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View More NewsIn brief Bitcoin traded at $78,524 Tuesday, down 0.72%, while the S&P 500 closed at 7,689.80, off 0.37%, as oil pushed toward $100 a barrel on renewed U.S.-Iran fighting in the Strait of Hormuz. Friday’s August jobs report showed employers added 162,000 positions, nearly triple the 53,000 forecast, pushing September rate-hike odds to roughly 57-59% on the CME FedWatch tool. On Myriad, traders are pricing a 78.4% chance Bitcoin hits $84,000 before it falls to $55,000, barely moved from a week ago despite the pullback. Bitcoin’s hot summer has come up against Red September once again, today down close to…
In brief Strategy repurchased 1,810,885 STRC shares for $176.3 million in the week to September 7. Its board doubled the digital credit securities repurchase program to $2 billion. It bought no BTC and sold no shares under its at-the-market program, a week after a $370 million purchase. Strategy bought no Bitcoin in the week to September 7, a week after ending a two-month BTC purchasing drought, and spent $176.3 million buying back its own preferred stock instead, the Bitcoin treasury company said in a filing on Tuesday.All of it went on STRC, the variable rate perpetual stretch preferred, at 1,810,885…
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What follows is an excerpt from Advocacy in Literary Studies, a report published earlier this month under the auspices of the Vanderbilt–WashU Commission on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences. Its Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences was published in April and excerpted in Quillette.Mathematicians and physicists typically do not instruct students in the history of their disciplines. What is old is outdated. That is not true of great literature. As nineteenth-century British essayist William Hazlitt pointed out in his essay Why the Arts Are Not Progressive?,…
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