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Lyndsey Marie Shanley Lucky you! At the Walmart near me eggs *start* at $4.58 (although those are usually sold out) and go up to over $7.00. And I'm talking dozens, not 18-count.This stands to reason though, as Iowa, the state with the largest die-off, is right next to me and far from you.
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While I am enthusiastic about particle theory - and the pursuit of basic science across all fields - the two physicists you interview don’t offer much justification for ever more powerful, ever more expensive, accelerators in this time of climate collapse and pandemics. The costs of the proposed next particle accelerator, some 60 miles in circumference, will be at least $30 billion, and it will cost $1 billion a year to operate. It will be a “Higgs Factory,” supporters claim. Even basic research requires priorities. Is this where we should pledge our money, even at fractional chunks per year? They also base a central piece of their argument on a logical fallacy. As they note, string theory is a mathematical convenience, however cool. It’s not science, because it is - their words - untestable. Claiming that math is the “language” of science (decent metaphor) or a “framework” (less so) does not make it science, nor does it rescue string theory and its multiverse, whatever Avengers wants to push, from the realm of mathematics. What say we give all of math’s money for the next decade to physics? How
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Now they should investigate how Jared Kushner got $2 billion from Saudi prince while working pro bono in White House for four years, which makes him getting $500 million each year, $41 million each month, $10 million each week. Kevin and his team need to investigate.
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I expect that the US government will continue to send billions of dollars to Israel. And that any efforts to question this will never see the light of day. Untouchable subjects are often worth a bit of exploring. The lack of any explorations is in itself suspicious.
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The aspect of this that I find most disingenuous is that they plan to keep the restaurant open for two more years, presumably without significant changes to the business model, even though they know it is cruel and unsustainable. The chef is still putting the business first, while getting credit for acknowledging his harms - but continuing them for two more years?!?!
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USA needs to do:reinvigorate K-!2 in ALL areas, not just STEPencourage , respect and reward teachers properlyWithout these first steps in investing in education , not much will improve in ANY endeavor.We must not depend on the rest of the world to supply what we need because we have a very mediocre service economy and an industrial base that lacks vigor, efficiency, and creativity.All this has been self-inflicted over the past decades.We have grown lazy, over confident, dependent, and expect others to take care and supply of us.
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On the other hand, Chinese Railway, which operates the HSR, is currently in debt to the tune of $840bn, so it might not be the most economically viable approach.
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I was always curious and have a hard time trusting people, I do not think it is only me that has a hard time finding good doctors,dentists and mechanics. Anyone remember Wall $treet Week with Louis Rukeyser? Consuelo Mack Wealthtrack is anothercurrent interesting show to check out. Currently reading Figuring it out by Charles D. Ellis, some old information andhe does repeat some of it, but sound advice. He drills it in,1 percent fee's, are really incremental fee's that run up to15 to 20 percent of your gains. Advisors very very rarely,and over the long run almost never beat the index's when youadd in their fee's, they used to, but that was 40 or 50 years ago.Today with computers and all the professionals out there, thereare not any hidden hot stocks to find. It is a shame so manypeople do not pay attention until it is too late, a family memberwho recently retired is now paying 1.5 percent to have someonehold her hand. Buffet's partner (Charley Munger) said the best thing you can dowhen the market's inevitably rattle is to sit on your hands, whichis easier said than done, some of the best advice I have heard.I started saving for retirement in my 20's, glad I did. Never wanted to work till I dropped over. Instead of new vehicles I drove them til they were basically junk and put that moneyinto mutual funds. Was not difficult to figure out or do, mostpeople will not make the effort or sacrifice.
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I doubt that anyone looking to spend $18 million for a penthouse apartment is going to find it on Instagram.The cat was out of the bag in the second part of the article: the unpaid influencers are meant to influence neighborhood residents. Propaganda on the cheap.
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Joe Taxpayer deserves an accounting of where the $14,500 went.
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I an admittedly natural cynic. Especially so when it comes to politics. I have to wonder if Santos’ campaign wasn’t an attempt to provide funding to designated candidates using the faux candidacy of a long shot who’d lost in a previous run. Why this sleepy little district? It’s far from a hotbed of activism. Why a candidate who had already been beaten here? Aren’t there any existing potential candidates among other local offices? The area has a NYC council district, a NYC Community Board. The City of Glen Cove. Several villages with engaged citizens. Why a candidate with no real ties to the district? Santos has no discernible business or leadership experience either. Financially, I wonder about the source of the $700,000 he loaned his campaign as well as the movement of contributions into and out of his campaign fund. Were funds illegally contributed to others’ campaigns to hide their sources and/or amounts? Note that the official residence of the Russian Embassy is located within this CD.
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Excellent! For me it was PAST A BARS that broke it open..having originally plunked in the final S as one does with plurals and then going "wha?" Last to fall was 46A because I had AXES for 37D and ERA for 42D so it looked like a comparative but SMOOTHER and SOUTHERNER (don't ask) wouldn't fit.
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Pensions (e.g. CALPERS) and endowments (e.g. Harvard) are collectively huge owners of public companies and limited partners in private equity and real estate funds. To boot, financial institutions like banks and insurance companies hold massive amounts of government debt obligations (they are funding national debt/deficits). Just saying.
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Real story:Who has $25,000 in couch change and so indifferent to the risk of giving it over to an appeal over email?You?
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The essence of this disastrous display is that these politicians are not up to the task of governing, not even close. Self-interested, power-hungry people elected by foolish citizens who act like buffoons. This is the inherent danger of democracy; if a portion of the populace doesn't have the wisdom or the intelligence to elect reasonable leaders (Greene is a perfect example), enormous power ends up in the hands of dangerous fools. To work in a position of power at Walmart, or Microsoft, or even much of the Pentagon, an applicant goes through many rounds of interviews, vetting, education, background checks, etc. It seems to get into Congress, where you have the power to make or break the country, all you need to do is trick a few million voters by playing into their worst fears and impulses, and/or buy your way in with vast wealth and super PACs. The spectacle currently playing out in the House is just one example of a broken system. Perhaps it was once functional, but in the age of social media, cambridge analytica, etc, where so many millions of Americans believe outrageous lies and conspiracies, the admirable assumption of democracy that the greater good will triumph when the people have their say is on shaky ground. Not because it's not a noble and reasonable notion, but because the people's common sense is under attack from all corners by bad actors. I'm not suggesting I have the answer to this or attacking democracy. I'm just trying to highlight a very real problem.
