My Mom Was Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Then She Got Better.

Clip source: https://www.thefp.com/p/sean-fischer-my-moms-alzheimers-diagnosis NewslettersAccount Share this post [ The Free Press My Mom Was Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Then She Got Better.](https://substack.com/home/post/p-154106410?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web) Copy linkFacebookEmailNotesMore My Mom Was Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Then She Got Better. “Somehow, my mom had fallen through the cracks of a fragmented medical system, which failed her—and then saved her,” writ...
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Peter Thiel and the Triumph of the Counter-Elites - jacquesbopp@xbopp.com

Clip source: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/WhctKLbNCPplSMmmwkQHKCdNvnltPRMKWThmxwWPThFVLPVklTHlRKmDzLFMDdRQkxFhPRg | | | Bari Weiss and entrepreneur Peter Thiel talked this week in Washington, D.C. On Tuesday night, Donald Trump announced that the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, along with the entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, will head a new initiative in the Trump administration: the Department of Government Efficiency, or “DOGE.” Internet meme culture has now landed in the Wh...
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Apple Has a Hot New Product. It’s a Hearing Aid. - WSJ

Apple Has a Hot New Product. It’s a Hearing Aid. The world’s most valuable company just turned its top-selling headphones into low-cost hearing aids—and it’s quietly a huge moment When the world’s most valuable company held its latest glitzy event this week, Apple offered a peek at its highly anticipated AI tools and the next iPhone. And one more thing that could quietly turn out to be the most important release of them all.  It wasn’t a new product. In fact, it’s a product you might alre...
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‘Poo in the Water’: How Financial Engineering Sullied Britain’s Most Famous River

LONDON—On a spring day this year, spectators gathered on the banks of the River Thames to watch Oxford and Cambridge universities compete in the annual Boat Race. Rowers were urged to avoid coming into contact with the water, which had earlier tested with high levels of E. coli. The Cambrsoceridge men shunned the traditional victory celebration of throwing their coxswain into the water, with their coach instead promising to find a bucket of clean, sanitized water to douse him. “It would have b...
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He Wants to Drive a Million Miles in His Porsche. He’s Not That Far Off. - WSJ

He Wants to Drive a Million Miles in His Porsche. He’s Not That Far Off. Tom Thalmann has put 700,000 miles so far on his daily driver, a 2003 Porsche 911 Turbo Tom ‘T2’ Thalmann calculates he’s spent 1.33 years of his life driving his 2003 Porsche 911 Turbo. Tom “T2” Thalmann, 57, an independent consultant in the biotech industry who lives in South Kingstown, R.I., on his 2003 Porsche 911 Turbo, as told to A.J. Baime. When I was growing up in Rhode Island, around this time of year, my par...
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Pension Funds Are Pulling Hundreds of Billions From Stocks

Clip source: https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/pension-funds-stocks-bonds-679b8536?mod=hpleadpos4 Stock portfolios at large pension funds had a blockbuster run. Now, managers are cashing out. Corporate pension funds are shifting money into bonds. State and local government funds are swapping stocks for alternative investments. The nation’s largest public pension, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, is planning to move close to $25 billion out of equities and into private eq...
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Tucker Carlson’s Turn

Clip source: https://www.thefp.com/p/tucker-carlsons-turn In the summer of 2020, Tucker Carlson’s prime time Fox News show became must-see TV for me. Garnering more than 4 million viewers a night, he spoke plainly about the riots in our cities, the consequences of Covid lockdowns, and the fraudulence of Russiagate. In those bleak days, my skepticism of the elite media veered into contempt.  Back then, it seemed like nearly everything we were told by mainstream, liberal outlets was a half-truth...
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