🐒 Doolittle was released on this day 35 years ago! 🐒

Here is what some folk thought about it shortly after it's release...

Ryan's Ryan Israelsen tweet got me curious about online searches for 'WW3'.

Since 2004:
- Highest spike was in Jan 2020 after Soleimani's assassination.
- 2nd highest spike was in Feb 2022 (Russia-Ukraine)
- Currently, the score is quite low.
👉 trends.google.com/trends/explore…

#UCYMBA

In that case, the exact timing can’t be a surprise.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unexpecte…

This is incredible.

From Jamie Lane where AirBnBs are fully booked next week.

Whew! Was that #a2schoolboard meeting intense for anyone else. I feel emotionally and physically tired. Here's a very brief post-mortem with some context for anyone that is following for insights into #a2schoolboard and what may happen next for Ann Arbor Public schools.

Great news! Elon how about bringing back the Academic API for X?

Today I learned that chocolate was solely consumed as a drink until quite recently when Quakers who drank and produced chocolate as an alternative to alcoholic drinks produced the first chocolate bars.

So looking forward to Caroline Genc joining our department this year!

Great new video by Veritasium on the History of Option Pricing featuring interviews with Andrew W. Lo, Ed Thorp, and Jim Simons. Nice discussion of the fundamentals of option pricing and the EMH. Newton, Fourier, Brown, Bachelier, Brown, Einstein, etc.

youtu.be/A5w-dEgIU1M?si…

RIP to the comedy genius “from hell”. #RIPRichardLewis

Stoked to the max to have James Weston (Xless 😱) from Rice University visiting UTEP next week!

He's going to be presenting joint work with Ryan Israelsen and Miriam S, which you can check out here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf….

Thrilled to see work w Richard Friberg & Itay Goldstein on corporate implications of stock price fragility in print at Journal of Financial Economics! Are managers worried about the composition of institutional investors? Check out this link to see what we find:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1iYVS,6wzydg…

New paper on how retail investors trade options. Using trade-level data, we show that retail traders are not stupid. They don't gamble with options and suffer minimal trade losses. Instead, options let retail traders bet on high-price stocks.
Check it out: ssrn.com/abstract=46823…

Check out this article in the NYT describing my latest research with Emily A. Gallagher

nytimes.com/2024/01/29/cli…

True story, that pattern was the result of a surveyor's mistake in the 1800s. There is a town near the notch in Woodbury County called Correctionville
twitter.com/triweb/status/…

Smells Like Teen Spirit - Elementary School Edition