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Responding to Northern D:There have been EXACTLY ZERO “successful medications” developed by Biogen or any of its “partners” — or anyone else for that matter.The pattern is clear: Studies (funded and conducted by the pharmaceutical companies) “appear” to show some minimal (subjectively assessed) effective results and all the stops are pulled to obtain FDA approvals.This is followed by accelerated approvals, questionable methodologies in processing applications, etc. and some method of oooozing a new drug into the arena is found. Aduhelm is the classical example. The only thing that prevented this drug from becoming a blockbuster (financial) success for Biogen is Medicare’s saner judgment. Approval for Medicare payment would have hastened the impending funding disaster for Medicare by years!It is sad - but true - that medical research for an effective Alzheimer’s treatment, thus far, has been a disappointing failure.Until scrupulous testing and approval processes can pronounce a new drug to be EFFECTIVE, no drug should be approved for general treatment of Alzheimer’s or, even more importantly, for Medicare reimbursement.
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Dennis Sopczynski, San Mateo, CA-It's also about the GOP's strategy to "buy" seats:Out of roughly $4 million NY's rep Elise Stefanik raised on WinRed this election cycle---just 4% came from her own district!<a href="https://news.yahoo.com/invention-elise-stefanik-154529580.html" target="_blank">https://news.yahoo.com/invention-elise-stefanik-154529580.html</a>How Republicans Tried to Rig an Election in North Carolina (And Almost Got Away With It)<a href="https://www.gq.com/story/north-carolina-ninth-district-fraud" target="_blank">https://www.gq.com/story/north-carolina-ninth-district-fraud</a>
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It amazes me that American Airlines and Trip Mate were willing to risk unflattering publicity in a major news publication just to maintain their default position that the customer is at fault or did something wrong when clearly both companies dropped the ball in service to their customers. All in an effort to make sure not one precious cent leaves their coffers unnecessarily. Consumers need to be reminded that in an era when many companies pretend, through clever marketing and hollow platitudes, that customer satisfaction is their number one priority, their foremost obligations and loyalties continue to lay with their stockholders and investors.While many companies do in fact go to great lengths to make their customers happy (and I applaud those forward thinking businesses), it is precisely the behavior demonstrated by American and Trip Mate that bolster the argument that government regulatory oversight is necessary to protect consumer interests. Voters also need to be reminded that the shameless, publicity hungry politicians parading around the Congress last week would be the first to make sure that such oversight will never come to be as THEIR loyalties lay with their corporate donors.
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It would be delicious justice if Kevin McCarthy was denied the Speaker position. The way he so debased himself in trying to get it, kissing Donald Trump’s behind, parroting his lies and bile, making concessions at every turn. He has no spine, integrity or self respect. Even many in his own party see this. I hope this opens the door to a moderate Republican official getting the position, someone who has an interest in trying to get things done for the country. Doing our government’s business will not be easy in this climate but the attempts must be made. And these attempts will have a far better chance without Kevin McCarthy in charge.
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Blue Moon_Both are involved in charities and have been for some time. Harry plans to donate a large portion of his book proceeds to charities close to his heart. He has already donated $1,500,000 to Sentebale and will donate a further £300,000 to the WellChild charity. Harry founded Sentebale in 2006 with Prince Seeiso of Lesotho to support children and young people living with HIV in Lesotho and Botswana.
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A fool and his money are soon parted.I'm amazed that wealthy people invest 6- and 7-figure amounts without first doing the kind of due diligence they'd do when buying a car, a house, a horse or a painting.Is that because most of the time, it works? Or because they know that when promised outsized returns, either too good to be true or very high risk, there's no way they can successfully do due diligence, and so you gamble, and accept the risk of a big risk and/or an unscrupulous person?
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Astonishing that with all the wealth and fame concentrated in the valley, and for all they like to promote the “world-class culture” available there, not one of those millionaires or billionaires saw fit to help the historic Liberty Theater, formerly owned by Bruce Willis, repair and reopen. A mere $1 million fundraising effort recently failed. Shameful. Everyone wants to consume, no one wants to contribute. So much for those small-town values.
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Is the author a shareholder in the Howard Hughes Corporation? We would LOVE 100% affordable housing, but that’s not what Howard Hughes is proposing. Just as we are advocating that 5 World Trade Center should be 100% affordable housing, let’s turn this lot into a 100% affordable-housing complex too. This op-ed is disingenuous, because if you build 270 luxury housing units and 70 affordable units, then you’re skewing the demographics even more in favor of high-income, mostly-white people who treat housing as a real-estate investment, not as a home. As we’re seeing on the Lower East Side, luxury mega towers just cause rents to go up and real-estate speculation to increase, displacing the actual working-class people who’ve long lived in the neighborhood. Have you seen the Extel Tower at night? 90% of the apartments are dark, because their owners don’t live here, for them it’s just a speculative commodity investment. The City should take this land via eminent domain for pennies on the dollar, and turn it into 100% affordable housing. There are lots of existing models like Mitchell-Lama or NYCHA, or the City could convert it to a community-land trust. We need to stop letting developers treat our city and this land like a slot machine, and instead we need to build housing for the working people who make New York run.
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transitory Ah....paid for by government (us) but not built by government...but point taken. One of the first public housing projects here in Chicago, the Lathrop Homes, dates to the early 1940's, and the complex was devised as a combination of low-rise and medium 3-4 story rise brick apartments set within fairly open space where there was plenty of room for greenery and play-space for children. It still exists and is currently undergoing rehabilitation. I would live there, no problem. That is countered by later 60's style high-rise public housing which started with the same promise of offering a 'livable' environment with accessible outdoor space. Sadly, we all know the ultimate fate of the Cabrini-Green and Robert Taylor Homes complexes. Interestingly, though, the culprit of the latter's failure was not so much the design aspects as originally conceived, because when new, residents looked forward to the chance to move in there, but the lack of continuing funding for inevitable ongoing maintenance needs. Expecting poor residents to be the source of their own building maintenance funding was a recipe for disaster - just as it is today. We still haven't come to grips with that.
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Tom Block Context? Hamlin was getting paid about $900K a year to engage in said sport. There was no whip to his back.I wish him a speedy recovery. That blessing was not to be for my mother, who died later in the night she experienced her first heart attack, one of thousands like her that week.
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If Meta and Salesforce lost more than $ 700,000,000,000.00 in value last yearwhy not blame the speculators who pushed the faux value of the stocks so high and the CEO'sinstead of the workers ?Think about how it would cost each American$ 2,000 to replace that $ 700 Billion, why wouldanyone value these companies so absurdly ?
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Abc123 True. But also, I have seen many men who are buddies with managers get promoted above talented women throughout my 25 yr engineering career to understand that even when I'm working hard and completely dedicated, I can get passed over because I'm not going camping with and teaching the (male) manager to rock climb over the weekend... because, I'm female and that would be... inappropriate... (true story)... My parents taught me to be frugal and invest in my own financial security so I don't NEED my job so badly that I allow my employer to mis-treat me. That is the best lesson of all, IMHO. And this is why, they took their community college educations and paid off the mortgage quickly, then were so frugal as to be to buy investment property and some stocks on a tool-and-die maker's salary. (Grew their own vegetables, hand-me-down clothes, fixed everything ourselves... didn't love it as a teen, but appreciate it now.)
