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The meaning of “UBS”
Top 10 Things the Letters “UBS” Stands For
10. Uncle Broke Sam
9. Unlocked Banking Secrets
8. Untaxed Bastards Suffer!
7. Uber Blown Secrecy
6. Untrustworthy Bankster Swine
5. Used to BS (the IRS)
4. Unconcealed Banknote Storage
3. Unlawful Benefits Seized
2. U’d Better Surrender
and the number one thing UBS stands for:
1. Utilize Bahamas, Swiftly!
via The Big Picture – Part 2.
Endogeous market euphoria presages collapse
“If only to confirm the socionomic causality at work, an economist quoted in the article above muses, “The one anomaly in the puzzle is that people shouldn’t be feeling better because the jobs market is so terrible and unemployment is likely to keep rising.” Of course it would be an anomaly, and people should not [...]
The wisdom of the bored
“I felt better about humanity before we had comments sections.”
— sa
via Business Owner Fires on 4 Robbers, Killing 2, Police Say – City Room Blog – NYTimes.com.
Running might actually help your knees
“But despite entrenched mythology to the contrary, runners don’t seem prone to degenerating knees. An important 2008 study, this one from Stanford University, followed middle-aged, longtime distance runners (not necessarily marathoners) for nearly 20 years, beginning in 1984, when most were in their 50s or 60s. At that time, 6.7 percent of the runners had [...]
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