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• Hugh Mackay:

  Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills.

• Hugh Mackay:

  Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all av

• Hugh Mackay:

  Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely co

• Hugh Mackay:

  The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal liter

• Barry Ritholtz:

  The data strongly suggest that very good years in the U.S. stock market are followed by more good y

• Barry Ritholtz:

  Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative st

• Barry Ritholtz:

  To know whether stocks are cheap or pricey, we typically look at price-to-earnings ratio. Valuation

• Barry Ritholtz:

  People forget that although we can pinpoint the price, we can only guess at future earnings. The pa

• Barry Ritholtz:

  Gains in corporate profits depend in large part on accelerating global economic growth.

• Barry Ritholtz:

  Investing is about making probabilistic decisions with limited information about an unknowable futu