The Big Picture by Barry Ritholtz

My Two-for-Tuesday morning train reads:

• The Worries That Drove Uncle Sam to Buy Yen: The U.S. and Japan launched their first joint currency intervention in a generation after the yen fell to a 40-year low — a decline that threatened to push U.S. interest rates higher. The weakness of the Japanese currency was a problem not just for Tokyo but also Was...

I use a few behavioral hacks to manage my executive-function challenges. The simplest is a weekly email to myself reminding me to make reservations for date night that weekend. I have been doing this in one form or another for dec...

My back-to-work morning train WFH reads:

• Too darn f*****g hot: Hybrid Economics on the economics of extreme heat — the productivity losses, infrastructure strain, and adaptation costs that are becoming a permanent line item in the global economy. Unusually hot weather is bad for you, your temper, your economy and your business. Climate change means you’re going to ge...

Bloomberg just says it: The Cybertruck is an automotive disaster on par with the Edsel, which itself became shorthand for a total failure:

Ford introduced a car named the Edsel, named after Henry Ford...

Avert your eyes! My Sunday morning look at incompetency, corruption and policy failures:

• The House of Ellison is on the Brink: Everything the world’s briefly richest man built is failing at once. Notes From the Circus on the Ellison media empire’s mounting troubles — Paramount, the debt load, and the succession questions nobody at the top wants to answer. (<...