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Nancy It's not "demeaning" if it's true, Nancy; and it's not "vilification" to criticize the Chinese government.No regime in history has been more harmful to Chinese culture (the "4 olds", the Cultural Revolution, etc) than the CCP themselves; so waving the "vilification" flag around (as if chinese culture and the repressive CCP are synonymous!) is the the height of cynicism. It suggests one has very little understanding of what's actually going on in China; an autocratic Surveillance State.For example: you literally cannot make a comment on a Chinese message board that the CCP doesn't like, without it getting immediately erased (with maybe a follow-up "knock on your door"!); and yet people have the nerve/audacity/ignorance to claim that Western media establishments are special "fonts of bias".You cannot criticize or speak even slightly disadvantageously of the CCP whatsoever in their "domestic press" (which is therefore nothing but propaganda); and yet the CCP and its disinformation agents flood the Western press with whataboutism daily; gaming our own system against us; preying on people's ignorance or the threat of "transnational censorship" (just look at John Cena's shameful apology).A more censorious regime than the CCP has never existed in human history (okay, North Korea; but they're just Xi's little sidekick); and so we in the West really need to stop pretending like they're a bunch of open-minded altruists who got a raw deal.Because it's Totalitarianism.
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Looks like Russia could likely sustain this conflict for years. Can the US keep funding Ukraine’s economy and military for years? Thus far, we have spent over $60 Billion related to the conflict (with little or no oversight, no audits, who cares where it goes?). That’s about the entire military budget of Russia. Since 2014, we gave Ukraine over $2.5B in military aid, and trained about 80,000 of their soldiers. To argue that we, the US tax payers, were not involved, and are not fighting a war against Russia since 2014 is questionable. We don’t even know who pushes the “fire” buttons on the drones and long range weapons. We don’t even know how many Special Ops assassins (Delta, SEALs) we have in Ukraine now, let alone “advisors”.To claim that the Russians are more brutal than US military was in Iraq or Syria or Libya is patriotic but untrue. You should all do a little searching and look at the photos of Raqqa, Falujah and compare that with Mariupol. Russian torture-how about Abu Ghraib? War is horrible, and we, the US tax payers, are cheerfully getting fleeced by our government to fund a war that does not benefit us, nor the Ukrainian people noor the Russian people—it benefits the shareholders of Raytheon, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman, but unless you work there or hold their shares, all you are doing as a US tax payer is paying for the killing of innocent civilians or conscripted, impoverished soldiers. We should see the enemy for who he is—us.
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Has anyone seen and verified his birth certificate? Has anyone verified his name? Literally, who is this person? And where did he get $700,00 to donate to his own campaign?
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Wendy M I honestly believe that colleges could decrease their DI men's basketball and football coaches' salaries by 90% and nearly all of the current coaches would stay (even though they'd complain bitterly and threaten to leave). Because, other than a small number who could become NFL or NBA coaches, where else could earn base salaries of several hundred thousand to over 1 million dollars per year (plus compensation from camps, promotions, radio shows and television shows)? The colleges would have to collude, which may be lllegal, but the coaches are ridiculously overpaid. Almost all of the monetary value from these sports is derived, first, from affiliation with the schools, and a distant second, from the players. Coaches, not so much.
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The NYT columnists are reacting to this news like a southern plantation owner in 1865: “I’ve lost my cheap labor, who’ll bring in the crops for me now?” If the Chinese have exhibited one capability in the past 50 years is is the ability to learn new tricks and adapt to new political circumstances. They have made great material progress. By investing in infrastructure projects in low income countries they have gained political capital with sources of cheap labor that they can exploit just as efficiently as western corporations did in China to maintain their dominance in manufacturing. The reduction in Chinese population may lead to improved living standards in those low income countries accompanied by the reduced birth rates that accompany economic security. There are political trade offs involved, but just maybe the end result will be a much needed voluntary reduction in world population.
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The greatest insult in the literary world is probably calling someone Jay Gatsby. We immediately think of Gatsby as the king of all frauds. However, the avid reader is more likely cut by the reference to Gatsby's uncut library. What good is an impressive library if you haven't read any of the titles? Hoarding for the sake of hoarding falls along these lines. Collecting an extensive library in the hopes you might get to everything demonstrates a lack of discriminatory sophistication.On the other hand, I've purged my library several times. and each time I end up giving away something I deeply, deeply regret. For each regret though, I occasionally come across a title I have no idea how it survived life's turmoil. Coincidentally, they usually show up at exactly the right moment.So while I don't advise keeping every book you ever read, I give you the premonitory warning: Be judicious in what you cast away. There's something autobiographical in the books we read and possess throughout our lives. It's like a lens into our past. Repurchasing a book isn't the same as flipping through the well-worn pages of your former self. I'm not too eager to strike things off the list for my future self.There's something to be said for Francis C. Cornish-es of the world. That's an eccentricity wouldn't mind growing into. I might take it as a complement. I found that book in a stack of grocery bags from my Uncle's apartment. I knew absolutely nothing about the book when I opened it.
