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Writing in Salon, Professor Timothy Frye examines theories that might explain why Donald Trump's Russia policy has become friendly toward the Kremlin. "Trump has doubled down on his Russia policy by dismissing claims that the Kremlin had hacked the U.S. political system and continuing to praise President Putin," Frye writes, which is "even more puzzling given that in 2014 Trump called Russia a geopolitical foe and our 'biggest problem.'"

David Stark and Sheen Levine have discovered an interesting thing about financial bubbles: there’s a trick to deflating them and it has to do with diversity.

Where other means have failed at stemming the growth of financial bubbles, it turns out that in a diverse market, traders scrutinize a sale more, less likely to accept a price that may be inflated. In a homogenous market, traders trust more, setting the stage to pay more than what the true value is based off a kind of herd mentality.