Finance

One More Cure for Hiccups

September 7, 2024

December 20, 2022 · 5:50 AM

I’ve written previously about how Paul Ingraham helped cure my patello-femoral pain syndrome.

More recently, Paul looked into hiccup cures because his father had an intractable case. What finally worked for dad? Breathing into a plastic bag.

Boosting blood CO2 (hypercapnia) by breathing in a PLASTIC bag. This one is quite plausible and is easy and safe to try. Hypercapnia definitely affects some kinds of hiccups. The story (from a smart source, a good “friend of PainSci”): “There’s an even easier way out of hiccups — at zero cost. Learned it from my uncle,

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Recipe: Peggy’s Indian Cabbage | Diabetic Mediterranean Diet

May 21, 2023

May 20, 2023 · 8:10 AM

From Peggy at Buttoni’s Low-Carb Recipes:

If you think you don’t like cabbage (like my husband) you have GOT to try this recipe! You’ll swear you don’t eat cabbage!! No cabbage odor or strong taste whatsoever to this dish! It is a delightfully crunchy side dish with grilled Tandoori Chicken or pork chops! I order my nigella seeds (black onion seeds or how about seed) on-line, but you may be lucky to have a spice supplier where you live. I would not recommend omitting them, as you will miss out on a flavor layer

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Should Jordan, 58, and Joy, 57, leave their cottage to their children?

May 14, 2023
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Jordan and Joy are looking to retire from work as soon as possible. Luckily they’ve accumulated more than enough to do so.Blair Gable/The Globe and Mail

Jordan and Joy have raised two children, paid off the family home and cottage, and amass substantial savings and investments. Jordan, who is age 58, runs his own successful technical business while Jill, 57, is a self-employed consultant. Neither has a company pension.

Jordan’s business grosses about $400,000 a year, from which he draws a salary of $75,000 a year and more if needed. Joy bills about $50,000

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Online Driving Courses – RoSPA Workplace Safety Blog

May 6, 2023

In the UK, one of the few growth sectors during the COVID-19 pandemic has been transportation services and in particular, food delivery.

By the end of March 2020, revenue in the UK online groceries delivery segment was up by 11.5 % compared to Jan-March in the previous year. Despite the amount of traffic on our roads falling to levels not seen since 1955 during the pandemic, the number of people driving for work to deliver food and other items has increased.

In the same month, Tesco added more than 200 new vans and hired another 2,500 drivers. Other supermarkets such

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‘If we get a debacle in the financial markets, it will definitely have collateral damage in oil,’ said the analyst

May 6, 2023

It’s been a brutal week for oil prices, despite a Friday rebound. Slides in earlier sessions led crude futures to close out their third straight week of losses.

The S&P 500 Energy Select Sector ETF (XLE) also rebounded during Friday’s trading day, yet it ended the week down 5.7%.

Recession fears drove much of the downward movement in prior sessions. On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 25 basis points. The move is expected to further press the brakes on the economy.

This week’s slide is played out in tandem with the regional banking turmoil. As regional banks

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Lifelong renters need to save 50% more for retirement than homeowners: Study

May 2, 2023
Rows of residential towers in a dense urban cityscape.

A new Mercer Canada study says millennials who are lifelong renters would need to sock away 50% more cash than homeowners in order to save enough for retirement.

As the housing market grows more unaffordable, there’s more bad news for young Canadians who feel like they will never own a home.

A new study by consulting firm Mercer Canada says millennials who are lifelong renters will have to save 50 per cent more than their home-owning counterparts to have enough money in retirement.

One of the main reasons is that homeowners can reap the benefits of home appreciation, lower shelter

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Ukraine’s finance minister says G7 support is crucial for ‘longer’ war with Russia

April 30, 2023

WASHINGTON: A new international economic support package of US$115 billion gives Ukraine more confidence that it can prevail in battling Russia’s invasion, amid growing recognition that the war could continue for longer than expected, Ukrainian Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko said on Saturday (Apr 15) .

Marchenko said Group of Seven (G7) finance ministers assured him during this week’s International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank meetings in Washington that they will support Ukraine for as long as needed, a shift from last year, when there was more pressure for Ukraine to agree to end the war.

He said that the

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ChatGPT may be able to predict stock movements: finance professor

April 26, 2023
ChatGPT could be the next stock forecaster, according to this finance professor

Alejandro Lopez-Lira, a finance professor at the University of Florida, says that large language models may be useful when forecasting stock prices.

He used ChatGPT to parse news headlines for whether they’re good or bad for a stock, and found that ChatGPT’s ability to predict the direction of the next day’s returns were much better than random, he said in a recent unreviewed paper.

The experiment strikes at the heart of the promise around state-of-the-art artificial intelligence: With bigger computers and better datasets — like those powering ChatGPT — these AI models may display “emergent abilities,” or capabilities that weren’t

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