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☆ Why these high school boys care about ‘healthy masculinity’
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-02 | by ( Matt Villano | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

This gathering of the school’s Healthy Masculinity Club meets weekly in a third-floor classroom on campus. Hamza Akalin, left, and Ephraim Goodness have participated in a healthy masculinity club at their high school. A Call To MenCleveland High School’s Healthy Masculinity Club is based on a curriculum from a national organization named A Call to Men. At Montpelier High School in Vermont, Latin teacher Joe Carroll incorporates the MCSR curriculum into an elective class titled Healthy Masculinity. Carroll teaches both Latin and an elective class on healthy masculinity at Montpelier High School in Vermont.

Persons: Oregon CNN —, ”, Hamza Akalin, Justine Ang Fonte, Brian Fain, Fonte, Richard Reeves, Reeves, ” Reeves, “, Fain, ” Fain, Ephraim Goodness, Owen King, offhandedly, ‘, ” King, RaKim “, ” Lash, Lash, MCSR, Neil Irvin, Joe Carroll, ” Carroll, Carroll, Brook Joyner, Matt Villano Organizations: Oregon CNN, President Grover Cleveland High School, Club, typifies, Cleveland, Research Center, Brookings Institution, American Institute for Boys, CNN, Cleveland High School, Cleveland High, Montpelier High School Locations: Portland, Oregon, New York City, United States, Portland , Oregon, Cleveland, Rockville Centre , New York, Washington , DC, Vermont, Healdsburg , California

☆ In Education and Media, Markets Aren’t Always Right - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-31 | by ( Bret Stephens | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +6 min

Don’t Tell My Friends, But… is a seriesin which we asked Times columnistswhateveryone else is wrong about. On its face, there’s nothing necessarily political about the mantra that the customer is always right. But the idea that the customer is always right also contains a worldview, a kind of market fundamentalism that typifies much of the American right today. The problem starts when our decisions aren’t merely subjective — that is, when questions of truth, moral or factual, are involved. Students today, whose parents often pay fortunes for their education, are treated like valuable customers, not lowly apprentices.

Persons: “, didn’t, —, Walter Cronkite, That’s, It’s, Hadrian, ”, Marguerite Yourcenar, there’s Organizations: Conservatives, University curriculums, Liberal, Yale, Princeton Locations: United States

☆ Election Updates: New York is the center of political attention again today, with Biden and Trump in the state.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-25 | by ( Chris Cameron | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Mr. Trump has not held a rally since just before the trial began, in part because a planned event in North Carolina last weekend was canceled because of weather. “I have a lot of support here,” Mr. Trump said, as roughly two dozen workers clambered up scaffolding and equipment to catch a glimpse of him. Among those in the crowd were members of the Teamsters union, whose endorsement Mr. Trump has been courting. The trip to the construction site kicks off what will be a significant day in Mr. Trump’s legal battles. Mr. Trump has said without citing evidence that the charges are part of an “election interference” scheme orchestrated by Mr. Biden.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, ” Mr, David Pecker, Pecker, ”, “, Mr, Biden, Jason Miller, Mr . Biden Organizations: Teamsters, National Enquirer, White, Mr, Teamsters union’s, Unions, Trump Locations: Manhattan, North Carolina, New York, Washington

Housing gloomThe higher-for-longer inflation predicament has hit the U.S. housing market like a thunderbolt. More economists are paring their bets that the Fed will cut rates after the latest Consumer Price Index report. They all argue that sticky inflation will force the Fed to keep borrowing costs higher for longer. The country is growing faster than many peers, but voters are zeroing in on inflation to explain their disapproval of President Biden’s handling of the economy. (Some DealBook readers in recent days have emailed to say that they’re strongly feeling the pain of housing inflation.)