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ROK: That's pretty cold, and in that case, we'd eat shelf-stable, no cook foods we keep on hand for emergencies. Propane will flow at those temperatures, but it would be an uphill battle to generate enough heat to do any actual cooking.It's good to think through your options if you are faced with an extended period without power, water, and/or heat. Every household has different needs. Every few years, my husband and I review our emergency plan, so we both know what to do, using the resources available to us.As for the stove, I've never not had an all-electric kitchen, so this whole argument over gas stoves is silly to me. If a power interruption hits, I have no other option than to figure out a workaround for non-functional kitchen appliances.Right now, that means a propane tank, a camping stove, and shelf-stable foods that need only light cooking to be edible. And if I can't cook at all, I think I can manage to survive for a few days on PB&J sandwiches.
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History Guy I would add to your observations that the stock market is still 25% below where it was about 8 months ago, which makes a difference to anyone relying on invested income like 401k's or IRAs. Not the end of the world but still can be worrying.
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Michael Gallagher this article highlights the ability of people from different backgrounds to form a strong bond and learn from each other. Regardless of Mr. Perkins’ many failings, it sounds like he learned to be more open and understanding by virtue of this relationship. No one is saying he or his twisted beliefs should now be accepted. The point of the article is much simpler: We can learn and grow from connecting with other human beings, even ones who are very different from us.
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Mark Cooper But at the end of the day, McCarthy is still Speaker of the House. And Jeffries is not. What I'm most interested in is how Jeffries is going to handle McCarthy. Jeffries needs to stop talking up "bipartisanship" and thinking more about strategy. Will Jeffries, for example, open up an ethics investigation into George Santos? That's a vote we don't want the Republicans to keep.
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OK the first paragraph struck me two ways: First that Carvana was 'worth' $80 billion, but now it's 'valued' at less than $1.5 billion. Well I don't imagine that Carvana was actually ever 'worth' $80 billion, only valued at that amount. Second, how is Carvana a 'tech' company? Aren't they in automobile sales?
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1/ Before the Russian invasion, "there were intensive discussions with Mr. Putin and...foreign leaders...I am guessing based on what was published, that NATO membership was off the table.You are "guessing" the US/NATO rejected Russian demands to limit expansion?No "guess" work necessary:NYT [updated 3/11], “Roots of the Ukraine War”"Russia presented NATO and the US in December…a set of written demands that it said were needed to ensure its security. Foremost among them are a guarantee that Ukraine would never join NATO…The West dismissed the main demands out of hand.”2/ "I also assume that other security arrangements were also offered to Mr. Putin."To understand this tragedy, would help if NYT readers "guessed" and "assume" less, read actual news more:"A year ago today (on Dec. 30, 2021) U.S. President Joe Biden, in a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, assured him that "Washington had no intention of deploying offensive strike weapons in Ukraine.”"Against that backdrop, bilateral talks in Geneva to start on January 9, 2022 seemed off to a promising start. The Kremlin clearly thought so. Then Biden changed his mind. The key issue of offensive missiles on Russia’s borders fell off the table."<a href="https://original.antiwar.com/mcgovern/2022/12/29/biden-reneged-now-russian-army-will-talk" target="_blank">https://original.antiwar.com/mcgovern/2022/12/29/biden-reneged-now-russian-army-will-talk</a>/
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We may not believe everything in GOP's narrative, but we are not stupid enough to believe the narrative NYT pundits want to promote. If the possible charges against Hunter are his failure to meet filing deadlines for his 2016 and 2017 tax returns, and questions about whether he falsely claimed at least $30,000 in deductions for business expenses, it is just silly. We want to know how much Biden helped Hunter to rake in millions from Ukraine and whether that has anything to do with Biden's push to give NATO membership to Ukraine against the public objection of Russia which resulted in an invasion and moved Russia away from American orbit and closer to China endangering national security.
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It's been 22 years. It seems to me that we should do whatever it takes to end this fiasco. They are human beings who likely have done great evil, but human beings nonetheless. We are spending millions and millions of dollars to drag this on indefinitely. Get on with it. Close Guantanamo, try them, move the guilty to high security settings, and put closure on it. The way things stand, they will simply die off in Cuba without trial, sentence, or any closure - and with millions spent spinning our wheels.
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New Eyes In organizational psychology the way people let their feelings dismiss their reasonable decision making is presented. Once people are emotionally invested in a belief or system of beliefs, contradictory facts are dismissed as wrong. The NAZI leadership believed that as anti-communists they could forge alliances with the Western Allies against the U.S.S.R. despite the strong support of the U.S.A. and the U.K. for their Soviet Ally. Since the Bolsheviks took over Russia, the U.S.A, U.K, et al had fought to drive them from power but NAZI Germany was the immediate threat for the West not the U.S.S.R. but the Germans just did not see it. It was denial of reality at work.
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Interested Open primaries in all states could save us from crazies. Independents are a large voting group and they would tend to vote for the less extreme people.
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John Agreed. Perhaps it is time for the Washington politicians to stop doling out taxpayer dollars without expectation of a return on investment. The Federal government is undoubtedly both the worlds largest VC firm; and absolutely the worst VC firm as regards to expectation of payback. Job creation is not enough, taxpayers deserve compensation for their investment, which which now is little more than a transfer of public dollars to corporate entities. But the politicians always do have their hands out for donations, don't they.
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Dave Friedlander . You forgot huge agricultural subsidies that go to red states. To Republicans welfare for Big Ag and corporations is "investment"
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DG When was the last time the budget was balanced? When Bill and Hillary were in the White House. Republicans used to like investment tax credits for real investment, highways and the military. Now we are staring down Stalin 2.0 and his ambition to reestablish the Soviet Union and Republicans suddenly don't even want to spend on the military to contain Putin. All Republicans want now is their carried interest deductions and the ultimate casino game, cryptocurrencies.