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Here’s the thing: we don’t have a debt problem. This is more performative nonsense by a political party that does the bidding of billionaires who don’t want to pay for your grandmother’s Social Security and Medicare. Today the 30-year Treasury rate is 3.66 percent. If we had a debt problem, that rate would be much higher to reflect economic uncertainty. The best thing to do would be nothing or increase the top marginal rate on the highest earners. The economy is growing 3 percent annually and as it expands, the debt will become less and less a percentage of GDP. That’s how you “pay off” the debt.
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I’m in Playa Del Carmen Mexico.I booked on line and reserved a car for the next day. At a multi national car rental company.At 9 I walked to the office. ‘Sorry no cars’ come back at 2. At 2 I returned, ‘sorry no cars’. Please come back at 5. At 5 I returned….’we have a car’…great!‘Would you like collision insurance?’ I said no. I declined that on line. My credit card covers it. The gentleman replies ‘no problem. There is a fee of $21 per day if you decline and we need a deposit of $1,000.’ We’ll I certainly will not give these guys $1,000. ‘‘How much is the insurance I ask?’ $90 a day he says. So you book a car for $50 a day and end up paying $140.I found a small local car rental agency run by locals who had cars available for $75 a day.Renting cars has always been sketchy but it got way worse after Covid.
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in my observation, the way to have a long-lasting restaurant starts with one simple requirementown the building.my favourite Lebanese restaurant is grungy carpet and original laminex tables, but the food comes off the grill as delicious as when I first visited in 1977 - it's been open since 1968 and I don't think they've renovated - just bought next door for more space and added on bits at the back. A tourist walking past might ignore it as unattractive, but those of us who've eaten there for decades frequent there like a special kind of secret club.another favourite Chinese dumpling and handmade noodle place we take friends family to and they say it's the most delicious of all the places they go - again it's a hole in the wall, with newer renovated places on either side which attract more customers but where the food is not so good - they might be full, yet like the other day we typically walk into our place and it's empty - we sit at our favourite table and enjoy the best food - it does get busy with delivery bicycle orders so someone else knows about the food.contrast that with new restaurants with fancy new luxury surrounds, which I typically find are overpriced, and lo and behold I predict and typically also observe them to be out of business within a year.but maybe that's just Sydney.
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L : I mostly agree with your comments, but I would add that it's unwise to think the uncles should continue to pay for everything simply bc they can afford to do so.They have, unfortunately, enabled this couple -- nothing, such as the need to pay one's own bills, has forced the agoraphobic SIL to seek treatment and build a life for herself (plus, her agoraphobia is having a bad effect on her kids and her marriage).I'm not suggesting that the modest-income family would necessarily have fared well had the uncles not set up this arrangement. One income for a family of four is nuts, and this country has no safety net (could sh have found the help she needs?), and about half of the country is struggling bc of ruinous GOP economic policies that, since 1980, have funneled $47 trillion upward while cutting wages for the $75K-or-less crowd by about 40% over the past 40 years. I *am* saying that I've seen, with a close relatives, that one person's attempt to help a struggling relative by paying bills (but not insisting on therapy) essentially stunted the struggler's growth -- the struggler has never been self-supporting, is now over 65, and inherited very little (bc the enabler blew so much money on the struggler for 30 years). There has to be a balance. Provide housing but with the proviso that the agoraphobic get help.
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Since imitation is the greatest form of flattery, a small group of the most radical Hard-Right insurrectionists within what is now a party of insurrectionists acted exactly the same way Trump would have acted. Matt Gaetz established that there were no principles whatsoever behind anything the GOP was doing when he declared "I ran out of things I could even imagine to ask for" meaning he wasn't asking for things he believed in, only for things meant to increase his personal power, while also seeking to disrupt and destroy. Gaetz arrived at a point where he couldn’t think of a way to be any more destructive than he’d already been.The debacle of Kevin McCarthy debasing himself is the opposite of a return of the Pre-Trump GOP; it is an affirmation of Hard-Right Trumpism having fully consumed the GOP and a direct extension of the January 6th insurrection orchestrated by Trump; there is no returning to a pre-Trump GOP especially as a pre-Trump GOP no longer exists. Trump and his allies purged out any and all the marginally normal truly conservative Republicans before this happened, (marginally normal, not moderate, as Newt Gingrich began purging out Republican moderates when he was Republican Whip way back in 1989). If any doubt remained that the GOP is a fully Trumpist party it ended when McCarthy thanked Trump profusely for delivering him his victory, such as it is.
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As an American currently living in Korea - I’m pretty excited about seeing some places I’ve visited and new places to explore. Perhaps a change in perspective to being inspired to explore your city or travel to new ones is a more appropriate perspective than begrudging the NYT for an article in the travel section that you chose to invest your time into.
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Sarah Best Buy has electric induction ovens on sale for $2,500. $5,000 would be high-end, not middle-priced at all. Best Buy also hauls away and installs usually for $100. I don't work for them and I'm keeping my gas stove, but the costs you list here don't seem accurate.
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Wow to commentators to the breast feeding LW. Some women have to express regularly in addition to breast feeding the baby. Plus, the baby can only drink so much and some women produce a lot. So much that they have freezers full and sell and donate it. Also, to the women who are like I did and it was no big deal, good for you and fortunately your kids came out unscathed. LW, follow your gut and make the decision best for the baby and you as you recover and figure out motherhood. As for the surgeon, move on. If he can’t talk maturely about his visions of a family and future life (with you or anyone) especially in his late 30s, that is a red flag. I’m in my early 40s, was married for 12 years and recently divorced. I’d still like another child if I am so blessed (but I’m so incredibly grateful and blessed with having my son). I have dated several men since divorcing and I can say that the more mature men have no problem talking about what they hope to get out of dating (whether they want to marry/remarry, have kids, casual relationship, etc.) Also, at this age, it’s easier to recognize if a relationship has potential or not and if your goals are the same. For the LW with the shady friend, be direct. Get your money! $400 isn’t chump change and it’s also the principle of it.
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15 dollars for a review! I bet ChatGPT will do it for less, without feeling bad about it.
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JohnD I have lived in the Houston area for over 40 years and I agree crime is getting worse. That said, I am not sure how different it is from other large cities like NYC, Chicago, Detroit, etc. A lot of the crime is related to the open border. Criminals from any country can walk in and exploit a richer market.
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Sarah Divers use brushes similar to a commercial floor buffer to remove marine growth. In Australia, commercial offshore divers make about $3000 per week. Depending on the type of work, commercial divers in the U.S. earn between $30,000 to $85,000 per year, in some cases even more.
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She was also deeply involved in anti abortion groups/activities. The Supreme Court needs a strong ethics investigation and makeover. And it needs to be open and transparent. They obviously can’t be trusted to do it on their own.