Persons: Goldman Sachs, ” Lawrence Yun, Biden’s Organizations: Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, National Association of Realtors

☆ Star-filled Euclid images spur mission to probe 'dark universe'
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Tim Hepher | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

PARIS, Nov 7 (Reuters) - European astronomers on Tuesday released the first images from the newly launched Euclid space telescope, designed to unlock the secrets of dark matter and dark energy - hidden forces thought to make up 95% of the universe. Scientists believe vast, seemingly organised structures such as Perseus could only have formed if dark matter exists. "The rest of the universe we call dark because it doesn't produce light in the normal electromagnetic spectrum. Tell-tale signs of the hidden force exerted by dark matter include galaxies rotating more quickly than scientists would expect from the amount of visible matter that can be detected. We think there's lots of dark matter in that cluster and pulling these galaxies together," she added.

Persons: Carole Mundell, Mundell, Euclid, we've, Europe's, NASA's James Webb, You'll, Tim Hepher, Steve Gorman, Alex Richardson Organizations: European Space Agency, NASA, Reuters, Hubble, ESA, SpaceX, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, Thomson Locations: Darmstadt, Germany, Spain, Ukraine, Florida, Los Angeles

☆ The first Bob Ross work from ‘The Joy of Painting’ is on sale
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-14 | by ( Aj Willingham | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —It’s hard to quantify the value of painter and all-around cultural icon Bob Ross, but $9.85 million is a good start. The very first on-air painting from the very first episode of Ross’ beloved series “The Joy of Painting” is looking for a new owner after being kept safe for decades by one of the show’s early volunteers. It has been verified as authentic by Bob Ross Inc.A close-up of the work shows Ross' iconic signature. Modern ArtifactModern Artifact owner Ryan Nelson said Ross’ work has seen increasing demand over the years. “The driving force behind the increased demand for Bob Ross paintings seems to be collectors themselves,” Nelson said in a statement.

Persons: CNN —, Bob Ross, Ross ’, Ross, ”, Ryan Nelson, ” Nelson, Nelson, it’s, ” Ross Organizations: CNN, Virginia PBS, Bob Ross Inc, PBS Locations: Minneapolis, Falls Church, Virginia

☆ Toshiba buyout heralds a big step back for Japan
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-20 | by ( Una Galani | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +7 min

MUMBAI, Jan 20 (Reuters Breakingviews) - The end of a long battle to wring some value from Toshiba (6502.T) is finally within reach. Such an outcome won’t encourage private equity firms, and big policy shifts underway may stifle the industry just as it hits a new high. Instead, after an accounting scandal in 2015, Toshiba came to epitomise Japan Inc’s pervasive value destruction. Japan typically outperforms private equity deals in other developed markets, partly because existing incentive structures for company bosses are so poor. The country’s private equity industry is only just finding its feet.

☆ Moscow is now the fourth largest offshore trading hub for the Chinese yuan, as sanctions spur Russia's dash to an alternative currency
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Russia has been accelerating its use of the Chinese yuan to counter sweeping Western sanctions. Bloomberg Creative/Getty ImagesRussia is now the fourth-largest user of the Chinese yuan — after Hong Kong, the UK, and Singapore. The Chinese yuan was the fifth most commonly used currency for global payments in October 2022. Russia, whose access to the US dollar was curtailed due to sweeping sanctions over the Ukraine invasion, has now become a big user of the Chinese yuan for trade. Some Russian companies, such as energy giant Rosneft, have also issued bonds denominated in the Chinese yuan to raise funds.

☆ The Fed just raised interest rates by another 0.75%, putting Main Street economy 'dangerously close' to edge of lending cliff
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Eric Rosenbaum | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +12 min

"From a credit perspective, people are getting more cognizant about increasing interest cost, and that the Fed will keep interest rates at 4-4.50%," Arora said. "The expectation is, in the short term, SBA loans will adjust up and non-SBA loans are shorter tenure," he said. SBA loan guaranty waiver endingAnother cost that is suddenly influencing the SBA loan decision is the end of a waiver this month on SBA loan guaranty fees that are traditionally charged to borrowers so that in the event of a default, the SBA pays the portion of the loan that was guaranteed. When he started in small business lending back in 1998, business loans reached as high as 12% to 12.5%. And with a peak Fed rate level of 4% or higher reached by late this year, that is where SBA loan rates are heading.

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