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Active for passive: Why it's time for investors to give passive funds their due in 2025

Economictimes.indiatimes.com 

As passive funds outshined active counterparts in 2024 with remarkable returns, experts suggest a blend of both fund types in portfolios for 2025. Prominent passive funds like Mirae Asset NYSE FANG+ETF FoF and Motilal Oswal Nasdaq 100 FOF showed strong performance, encouraging diversified investment strategies.

Bulacan sees surge in sales of ‘sawa,’ ‘kuwitis’

Newsinfo.inquirer.net 

BOCAUE, BULACAN—Fireworks and pyrotechnics enthusiasts continued to troop to this town, the country’s so-called fireworks capital, on the eve of the New Year, most of whom buying the traditional locally made firecrackers “sawa” and “kuwitis” (skyrockets). These two products remained to be the most in demand, said Lea Alapide, president of the Philippine Pyrotechnics Manufacturers

Insider Reveals What Type Of Coach Chicago Bears Locker Room Wants

SportsMockery.com 

Fans and media know what kind of head coach they prefer for the Chicago Bears. Most have championed the need for an offensive guru who can help Caleb Williams ascend. Some would like a coach with proven experience. That would give them a leg up in fixing whatever is wrong with the team’s dysfunction. However, […]

Happy spreading mental health awareness while raising funds for local services

Ksnt.com 

TOPEKA (KSNT) – Our December honoree is well-known in the Topeka community for her previous work promoting the state of Kansas, and her current role spreading awareness about mental health while raising funds for local services. Here's this month's 'Everything Woman'. Pam Evans moved Kansas as a toddler when her dad retired from the military. She [...]

January 2025 (Volume 76, Number 8)

Monthly Review 

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Monthly Review editors take on the results of the 2024 election, exploring how the lackluster reformist policies of the Biden administration and unfocused nature of the Harris campaign served to drive away much of the working class, as reflected in part by the expansion of the Party of Nonvoters. As neoliberal positions occlude the possibility of a Popular Front against Trump’s fascism, any substantive victory must come from a revolutionary restructuring of society. | more…

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Carlos Yulo’s double Olympics gold highlights PH sports’ greatest year

Sports.inquirer.net 

There is without a doubt that 2024 was the greatest year ever in Philippine sports, with Carlos Yulo highlighting that by winning two gold medals in one Summer Olympics. There is also no doubt that in those Games in Paris, the Philippines was also the biggest laughing stock because of one regrettable, easy-to-avoid snafu that

The Dialectical Ecologist: Richard Levins and the Science and Praxis of the Human-Nature Metabolism

Monthly Review 

In January’s Review of the Month, John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark revisit the legacy of scientist and MR author Richard Levins, from his “red diaper” infancy to his agroecological work in Cuba and his contributions to Marxian ecological thinking as a whole. “As a dialectical ecologist,” they write, “Levins proposed that we ask the big questions, as part of understanding why the world came to be organized in a particular way, and how it might be different.” | more…

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New Year's Eve celebrations ring in 2025

United Press International (UPI.com) 

New Year's Eve celebrations and fireworks around the world rang in 2025, as more than a million revelers crowded into New York City's Times Square for performances and the traditional midnight ball drop.

The biggest S&P 500 winners and losers of 2024, led by AI names - Axios

Google.com 

  1. The biggest S&P 500 winners and losers of 2024, led by AI names  Axios
  2. These 20 stocks in the S&P 500 rose the most in 2024  MarketWatch
  3. The Stock-Market Winners and Losers of 2024  The Wall Street Journal
  4. AI and crypto drove gains in this year's top 5 tech stocks  CNBC
  5. Palantir, AppLovin Among The 100 Best Stocks Of 2024  Investor's Business Daily

AP PHOTOS: The month of December in pictures

The Independent 

When Syrian rebels roared into Damascus after a lightning advance on the capital, they exalted in their triumph over President Bashar Assad and rejoiced at the sudden end of a 14-year civil war that laid waste to much of the country.

Free Cash, Mergers, and Capital Spillage

Monthly Review 

This article will be released in full online January 6, 2023.

Craig Medlen draws on decades of data to reveal how the creeping stagnation of the past half-century has led to the increasing consolidation of corporate monopoly power and concentration of firms by way of mergers and, importantly, the free cash that funds them. This stunning rise in free cash, fueled in part by government deficits, starkly reveals how the ruling class continues to enrich themselves and strengthen their position on the top of the economic heap. Читать дальше...

An Ecological Civilization Will Have to Be Socialist

Monthly Review 

This article will be released in full online January 13, 2023.

In this interview with Claudia Antunes of Brazilian magazine Sumaúma, Ian Angus takes stock of our current planetary crisis, from its origins in Marx’s ecological thought and the present debate over its designation to the future of human civilization as we know it. “The key question is,” he concludes, “Are we going to see large number of people moving for change?” | more…

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