October 16, 2020 Welcome to this edition of The Reader, a weekly roundup of our stories and insights.
It's a tale of two town halls: Last night, Trump’s town hall saw the President in typical form, inaccurate claims and all. And while Biden used his town hall to expound on his policy plans, you probably won’t hear about them.
Who will win the election? We looked into what Wall Street’s favorite election indicators say about that. Goldman Sachs suggests to short the dollar if Biden wins—although we argue the President doesn’t actually impact the economy that much.
And in any case, the polls are wrong, according to an A.I. tool that says the U.S. presidential race is a near dead heat.
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From the archives
“Last August, I took a break from social media. With fair warning to my friends and colleagues, I signed off every single social service — Instagram, LinkedIn (LNKD), Pinterest, MessageMe, Twitter, and most crucially, Facebook (FB) — in hopes of discovering what I’ve gained — and lost — over the past decade. I took an extreme approach. I also quit instant messaging services, and I tried to stop texting. Basically, any new social communication service I’d added in the past decade was up for examination. I hoped that my month off would give me new perspective on these technologies about which I write.” —I quit social media. Here's what I learned... by Jessi Hempel, October 2013 .
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