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WorkAI firms are hunting for quants in Wall Street's backyard and dangling monster paydays - Business Insider (No paywall) In May, a group of more than 20 finance whizzes from across the country descended on OpenAI's San Francisco HQ for what CEO Sam Altman cheekily called a "party." They sat through a presentation, mingled with researchers, and some received formal interview invites. A month later in New York City, Altman's team held another recruiting overture for quant trading professionals the highly coveted mathematicians, physicists, data scientists, and engineers who power the world's top hedge funds and high-frequency trading firms. WorkGlobal markets fall on latest tariff developments - WSJ (No paywall) U.S. stock futures pointed to a weaker open at the start of a week when inflation data and big bank earnings roll in. Global stock markets were mostly in the red on Monday after President Trump said the U.S. will charge a 30% tariff on goods from the European Union and Mexico effective Aug. 1. The dollar was up, long-term Treasury yields ticked higher, and bitcoin hit a fresh record. WorkWorkThe hot new MBA hustle: ''I will never work in a corporate job ever again.' - Business Insider (No paywall) In the summer of 2019, Dan Schweber was grinding through yet another career pivot. Straight out of college, he landed what he thought would be a dream job as a healthcare consultant, only to discover that he couldn't stand being a nobody in a giant bureaucracy. So he joined a tiny healthtech startup, until it was acquired by a series of bigger companies that eventually laid him off. He came to believe that a better path would be to start his own business, where he could call all the shots. So at age 28, he enrolled in Columbia's executive MBA program. In between his day job in healthtech and his weekend classes, he used every free moment he could find to rack his brain for startup ideas.
WorkWorkWorkHow Much More TACO Madness Can the U.S. Economy Take? - The New Yorker (No paywall) The White House's tariffs have been well received, Donald Trump told Kristen Welker, of NBC News, last week, adding that the stock market had just hit a new high. Trump was right about the market, but he didn't mention why investors were bidding up the S. & P. 500 and Nasdaq to unprecedented levels despite his threats, yet again, to impose punitive tariffs of up to fifty per cent on goods imported from all over the world: they don't believe he'll ever go through with it. Or, as the acronym that has become an article of faith on Wall Street goes, TACO - Trump always chickens out. Work
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WorkWorkTrump Gave Hints He Might Withhold Epstein Files Before 2024 Election - Forbes (No paywall) President Donald Trump hesitated when asked if he would release the so-called Epstein files in their entirety in a newly resurfaced Fox News interview from last year - underscoring Trump's desire to quash conversations about Jeffrey Epstein, contradicting demands from some in his base to dig deeper into conspiracy theories surrounding the convicted sex offender. WorkWork
WorkYour Brain Reveals a Lot About Your Age It's an automatic behavior when you meet someone new: subconsciously, you take stock of physical cues to gauge how old they are. Facial wrinkles, gray hairs, an unsteady walk: these all signal older age. WorkWorkWorkThe Biggest Myth About the YIMBY Movement - The Atlantic (No paywall) Over the past year, the conversation about housing affordability went national. Unfortunately, it brought with it all the contentiousness of a local-zoning-board meeting. The Democratic YIMBY (yes in my backyard) movement argues for reducing restrictions on building in order to increase the number of homes and lower housing prices. This has inspired a furious backlash within the liberal coalition. These critics paint the YIMBY vision as a centrist, pro-business scheme that betrays progressive values. Some of the loudest complaints have come from anti-monopoly advocates, who warn that the abundance agenda is a stalking horse for libertarianism. The fight has been framed in a way that is almost perfectly designed to split the Democratic coalition.
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