Notes From All Over -- Sunday, September 5, 2021

Three-day weekend.

Slow news day. Slow news weekend.

Chip shortage: low-margin part called substrate now a priority. Link here. 

NASCAR cup series: NBCS (NBC Sports channel). Yes, Hulu will air it. 5:00 p.m. CT today. 

Jobs: The WSJ has a most interesting article. I really didn't care much about the thesis but the graphic helped me put things in perspective. Link here. Essay question worth 50 points in today's pop quiz: if you were going to annotate this graph, how would you annotate it? Answer here. The big question: why are folks not taking jobs? Rhetorical.

Social security, link here.

A person retiring this year at thefull-retirement age of 66 and two months—and meeting the requirements outlined above—would receive an initial monthly benefit of $3,148. And, in 2021, the maximum taxable income is $142,800.

If you delay claiming Social Security until age 70, you earn “delayed retirement credits,” which pump up the benefit you eventually receive by 8% a year. In 2021, a person who first claims Social Security at age 70—and, again, who met the requirements discussed above—would receive $3,895 a month, the maximum benefit.

2021, Covid-19, United Kingdom, link here. 

Most of the world is in its fourth wave. It's hard to say whether the UK is in its second, third or fourth wave.

• corona-cases to date: 6.9 million
• population: 66.65 million
• percent of cases-to-date/overall population: 10%
• deaths: 133,047
• death rate per total cases: 1.93%
• death rate per population:
• 133,047 / 66.65 million = 0.2%

How bad is it? Let's look at the graph:  

Apple: "Being James Bond" retrospective will be free to watch on Apple TV from September 7, 2021, through October 7, 2021. Link here.

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