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“When Luka was four, I told his grandfather that soccer wasn’t ever going to be his thing,” said my buddy, an athlete. “He didn’t believe me. He couldn’t accept it. But I had. So I told him to go kick Luka a ball,” he explained, laughing. Grandad quickly concluded Luka should “stick to math.” Which is what he did, does. “As he grew, we spent our weekends exploring NY on the subway. Surfacing to look at monuments, sta

Hope all goes well… “How’d it go out there?” I asked Teddy, my third. He’d been playing lacrosse. And just dropped three passes in a row. But what he lacks in hand eye, he makes up for in attitude. Which is probably why his coaches keep him in. And while I can’t fathom that lacrosse is his thing, that’s really a question for him to answer. Something about himself to discover. “It was amazing Dad,” he exclaimed, eyes

“Central banks abroad are expected to pursue an expansionary monetary policy for a longer time,” announced Sweden’s Riksbank, justifying its 4th QE expansion and pushing out guidance for rate hikes, all in an effort to weaken the Kronor. Overnight Swedish rates are currently -0.35%, but were not always so. In 1992 the Riksbank raised overnight rates to a mind-bending 500% in a doomed effort to strengthen the Kronor.