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As I write this, the 10-yr treasury bond, "the bellwether of US bonds" trades at a still nearly historic low of 3.54%. It started 2022 at 1.5% and worked its way up to the still low 4.3% some ten weeks or so ago. To put this in perspective, keeping in mind the US debt is at $31 trillion and counting, bond buyers are still out there and seemingly aren't too concerned at the moment of a US default come June or July. Perhaps rates will rise by then if a settlement appears to be unachievable, but one would think that with the Fed raising short term rates to upwards of 5% by the spring, that the bond market would take into account the fear of a default. Then again, who would have predicted the Fed's actions over the past year?
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Worth noting, I think, that this is spilling over into other areas/types of medicine as well. I have occipital neuralgia, and my doctor gave me a month's worth of only 10 mg of a very, very different drug that is not at all as addicting or powerful as these opioids. Meanwhile, she put in a request for me to get an MRI. My insurance refuses to cover the MRI, so after my medicine ran out, she refused to give me any more. She says I cannot get any more medicine without the MRI, but again, my insurance will not cover the MRI and I cannot afford it myself. I was not addicted to the pills, felt no funny "high" effects from them whatsoever: they simply allowed me to live my life without chronic neck pain for a month. Now, I'm back to the chronic pain, with no end in sight...
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Welcome to the land of unbridled Capitalism, unfettered Greed, and Government in the pockets of Materialist-Barons. America needs a fresh start. For each state no aspiring Senator or Congressman should spend (and no individual or agency should spend on his behalf) more than $100 per citizen of that state, for electioneering. The only crime in America should be bringing capitalism in disrepute, and causing harm to citizens lacking financial resources to fight the malevolent breed within capitalism.
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A. J. Calhoun We are $100 billion in with arms that were built in many cases, decades ago. This stuff is sitting on a shelf and has a sell by date. It is being put to its best possible use. It is a pittance in our defense budget.I don't expect a Russian stooge like Trump or his supporters would want Russian to lose, but they are - bigly!
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Many an argument at the counter with airline agents insisting they knew the immigration requirements for a country I lived in for decades as a permanent resident with the card to prove it. And the one thing they insisted on multiple times, even though it was never a legal requirement, was the purchase of an open ended, return ticket. Yes, American Airlines, I am looking at you.
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Mike C Start with "The Little Book of Common Sense Investing" by John Bogle.
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Three sources for that $700,000 quickly come to mind. First, international cartels, e.g., narcotics, money laundering, prohibited exports such as computer components to Iran. Cartels would readily benefit from a friendly Member of Congress, especially someone with the right committee seats or good connections. Second, Russian oligarchs with ties to the Kremlin as success with Santos would bolster the pro-Russian contingent within the GOP. Someone like Santos would be particularly useful as he is not identified as pro-Russian and therefore in ordinary circumstances might appear to be a thoughtful neutral rather than an operative. And third, the Chinese military as having someone in Congress available to feed information to China as well as monitor military and security developments. Such speculation is not accusatory but might explain how someone so inept is certain ways accumulated in short order a large pot of cash.
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I am in my 60s and work in a highly-interactive, rather free-form environment that also involves a screen task that I've been keeping up for 16+ years. I find that my brain is kept so present and engaged that I perceive "distractions" and "interruptions" as potential creative sources. My interest in what I do fuels my open-mindedness about what may or may not be a distraction. I understand that I do have an unusual job but am finding at my age that my access to creative ideas and solutions, along with my attention span is in the best shape of my life, although if I was being observed it would look like I am doing that switching that the article refers to. p.s. I do not carry my phone around with me when I am being social.
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Me Not really. The NIH 2023 budget includes 3.2 billion dollars for HIV research.
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St Paulite Meghan wasn't maligned when she arrived here in the UK. On the contrary, she was welcomed warmly and with open arms. We knew nothing of her background or ethnicity and most of us has never heard of 'Suits'. It was only later when Meghan's staff kept leaving her service; rumours of bullying began circulating and she acquired the title 'Duchess Difficult'. At a Commonwealth Service '19, the rift between H&M and the rest of the family was plainly visble in front of the TV cameras. Harry didn't have to walk behind Diana's hearse. but apparently, Prince Phillip said "If you walk I'll walk with you." And he did. Perhaps the RF are not so dysfunctional after all. The 'sleazy, British tabloids' are probably the same as sleazy tabloids (and media generally) the world over. If there's a story, y'know? Harry's hurt? Don't we all have some of that of our own? The difference is, I'm not dining out on it, let alone dissing my own family, dare I say, for profit? Harry's family - and his extended family, a large swathe of the British public - are here for him; always were, always will be. For his, and his family's sake, I hope he sees that, sooner, rather than later. [posted by gp]
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Google is laying off 12000 people because OpenAI opened up ChatGPT for others to try?Whoever runs PR at Google better get a raise.
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Kevin Not true ! Try a pinotage (So Austrailai). The one named Petit is $9.99 at my wine store and is a great medium red that pairs well with anything. Also, there are many inexpensive New Zealand savignon blancs out there, some of which start at $10.99 that are great with chicken or fish, (Ask the person at your wine store where they are ) In addition, ther are some moderatley priced chiantis and nebbiolos that go great with meat. Again, just ask. Bon appetit !
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Henry True, Uber and Lyft actually don't specify what you should drive. The smart drivers go for hybrids and reliable/gas efficient cars like Toyota Corollas. The amateurs that seem to complain the most drive the cars that get 10 mpg in the city. I purchased one for driving, a VW Jetta, and it got 24 in city and 45 on highway so it was a good car. I wish I could keep driving as it was very profitable but I live in Chicago and it's too dangerous with car jackings and drivers getting shot/robbed every few days. We have a states attorney and many politicians that are anti-police and, as such, crime is really high and the city is becoming unlivable. Sad as I've been here all my life and it's never been this bad, ever since the Floyd riots and subsequent anti-police rhetoric.
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At one of his rallies before the 2020 election, Trump said that if he lost, he might have to leave the country.What is he waiting for? Apparently, there are quite a few people in Brazil who would welcome him with open arms.
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DonS "Surely" covers a broad range. Part of the problem with finding and eliminating obsolete programs is that they tend to have a small yet incredibly dedicated supporters, and it's often difficult to overcome this. Another is that virtually all of these are very small budget items, and their elimination would make a miniscule dent in the deficit. (Eliminating $1 billion when the deficit is $1 trillion is 1/10th of 1%.)