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Clare ha that's what I thought at first. We moved to the general area over the summer and bought Starlink as a backup to the unreliable cable internet. It's basically flushing $100/month down the toilet (in addition to the $800 or so to buy the satellite). When using it, my husband has to disable video function on any calls, and can't upload or download most data sets. We're paying for the top tier and have never gotten even close to the advertised speeds. At this point, the only reason we are keeping Starlink is to make emergency phone calls when the internet is down (no cell service either, natch). We had assumed before moving here that Starlink could fill in the gaps re broadband, but it's hardly a panacea. Still glad we moved though :)
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Let me add some practical information ...No matter which type of stove you have, you should have a hood over the stove with a ventilation fan. Now, really key items, which contractors often neglect:* Have unobstructed, metal ducting that exhausts air to the outside.* Do not get sucked in by the "more power is better" scam. For normal households, moderate range of CFM is fine. Especially if you don't have an automated intake vent for "replacement" air, exhausting air too fast can negatively impact a lot of things, including the way a gas stove performs, fireplace exhaust, etc.* Include an automated intake vent which has a baffle that opens when the fan is turned on. This provides a HUGE improvement in performance and safety.We built a high-end "green" house 8 years ago, and made the mistakes identified in the second and third items. So now, we hardly ever run the fan above its lowest setting; and even then, we crack a kitchen window to avoid problems.Ironically, banning gas stoves and not adding the three items above to building codes is rearranging the deck chairs, rather than dodging the iceberg.
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Kila Thank you for your reply but as mentioned in my original post and to Full Name, boxing is the only sport where hurting the other person is the main aim.Football is addressing concussions and unnecessary roughness. Some times after replay you wonder why a roughing the passer call is made when the sacker just bumped into the guy after he passes.However, football like all sports that involve any physical contract should be continually monitored for avoiding injuries.If America wants to do something about deadly violence they should start with our cultural abuse gun sickness, an aberration re our peer countries where every yr. 100k+ Americans are killed or seriously wounded.
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My answer to this article is so what?For how long are the poorer black athletes playing the more lucrative football and baskets, upposed to fund the money for universities to subsidize less attractive sports that mostly white kids get scholarship for?Though I would seriously tell this young man to never buy an $80k Audi ever again, I'm hoping the NIL money can provide for him and his family for years to come.
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Rocko World Yes, exactly. And Obama inherited two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, both of which cost trillions of dollars.
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"'It’s not about deglobalization,” said Michael Burns, managing partner at Murray Hill Group, an investment firm focused on the supply chain. “It’s the next stage of globalization that is focused on regional networks.”'Neo feudalism. We should force these vultures to onshore production and not exploit the poor.
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As a centrist intellectual in Seattle, which makes me right wing to some, this is a needed response to the excesses of so many colleges. Read the excellent piece in the Free Press by John Sailer: "How DEI Is Supplanting Truth as the Mission of American Universities", to understand one aspect of how bad things have gotten. If New College becomes a place where inquiry is free and uncensored, rigor replaces "lived experience", there is no DEI politburo, and classrooms are not expected to be and provide safe spaces for the morally weak and indignant, I am all for it as are apparently many other thoughtful Times readers commenting here. If on the other hand, New College becomes a mirror image in reverse of the worst of the current excesses it is trying to respond to - with a cohort of equally ignorant students and faculty on the right, nothing will have been accomplished. I wish them well in their efforts and hope that the naysayers here will keep an open mind to the results, and look in the mirror at the current lunacy that is informing so many campuses who have been taken over by the woke and the fragile.
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Kasha Pretty confident I remember Trump saying he would have the most open government ever compared to Hillary and her emails.
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You do realize that Cameron invented brand new technology to shoot WAY OF WATER and that it absolutely must be seen in theaters in 3D, don’t you? It’s a spectacular experience designed to be watched in movie theaters which is why it’s already made over $1B at the global box office. But have fun staying home on your couch!
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I'm reminded of the proverbial elephant in the room, which is another country with a gargantuan population that's been on an economic juggernaut, a country that, unlike China, has a functioning democracy and maintains warm relations with the West: India. In the next few years, India will move ahead of China in population and will likely outpace it economically as well, becoming an increasingly important trade partner and global economic driver in the decades to come.
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S Lawrence You can disagree all you want, but that doesn’t change reality. High birth rates are a response to poverty. In fact, having a lot of children in a poor country is often the only investment parents have for old age. If you want to slow birth rates, you need to invest in education and infrastructure, and improve women’s rights. The birth rate will fall as a result. This is how most “advanced”, prosperous, low birth rate countries became so.
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Jane I'm sure the oil companies are a bit worried but the auto companies are investing in EVs with gusto. Some of the automakers have announced a complete changeover to EVs by the middle of this century. Both Ford and GM have pledged to sell only zero emission vehicles by 2035.The media has no incentive to be against anything as long as the ad revenue keeps rolling in. An ad for a gas powered car and an ad for an EV both generate the same kind of revenue for them.I don't understand how you came to the conclusion that automakers and the media are in any way against EVs.
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Reading about the layoffs going on now brings me back, in not a good way, to when I was "downsized" from a job of over 20 years where I planned to stay until I retired. Although I received severance, my last day of work was Christmas Ever and my family's health insurance was terminated that day, which was before Obama care was enacted. When I read about people receiving 6 months of health coverage. I am jealous. I paid about $10K, back in those days, for 2 months of COBRA coverage until I got a new job and was able to negotiate payment of my COBRA for the 6 months until I became eligible for their coverage. I tried to negotiate for a higher salary to cover the payments, but since it was a job with a pension (I KNOW how lucky I was to get that!), they didn't want to increase my base salary. I was fortunate to be in a position to negotiate the COBRA payments. It seems that today's "firees" are getting a better deal, at least in that regard.The one thing I will say is that they should not take being fired personally. For years, I struggled, wondering what I did wrong to be fired. A mini-reunion with some others who were terminated in the same culling helped me realize that it had more to do with the high cost of my salary and benefits than with anything else. Everyone who was fired was on the higher compensated end and we realized that it was purely budgetary. Lower paid. less productive people remained and that company has sunk downhill in reputation ever since.
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Rob 1Password is most definitely not open source. Their programmers may have borrowed from other open source projects, but the 1Password app is not open source. 1Password is also moving away from the ability to keep your vault offline, and use the cloud provider of your choice. The newest version of 1Password forces users to enter a subscription service where their vault is hosted on 1Password's own servers similar to LastPass' setup. They no longer allow local hosting of the vault.
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Tpower9For the sake of all involved in this situation,please engage a lawyer or a legal team who specialize in complex family financial and property issues! Your future life is in the balance as well as your family's. I cannot see how you can make any changes without the best legal advice available...you are in a minefield at this point. If you have a lawyer ask him to read the article you wrote with the comments...ask for referral to experts in legal situations with close relatives which clearly need legal and psychiatric management. You will possibly be engaged in disagreements over property value and cash spent vs what was expected on both sides. Follow your legal and psychiatric team advice no matter how fair or unfair it seems...focus on the future for yourself and your husband...I am closing in on 80 yrs and find myself wanting peaceful, caring relationships without the endless family issues attached.Remember you and your husband tried to provide more for your relatives than they could have alone... now that idea will be revised and only your future will be your responsibility. Life punishes many of us who grew up when family stepped up and accepted various responsibilities for relatives with fewer financial resources or the mental stability to succeed without help.
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I once worked in a family office where the wealthy owner berated me when I told him he couldn’t do something because it was illegal. He instructed me never to tell him he couldn’t do something. His request was that I tell him what the consequences would be if he took a particular action.Here’s how the scheme works:Someone goes to the boss with an idea that will give favored employees more money in their pockets and also reduce company tax obligations.The boss asks how much will it save me in taxes? The answer is millions of dollars.The boss asks if the plan is legal. The answer is no.The boss asks how likely is it that we get caught? The answer is not likely.The boss asks how much will it cost me if we do get caught? The answer is $1.6 million.The boss says - do it.
