Happy New Year! Pour yourself a cup of Danish blend coffee, sit down by the fire, and get ready for our long weekend:

• Dave Barry’s 2021 review Vaccines, variants, and supply chain dilemmas: Looking back at the past 12 months (Washington post)

• How disgust explains everything For psychologists who study it, disgust is one of the primitive emotions that define and explain human beings. (New York Times)

• The Fed’s doomsday predictors have issued a terrible warning about where we are headed Thomas Hoenig knows what quantitative easing policies and record low interest rates will bring. (politics)

• Transaction meta game: Participating in the crypto market during the thrilling stage of the bull market is more similar to playing modern video games than investing in isomorphism. Most competitive modern video games have an evolving metagame. Metagames can be described as a subset of the basic strategy and rules of the game, which are required to play the game at a high level. (Kobe)

• Facebook’s counterattack: Stop leaks, reverse politics, don’t say sorry CEO Mark Zuckerberg pushed for a response to disclosures about the company’s influence; sent representatives to Congress to testify (Wall Street Journal)

• A different kind of recovery Looking ahead to 2021 and the impact of the pandemic on the economy (KKR)

• Facebook’s counterattack: Stop leaks, reverse politics, don’t say sorry CEO Mark Zuckerberg pushed for a response to disclosures about the company’s influence; sent representatives to Congress to testify (Wall Street Journal)

• 21 very good things that happened in 2021 Behind the terrible headlines, humanity is making great progress. Scraping off the burnt edges of the news of the year, many of the things below are actually very good. A positive story that quietly happens year after year (such as the explosive growth of electric vehicles or the collapse of the coal industry) seems to be invisible. These are breadcrumbs compared to big, hearty, global trends, and these trends may make the 2020s a more satisfying decade than the one-star reviews suggest. (Can be mixed and matched)

• The DNA of the giant “corpse flower” parasite surprised biologists The strange genomes of the world’s most mysterious flowering plants show how far the parasite can go in stealing, deleting, and copying DNA. (Quanta Magazine)

• Rick Frick lost his son.In Cincinnati, he found a new goal: Frick wants to honor his son’s promise to the football team. Now is the precious cog of the plan, and he will be on call as the Bearcats prepares to make history in CFP. A father fulfilled the biggest dream of his lost son (Sports Illustrated)

Be sure to check our Master of Business Next week with Richard Nisbet Professor of Social Psychology and Co-Director of the Culture and Cognition Project at the University of Michigan, focusing on culture and reasoning and basic cognitive processes. Malcolm Gladwell called him “the most influential thinker in my life.” He is the author of numerous studies and books, and recently, “Thinking: Memoir. “

Global annual wealth growth

source: World Inequality Report 2022

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