Posts by Writer Junkie
Are Old People Lying About Their Age?
Science has given us another thing not to trust; the elderly – who apparently lie all the time about how old they are. According to a new working paper by researchers at the Biological Data Science Institute at Australian National University, “supercentenarians” – those over 110-years-old, have a habit of bullshitting about their age. The conclusion – yet…
Read MoreFrom The Constitution To Rule By Analytics And Algorithms
A.I. driven social scores to supplant constitution? Professor Larry Backer of Penn State University writes in a 2018 paper that resistance to social credit systems in the west could be dissolved when the masses are “socialized… as a collective” and “…the great culture management machinery of Western society develop a narrative in which such activity…
Read MoreWriter Junkie Is Celebrating 5 Years In Business!
We did it! We’ve been in business for five years. Over the course of the past five years, we’ve helped hundreds of clients get their message seen online and in print. We’ve serviced businesses from a variety of different industries including but not limited to: real estate agents, tax accountants, lawyers, loan officers, business owners,…
Read MoreThe Sharing Economy Is A Scam
‘Sharing’ was supposed to save us. Instead, it became a Trojan horse for a precarious economic future… Founded in 2014, Omni is a startup that offers users the ability to store and rent their lesser-used stuff in the San Francisco Bay Area and Portland. Backed by roughly $40 million in venture capital, Omni proclaims on its…
Read MoreA Much Weaker Chinese Currency?
Only three trade war updates today worth mentioning, all of which should leave markets brimming with optimism. First, it has been reported that China has hacked 27 US universities to try to steal maritime defence technologies. Second, Zhang Shan, China’s Commerce Minister, has described the negotiations in Washington as “very difficult and very hard…There are…
Read MoreMillennials Have Over $1 Trillion In Debt
Debt held by Americans aged 19 to 29-years-old exceeded $1 trillion at the end of last year, according to Bloomberg, citing the New York Federal Reserve Consumer Credit Panel. The debt load marks the highest exposure for the group since late 2007 at a time when younger adults under 35-years-old have decreased their spending compared to previous generations. A Friday University of…
Read MoreCredit Exhaustion Is A Global Problem
Europe is awash in credit exhaustion, and so is China. The signs are everywhere: credit exhaustion is global, and that means the global growth story is over: revenues and profits are all sliding as lending dries up and defaults pile up. What is credit exhaustion? Qualified buyers don’t want to borrow more, leaving only the…
Read MoreMIT Tech Can Beam A Voice Into Your Head
According to MIT, there now exists technology that can beam a voice right into your head from a distance. What? That’s crazy! While it sounds like the wild claim of a person suffering from a mental illness – “The government is telling me to do stuff and only I can hear them!” – it’s all too real.…
Read MoreYou Shouldn’t Bet Streaks
Behavioral finance is an especially important topic during choppy markets. Today we review new work in the discipline that shows why people tend to make risky decisions even when they know the odds are against them, or avoid risky decisions even if the odds are favorable. More on that and what it means for the current…
Read MoreStart The New Year Off The Right Way!
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Read MoreAmerica’s Homeless Population Has Changed
Though the crisis of homelessness across the US has eased somewhat over the past decade, there are still some 550,000 homeless people in the US, equivalent to roughly one-fifth of one percent of the population. Data from the Department of Housing and Urban Development cited by Business Insider shows that the US homeless population decreased by 14.4% between 2007 –…
Read MoreWorld War 1’s Toll
Veterans Day in the United States was created to commemorate the veterans of World War I. This year Veterans Day also marks 100 years since the end of the war to end all wars. As Statista’s Sarah Feldman notes, World War I became known as the war to end all wars due to how deadly it was to…
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