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Brooklyn Mike - You have to pay close attention to the pricing on EVs. Typically, the ones with the larger battery packs/longer range are closer to $40k than $30k and this is for the cheaper small cars. You get what you pay for... or something less than that.
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Here we go again. The estimated uncollected federal taxes is 450 billion and 600 billion EVERY YEAR. Enough to cover the entire deficit and pay down the federal debt as well. Second, the audit rate by income has steadily declined for the wealthy for the last decade. Third, called the IRS lately? All these problems are due to lack of IRS funding. So the only logical conclusion is House Republicans endorse tax cheats, the wealthy and poor service.
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"DeSantis . . . would slash what’s left of the safety net and use the proceeds to help the rich stay rich." Excuse me, you meant the "rich get richer". According to the our Federal Reserve, since the pandemic started, the share of the nation's wealth held by the top 1% went from 30.7% in the 4th quarter of 2019, to 31.9%, in the 1st quarter of 2022. <a href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WFRBST01134" target="_blank">https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WFRBST01134</a>
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I'm not saying I spot every hazard before it's too late.But I will say that there's never been a time when I didn't think that storing one's sensitive data, including (maybe, especially) passwords, in the cloud was an absolutely insane idea.Why would you trust corporate America's honesty? Why would you trust their competence? ... with ANYTHING, much less with your most personal data? Or, in the case of a password manager, information that unlocks your most personal data?(Hint: encrypted hard drives are well under $100.)
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Mr. Bentley Your comment is off. A phone for $600 that last for 3 years (lets say) means that they are spending $16.60 a month for something that allows them to connect to the world. If they keep it for 4 years, the cost goes down to $12.50. Why do you think this is excessive?
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Another Nobel Laureate put it this way, Professor. "Most currencies lost their gold base in the 1930s, thus removing an important convertibility constraint on money supplies. Nevertheless, until 1971, the system did preserve an indirect link to gold through fixed exchange rates with the anchored dollar. It was the severing of the link to gold in 1971 and the movement to flexible exchange rates in 1973 that removed the constraint on monetary expansion. The price level of what had become the mainstream of the world economy was now in the hands of the Federal Reserve System, the greatest engine of inflation every created. Because there was no other international money, the Fed could now pump out billions and billions of dollars that would be taken up and used as reserves by the rest of the world. Not only that, but US government Treasury bills and bonds became a new form of international money. Dollars became the reserves of new international banks producing money in the Eurodollar market and other offshore outlets for international money." The late Robert Mundell.
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I live in West LA. When She Said opened at the CC AMC chain so $15 per ticket and another $20 to park. It stopped being screened almost immediately and came back for limited shows. The quality of the projection was outrageous what with the projected size being greater than the screen! So much for all-digital movie houses. Despite that, I was able to be taken by all aspects of the film, especially the acting.
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Fascinating article, but incomplete. Colleges sold their souls to sports and the money it brings long ago, all built on the backs of unpaid players. It is very hard to see football and basketball teams stocked with young, poor African-American men playing only for room and board and not think of this country's history of slavery.And it is nauseating to hear the likes of Mack Brown (annual salary 5 million before endorsements, radio/TV shows, camps, shoe money), Hubert Davis (annual salary 400,000, plus 250,000 from Nike, plus 500,000 from Learfiled sports) or even the athletic director, Cunningham (815,000 salary plus bonuses) suggest that the problem in the unholy pit of greed they have created and wallowed in for so long is that the actual players, the ones who do the work, can now earn some money on the side. Those people, and their greed created the mess and now the chickens have come home to roost. The real tragedy is the stain on the universities. The sooner they spin off, sell off, or blow up their big money sports programs, the better.
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Caroline. Projection much? My life has been wonderful. I have a fantastic family AND enjoyed my work. In fact, a large number of people that became lifelong friends were people that I met while chatting with them at work. People like you can be sad (I’m sorry) and disparage others with different viewpoints (why? Do you need the ego boost?) but if you were to have an open mind, you’ll see that there are plenty of benefits to socializing at work AND at home. Taking a break in the midst of your workday to have some food and trade ideas, talk about non-work stuff, make after-work plans - these are all good things. Eschewing the multicultural lunchroom so you an run home to your sanctuary is just a sign of immaturity. And that’s what’s really sad. You poor thing.
