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Importing Public High School Students
A public high school in rural Maine is importing Chinese students at $27,000/year (room and board included) to compensate for plummeting revenue and enrollment. -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.
VF on Mexico’s Ongoing Collapse
is a must read article. Here’s the upcoming book by the author, Ed Vulliamy. “I used to call my town a city of two economies,” Cardona explains, “one legal, the other illegal. But now that both are globalized, the dividing … Continue reading
The Cow Underpins All
Kind of like oil: -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.
Catching the CFTC Scandal Early
the original article describing collusion between the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. It has a Momentum Index value of 84. the hit piece by the WSJ (sidenote: it’s rough). Also with a index of 84. (This tells me neither message has … Continue reading
Capturing the 3D Fabrication Market
Aptly named 3D Systems is on the . So far they have, it has: Purchased Desktop Factory. (First <$5K commercial printer.) Purchased Bits from Bytes. (A variety of printers based on RepRap.) Purchased Provel, S.r.l. (Italy’s leading 3D fab firm.) … Continue reading