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George Santos got away with his fraudulent campaign and sits there in his GOP-glory. Ronald Lauder was one of the contributors, and having read that, I can easily imagine where $700K might have come from to support this guy from wherever he came from. Wealthy individuals on the GOP side and no one vetting Santos. Comments from GOP folk who want to tarnish Biden and all and every Democrat are not the point in this sad saga about the relative ease with which Santos slid into his seat in Congress. Corporations and easy money, the loss of local newspapers and their influence, and the hollowing out of morals and ethics which has worsened perhaps to a very high level with the last person in the "White" House.
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Maria HL So what you're saying is is that you have treasury bonds that you are afraid the government won't honor? These are, traditionally and really by definition, the safest investments you can make. I don't think you understand the economics of national debt.
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Why do I suspect that the executives who decided not to invest in upgrading the airline’s scheduling software systems have received lots of big bonuses during the years in which they put quarterly profits over long-term health of their business?
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Michael Faklis Yes, that's why it's always best to have it in writing. My husband loaned his brother $5K in 1985. The brother claims he didn't. Now that the inheritances have been distributed, my husband wants his money back. We are looking for the receipt and the check stub :) He never throws anything away so I expect we'll find it.
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The overall problem here is scale. Add two or three zeroes to the “donation”, build a wing, and “legacy students” are then perfectly OK. Commonly admitted, above board, legally and all the time when daddy donates $50 or $100 million. This is not a game for upper middle class and millionaires. Only billionaires are entitled to unfair positioning of their progeny.
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If you work at Amazon and get laid off, then complain it's a "challenge" to look for a new job because you no longer have a computer, please explain how it is you could not know that Amazon sells a tablet that is cheaper than a cell phone - a Kindle - for under $100 that is perfectly capable of helping with a job hunt. Add a $25 wireless Bluetooth keyboard and you are in business.
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Did crypto inflate due to excessively low interest rate policy and complete disregard for traditional valuation methodologies and magical thinking? Absolutely, yes. But, I think there's a deeper reason you haven't picked up on as to why Millenials and Gen Z dabbled in crypto. Both generations have seen severely limited wealth creation relative to prior generations. The hurdles for owning a home, starting a family or just achieving some limited degree of success are so far higher than they have been for Boomers or Gen X that Millenials and Gen Z were willing to put some of their precious little capital at risk in the event that they--like so many visible examples of crypto millionaires--would have some chance at recouping the lost ground brought to them by high inflation, relatively low (historical) wages, student debt, high housing cost and more. These generations are being absolutely crushed by demographic and macroeconomic factors out of their control. However misguided it was to invest in crypto, it wasn't only because of the Fed or "magical thinking" insomuch as those were isolated phenomena. The "magical thinking" was that they could perhaps have a chance at regaining their opportunity to successfully achieve the American dream that's so increasingly difficult to capture.
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Several observations:Blockchain as a distributed database mechanism has a future beyond cryptocurrency. One is a technology while the other is one way of using that technology.I have several older investor/friends who invested in Bitcoin early…made a bundle…realizing it was fundamentally a Ponzi scheme..got out and essentially let the “greater fools” pay them off.I have been transferring 5 figure dollar amounts to China and India for the last 15 years through B of A. The transfers take one(two at the most)days and cost me $45.00…yes..$45.00.I am no fan of the big investment banks in NY,but I haven’t found anything better for my purposes so far. When I travel abroad I get immediate services using my AE card. I know..there’s a fee.. but there is also some degree of protection Some have compared cryptocurrency to the derivatives used by big investment banks. We all know what happened there.And remember..Enron was also a highly valued( at the time) stock. This turned out to be a poor indicator of its future and cryptocurrency seems headed for a similar fate.
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I’m in my early 40’s. I enjoy wine, particularly at home and with food. But going out I prefer a quality cocktail. Why pay someone else to pour me a glass of wine when the restaurant markup is so steep? Now if the restaurant is selling sangria or a champagne cocktail, that’s a different story (and you do see those in craft cocktail bars). The wine industry needs to accept that the kind of well rounded drinkers who will be into trying new wines are going to also be interested in trying new things in general. Also, price to quality is a thing. I almost never drink sparkling wine (my favorite) from the US because I can get better stuff from Europe at any price point. From a $8 Cava to a $14 Prosecco to the occasional $30-$40 bottle of Champagne, it’s just better. Similarly with whites, as someone who likes crisp, clean, bright whites where sweetness is balanced with acidity and no oak or creaminess, there are so few good ones and they are usually expensive.
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It's not uncommon for law firms, venture capital firms, and other companies built around a partnership model to keep laid off employees on the payroll until they've found a new job. Some companies provide job counseling and resume support to help speed the job search along. In cases like these, the company is often vague about timelines. They expect the fired employee to be serious about finding a new job, but they don't want to be pinned down as to how much time is too much. It's understandable that Gay was flummoxed when LW2 described a situation like this because it is confusing, but Gay really needs to learn more about jobs outside of academia and the world of letters. Her lack of knowledge about the way employment works for most people seriously undercuts her ability to be a work friend.
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ChirpChirp The egg industry uses chickens to produce eggs the cheapest way they can. Hens will live sometimes for 10 years. Their egg production declines as they get older, and by the time they're about 7 years old they stop laying eggs. They're only productive enough for commercial egg production for 2-3 years. Basically, it's cheaper to kill them and start with new hens than it would be to vaccinate them, even if there were a vaccine available. Our chickens tend to mostly grow old and die of natural causes or predators (which are very hard to control without keeping the chickens locked up all the time), but if we were charging what it really costs to produce our very healthy, very happy hen free-range eggs, we would have to get at least $15/dozen. Keeping chickens for your own eggs is a nice hobby, but commercially raised eggs will always be cheaper.
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to add to the wealth of iggy pop show recollections here: reims, france, in may 2022. yes, he still delivers an amazing show! great set list, fantastic band, and he brought an unbelievable energy to the stage and all his music. also very much enjoyed his reading of 'do not go gentle into that good night' by dylan thomas as the opener to the tibet house 2021 benefit. well aware that he's a mixed bag of goods & bads, as most of us mere mortals are, but he remains an absolute favorite maker of music and art.
