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GameStop Follies: The Long and the Short of It
by meep
Well, it looks like the GameStop follies continue:
GameStop Corp. shares skyrocketed in the final hour of trading Wednesday, finishing the day with a rally reminiscent of last month’s blockbuster gains.
Shares of the videogame retailer finished 104% higher to close at $91.71 after hovering below $50 for most of the day. The stock, which was halted twice on Wednesday for volatility, closed around that level on Feb. 3. It climbed further in after-hours trading.
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Mortality with Meep: Digging into CDC report on mortality in the first half of 2020
by meep
While we wait for North Carolina and Connecticut to get up-to-date on reporting deaths, the CDC has collected enough data from the first half of 2020 to release the following paper:
Provisional Life Expectancy Estimates for January through June, 2020
In the first half of 2020, life expectancy...
Geeking Out: GDP By Country and Recent COVID Mortality Data
by meep
It’s Valentine’s Day, so let me do something I love! Fixing graphs! And complaining about North Carolina!
A friend shared the following on Facebook:
I saw that and I had some immediate questions:
1. Why is the most recent actual shown from 2008?
2. What are the different orders of...
COVID Mortality: New York, Nursing Homes, and Cuomo
by meep
Here’s the latest “news”, and I can’t say I’m shocked:
Cuomo aide admits they hid nursing home data so feds wouldn’t find out
Governor Cuomo’s top aide privately apologized to Democratic lawmakers for withholding the state’s nursing-home death toll from COVID-19 — telling them “we froze” out of fear the...
Mortality with Meep: On The Congressional Body of Old Folks and Deaths in Office
by meep
I just got this news alert: Sen. Richard Shelby Will Not Run for Reelection in 2022
Senator Richard Shelby (R., Ala.) announced on Monday that he will not run for reelection in 2022.
Shelby is the third Republican senator to say he will not seek reelection at the end of his...
GameStop Frenzy Lessons: Don't Bet the Milk Money
by meep
As I mentioned in my prior post, I have a bunch of concepts I want to write about in reaction to the frenzy over GameStop and the various parties affected.
First lesson is something we should all know: don’t bet the milk money.
In concrete terms, it’s okay to speculate with...
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