Political Calculations

Imagine this scenario. Public health advocates campaign for your city to impose a tax on sugary beverages. They claim it will improve the public's health through fighting obesity by making soda and other soft drinks made with sugar more costly to buy...

The S&P 500 (Index: SPX) experienced its second Lévy flight event of 2022, as investors suddenly shifted their forward-looking attention away from the near-term quarter of 2022-Q2 to instead focus on more distant future quarters.
Precisely which quarter that is has yet to be determined, but here's how it looks on the latest update to the dividend futures-based model's alternative futures spaghetti forecast chart, where the magnitude of the shift spans the redzone forecast, going...

The Riemann Hypothesis is *the* most unsolved problem in mathematics. In fact, if anyone can prove the hypothesis, they stand to win $1 million U.S. dollars from the Clay Mathematics Institute, who named it one of their Millennium Prize Problems.
But what is the Riemann Hypothesis? Quanta Magazine put together a fantastic video introduction narrated by Alex Kontorovich to explain what it is, including its connection to how prime numbers are distributed into infinity....

Price increases promised by Campbell Soup (NYSE: CPB) CEO Mark Clouse back in December 2021 continued to take hold at grocery stores around the United States since our previous update.
Here is our summary of prices we surveyed at ten major grocery-selling retailers for March 2022. The most important thing to note is that the discounted sale price per 10.75 ounce can ranges from $0.99 to $1.50 per can, as discounted sale pricing below...