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Another piece of evidence that I was born ahead of my time. My closet is half filled. Most of what is hung or otherwise stored in there is 10 years old or more. I still wear dresses and dress slacks I wore 20 years ago. Granted I only have occasion to wear them once every few years! My Mom was a Home Economics major at Georgian Court College in Lakewood, NJ in the 1930’s. She was not known for her fashion sense but she taught me how to feel and judge the “hand” of woven cloth used on finished goods as well as in bolts at a sewing shop. She showed me how to judge a seam, a hem, and the effect of dart shaping.I obviously failed in my duties to teach my kids! The number of sweats and hoodies, jeans and jackets they own is other worldly to me! And, yes, they will tear, stretch, and have seams open within a short span of time at which point they will be tossed into a landfill. Replacements instantaneously arrive in a box on their doorsteps without having to leave their homes or observe the kah-ching of the credit card transaction as funds are sucked from their accounts. It’s too easy, painless and seamless!Meanwhile the landfills are digesting the “disposable” clothing at a sloth’s pace. The mountains of waiting waste may be our undoing even before Climate Change. Just another example of shortsightedness with aversion to self discipline as a human necessity. The difference between “want” and “need” is not well understood.
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J I agree that it bears remembering that few physicians are caring for patients in a start-up model where investor funding pays for a curated spa experience presumably for people who can afford to pay. Instead, most of us are doing our best in 50+ year old buildings managed by systems where we have little opportunity to suggest changes even as simple as cloth gowns or better lighting. That said, eventually our old buildings will need remodeling and I hope the administrators who get to make the $$ decisions (rarely doctors) will consult patients and providers abundantly to design spaces that are humane and therapeutic. In the meantime, don't hold it too much against your doctor seeing you in a windowless, fluorescent-lit cramped space. It's not ideal for us, either.
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It's almost as if ...... each C-suite, from Amazon to Meta and all the others, to Microsoft now, have simultaneously been drinking from the same bowl of Kool-Aide."'These are the kinds of hard choices we have made throughout our 47-year history to remain a consequential company in this industry that is unforgiving to anyone who doesn’t adapt to platform shifts,” Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s chief executive, said."Microsoft? "Consequential"? Haha, OK, but perhaps not in the type of way in which any technically-talented person would be proud. Someone who flushes a firecracker down a toilet is similarly "consequential".Oh, please tells us, MS, how you've made the world so much better (rather than what you've actually done: made tons of money by crippling people's perception of what computers can do)?And finally, for my last translation:"[Microsoft] looks to trim costs amid economic uncertainty and to refocus on strategic priorities, such as artificial intelligence."Really means: "Shareholders want more money, and we really don't know what to do ... so we'll do what we've always done: wait to see what the real computer scientists, at publiclly-funded labs, think up, and then monetize that. For now, let's just keep repeating the words 'artificial intelligence' like blathering idiots."Remember folks, it's always "socialize the costs, privatize the profits." MS specializes in rent-seeking -- not satisfying user needs.If you want the latter, run Linux. It's free.
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I was at a staff meeting last year when one of the executives in the room stated that it was against company policy for individuals to share our salaries with each other. When i questioned that policy, and only after I questioned it, did HR speak up and say, no, it is not really company policy. As I knew, that would be illegal. But just one more way companies can maintain the wall of silence.For the record: ~$200K, lots of experience, master's degree, machine learning.
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Debt is a function of (1) revenue and (2) spending. U.S. revenue could have been trillions of dollars $$ more if Congress had not steadily cut the budget of the Internal Revenue Service. This left the IRS unable to audit many of the complex tax filings. The result: tax cheats in the top 0.1 percent tax bracket have cheated the rest of us. That means the middle class workers are paying far far more in taxes and getting fewer services and getting decaying infrastructure. Fix the IRS.
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"Alabama spends less than the national average on Medicaid, the state and federal health insurance for the poor and vulnerable, and officials have declined to expand the program under the Affordable Care Act."That is all you need to know about deep red states!
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The Windover site in Titusville Florida (near Cape Canaveral) is a bog burial site that was excavated by Florida State University in the mid-1980s. It dates to between 7000-8000 years B.P. and contained the well-preserved skeletal remains of over 160 individuals, some with preserved brain material in their crania. Those who were fortunate enough to participate in the excavations were able to witness multiple Space Shuttle launches while digging in deposits up to 10,000 years old. The juxtaposition was truly remarkable, and the site one of a kind.
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Silas Campbell It also doesn’t tell us what every Republican member of Congress is doing for their pay, either. Of course, if taxpayers are only paying them $1 per day, and they are responsible for their own parking, then my question will be what ar thee doing for the money flowing into their pockets from lobbyists and wealthy donors. When I get those answers, I may be mildly interested in the contractual agreement between Hunter Biden and this or that company.
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I look for Charles Koch’s name when I read an article like this . If I don’t find it I realize that the journalist is blowing smoke and writing another self-satisfying piece. Koch drafted a virtual syndicate of his ultra wealthy comrades to invest in the reshaping of American minds so that he could undermine governmental regulation for the purpose of exploitation of workers, of the environment, and even of educational institutions. For over four decades he has insidiously masterminded his strategies, investing millions, if not billions, to infect minds with his message of “free yourself from government interference” and to line up political puppets. (I’m from Wisconsin where we lived for eight years with puppet governor Walker.) Koch remains behind the scenes despite valiant efforts of journalists like Jane Mayer and Geoff Dembicki. Major publications seem afraid to expose him. At one point he expressed a bit of contrition for what his campaign had done to American minds, but that didn’t slow his purchase of politicians to further his cause. I wonder how he feels about the misery he has inflicted and the risk he has posed to our planet.
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It would be a public service if the NYT did a regular feature on people with amounts of money ranging from modest to extravagant, all of whom aspire to reflect sustainability values in their homes. Instead of “What does $1.5 million buy in…” how about the things you could do for free, or $5000, and up that might advance habitat or save energy or reduce light pollution? I’ll tell you one thing I’d advise Gupta to do for next to no cost: lost the topiary shaved shrubs and plant some natives to save water and help pollinators. I did love that study though!
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Jason W -Zune music player? -Windows Phone OS? LOL.I concur that Microsoft delivers value and the maker capitalization is what it is. However, most of their innovation is leveraging and extending a weird single user operating system and incumbent office suite. However, they make many products and services that people use every single day.
