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Nov 15, 2024 | 
newsletter.rationalwalk.com | Matt Franz |Erik Rostad
“History repeats itself. The fact is a testimony to human stupidity. The saying has become a truism; nevertheless, the study of the past is relegated to the scholar and the school-boy. And yet it is really a chart for our guidance — no less than that. Where we now are going astray and losing ourselves, other men once did the same, and they left a record of the blind alleys they went down. We are like youth that can never learn from age — but youth is young, and wisdom is for the mature.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
newsletter.rationalwalk.com | Aswath Damodaran |Erik Rostad
In 2017, the corporate tax rate was cut from 35% to 21%. Unlike many of the tax cuts passed in that year, this tax cut was not set to expire after 2025 unless extended by Congress. During the Presidential campaign this year, the candidates offered very different proposals for the corporate tax rate. Kamala Harris called for increasing the rate to 28% while Donald Trump floated the idea of cutting the rate to 15%, but only for companies that manufacture products in the United States.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
newsletter.rationalwalk.com | Gregory Meyer |Roger Lowenstein |Erik Rostad |Paddy M Barrett
“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
newsletter.rationalwalk.com | Ben Thompson |Erik Rostad
“For the most part, false and harmful opinions are distributed and supported by influence. We are too likely to accept the views and thoughts of other people without trying to investigate them deeper and further ourselves. Unimportant people are those who accept other people’s thoughts without developing them themselves.”— Leo Tolstoy, A Calendar of WisdomBiden’s Withdrawal and the Limits of Gaslighting, July 22, 2024.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
newsletter.rationalwalk.com | Ted Gioia |Johnathan bi |Erik Rostad
“Not unconscious in the outset of the inferiority of my qualifications, experience in my own eyes, perhaps still more in the eyes of others, has strengthened the motives to diffidence of myself; and every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
newsletter.rationalwalk.com | Conor Mac |Johnathan bi |Erik Rostad
I published three articles over the past week on my website, The Rational Walk. As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I no longer send out individual articles via email but I will mention all of my work in issues of The Digest and I also provide a RSS Feed. The Other Side of the Trade, June 6, 2024.
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
oll.libertyfund.org | Erik Rostad
Enheduana may have become a mere footnote of history had she not identified herself as the author of her hymns. Of all the collected works from antiquity, no work can be attributed to an individual author before her. The Epic of Gilgamesh, texts from Ancient Egypt, and the Rig Veda were authored anonymously. Nearly all lists place Homer as the world’s first author. Enheduana composed her hymns 1,500+ years before Homer. Enheduana is a relative newcomer to the literary world.
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Jun 5, 2023 | 
construction.com | Erik Rostad
Higher employment led by nonresidential sector. According to the establishment survey of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), nonfarm payrolls rose by a seasonally adjusted 339,000 in May, far exceeding expectations and marking the 29th straight monthly increase in employment. The BLS household survey shows that the nation’s unemployment rate rose from April’s 3.4% to 3.7%, as the number of unemployed households rose.
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Jun 1, 2023 | 
construction.com | Erik Rostad
The U.S. Economy Shows Modest Growth in Q1 2023 Amidst Ongoing ChallengesThe U.S. economy grew by an annualized 1.1% in the first quarter of 2023, according to the latest GDP report from the Bureau of Economic Analysis. While this increase is modest compared to previous quarters, it’s a positive sign that the U.S. economy remains resilient in the face of higher inflation and a slowing labor market.
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Jun 1, 2023 | 
construction.com | Erik Rostad
Strong Voices, Safe Choices: Highlight the Importance of Construction Safety Week 2023Construction Safety Week was created in 2014 to emphasize construction’s top priority: protecting workers. Jobsite health and safety programs have become more dynamic and advanced through technology, including data retention and analysis.