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"In the 40-page complaint, the commission said Alameda had borrowed as much as $10 billion from various digital lenders against FTT and other holdings.""The coin’s price skyrocketed to nearly $80 in late 2021, about 40 times what it was worth two years earlier."In other words, "crypto" currency has relevance, and most importantly value, only to the degree that it can be translated into a currency that has an actual economic function -- allowing the holder to actually buy a real thing like a house or a sandwich. The actual value of "crypto" currency depends on how long people are obsessed enough with the idea that it has value to allow it to converted back to a currency with actual economic meaning. This can in theory be said of gold or a Rembrandt and because the obsession with both has been long standing and widely accepted, it allows them to be valued as a real asset for people who own them. Crypto didn't invent this game and arguably the art world depends on it. But at least with gold you can in theory hold it in your hand and with a Rembrandt you can hang it on your wall. Crypto currency is purely imaginary. As for celebrity promoters of crypto currency like Larry David, I am guessing they were paid in dollars. Just a hunch. Finally, I note that the old Night Court series was just rebooted. It seems like the proper venue for these crypto cases to be tried.
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Only 3 years for a multi-million dollar scam over years? No wonder people like Singer think a life of being a corrupt thief is worth the risk. As for the Zhaos, their case seems even worse as it demonstrates, as the article says, exactly the kind of people Harvard looks for --those for whom paying $.5 million in tuition on top of a $1.5 million "donation" is obviously no big deal. Good luck trying to get in on your own merits, if these "applicants" are the gold standard.
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Well, with all these travails maybe it’s time to work off book like the yuber driver that (finally, after the first driver ‘declined’ me) came out in the storm, just after it got dark to add misery to dark-panic (I know where I’m going, but foggy windows add a bit of apprehension to the mix); 30 miles later, it was nice getting to my home, for the 0ff book fare of $40 & $20 tip, almost equal to a $75 yellow cab std fare (I’d paid in a previous emergency) , it’s just this money went into the drivers pocket.
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Bill What do you mean by "open borders"? The vast majority of illegal narcotics enter this country through official border crossings, hidden in shipments of other, seemingly innocuous goods. To stop it the way you're suggesting you'd have to shut down cross border traffic altogether, which would have devastating effects. It's not simple, and there's not a single Republican with a meaningful policy solution either.
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Annie B. US defense budget is 12 times the defense budgets of the next 10 nations--and most of those nations are allies. We can cut the budget--and still have plenty of military gear to give to Ukrainians.
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Hot take: Republicans are enthused to take down TikTok not because it is owned by a Chinese company but rather it is a social media platform dominated with young people. Remember it was the TikTok users who trolled the Trump campaign into thinking they were going to have a large crowd for their first rally after Covid in Oklahoma. It was TikTok made up of Gen Z who tipped the Democrats from getting annihilated in the midterms. Is being a social network being owned by China a liability? Of course, but there can mitigation measures. And it is also unfair to target TikTok over privacy concerns while ignoring Meta, Alphabet, and Twitter. Ever wonder why Republicans keep railing the “Chinese Communist Party” and supposed Chinese communism when describing the government of China even when it makes no sense sometimes? It’s because they want a new Cold War, a new easy foil, to rally their base about some existential threat like it’s the Soviet Union. Surprise, China and the Soviet Union are not the same. For one, we did not have annual trade worth about $1 trillion between the USSR and America. If we want to be honest about TikTok, we should honest about ourselves.
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Puzzlemucker Thanks so much for listing the finalists, you’re the best!Also thanks for the compliment and yesterday’s comment, just saw it a few minutes ago.Didn’t list the Constructor of the Year (COY) yet.It’s been strictly limited to Themeless constructors so far, such that the Themeless finalists also get to vie for the COY.Would it be fairer to 1. Pick the top 1-2 finalists across all categories or 2. Pick the top 2-3 in the Themeless category, and add the finalist in each of the other categories, yielding 5-6 COY finalists or3. Leave it as it was, go with the Themeless finalists only.Option 3 means the COY nominees can be listed at the same time as the finalists in other categories, a very efficient solution.The other options require waiting for the number 1 picks in all categories before voting on COY. It will delay the final result, but gives other constructors a shot at it.Btw, the COY was PM’s brainchild, but this COY question is actually open to anyone who has an opinion on the subject.
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Domestic holdings of foreign debt:UK - $1.2 TrillionCanada - $705 BillionCayman Islands - $1.2 TrillionRest of the EU - >$1 TrillionThis is why the national debt and the national deficit are largely irrelevant. Don’t get me wrong. A fiscally solvent government is good, insofar as the public’s perception of a solvent government leads to other desirable economic conditions.But I wish people knew just how irrelevant the national debt and national deficit are. Because they wouldn’t be so panicked when the deficit increases, or be so jovial when it decreases. The politician whisperers know how irrelevant the deficit and the debt are.That’s why politicians like Paul Ryan, who spent their entire life complaining about deficits, can look everyone in the country straight in the face and vote for a piece of legislation that they knew would increase the national debt by over $1.5 Trillion.
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The residents appear to be playing in a rural village constructed for their amusement like Marie Antoinette at Versailles. The agricultural economy that supported the clearing of virgin forests by colonists for farmland, roads and villages has been in decline in this area since the opening of the Erie Canal. Its replacement arises from nostalgia for an idealized version of the rural past. The new gentry aren't making a living from working the land. They made their wealth elsewhere or inherited it. The working class is not toiling on the family farm, but work as carpenters, bricklayers, landscapers, caterers, and other trades needed to make and keep the area charming and the weekends entertaining without the landowners and tourists getting their hands dirty. Donations to land trusts and conservation easements generate tax write-offs while preserving the view from the donors' picturesque porches. I share a private dirt road in Taos, NM with 90 other homeowners. It is expensive to maintain, dusty in the summer and often washboarded. I would be happy to deed the road to the county and shift the seasonal maintenance burden to the community at large. But Taos taxpayers are not as affluent as those in exurban NY and the county is not taking what we would be giving. Chatham should hire a civil engineering firm to prepare an analysis of the costs and benefits of dirt vs. paved roads, so that the community and its political leaders can be fully informed.
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D And yes, I have posted numerous times as someone pointed out, my concerns as to why there are public and private employers who do not have to inform their employees when they are exposed to covid in the workplace. And no one--absolutely NO ONE--has offered an explanation as to WHY Federal, state and local governments allowed them to do this. I am reporting this from personal experience, as I have had to work full-time, on-site for the entire time of the covid pandemic. Even though my employer is not a medical provider, or other type of first-responder, my place of employment was declared necessary to keep open right from the beginning of the pandemic. And they used HIPAA as the reason for not notifying us. So sorry...Not sorry...if some people on this thread are not "convinced" that I am reporting from personal experience what has actually been going on.
