Auburn Score: How One Football Result Just Became a Global Economic Indicator By the time the final whistle confirmed Auburn’s 31-10 demolition of their SEC rival, the tremor was already rippling outward from Alabama like a bourbon-fueled aftershock. In Singapore, an algorithm at a hedge fund sold 200,000 shares of athletic-apparel stock before the clock…
Dow Jones: The World’s Most Expensive Mood Ring By Dave’s Locker’s Chief Correspondent, somewhere between an airport lounge and existential dread The Dow Jones Industrial Average opened Tuesday like a hung-over aristocrat—wobbly, entitled, but still convinced the planet should curtsy. Thirty-odd American companies, stitched together into a single numerical shrug, managed to send tremors from…
The Global Game of House: How a Medieval Pawnshop Became the World’s Most Beloved Shackle By the time you finish this sentence, another 47 human beings somewhere on the planet will have signed a mortgage—an elegant term that translates from Old French as “death pledge.” Linguists insist that etymology merely implies “until death,” but after…
