Today’s Animal Spirits is brought to you by YCharts and KraneShares: See here for 20% off your initial YCharts Professional subscription for new customers only See here for more information on KWEB Get a random Animal Spirits chart here On today’s show, we discuss: Listen here Recommendations: Charts: Tweets/Bluesky: Roughly 275,000 federal workers lost their … Read more
People gather near the grave of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny to mark the first anniversary of his death at a cemetery in Moscow, Russia, February 16, 2025. EVGENIA NOVOZHENINA / REUTERS A year after Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died behind bars, his supporters held memorial events on Sunday, February 16, with hundreds risking … Read more
For cardiovascular disease mortality, meta-analyses of four studies found an 18 percent lower risk of death among moderate drinkers compared with non-drinkers. Broken down, there was a 23 percent lower risk in female drinkers and 18 percent lower risk in male drinkers. The lower risk of cardiovascular disease mortality was rated as moderate certainty. The … Read more
The H5N1 bird flu situation in the US seems more fraught than ever this week as the virus continues to spread swiftly in dairy cattle and birds while sporadically jumping to humans. On Monday, officials in Louisiana announced that the person who had developed the country’s first severe H5N1 infection had died of the infection, … Read more
Screenshot taken from New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) body camera footage and released by the Office of the New York State Attorney General shows DOCCS officers with Robert Brooks at Marcy Correctional Facility in Oneida County, New York on December 9, 2024. AP A body-worn camera footage of the December … Read more