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Here is an argument that shows the usual notion of "fiscal responsibility" is simply a pathway to a financial crisis: 1. You correctly define the federal deficit as outlays minus revenue. Ok, when the federal government spends a buck that sends a buck to us, to people, businesses and state & local governments. When it taxes thus producing revenue it takes a buck back to the federal government. So the federal deficit measures how the federal gov sends to us, net of taxes. It is how much the federal government invests in the private sector.2. When it balances the budget or has a surplus., the net effect is that the federal gov takes money away from us, out of the private sector. If this continues there will be less and less money in the private sector. What I have said so far is simply arithmetic.3. Let us see what has happened, every time in the history of the USA when this has happened to a significant degree:The federal government has balanced the budget, eliminated deficits for more than three years, and paid down the debt more than 10% in just six periods since 1776, bringing in enough revenue to cover all of its spending during 1817-21, 1823-36, 1852-57, 1867-73, 1880-93, and 1920-30. The debt was paid down 29%. 100%, 59%, 27%, 57%, and 38% respectively. There was a financial crisis each time, the banking system failed, and a depression began in 1819, 1837, 1857, 1873, 1893 and 1929. This accounts for all of our depressions.(cont)
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I just couldn't break away from ELLEN for 44D, having guessed Eye OPENER in the cross. Of course! CONAN! How soon we forget! That was the 2010s, after all.I used to swim in a pool in which the "natatorium" was inscribed in large block letters on the tiled back wall. You couldn't miss it. And, as a teacher of Romance languages, I appreciated the stretch into that overly formal, obscure backlot of the English language. The Latin neuter plural ending was a nice touch too.
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Edward "Russia... keeps it's treaties and agreements"???See "Russian Violations of Borders, Treaties, and Human Rights" on govinfo.gov"Russia has acted contrary to the Intermediate-Range nuclear Forces Treaty, the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the Open Skies Treaty, and the Incidents at Sea Agreement. Russia has joined the civil war in Syria, has invaded Georgia and Ukraine....
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The study included detailed cost and ridership estimates for several modes of transit and concluded that some combination of bus and rail would be the best option. It would also be the most expensive, costing an estimated $2.58 billion. That's just a starting figure. Costs always go up. It's 18 miles long, and it would go through a lot of wetland preserve. If tech companies want to get together and pay for that, since it's their employees who would be the vast majority of riders, fine, otherwise, forget it.
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So many thoughts on this:1) LastPass's communication was horrendous. Unclear on the impact to you as a user and and how to remedy. Not good for a security company.2) Two factor authentication is great, but why aren't more financial institutions (like Chase) supporting app-based or physical key based authentication? Sim-swapping is already an issue documented in NYTimes.3) Always tradeoffs. Open source KeePass that's only run local will be impractical for many users who are less tech literate or use many devices. The convenience of cloud-based managers may have allowed many of these users to shed bad practices like re-used or weak passwords.
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Slate Hardon I wish I could recommend your comment a thousand times. Recently I read a report where they mentioned that innovation had fallen off drastically over the last forty or so years. Many of the advances that gave us modern marvels that make our lives so comfortable and convenient were already in place by the end of the 1960's. The fifty-odd years since have brought us the miniaturization required to make our modern conveniences affordable.The best progress was afforded when government invested more generously into fundamental and applied science. As you said, private investment is often unwilling to invest in science research that have longer-term outputs that they cannot figure out how to monetize immediately. For that kind of thing, you need government involvement and investment. But that is exactly where the subscribers to the Reagan philosophy oppose government involvement.
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K. During my eye-opening, disillusioning and acutely frustrating law school experience, I enrolled in an Animal Law course. The reading required was simply unbearable and I had to drop the course, despite knowing the tortured animals were long dead and beyond redress. Just reading about that degree of suffering was more than I could endure. I just finished listening to "Somersett", a detailed history of our nation's prioritizing unification and state's rights over abolition of slavery. It took the Civil War to end slavery and a true end to racist exploitation is still a work in progress. We are indeed a cruel species, in possession of too much power and too little respect for our brothers and sisters of all species.
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Socrates Florida's no state tax economy only succeeds with federal tax subsidies from "surplus" tax states like New York. It's one of the top ten "taker" states.How does an economy work if a president DeSantis, with Republican support, implements the same economic policies nationwide? Cut taxes, cut social programs, and turn public schools into christian re-education camps. Will Wall Street sit back and watch the economy collapse while foreign investors pull capital out of the US? Living outside the US for more than ten years I see the change in the way Europeans look at the US with its gun violence and social intolerance. They are making decisions to study and work elsewhere.Archeologists and siciologists look at the ruins of great civilisations and ask how this happens. Was it war, changes in trade routes, disease, lack of water? In most cases it's decisions its leaders make that leave it in a backwater while other civilisations advance. What's the current prognosis for Afghanistan that once had an advanced civilisation equal to the west?Be careful what you wish for.
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This actually a very easy problem to solve.You simply increase the effective tax rate on anyone or any business that makes more than $10,000,000 a year (non-adjusted) by 1% point every other day until they raise the limit, with the stipulation that there will not be a subsequent decrease in that rate unless it's approved by a 2/3 majority of both the House and the Senate.Enact that, and I guarantee you that we will never hear a word about the debt-ceiling ever again.
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And put trump on the obverse, “his” kevin on the reverse. Yes, a two headed coin, but appropriate because a) trump is responsible for a $1T add to the deficit, and b) because by making such a coin necessary, kevin’s House R’s are demonstrating that they don’t play by the rules the rest of us do… take on a debt, pay for it!
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Bret is an unrepentant supporter of Lazzies Faire income discrepancy. For us living on a mere $75,000 a year the idea of $400,000 is unfathomable. And no, they are not driving Camry cars or laying off cooks, nannies and gardeners. They seldom shop at Safeway or any local market. They are constantly shuffling their schedules to accommodate cocktail parties and must be seen at events at the country club. If they are indeed understating their taxable income then of course they should be audited!
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I honestly don't see how this is going to be resolved. There's no way Kevin McCarthy can or will step down, not only has it been his central focus for the last decade or so, it would empower the extreme element of his party and remove any actual authority from the speak position. Even if he does step down, nobody else will be able to thread that paper thin 4 vote majority. There's no way that the obstructionists will cave, they're receiving all the media attention they wanted and have staked their reputations on not allowing Kevin McCarthy to take the position. I'm certain that in his mind Matt Gaetz see's this as his route to a POTUS run in 2024, so he and his ilk are never budging.Obviously some kind of bi-partisan agreement would be the logical way to go, but any kind of cooperation with the Democrats would be viewed as heresy by many on the right. From the perspective of the Democrats there might have been enough political will to co-operate with Republican's a few years ago, but there's just been too much betrayal in the last few years for that to happen. The theft of 2 SCOTUS seats, the election denial, and the Jan 6th assault on the capitol were so egregious that any desire to assist them in forming a house that will be focuses on Hunter Biden's laptop and absurd impeachments is just gone.I don't know how this will end.
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This is why a true education is at the same time so risky and so essential. The desire to learn is based on the willingness and the excitement of keeping an open mind. This can be a very risky business, as it allows for the uncomfortable realization that one may discover that one is wrong, even on one's basic assumptions. But without the willingness to accept that risk, no real learning may take place. This is why the whole Republican 'thing' about not making students uncomfortable about our history is a direct assault on the central meaning of education. This willingness to learn, even at the cost of sometimes discovering one was wrong was at the heart of the first 'university' in the world - within the circle of Socrates in the Athenian agora, and it remains at the heart of education today. Further, as the old poster noted, "If you think education is expensive, you should try ignorance". That ignorance, deliberate or otherwise, is at the heart of so much of our political craziness today, and it is costing us dearly as, for one example, it did during the pandemic.
