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Stock and Bond Correlation
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During the pandemic, liquidity flooded the economy. Monetary policy, which is the Federal Reserve’s purview, left interest rates at zero. This permitted businesses and consumers to lend or borrow at low rates. It was incredibly inexpensive to buy a car, buy a house or issue corporate bonds with low interest rate loans. Fiscal policy, which…
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Penn State Wrestling: Broadcaster Byers Looks at New Season for Cael’s Dynasty
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He never had much talent for wrestling. Although his dad was a star grappler for State High and then a coach for Penns Valley High School, Jeff Byers never found glory on a mat. “I was an awful wrestler,” says Byers, who posted a record of 0-16…for the Little Lion JVs. “I loved the sport,…
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Does Winter Weather Increase Arthritis Pain?
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By Dr. Gregory Wilson, Mount Nittany Health Rheumatology If you have arthritis, you know that when cold weather approaches, your joint pain increases. Winter weather is often to blame for arthritis pain. While cold weather does not cause arthritis, it can exacerbate it. This pain occurs because your body is more sensitive to pain when it gets cold. The…
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Penn State Field Hockey Team to Cap Off Special Season at NCAA Final Four
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Late Wednesday afternoon, the Penn State field hockey team boarded a chartered airplane at University Park Airport, headed north to Hartford and then went on to Storrs, Connecticut. The final destination? The NCAA Final Four. On Friday, the sixth-ranked and co-Big Ten champs Nittany Lions will play No. 1 ranked and undefeated North Carolina in…
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Opinion: The Philadelphia Effect
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In the penultimate moment of the 2016 Marvel movie ”Doctor Strange,” the title character leaves a fight against three zealots and ascends into the sky to meet a villain who has come to destroy the earth. Upon meeting this villain – named Dormammu – Doctor Strange announces, “Dormammu, I’ve come to bargain!” At the end…
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Nature’s Ways: The Mourning Dove — Game Bird and Bird Feeder Visitor
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One of the 10 most common birds in the United States is the mourning dove. Its prolific breeding rate allows it to keep up with the harvest of millions of birds annually by hunters and poor winter survival in some areas. It breeds throughout Pennsylvania and all of the lower 48 states, in southern Canada…
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Building a Team vs. Building a Program
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In the current age of college football there has been a lot of talk about the transfer portal, NIL and a world where every player is a free agent available to the highest bidder. That has created varying approaches for coaches to build rosters and teams. It has taken on the look of Major League…
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Libe aun Has: Fall 2022
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My headline is Yiddish for love and hate. I chose it because it’s the title of a play by my great-uncle, Hershl Eppelberg, who was part of the Yiddish theatre scene in Warsaw at the beginning of the last century. Near the end of the last century, my mother entrusted me with the manuscript, written…
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Choose Wisely
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“Stay away from politics,” I am told. “If you do write about politics, you must pick a side,” they tell me. That’s a real problem for someone who cares as much as I do about the greater good and likes to be a part of the solution. I just don’t see many political candidates who…
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Turn Down the Lights and Tune Out Tensions with These 10 Movies
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I can feel the tension in the air in Happy Valley. One week from today we will go to the polls and vote. In a country where the standard is a government by the people, exercised by periodically-held free elections, faith in the election process is a must. The belief among some that it might…