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For Russia, this is a war they cannot afford to lose; for the U. S. and Western Europe, this is a war that Russia cannot be allowed to win; for Ukraine, a negotiated settlement was always possible--until Russia passed the point of no return and took it upon herself to try to subjugate Ukraine by force when it invaded on February 24, irrevocably poisoning Russia-Ukraine relations for generations to come.For Russia, the Ukraine war is an existential crisis, no less crucial for them to resolve decisively in their favor than it was for the U. S. to resolve the utterly intolerable situation in the fall of '62 when the nation woke up to find the Soviets building nuclear missile sites on our doorstep in Cuba. For Ukraine, the war has united Ukrainians in the conviction that Ukrainians can never know peace until every Russian soldier is gone from Ukraine.The weak point in this tense opposition of forces will be the United States, as the Russians wait for the far-right Republicans they helped to get elected through years of social media manipulation and attempts to divide Americans against themselves to waver for their support for Ukraine and ultimately block or curtail increased support for Ukraine. This is why influential Republican apologists for Russia such as Tucker Carlson are so dangerous. Then Russia's decade-long investment in Republican and far-right causes will finally bear fruit
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The salary range information I'm seeing is unhelpful: $108,000- $412,000. I mean, how am I supposed to know where in that range I fall. With this information, any sound person would start their negotiation at the top end, right?
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These Congressmen, especially my Senator Rick Scott, are ignorant of the macroeconomic insights of Modern Money Theory. They think a federal budget is just like a household's or corporation's, neither of which can tax, set interest rates, or print money.With our fiat currency, we can always pay our debts, unless boneheaded Congressmen refuse to allow it. Which would be catastrophic for all the reasons Yellen stated in this article.We are not in the same situation, suffering the same constraints, as Greece, Argentina, Venezuela, or Weimar Germany -- and never will be.Our national debt is just "a record of the money that the federal government has added to people's pockets without taxing them away" (Stephanie Kelton). She says that we don't need to fix our debt; we need to fix our thinking: Most of us don't understand how our federal budget operates, its strengths, advantages, and uniqueness. So when we see a big number attached to the word debt, we panic.When a government, say, builds a national highway system, that investment pays for itself. In short, as long as government investing is done wisely -- where there is a legitimate need that helps America and Americans -- that money is very well spent.But we do need to pay for whatever we have already bought. And we can always do that with fiat currency. Yes, we can overprint, but all money printed is useful if it is resourced carefully, not brainlessly, like a bridge to nowhere. And we can tax away excess currency.
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Michael actually all relationships are transactional "of or relating to personal or social interaction characterized by mutual influence and exchange:" or their abusive. Even love regardless of type is a personal and / or social exchange. You assume, wrongly, that "transactional" is a pejorative, it isn't. Its essentially a value neutral word that reflects the context that its used in. The "uncles" wanted the experience of an extended family and used a place to live nearby to enable that experience.
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"I have seen that students who are open to new knowledge will learn."My compliments to Jonathan Malesic.Excellent essay (and I taught for over 40 years at a university level). It is best when the students not only have an openness to learning, and a desire to learn, but when that desire turns into a passion. I might also add that teaching works best when the lecturers treat it as a learning experience for them. I taught an introductory course for decades and each time was a new learning experience. Thank you Mr. Malesic. Obvious. But important that you pointed all this out.
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The photo of the open canal in Imperial Valley speaks volumes. Open irrigation canals lose significant amounts of water in evaporation. Piping them would save significant water. Moreover, farmers need to adjust their crops. Alfalfa and almonds take enormous amounts of water. Too difficult? Not as difficult as having zero water. The states impacted by climate change and seemingly long range permanent drought are fiddling while Rome burns.
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Encouraging unauthorized illegal immigration to the US (or anywhere else in the world) outside of true asylum cases must be considered as treason and no less. It must be severely punishable. It means inciting open rebellion against the sovereignty of US as a country, US law and US border. In addition it clogs the asylum system and might prevent people truly eligible for asylum from accessing this. It also encourage humanitarian disaster of more economic migrant from doing dangerous voyage. Whoever believe open border with zero control is good for the US is living in La La Land.
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So let me get this right. People who did nothing, spent nothing and invested nothing are to receive $20 million for being descendants. This is bad policy, bad government and bad precedent. If this model is pursued across the U.S. there will be Civil War part two.
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Sadly, we suffer from the same craziness in astronomy. Terms such as "ring of fire eclipse," "blood moon,' "super moon," and even "micromoon" go along with nonsense about blue or green comets with open orbits, never to return to the vicinity of the solar system yet are predicted by low-level news outlets to return in 50,000 years. Astronomy and meteorology are two arenas of human effort (among many other sciences) that are based on measurement and analysis, evidence, research, and a lot of difficult work, not all of which is glorious. Nature does not need to be gilded or glorified; it is compelling on its own and it should be the duty of those who bring it to the public to do so accurately.
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Today I went to give a Games gift subscription to someone. When it came time to make the payment, it was only $25 instead of $40. I used that annoying link that appears at the bottom of the page quite often. I didn’t see anything about a special discount, but it was a good deal!
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JG, the money is divvied up to the states using a formula. The states then can decide what the most efficient use of infrastructure funds are based on their particular needs. It sometimes takes building a bridge to nowhere to allow that place to become a somewhere, and it is the local governments who should be deciding where investment is needed, which seems to be how many states choose to operate.
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Joe From Boston The alternative and established view is that precedent establishes congressional procedure Since 1962 until 2011, the debt ceiling was raised 74 times, including 18 times under former President Ronald Reagan, eight times under former President Bill Clinton, seven times under former President George W. Bush, and five times under former President Barack Obama. From 2001, Congress has raised the debt ceiling 14 times from 2001 to 2016. The debt ceiling was raised roughly a total of $5.4 billion during President George W. Bush’s tenure, and it was raised roughly a total of $6.5 during President Obama’s tenure.I agree with you that a suit to determine that Congressional laws enacted to provide for a debt limit are unconstitutional would clarify the situation Until then , precedent sets procedureShould you set up a fund to finance such a suit I willhappy to donate to it,
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Harsh The world? If other countries follow the lead of a few central European nations and cancel of heavily restrict visas to Russians, then this can just be Russia's problem. "The world" did pretty well from roughly 1945-1991 with minimal connection with the Russian economy, so I don't see why going back to that scenario is necessarily an unimaginable or bad thing. It seems like the experience of "the world" opening up to Russia from 1991 and particularly since 2006 has been a net negative.
