursday.

Under the previously undisclosed program, TSA provides a list to ICE of travelers who will be coming through airports. ICE can then match the list against its own database of people subject to deportation and send agents to the airport to detain those people. nyti.ms/4oUnl4J

Fans of garlic noodles and soy sauce noodles rejoice: Here is a weeknight-friendly noodle dish for your repertoire. It is one of our most popular recipes of 2025. nyti.ms/3KL4uuR

Republicans in the Indiana Senate defied President Trump and joined Democrats in voting down a congressional map aimed at adding GOP seats. nyti.ms/44iRALi

Evacuations were underway on Thursday as flooding intensified in the Pacific Northwest as the region endured what could be some of its worst flooding in decades. nyti.ms/44Y4Rcb

Representative Haley Stevens of Michigan, a Democrat running for Senate, filed articles of impeachment on Wednesday against Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Democratic leaders haven’t backed the move, and it’s all but certain to fail.

The one thing Kamala Harris absolutely does not want to talk about is whether she is thinking about running for president again. “It’s three years from nooooow,” she told us. She is busy selling books — a lot of them. She is not yet selling herself.
Read our full interview on what she plans next.

Netflix announced last week it plans to acquire Warner Bros. studio and streaming business in a deal valued at $82.7 billion.

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How will BLS represent missing data values resulting from the govt shutdown in the #JOLTS data release tomorrow?
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