Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Audrey Malo for The Washington Post Recently, we here at the Department of Data were perplexed to discover that Alaska ranks near the top of our list of states where people choose to spend their retirement years. By which we mean: An unusual share of the retirement-age population in Alaska comes from out of state….
If you worked a day less each week and got paid the same amount, what would you do with all that free time? You could reorganize that clutter drawer (who needs that many rubber bands?). You could catch up with a family member. Or you could finally learn Portuguese and surprise your partner when you…
Banking unit was biggest to enter FDIC receivership since 2008 Prominent VC firms advised portfolio companies to pull cash Why the Silicon Valley Bank Collapse Matters March 17, 2023, 12:08 PM UTCUpdated onMarch 17, 2023, 1:01 PM UTC Silicon Valley Bank’s former parent company filed for bankruptcy a week after a run on deposits…
PAIR is a new identity solution from Google that allows publishers and advertisers (using Google’s buying platform, DV360) to match first-party data to deliver personalized ads. Google announced PAIR in a blog post outlining the concept last week. PAIR stands for Publisher Advertiser Identity Reconciliation, and as far as ad tech acronyms go, it’s not…
A “hunger cliff” is looming for millions of Americans, with 32 states set to slash food-stamp benefits beginning on Wednesday. The cuts will impact more than 30 million people who are enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, in those states, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Among the states…
Strike-busting troops gathered in Colorado in 1914, after the Ludlow Massacre It was spring in Colorado when the National Guard killed the strikers: April, 1914. Workers at John D. Rockefeller’s big interest in the state, the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, had been on strike since the previous September, and had long since begun to…
Remind me why, exactly, these guys have so much control over technological innovation? Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Liu Guanguan/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images, gpointstudio/iStock/Getty Images Plus, and francescoch/iStock/Getty Images Plus. If the technological innovation coming out of Silicon Valley is as important as venture capitalists insist, the past few days suggest they…
Did Silicon Valley Bank implode because one (1) of its 11 board members is Black? Or because one (1) of those 11 board members is LGBTQ+? One of the nation’s most prominent economic columnists is wondering. In a column for the Wall Street Journal, Andy Kessler writes: “SVB notes that besides 91 percent of their…
(Reuters) – BuzzFeed Inc said on Monday that most of its cash and cash equivalents were held at Silicon Valley Bank, which was shut down last week. The digital media firm said it had about $56 million in cash and cash equivalents at the end of 2022. Startup-focused lender SVB Financial Group last week became…
On Sunday afternoon at the base of the Queensboro Bridge in Manhattan, an elderly man in a fur cap was politely explaining how congestion pricing was going to “kill New York.” The man said that he and his wife were there to join a few dozen others to protest the long-delayed plan to charge fees…