The Journal

Source: CNN – Space debris is becoming a major problem, with thousands of more satellites on track to launch through the end of this decade. Some companies and agencies are starting to test ways to clean it up.

Source: The Hustle – Retailers, casinos, and grocery stores use a trick called temporal distortion to make you forget about the real world.

Source: Axios – The United States economy grew faster than any other large advanced economy last year — by a wide margin — and is on track to do so again in 2024.

Source: A Wealth of Common Sense – When it comes to diets there are plenty of them that can work. The problem is not necessarily the diets themselves, but the behavior required to stick with them. Similar behaviors may be applied to financial decisions as well.

Source: Inc. – What your company can learn from Nvidia's Jensen Huang.

Source: Reasons to Be Cheerful – The tours help the guides embrace the next chapter of their lives, while showing tourists.

Source: Business Insider
• A new survey found the average person needs $1.2 million in the bank to be happy.
• Still, high inflation, interest rates, and student loans dampen Americans' financial happiness.

Source: Inc. – Dalio distilled his decades of experience into a five-step process, promising a map for success that's as effective as it is simple.

Source: Association for Psychological Science – Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are often depicted as sentient agents poised to overshadow the human mind. But AI lacks the crucial human ability of innovation, according to findings published in Perspectives on Psychological Science.

Source: Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget – This explainer will lay out everything you need to know about the different measures of debt and what they mean for the government's fiscal situation.

Source: Reader Digest – Historians call it “the song that nobody knows.” And yet we’ve all tried to sing it on New Year's Eve. Here's the real "Auld Lang Syne" meaning.

Source: CFA Institute
• Yields are at a 16-year high.
• Duration has traditionally benefited from falling interest rate environments.
• The value of the longer-term negative return correlation relationship between bonds and equities can be valuable for portfolio construction.

Source: Business Insider – In America, the average commute to work takes 26 minutes. Lee Robinson's is 17 times that.

Source: LinkedIn – Invaluable tips on improving listening skills, an invaluable skill set.

Source: Phys Org – Climate change is affecting practically everything on Earth, from natural systems to human endeavors. National security is no exception.

Source: Earthly Mission – Something that appears natural has been forged by man throughout millennia.