dtcwee: The Value of Nothing

 ... Because the default voices are awful. Still want text read to you by something resembling a human voice? It's easier to switch to the latest in text-to-speech (TTS) technology than you think.

"Tariffs are paid by the importer, not the exporter, dummy." And just like that, the trade war is over, everyone stands down, and resumes filling their online baskets. LOL, no.

Australia's Productivity Commission estimates that the baby boomer generation (born between 1946 and 1964, aged 56 - 74 in 2020) will pass $3.5 trillion dollars in wealth to their heirs by 2050. The distribution will not be even.

The British Empire hit peak size in 1919, gaining Axis territories through the Treaty of Versailles. Over the coming decades it ceded cultural, military, and economic power to the United States. How did this play out for Britain's investors?

Same again tomorrow. One thing I like to tell myself during bear markets: On any given trading day, three quarters of a percent of the U.S. market turns over .

For a disposable Linux command-line shell VM: Load/create a Colab notebook , Change the runtime type to 'T4' if you want to use an LLM (AI),  Paste the following into a cell and run it: XTerm !pip install colab-xterm %load_ext colabxterm %xterm An interactive terminal will start.