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Socrates "The world can function just fine with our current eight billion humans...or seven billion...or six billion.....especially if religious fundamentalists and the billionaire 'cancer of economic growth' fundamentalists step aside and evolve toward actually creating a more just, modern equitable society."The Capitalist system needs lots of poor, uneducated people in order to make it grow in order for it to be sustainable despite the misery it causes. Poor people are the main source and market for all this phone cash being generated to create basic food and mindless junk. There is no compromise between Neoliberalism and human suffering. It will be one or the other.
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When I moved to New York several years back, I became a daily fixture outside the Strand Bookstore browsing their $1 and $2 books. I would sit along the wall reading and talking with others under the awning watching hours pass as frantic city life continued in the background. Quickly, I got to know everyone who would put in the same amount of hours perusing the book carts (Tom Verlaine was one of them). I noticed him right away: a tall, commanding presence dressed always in black, often obscured by plumes of cigarette smoke. We would talk more and more and eventually grew to spending hours and hours outside talking to pass the time while waiting for the new arrivals. I had no idea the celebrity he was (just that he was a musician), and never did it come up. Another acquaintance finally let me in on the secret one day, after Tom and I had already shared countless months of near daily conversations. He was warm, brilliant, and engaging. Always curious about me (with no reason to be) and just curious in general. Oh, and an excellent bookman in addition to his many more obvious talents.To imagine passing by the Strand and not seeing him is nauseating. He will be sorely missed, and I loved the time we spent together.
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The headline alone gives me anxiety. Using the phone is one of my least favorite activities, one that fills me with so much dread I have to work up to it. Maybe my disdain relates back to my first job, at 14, cold-calling people to offer them “free lawn evaluations” from the “Lawn Doctor.” I got 10 cents for every yes. It was so awful. That was forty-five years ago. Lockdown sort of forced my hand and I did have a couple of steady phone call friends because, yes, I needed the connection of human voice. But in the big picture I joke that I have a magical camera that I can use to call 911 in an emergency. Otherwise, it’s just a camera. Yay for texting.
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MWR how much money were they planning to make on harrys grievances and her monopoly game?? they has already made the contact with Netflix before the wedding (reported) and were constantly photographing themselves before during and after the wedding . Wonder why the family was not informed of those deals before the British public paid $40M for the most media coverage the 3rd marriage?
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Enlightened government policies and technology advances can help fending off climate disaster. However, catastrophe will not be prevented without very major cultural changes: widespread changes in attitudes about personal responsibility on the climate issue. What’s needed is such a vast and extensive cultural change that few individuals anywhere would vote for a crude right wing climate science denier, or would purchase an obnoxious and often unnecessarily immense vehicle (and drive it at extremely high speeds), or zoom around in large over-powered boats or private planes spewing vast amounts of CO2 per minute, or build a new house without investing in triple pane windows or heat pump, etc. The obstacles to such a cultural shift are found in corporate board rooms, on pulpits, and in the right wing media.
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$1.6 Million is the criminal fine, not a restitution of the taxes evaded. Will there be an audit? Will the company ever have to pay the taxes they owe? Why is this being ignored? Their revenue was hundreds of millions.
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MidtownATL Much, but not all of the funding is public.None of this erases the fact that drug development is very difficult and therefore costly.Just look at how many fundraising dollars are raised every year for common diseases like cancer or MS, versus actual new drugs developed to treat those diseases. The fact of the matter is that research scientists need to be paid a living wage, and extensive trials need to take place before a drug is released to mass market.
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Intel is pledging 20B, Micron another 20B. Yet, TSMC, a Taiwanese company is pledging 40B. And TSMC just announced mass production of its 3nm process in Taiwan, a process TSMC supposedly to transfer to its Arizona plant 4 years from now.Taiwan is serious about keeping its lead in Taiwan, not in Arizona. And Intel is not serious about challenging TSMC in the US.
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"dreary new year"...really? Honestly, Mark Landler and his London bureau staff need to get out a bit more. I just returned from London and witnessed the city absolutely packed with visitors having a jolly time enjoying sold out theatre productions, restaurants, festive light displays, shops outdoor markets and the longest line for the National Gallery that I've seen for a long time. The New Year fireworks were spectacular and paid tribute to Queen Elizabeth and King Charles. Harry & Meghan were not a subject of conversation amongst my British friends and family but the Coronation in May was. Pubs will be open till 1am that weekend and a huge party atmosphere is anticipated. With the strong dollar against the pound, I suggest New Yorkers pay a visit and promise you it won't be dreary.
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Independent "The U.S. has experienced six significant economic depressions; each was preceded by a sustained period of budget balancing."~ Professor Fredrick ThayerFrom 1823-36 the U.S. debt was reduced by 99.7 percent, to $38,000. A depression began in 1837. Under great pressure from Republicans, FDR balanced the budget in 1936. The Great Depression came roaring back in 1937. WWII, a huge government spending and employment program, if you will, got us out of our dire economic problems. Our macroeconomic thinking is often haywire: We think the federal budget is like our household's or a state government's. It isn't. Here's Thayer again: "The tragicomedy of economics is easily displayed: If someone borrows money to build a brewery, the money is officially listed as 'investment' in national income accounts. If government spends money to build a bridge that is needed by the brewery, these funds are not listed as investment because the bridge is considered 'waste.' To think that this fallacious logic undergirds public policy is to experience pure fright." Government spending needs to be done judiciously, not thoughtlessly, like investing in bridges to nowhere. If there's a valid need for something, and businesses don't want to take the risk, government should step in and make it happen as it did with the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Manhattan Project, and our space program. Government and business working together is the path taken by wealthy nations.
