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Re:Beige Book by the Federal Reserve on Friday November 08, 2019 @01:15PM (#21485048)
That's not really the point of the book, though (emphasis mine):

"Each Federal Reserve Bank gathers anecdotal information on current economic conditions in its District through reports from Bank and Branch directors and interviews with key business contacts, economists, market experts, and other sources." [1]

If you want charts and analysis, find yourself some data/market color providers in the finance industry. Additionally, most finance professionals that need to know about this stuff keep an eye on the economic calendar [2] to see the info in real time as news breaks, because the market reacts immediately.

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/beige-book-def...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/markets/economic-calendar

Re:How to Become the Best in the World at Something on Thursday October 24, 2019 @04:16PM (#21348715)
the graphs in this medium post make my head spin, but at least the 2nd one has words describing what the author purportedly means.
There was at least one famous mathematician that lamented this view and state of mathematics & mathematics education:

"The acceleration of the curriculum has had its cost: there has been an accompanying trend to prune away side topics. When I was in high school, for instance, it was standard to study solid geometry and spherical geometry along with plane geometry. These topics have long been abandoned. The shape of the mathematics education of a typical student is tall and spindly. It reaches a certain height above which its base can support no more growth, and there it halts or fails."

source: William Thurston - Mathematical Education https://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0503081.pdf

Re:What the Hell Was Modernism? on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @01:07PM (#21272723)
What a sad and myopic take on art, especially coming from a self-proclaimed artist. Obviously you're entitled to your opinion, but why make such bitter sounding absolutist statements about what other people create or enjoy? There's enough negativity in this world already.

Additionally, the fact that you're judging the relative worth of a piece of art based on it lasting for 1000 years is pretty sad, in my opinion. What is wrong with art being created for a specific time and place? Life is ephemeral, and there is beauty in that.