Bloomberg Briefing, Dec. 20

Teens who use social media see conspiracy theories come across their feed at least once per week, according to a new study. How often do you come in contact with a conspiracy theory?

Simple tweaks can boost your productivity, allowing you to finish the year strong. As we approach the holiday season, your calendar is probably filling up. And undoubtedly your to-do list is as well.

Even if you think you are crushing it, you should read this. Google “bad bosses,” and most of what pops up are survival guides for employees—like how to “survive a bad boss,” as if bad leadership is just another natural disaster we need to ride out. We shouldn’t have to survive our day jobs.

Insurers haven’t broadly cut off coverage along the Front Range as weather-related claims rise, and they haven’t pulled out of the state entirely, like in California and Florida. But they are increasingly making demands that can complicate and even derail home sales. “Insurance providers en masse have decided that if the roof is more than 10 years old we won’t insure it,” said Matt Metcalf, a managing broker at Mile High Home Pro, which is both a real estate and mortgage brokerage. Current owners aren’t being cut off.

The first episode of “The Double Life of My Billionaire Husband” pans out like a daytime TV melodrama: a female protagonist asks her father and evil stepmother for $50,000 to pay for her mother’s kidney dialysis treatment. Cue an evil stepsister, who snarkily says that the payment is assured—if the lead marries the illegitimate son of a prominent family, who is supposedly a grade-A loser.

Growing evidence suggests Iran has weaponized pharmaceutical agents that could be added to weapons like artillery and grenades. Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesIran is believed to have weaponized pharmaceutical agents to kill or incapacitate. These chemical weapons affect a victim's central nervous system. These are especially a problem if Iran supplies them to militant allies like Hezbollah and Hamas.