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ansuwanee They earn millions from the Duchy of Cornwall to pay for almost everything they need, they aren't "leeching off the public".They certainly do do a lot for society but prefer to keep in quiet, it only gets reported when someone from the relevant group being visited leaks it to the press.The Duchy of Cornwall raises over $US125 million for charity each year. In 1975 Charles began a Benevolent Fund to assist communities in S-W England. In 2013 a small town was being built in S-W England using Charles’s ideas about housing philosophies, which emphasize sustainability and walkability."Charles was an early advocate for organic farming & many credit him with helping it take off in Britain. In 1990, he launched Duchy Originals, a line of food and drinks, which he grew into the UK’s top organic food brand. Charles’s very vocal support of organic farming angered many early on, but it has proven to be one of his greatest successes."
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Why would a biotech or software company want to invest in labs and scientists if a competitor can simply pay attractive signing bonuses to poach the knowledge from you?
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Krugman is in a bubble: if you worked your whole life to save $500,000 for retirement THOSE dollars are now worth only about $400,000 in purchasing power. Inflation is a rate of change; it’s great that it is moderating but people are having to contend with the biggest increase in prices in their adult lifetime.
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He lied because lying is the easiest way to gain political office, amass massive fortunes (see Mitch's $34 million stash). Because we love liars, and follow them around like they are tribal leaders. We admire anyone who lies his or her way up. We kick the person who shows any integrity (see Al Franken).Not them. Us.
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The first word that comes to mind regarding this tactic is "obscene loathsome pharma practice includes extending patents on older drugs by combining them with another one and doubling the price of the original one. More increases of course follow. Then of course there are drug companies involved in co-promotes that throw up roadblocks to the completion or forward motion of clinical trials. This takes place when they find themselves with a new drug in their pipeline whose market share would be impacted by the co-promote drug. Ethics and integrity and two unknown words in the industry.
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Capitalism, for the most part, is terrible and rarely makes any sense. The reason for this is relatively simple- Everyone has either an opinion or a vote..Now, oddly enough, New York City- (Which is, by even the most simplest terms: Broke) has arranged more than 225 million dollars in debt relived for Taxi drivers. By law, there are 13,587 taxis in New York City... Do the math. My point? Uber and Lyft have one goal: To earn as much money as possible. So does GM, Microsoft... and Apple. Yet, people aren't marching in the street that Apple earns about 45% profit on each phone the company sells...Solution: How about we have the people who run New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle, Atlanta, Washington, and everything in between start using these never ending taxpayer funded money to encourage people to walk more, take transit. Hire more police, while cleaning up neighborhoods with more parks, better sidewalks and street lights? Like I said, capitalism, for the most part, is terrible and rarely makes any sense.
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DrR I agree with your statement that its easier to use a physical book than a digital to remember where stuff is on a page. After college, I learned this is a memorization technique known as "the Memory Palace" and can be entirely in the mind, with a little practice. Of course, college extended high school in that I rarely need to memorize what stuff was where in books because I have learned to study and digest effectively. That's a good thing, as my eyes can no longer read tiny print and I have had to migrate to digital to be able to enlarge the text and illustrations. Bonus in that digital can embed applets that a book never could...what my child has available just in high school Earth Science digital resources is a huge time saver.
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At Columbia’s $600 Million Business School, Time to Rethink Capitalism On the developing Manhattanville campus, the architecture of Diller Scofidio + Renfro reinforces a social movement in business education to do good as well as make money. One zigs, the other zags. One teases the passer-by with bands of translucent glass wrapping a core of clear windows; the other, with floors angled in and out — a gentle architectural mambo. The pair of buildings that comprise Columbia University’s new business school, on its growing Manhattanville campus, exude a nervous off-kilter energy. On the developing Manhattanville campus, the architecture of Diller Scofidio + Renfro reinforces a social movement in business education to do good as well as make money.
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As corporate politicians gladly dole out Trillion for weapons production and the escalation of a dangerous war, child poverty grows and rent-gouging leaves more of us hungry, homeless, criminalized and disenfranchised. As Senator Ocasio-Cortez recently pointed out regarding the latest weapons spending, $20 Billion could end homelessness, and child poverty could be reduced by half for $90 Billion -- far less than the money spent on weapons and war -- and far more controversial in a corporate oligarchy where business agendas and global hegemony are prioritized and citizen needs come last. Our lives remain endangered in a country saturated with guns. Mass shootings are a near daily occurrence. Our ruling class, whether right-wing extremists or corporate centrists, are more dedicated to our right to kill each other than to our rights to have healthcare, education, homes, or even sick leave.We are living in a time when our systems and our lives are being held hostage by empowered corporate interests. We are divided by corporate parties, that rhetoric aside, agree more than disagree when in comes to priorities that harm us for the benefit of profiteers from polluting industries to expanding hegemonic, environmentally devastating wars.If we are to survive this most dangerous era, we need to be active and united beyond elections. This must include massive protests, labor actions, building a progressive workers' party, and consideration of a national strike.
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Unless the US gov't has borrowed euros or rubles or renminbi that we don't know about, it has zero "debt." What we're looking at is $31.5 trillion of ACCUMULATED DEFICITS expressed in US dollars. Why would the US Treasury/Federal Reserve ever have to borrow money that it can create at will out of thin air? And "debt" implies that we're going to pay it back, which is an absurd thought. Balances have to balance. If the public sector of our economy shows a deficit of $31.5 trillion, this means by force of logic that the private sector (plus the rest of the world) must show a SURPLUS of $31.5 trillion. That's our aggregate financial wealth. Trying to pay back the "debt" would drive us all into extreme poverty.BTW, it's one thing to say that the Fed is raising interest rates to fight inflation, and it's quite another thing (and incorrect) to claim the market is demanding higher rates. That is simply nonsense. The Fed sets interest rates and if you don't like it you can just go pound sand. The Fed doesn't sell bonds to "borrow" back the money it has just spent into the economy. It does so to remove excess currency from the banking system in order to meet its target interest rate. If it didn't, all banks would be flush with currency and never have to borrow from another bank to settle its accounts. This would drive interest rates down to zero.The notion that the gov't borrows its own currency and accumulates 'debt" is a zombie idea that just refuses to die.
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Just to be clear, when a company builds warehouse, it's investing. When a person upgrades the kitchen in their home, it's investing. When our government upgrades our infrastructure and reduces the cost insulin to $35 a dose, it is investing.We are not "spending" our tax revenue. We are making investments in ourselves and our country.Even if profiteers and Wall Street want us to believe we're "spending" away! How else can they convince us to privatize our assets so they can charge us for using what was ours to begin with?
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