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If You Want to Be a Stonk Man, Dont Run for Congress Esquire 3/9/2021 Jack Holmes © Mike Kim Members of the national legislature should be banned from trading securities while in office. After the cartoon corruption of the Trump regime, your more garden-variety chicanery from those occupying positions of the public trust has come to seem almost quaint. But problems remain, as we were reminded again this week thanks to a report from Saturday Night Live cast member. It turns...

Mike Kim After the cartoon corruption of the Trump regime, your more garden-variety chicanery from those occupying positions of the public trust has come to seem almost quaint. But problems remain, as we were reminded again this week thanks to a report from Saturday Night Live cast member. It turns out that, when he wasnt stoking the culture war or lamenting all the divisiveness in our politics, Ol Dan got himself into the equities trade. Specifically, after trading no stocks for his first 13...

  How does all this look in the real world? The ONS classifies all work into 9 Major Groups, from CEOs and Generals in Group 1 (Managers, Directors and Senior Officials) to warehouse staff and farm labourers in Group 9 (Elementary Occupations).  Each group faces very different risks from automation. Often, though not always, the less skilled a job, the more at risk it is. And because women and young people often do less-skilled, casual work, as they start careers, or juggle the childcare whic...