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Daft $150 for a cross country ticket. hahahaha. Not even on Southwest. They shut down their call centers during the crisis. Yeah if I travel I expect the airlines to have their call center available. As for leisure travel, well my friend good for you that you have unlimited vacation days and live near your family. Congrats. There are millions of Americans that do not have that privilege. But pat yourself on the back. And no I don't care if they are a budget airline or not, they took money for the bailout, they need to have a working airline. Or give the bailout money back. As for the blizzard, well I guess maybe we should change the date for Christmas. I heard JC was actually born in July but the early Christians wanted to co-opt the pagan holidays for the shortest day of the year.
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I wonder if $26K/year spent on exercise, occupational therapy, and good meals would be safer than this drug and superior to the placebo used in these trials.Also, "An F.D.A. official involved in the review of Leqembi said that “there were many important lessons learned” since the approval of Aduhelm." What were those lessons? Not violate the existing FDA protocols, e.g., not having secret meetings with Biogen, a company seeking drug approval? The NYTimes should do a little bit more digging into this Alzheimer's drug story.
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je Even before Covid restaurants were basically a gamble.All restaurants operate on thin margins and their failure/closure rate is high even in good times. According to an Ohio State U. study, 60% do not make it past the first year, and 80% go under in five years (these numbers are pre-pandemic).With record inflation laid on top of Covid, it seems inevitable that more restaurants will be forced to close, and not just the $500 a plate places.I enjoy dining out, but lately that has become more difficult because many of the restaurants in my area have had to limit seating because of a shortage of waiters and kitchen staff.I hope the economy will improve and that more restaurants will be able to remain open. However, in the meantime I have embraced the financial and gustatory joys of home cooking.
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Increases in Federal debt should be for something like the Covid epidemic, or serious economic downturn, and not for everyday expenditures. On the latter Raise Taxes to pay for these.Dr. Krugman is the expert-- and the acknowledged expert. On macro advice, just as in other economic investment advice, shouldn't he be acknowledging that the future may not be like the past?On rising healthcare costs, we pay up to an additional 30% for private based health insurance. Countries with single payer pay 5%--a lot of room for savings here.
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We know the NRA has been infiltrated by Torshin and his employee Maria Butina. We know the NRA has been funding the Republican party to the point of controlling them. We know that Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort was working for Putin to advance Yanakovich's intention to conduct a bloodless coup in Ukraine. We know Trump tried to extort the President of Ukraine by holding arms hostage to obtain manufactured "dirt" on Biden. We heard Trump publicly ask Russia to do the same on Clinton. We saw Trump never say a bad word about our nemesis Putin, and threaten our relationship to NATO. The unanimous conclusions of all our national security agencies was that Putin actively manipulated US public opinion to help get Trump elected, and he publicly admitted Trump was his favorite candidate. The Mueller investigation was clear. Mitch McConnell insured that sanctions were lifted for the Russian company Rusal owned by the very same oligarch -- Deripaska -- to invest in Kentucky. That's just a portion of what we actually knew. And now, the FBI has been infiltrated by Russia as well.It's no wonder Republicans howl "Russiagate" every time the topic is mentioned, and want to talk about the dossier and how "unfair" it was to investigate Russians in contact with Trump. I suspect there are many more of them in cahoots with the Kremlin. Sowing the seeds of chaos, which seems to be their sole party platform, is right up Putin's alley.
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Let's not forget that the marginal tax rate when Eisenhower was in charge was about 90% and the economy thrived... Now, as Warren B testified, it's less than 15% and the top 1% holds 90% of the wealth. It's really difficult to guess what needs to happen now? Warren B offered to write a book for the multi-billionaires or the 1%er's "How to live on $100M per year".It's not difficult and it could keep the planet survivable for humans...maybe?
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The obvious way to avoid crossing the debt limit is to cut defence spending : The US spends more on defense than the next 9 Nations combined.US National debt is 5.5% of the GDP. This is unsustainable as increasing interest rates will drive up the payment on debt
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MORE CLUES!!!CE4) Lucky penny = $0.01CI4) Make reference to5) Funky African cat5) Having to do with the affairs of a cityEF6) The 'Bee can have a powerful this on logophiles9) Persistently playing The 'Bee can make you a more _____ wordsmith9) Persistently playing The 'Bee can make you a more _____ spellerEN6) CharmEV5) Give the bum's rush7) Got the bum's rush6) Electronic mail you may send to actor V. VaughnFE5) "Touche!"FI7) About, say, novels, or sci-fiIN9) Achieving "Queen Bee" is a powerful one6) Spoilers may do this to The Hive11) Monkey typing is this when it comes to solving The 'Bee11) Monkey typing is also this when it comes to solving The 'Bee6) Spread the Bug for The 'Bee9) The Bug to solve The 'Bee is highly ______9) Spoilers may draw this sort of language NI4) When playing The Bee, play this way5) Sibling's daughterTI5) To touch with colorVI4) What The 'Bee can become
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Jim Just to be clear, the Section 230 case has nothing to do with the First Amendment. That case is based solely on interpreting Section 230 to determine that these companies are "publishers" within the meaning of the statute so that they can be held liable. That's probably not a good idea, but you're not going to figure that out until we make the mistake of endorsing it.The First Amendment applies to online platforms having policies regarding content moderation. If these places were truly an "open forum for anybody to say anything they want," then this case wouldn't exist. So I appreciate that you don't like social media. Neither do I. But ironically, you're spouting misinformation in an attempt to argue that these platforms should be held responsible for your inability to fact-check what you say before you post it.
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I was introduced to death at a young age. I attended my first funeral at age 5 and attended funerals for three of my grandparents between the ages of 8-10. Attendance at these rituals was an almost normal experience. Everyone it seemed died or was on death's doorstep. I do not remember crying. Death took a break but returned in full force in the early 1990s with every great aunt and uncle and my favorite dog. After another break, death has returned never to leave - an unending parade in the past nine years - my parents, two uncles, an aunt, my in-laws, two brothers-in-law, two friends, a former lover, several work colleagues, and my favorite pet. While my father's death has receded into the past, I still remember the last time I saw him as Parkinson's ravaged his body, and I remember his last words to me. My mother's death is more recent and raw. Not a day goes by where I do not think of her especially now with the imminent opening of spring training heralding the annual renewal of her favorite sport. I held my beloved cat in my arms until she took her last breath in October. I have discovered that I am not as tough or unsentimental as I once believed. I cry easily and more often now. I realize that, in the words of George Harrison, all things must pass, but it is nonetheless difficult to watch everyone and everything I love and loved be washed away by the tides of time. Live and love today. In the words of my paternal grandmother, it is later than we think.
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We are close to retiring and don't really have a plan yet, other than saving as much as we could over the years (401ks, etc.) We both are working until 70 and plan on filing then for SS. We spoke with a local planner. She was going to charge $4000 just to get us set up! I don't think our situation is terribly complicated. What's a common fee for these services?
