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View MoreChristopher Altman saw it in the same way that most small business owners do: in the quiet of an inbox that used to fill up on its own, rather than all at once. His Oakland tree-trimming crew scheduled three weeks off for years without his involvement. Then, the reservations simply…
The atmosphere changed somewhere between a half-empty diesel station outside Hamburg and the screens of a London trading floor. Like these things often do, it happened quietly. In January, Brent crude was trading at about sixty dollars. It was close to 120 by the second week of March. Ten weeks.…
A collection of Hubble photos sat quietly for years, seemingly unremarkable, in the digital vaults of NASA’s Mikulski Archive, a repository containing decades’ worth of telescope data from over a dozen space missions. While perusing that archive, UCLA planetary scientist David Jewitt discovered observations of 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák, a tiny comet shaped…
When a deal-maker exits the room, a certain kind of silence descends upon Washington. The quiet, almost administrative kind, where a desk empties, a calendar runs out, and everyone moves on, essentially pretending nothing changed, rather than the dramatic silence of a resignation or firing. On March 26, David Sacks…
The way QQQ usually acts in a poor market has an almost theatrical quality. When stocks are struggling, it doesn’t steadily decline like a bond fund might or remain stable like consumer staples ETFs occasionally do. It moves in tandem with the drama of its constituent companies, which include Nvidia,…