The stock market is always going to have corrections. For me to say that we’re going to get a correction isn’t me pretending to say I am Nostradamus. Corrections happen all the time.
Tag: Food and Drug Administration
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Deaths of Despair’ shines spotlight on the growing divide between the wealthy and the working poor
The authors were finished in October 2019, months before the manifest COVID-19 failures of the Trump administration. Obviously, we didn’t get it right.
CAPITAL IDEAS: Business as usual
However, as I’ve noted, due to the COVID-19 crisis, forecasting fundamentals is nearly impossible. When you don’t have access to fundamentals, you use technical analysis.
Amplifications: The shutdown
The Coast Guard, the agency we rely on during the darkest days of disaster, is about to be shuttered for the sake of a wall and a temper tantrum. Ready to move to Canada yet?
Opening the Weedgates III: The cruel and unusual legal world of recreational marijuana
Though Great Barrington might soon be hosting four or five cannabis retail stores, you are likely to have a hard time figuring out what they sell.
‘JUUL’ of the Housatonic: Vaping seen as ‘epidemic’ in Southern Berkshire schools
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced last week that e-cigarette use has increased almost 80 percent among high schoolers and 50 percent among middle schoolers since last year.
Bottled-water ban should focus on all plastics, not just water bottles
In a letter to the editor, Janis Bosworth Graham-Jones writes, “The single, most effective thing a consumer can do to reduce plastic pollution of our environment is to ensure that any used plastic container enters the recycling chain directly from their hand.”
News Brief: DPH discovers salmonella in frozen coconut
Testing performed by Massachusetts led Evershing International Trading Company to announce a recall of Coconut Tree brand frozen shredded coconut packaged in 16-ounce plastic bags.
Egremont Green News: Police are taking back old meds
Great Barrington police estimate that three to five people a day drop off old meds at their take-back receptacle, which is the size and shape of a mailbox and sits to the right of the window at the police desk.
BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Death of Cancer,’ overcoming disease in spite of ourselves
“The true story of the war on cancer is not just a war against nature but a war of us against ourselves . . . We have the tools to eradicate cancer.”
— Dr. Vincent T. DeVita Jr.