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Think about the stock market's crash of 1929. Mom's and pop's in a frenzy even borrowed money to invest that they lost. But where was the money? In tangible things such as factory machines, buildings, and in wealthy accounts.It was the biggest heist ever. The stockholders got nothing back.So where was the money?Now in 2023, it's in treasure chests on islands, in foreign factories, and foriegn bank accounts and subsidiaries in other countries.Folks, you are all getting robbed again.
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This article misses an important factor. It highlights a difficulty in an authoritarian country like China of trying to benefit from western style economic expansion but not having the dexterity that freedom of speech and movement allow. The way they have been hampered in their Covid experience is a case in point. A western democracy can afford to have the “double income no kids” ethic without too much harm because there is a lot of immigration to make up for it. The emergence of the “double income no kids” ethic can be expected as a natural consequence of the demands upon couples in an expanding technological economy. But there still exists a recognition of the advantages of immigration in a country like the United States - that remains to a large extent an open democracy, recent trends to the contrary notwithstanding. It would be helpful in an article like this not to miss how allowing lots of immigration is a helpful illustration of how allowing freedom of movement - with rational controls - is a great advantage for a country like the United States. And I don’t know what the data shows, but my hunch is that immigrants have a higher chance of possessing a cultural ethic leading them to wish to form families with lots of kids as well. This is a problem for people with, shall we say, an ethnocentric outlook - which is, in fact, an outlook close to the hearts of the authoritarians in China as well.
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10K for the program is what should be illegal. And passing a background check? This limits the field to the kind of person I wouldn't want to trip with by far.
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Most people can do a cleanse for pennies, with a small investment in a blender. My favorite is wild blueberries, picked in the wild (which in itself provides multiple benefits - I picked 11 pounds this year) frozen banana (you can buy the brown ones for pennies and freeze them peeled and broken into chunks) whey powder (for protein), oats, nuts and maple syrup. It's delicious!
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Dr Krugman was much too gentle about how borrowed money was deployed the last 20-25 years."..ending child poverty rather than giving tax breaks to corporations, rebuilding infrastructure rather than invading Iraq."I believe the unfunded, kindly word for deficit, spending amassed during the 20 years of Iraq and Afghanistan wars is $6 trillion or roughly 1/3 of the $20 trillion sum from Dr Krugman's opinion piece. Biden's original BBB proposals were $3 trillion. Throughout the debate about BBB, Manchin, Sinema and the Republicans et al from the Senate and the House pitched fit after fit about how the infrastructure spending was reckless, irresponsible, and dangerous after years of not a peep about Bush driving the American military and global leadership into a dead-end.
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Emil During the Great Depression, as a result of decreased tax revenues and government spending on social programs, public debt was 40% of GDP. As a result of financing the Second World War (remember War Bonds?), it had risen in 1945 to 112% of GDP. but at neither time there was there talk of national bankruptcy or default . Trump started the ball rolling when he announced himself the king of debt, and opined the U S could declare bankruptcy the way he and his businesses did so 6 times.
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Ippolita Ferrari: Ginia Bellafante isn’t claiming that healthy, fresh food isn’t for the poor. She is pointing out, rightly so, that poor people don’t have much access to it, and that it is frequently priced beyond their means. Have you ever seen the food offered at Trading Posts on/near reservations or “Convenience Stores” adjacent to public housing projects? It’s great news that local farmers’ markets are opening in the inner cities and reservations across the country. If the Thruway Authority approves fresh food sourced locally, that will be better for travellers and the local economy. But I absolutely agree with you that Italy has far superior rest areas along its highways. Back in 1970, when I was a child, I remember being transfixed by a rest stop that was built like a bridge: it spanned the highway it served. Travellers from both directions could use the same rest area because parking on both sides was available and customers simply used the elevator or stairway on their side to access the restaurant/rest area built over the highway. Especially exciting to me was the beautiful food, as would be offered in a “real” restaurant. It came in a range of offerings, from tableclothed hot food to trattoria-style dishes and freshly-made pannini and fresh fruit. I wondered then, as I do now, why Americans haven’t developed similar rest areas on our highways. Buon viaggio!
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There is a twist here that is being overlooked. If (or when) China invades Taiwan there are two things likely to happen: First, the chip factories will be the first targets of bombing campaigns to ensure their destruction making them as useless as possible to the Chinese. Second, Taiwanese engineers will look to escape and the US (and much of the rest of the world) will be waiting with open arms. It’s kind of how Einstein ended up in Princeton. Needless to say, China will become even more of a pariah state and their chips will be more widely shunned. We need to have the infrastructure and network in place to address this very real eventuality. If we pounce at the right moment, we will become the dominant chip makers. Overall, this is a step in the right direction.
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The biggest problem is that PG&E is a commercial, for-profit, regulated monopoly, meaning they get built-in profits. Throw that on top of the profits from the deregulated players that PG&E buys from, and the cost to the consumer is obvious. One step in the solution is for the state to take over PG&E. Why is our electricity being gated by a for-profit entity? Our water isn't. It just doesn't make any sense in this day and age. The state really needs to take over the blasted utilities.This issue may be coming to a head. There is a developing schism between the haves and the have-nots. Home owners who can afford solar, or even solar + batteries under the new NEM that was just passed, would much rather make that investment than send that cash to their utility. The new NEM is more fair to non-solar customers, but it still won't prevent an exodus. Non-solar customers will continue to hold the bag, so to speak.One glimmer of hope on the horizon is that more and more these days, California is mitigating or removing the need for more new large transmission line projects by focusing on strategically located grid-scale energy storage. The storage will allow renewables to continue to expand and allow a resumption of the decommissioning of fossil resources.Ultimately, the new grid will result in lower costs for consumers. Or it will be forced to.
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Home Run Inn pizza (Chicago) appears to have gone national now that I can get it here in Bend Oregon. While not Neapolitan, this flash frozen prebaked pizza may be the best combination of value and great taste. Advertised with a butter crust, the cheese pizza has a great combination of sauce and cheese plus a unique flavor. All natural and made from scratch, these pizzas were on sale at Safeway recently for $8.00 (large enough to feed two people). Home Run Inn Pizza has been around for some 75 years and is now my go to Favorite for quick and easy. Note, I make my own pie's and use the Roberta's crust recipe provided by the NYT's.
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Jason A quick reframing - the Second World War completed the job that the New Deal had begun and it definitively ended the Great Depression in the USA. Not because of war, but because the war provided full employment. An America willing to mobilize as much humanpower and money on behalf of building schools, roads, trails, and housing in the absence of war would have also ended the Depression. The real problem with the New Deal and World War II - from the perspective of conservatives - was that they were great social and economic levelers that opened the way to a vast and growing middle-class as well as the Civil Rights movements of the 60s/70s. If the government was made up of all of us instead of (per the data) just the wealthiest Americans, we could invest in ourselves again and produce a veritable paradise in this, the richest country on Earth.
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It is a strategic necessity for all countries to reduce dependence on China and undertake “nearshoring” of manufacturing as soon as possible. When small Lithuania established diplomatic relations with Taiwan, Beijing blocked 90% of Lithuanian exports to China as punishment. It also slammed extensive tariffs and duties on Australian exports just because that country called for an open investigation into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic. Lastly, when Japan detained the crews of Chinese boats which trespassed into its territorial waters, Beijing cut off critical supplies of rare earths to that country for a month.Hence, given its propensity for “economic coercion”, countries should seek to reduce dependence on China and decrease its leverage over them. Perhaps, one of the few good things to happen during the Trump administration was China’s slipping from 1st to 3rd largest trading partner of the US (due to the trade war). Furthermore, the pandemic has exposed the vulnerability of supply chains. Bottlenecks have contributed to inflation in many countries. “Nearshoring” is critical to solving this problem and companies should also be encouraged to devise a “post-China” strategy.
