A visual look at how much time we have left in life and what the quality of that time will be. Considering both your lifeline and healthline, along with others’ healthline and lifeline, can help you live more meaningfully by allowing you to invest your time, energy, and even money in experiences with the people most important to you.
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I remember this compulsion feeling especially strong when I was in college, a time when Instagram was at its relative peak (that is, pre-TikTok) and my self-esteem was at its relative low (that is, in a sorority at Alabama). Instagram was a platform where Cool Girl™ personal brands were meticulously confected. This meant the first half hour of any social event featured an unspoken agreement amongst attendees that we shared a mutual goal: Obtain flattering photographic evidence we were there. The following 15 minutes saw a shift into the second phase, in which our attentions were singularly absorbed into the blue glow of our screens as we swiped, scrutinized, cropped, and captioned, retouching and revising a memory that was still currently underway.
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The case for investing in Chinese stocks; valuations and sentiment are extremely low.
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U.S. stocks have crushed the rest of the world over the last 15 years. However, betting on the U.S. from where we are today is effectively a bet on a repeat performance from the Magnificent Seven because, when they’re excluded, there’s nothing extraordinary about US stocks these past 15 years. And an encore is unlikely.
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Value investing is working outside the United States:
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30-year U.S. treasury bonds are down 45% from their blow-off mania peak:
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U.S. stock buybacks are back. Analysts at Goldman Sachs project that total S&P 500 repurchases will reach $925 billion this year and $1.075 trillion in 2025, which would mark annual growth rates of 13% and 16%, respectively.
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