Somehow I missed that @colindickey.com had already mentioned this song!

"Fisherman's Blues" by the Waterboys. I was waiting to see another Irish Band, Hothouse Flowers, at First Avenue in Minneapolis, and it was one of the songs that played on their speakers ahead of the show. Every hair on my body stood on end. The opening bars of that song do it to me every time.

Exclusive | SEC Prepares Proposal to Eliminate Quarterly Reporting Requirement President Trump has said that public companies should have to report earnings only twice a year.

Thoughts, @smtuffy.bsky.social ?

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Wow, the Bureau of Labor Statistics inflation calculator says $140,000.

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I remember taking a trip to Pittsburgh in 2014 (long after the days when it was a US Airways hub), and the terminal was an absolute ghost town. I'd never seen an airport that empty. I guess traffic has rebounded enough to justify the investment?

Image shows the Rulings & reminders section of the latest Wall Street Journal Style & Substance bulletin that reads: As we always say around holiday time, let’s avoid ’tis the season leads or headlines—which have been done too often by writers over the years, humbug!—unless you somehow come up with a perfect twist.

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The phrase "another host" suggests a potential multitude of hosts. If, on the other hand, we could establish that Capehart was the sole co-host of Daniels, we'd need an "only" comma, per Dreyer's English.

I'm surprised that precise measurements could possibly go back that far. How did they measure back then?

What is the source of your zip code-level registration data?

I admire your commitment to the bit. On the only scale that counts, I give it a T+10.

*Wouldn't have been a pangram, but still.

GANTLET today!

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Yes, your Signal phone number can be hidden now.

Good story. Investigators talk about the swiss cheese theory of aviation catastrophes. Several holes in the various layers of protection and redundancy suddenly line up, leading to disaster.
One thing: The hed should be home in, not hone in.

I love how a SAS data step discretely tucks an error alert into the useless reams of log output printed at the start of the operation, then spends hours happily running the code that doesn't work due to error.

Are there any transit stats filtering out yet? LIRR, NJT, Metro North, subway, PATH? YOY might be problematic, due to recent back-to-office mandates.
Aside: I don't know how well my ride—the LIRR—can track ridership, given that they often fail to check tickets on crowded rush-hour trains.

@bcdreyer.social Re your latest "A Word About...", I always fail to conjure recto and verso when they come up in crosswords. But if I ever get them down, I realize now that I can also remember which is which by recalling that one starts with the same letter as its side of the book (recto = right).

How Health Insurers Racked Up Billions in Extra Payments From Medicare Advantage The Wall Street Journal’s yearlong investigation into Medicare’s private insurers relied on exclusive access to billions of records of Medicare services.

My WSJ colleagues and I did a ton of work on this issue in 2024. (Krugman's post links to our work, too.)
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Or bail hearings. I sat through many as a reporter in Trenton, and it was like watching an assembly line, where many of the defendants rolling down the conveyor belt had no idea what was going on.

Also, there are few things more electric than the reading of a verdict in a criminal trial.

Thank you, Kitty!

I make no warranties or representations about the Acquired take--I was just mentioning it.

I just finished listening to the Acquired podcast's two-part Microsoft series, and they come away with a much more nuanced view of Ballmer's tenure.

Hospital Prices Are Arbitrary. Just Look at the Kingsburys’ $100,000 Bill. Barbara Kingsbury, who was diagnosed with cervical cancer two years ago, died in June, and her husband is still paying the bills. Newly public data reveal how some patients end up paying more at hospi...

It's a labyrinth, and arbitrary.

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Agree on Christmas Wrapping.

I'm curious what @bcdreyer.social thinks about this.

food have grown tired

Insurers Collected Billions From Medicare for Veterans Who Cost Them Almost Nothing Taxpayers paid for their care at the VA—and for Medicare Advantage coverage that many didn’t use. ‘I don’t think I’ve used my Medicare in years,’ said one Air Force veteran.

MEDICARE ADVANTAGE: Private insurers collected billions for veterans' healthcare, while the VA delivered it, by @mcgint.bsky.social and crew. www.wsj.com/health/healt...

Insurers Collected Billions From Medicare for Veterans Who Cost Them Almost Nothing Taxpayers paid for their care at the VA—and for Medicare Advantage coverage that many didn’t use. ‘I don’t think I’ve used my Medicare in years,’ said one Air Force veteran.

We've done a lot of reporting on Medicare Advantage plans this year, and our latest is out tonight: Insurers collected billions from Medicare for veterans who cost them almost nothing. (Gift link)
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Vol. 37, No. 11: Semiquincentennial In the monthly Wall Street Journal stylebook bulletin, you’d never guess the name of the country’s 250th anniversary. Also, some postelection reminders.

From the latest WSJ Style & Substance:

Rulings & reminders

As we plead every year, let’s avoid ’Tis the Season headlines or leads—which have been done too often by writers over the years—unless you somehow come up with a perfect twist.

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