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Ty Rex "I also think much of the ability to be vulnerable comes from a notion of belonging and contentment, if not happiness."For me emotional openness has come from self awareness and security. Knowing who I am and that I have value as myself, not the member of a group, is what gives me the confidence to be open. I lost a parent as a young child, so abandonment was an issue for a long time. The fear of abandonment limits the trust of others needed to be fully open in a group. This 'self security,' that I developed late in life, is what, for me, brought contentment and the ability to become part of a group, or even a full partner in a couple-ing.
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Kurt Pickard mine is $5/month for a year. I will cancel at the end of a year and look for a new deal.
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I see it a little differently. Party unity has been less imposed by Congressional leaders than comes from the militancy and an increased partisanship of shrinking bases of both parties, especially the Republicans. The opposition to McCarthy’s leadership was certainly not an effort to reform but to assert ideological control and push the party farther right. Levin is right that getting things done like infrastructure legislation, which occasionally does motivate action, requires bipartisan cooperation, since basically a 60-seat majority is required in the Senate for any important legislation. But for most members, more important than getting things done is getting reelected, which comes every 2 years for House members. With shrinking party bases, except in a few purple districts, it is very difficult to work in any kind of bipartisan manner without an internal competitor outflanking one ideologically in the next primary season in party conventions, primaries, or with all important funders. Look at the House Republicans who supported impeachment. While some of Levin’s ideas such as fusing authorization and appropriation process are misguided and dangerous, my main point is that House procedural “reforms” are not going to get Levin to the kind of factional (or more importantly individual) freedom and open policy debate and compromise he hopes for. Addressing gerrymandering, open primaries, rank order voting, and campaign finance reform are far more critical.
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This idea of extending patents by constant reformulating the drug and/or suing or buying off potential generic manufactures isn't new. Pfizer did it with Lipitor, Viagra and most recently with Eliquis.I do understand that often it cay take up to a decade between the time a manufacturer gets a drug patent and gets FDA approval to market, but the system is broken when manufacturers can abuse the patent system to extend exclusivities. The simplest solution is just allow Americans to order online from Canadian pharmacies. The abuse would stop quickly.
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The USA spends over 800 billon on defense. Who cares about the squalor living conditions of americas most needy. More bombs will certainly do the trick.
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As a sex & intimacy coach for distressed couples in a sexless marriage, I see the quality of therapy to be not in the therapist's credentials. It’s what happens btw you & your partner IN the sessions.
If therapy's working, you feel closer. Your interactions with each other become easier, more vulnerable, less fraught with danger.
If it’s not, you walk away feeling even more alone, unseen, misunderstood & with less hope your relationship can work.Are you getting the best support—or stuck in a frustrating holding pattern?1. If you’re not consistently experiencing connection btw each other IN the sessions, spending more time in therapy will do nothing. Your therapist needs to RESTRUCTURE your interactions—from criticism to vulnerability, from closedness to closeness—so that connection happens then and there, not as a future promise. Your hope is on the line.2. Analyzing what's gone wrong & why won’t help with growing closer. Real intimacy is not theory/analysis; it's a LIVED experience that must be fostered in every word, gesture, move. Your therapist should be modeling and reinforcing those moments of trust & openness. Without, you grow further apart.3. If you’re following a session-by-session model, you’ll be on a frustratingly long path that may/may not get you results. It’s a costly risk for a couple on the brink who needs results fast. Look for a therapist who believes in you & your love & has an intentional step-by-step process, backed by success stories.Irene Fehr
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This article is incorrect. Total interest on the national debt was $724 Billion, not the $475B quoted in the article. The number in the article refers to interest paid out to the public - but statutory interest payments made to intergovernmental debt (mostly to the social security trust) can't be ignored
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mark Yeah, sure -- but the World wants Russia's Gas and Petroleum, its extracted minerals, its grains and fertilizers. I wouldn't recommend getting too ambitious with demands for reparations. A Russia without Putin leading it may well agree to a levy of 10% of the profits of proceeds from extractions of fossil fuels, but not much more. The economic sanctions are the only lever which the West has to induce Russia to ever pay anything. A best case scenario is that Russia will pay relatively modest annual reparations, spread out over over the course of Decades,
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Pichai gets paid hundreds of millions of dollars and his underlings get paid a handsome bounty as well. Yet, they feel the need to get adults in the room to tell what to do and how to do it? Ridiculous.
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DeSantis takes undeserved credit for Florida's economic boom, which is still the result of retirement fubds and other investment capital earned up north and in Europe and South America. If New Jersey had the same sunshine the money and wealth would go there.
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I'm a structural engineer and have lived in Houston since 1978, Since then TXDOT has worked on patching/expanding the highway system in this place while spending over $20B during that time. They have underestimated the growth of the area and the related traffic volume. They have, mostly for political reasons, not supported rail transport as it would resemble the northeast "commie" solutions. As we speak they are constructing the redesign of the most congested intersection of TX, that at I-69/610 West Loop. But the solution does nothing to fix the major problem which is to allow multiple lanes to feed I-69 from the 610 Loop! Amazing pork barrel project that lines the pockets of politicians and business while stiffing the taxpayer.
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Front of house folks make the majority of their income from tips so there is an incentive for us to keep our wages low. It wasn't unheard of me to make $1,000 in tips on a Sunday double. Our paychecks only helped to offset our taxes. Serving is one of the few "low skill" jobs were you can make a decent living if you hussle. So all you well meaning people focus on back of the house- that's where it might make a difference. Leave us servers out of your campaign.
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Please I wish they'd just go away. A lot of people have difficult relationships with their families or have suffered loss. Yet most of them will never be able to give their families the finger after banking an inheritance of 30 million pounds from their granny, let alone a Netflix deal and a plush palace in billionaire Oprah's neighborhood. Enough with all the entitled attention-seeking.
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Ezra always has these exigent topics that deserve comments with way more depth than this newspaper has space for. This particular podcast is much more authoritative than the one Ezra did with Sam Altman a year or so ago. There was in that interview an example, on the part of the guest, of the kind of arrogance with which these saviors of the universe imagine our futures. In today's podcast, Ezra refers to something Altman said in the previous:"I had Sam Altman, C.E.O. of OpenAI, on the show a while back, and he said something to me I think about sometimes, where he said, my belief is that you are energy flowing through a neural network. That’s it. And he means by that a certain kind of learning system."One thing that is apparent in almost all columns on this topic is a trust in some brilliant technologist or entrepreneur. Commensurately, there's an almost total absence of philosophers and religious thinkers. In this gulf, our brilliant tech visionaries have free rein to propound their own kind of religion, one organized around technology, innovation, economic growth, and, frankly, the personality and image of the CEO. According to Wikipedia, Altman is an entrepreneur, investor, programmer and blogger. These qualifications apparently make him feel comfortable holding forth on the human experience. I would appreciate it if Mr. Altman would stick to his investing, blogging, and so forth. I find his metaphysics shallow and puerile.
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