#Princeton now

A Daily Princetonian reporter confirmed the intention to be “amplifying” the planned encampment, adding that “national outlets” that might not understand “student protest at all.”

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Overseas, the situation is dire. But in terms of America's domestic economy and society, and the environment, things are starting to look up! 🥳

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just got back from our manufacturing site.

this is getting very, very real. and we are at best underpromising.

Interesting study from Bain on M&A

“Companies that were frequent acquirers earned 130% higher shareholder returns vs. those that stayed out of the market. Sitting on the M&A sideline is generally a losing strategy.”

The Atlanta Fed's sticky-price consumer price index (CPI)—a weighted basket of items that change price relatively slowly—increased 5.0% (on an annualized basis) in March, following a 4.0% increase in February. On a year-over-year basis, the series is up 4.5%.

On the board !!

In America, you can do anything you want as long as no one is inconvenienced, no one can get hurt, and no one can lose their job. An instance of #3.

This person has a PhD in computer science from Johns Hopkins and is currently working at Meta on AI research.

And he just got denied an H-1B visa because we made him enter a lottery to get one.

Absolutely insane that this is how our immigration system works.

From New York Times Opinion: About 4,000 people die each year while waiting for a kidney, Dylan Walsh writes in a guest essay. “These numbers illuminate a story of largely preventable suffering,” he says, calling for a system that would pay people who donate kidneys. nyti.ms/3W0UTDB

The PCE-based ecumenical inflation measure was 3.1% in February. This is the median of 8 different measures over three different time windows. It is up from 2.6% last month.

Today, Boom announced the successful flight of XB-1, the world's first independently developed supersonic jet, at the Mojave Air & Space Port in Mojave, California. Flown by Chief Test Pilot Bill 'Doc' Shoemaker, XB-1's inaugural flight marks a major milestone toward the return…

This is not that complicated. If we help these people, they have a chance to live. If we stop helping these people, a whole lot of them are guaranteed to die. Everything else is just the details.

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Genius let's do this in NJ!

New rule from the Democratic governor of Pennsylvania:

States agencies must issue permits quickly or refund application fees.

“The Department of Environmental Protection, which decides when developers can break ground, has reduced its backlog for new permits by 41%.”

Re-upping this from a while ago. Rings even truer in hindsight. Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський Jay Nordlinger Commentary Magazine The Dispatch

OPINION | Contributing Columnist David Piegaro argues that current #Princeton students stand to benefit from what a long dead University President had to say about an earlier European war.

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Core CPI came in high for the eighth month in a row.

Annual rates:

1 month: 4.4%
3 months: 4.2%
6 months: 3.9%
12 months: 3.8%

For perspective, the 3/6/12 month rates higher than any time from 1992-2019. Inflation remains unusually high.

Israel has the right to fully engage Hamas to its end.

Hamas deliberately harms and hides behind civilians, not Israel.

Until Hamas surrenders, frees the hostages, and ends this humanitarian tragedy, I do not support any conditions.