Thursday morning news drop
Canada is flying blind with Omicron as COVID-19 testing drops off a cliff Hospitalizations, positive-test rates and wastewater can help track spread (CBC)
Is This the Greatest Bull Market in History? From the bottom in early March of 2009 the S&P 500 is now up well over 800% on a total return basis: That’s nearly 19% per year for going on 13 years now. (Wealth of Common Sense)
The Case Against Crypto Why crypto assets are such a destructive force and why forceful regulation is beeded to halt this financially corrosive enterprise from spreading further into markets. (Stephen Diehl)
Millennials Are Finally Spending Like Grown-Ups The U.S.’s largest generation is buying houses and cars. That’s going to have consequences for inflation. (Bloomberg)
Toyota Topped G.M. in U.S. Car Sales in 2021, a First for a Foreign Automaker After struggling to produce cars because of a global computer chip shortage, automakers are trying to move quickly to making electric vehicles. (New York Times)
Good-bye, Goldman Sachs Getting a job there was a dream. The pandemic changed my perspective. (New York Magazine)
Dazzling Images of the Northern Lights Travel blog Capture the Atlas‘ selected the 25 best photos from photographers around the world and the results are as incredible as you can imagine in the annual Northern Lights Photographer of the Year list. (My Modern Met)
Vancouver Island assessment values soar on 2022 property roll Property assessment notices will start hitting B.C. mailboxes this week. (Times Colonist)