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If I’m a “sandwich artist”, I only got there because my employer engaged in the time consuming, effort exhausting, costly process of recruiting, screening, selecting, onboarding, training and evaluating me. Then they paid me a salary while I increase my knowledge and proficiency. There’s an investment there beyond the dollar cost of wages and going through 100 potential applicants to tease out one qualified person. And now the law says a competitor need not undertake that effort but merely needs to poach? Yet again, this administration specifically and the bureaucracy in general demonstrate their utter lack of business experience. Perhaps this is but a prime example of the Dunning-Kruger Effect.
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I have been puzzled by why how much these events have saddened me, because I am neither British, nor a monarchist. I’ve realized what I’m mourning is the death of critical thinking as the norm. Just because Harry said it doesn’t make it true. He hasn’t presented a shred of actual evidence that his family worked against him. Yet so many people are reviling members of his family as dark hearted villains. For several reasons the family cannot/will not retaliate. But imagine if your partner or child or sibling drew up a list of every hurtful or indifferent word or action that was (allegedly) yours, and made only a passing reference to every word and action that was loving, protective, nurturing, caring. Would you feel the picture drawn of you was fair or accurate? Whatever details Harry has shared- smaller bedroom, lip-gloss, stress over dress alterations…is this the stuff heartbreak is made of? Harry is deeply unhappy and insecure. Happy and secure people do not expend so much effort into tearing down other people. He is consumed by the “unfairness” of the reality that his perks and privileges would never equal those afforded to William. Most others in his shoes may have been consumed with gratitude about the perks and privileges he did have, unimaginable to 99.99% of the world’s population. If your heart bleeds for Harry, have some sympathy for his victims as well.
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My stepmother was verbally/emotionally, and extremely physically abusive to me from the time I was 5 until I moved out at 17 years old. Now, I’m a parent of two children myself, I’ve kept her away from my children to keep them safe. I’ve also let my extended family know about her history so they can protect their children as well. My cousins acknowledged that she is not a safe person for kids to spend time with. My half-sister recently got married but I don’t think she’s been forthright with her husband about her mother’s violent and abusive history with me. I told her long ago that she needs to tell anyone she plans on having kids with- about her mother, but she’s dismissive about it and just tells me that I’m causing problems. I fear that if she has children, and if she leaves them with her mother- that they will get hurt. I’ve been in therapy on and off for over 20 years and each therapist has urged me to report her to the state so that she cannot work with children at all. I don’t think that what’s in the past should stay quietly in the past. If a person poses a risk to others, especially children who may not say anything about it out of fear- their prior actions should be known.The ex-husband should have been honest with his wife at the time. His lack of openness with his then-life-partner is most concerning.
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Just because traffic increased after a major expansion doesn't prove the expansion wasn't worthwhile or is to blame for the increased congestion. Maybe hundreds of apartment units were built nearby that spilled more traffic onto the freeways, or a big employer just opened up the road. The analysis seems to come up short in that regard.
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I called it a year ago. I saw that Goldman had their debt leveraged 100 to 1 (or something like that). Just more wall street greed and hopefully this will be the end of them.
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Ms. Pea It's a question Republicans won't ever answer. Nearly $3t in accumulated wealth, and in actuarial reality, it's undervalued because our working-age population is on track to support retirees for at least the next decade.It's an entitlement in the same sense as our constitution entitles everyone the right to a trial by a jury.
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I would write the early to current reaction to COVID as a failure due to require the most-effective measures be taken.In the earliest days, that meant requiring masks and encouraging isolation, regardless of age.Research by universities and companies accepting a cent of government aid should have been placed, daily, on “open shelf” websites, preventing the tremendous waste of duplicate dead-end research.Given the magnitude of the pandemic, fights and limits on a party’s use of the intellectual property or patents of another should have come off the table until the crisis ended - at which time judges or arbiters could decide how much company A owed company B for using a patented technique, with profits redistributed or licenses negotiated.In the middle of a major fire, a water company doesn’t demand immediate payments per gallon.As soon as mRNA vaccines were available, the failure was not requiring anyone entering a building open to either the public or a random group of unrelated people (a store, school or office) to be “fully vaccinated”, with an early effort (delayed by politics of supply and of antivax lies) to require everyone without a medical condition saying “do otherwise”, regardless of age, to be vaccinated and masked indoors in public.Current national regs should require 6-month boosters with updated viral templates, masks still required, even tracking restaurant patrons and staff, or at least a public list of places/dates which could have meant exposure.
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Interesting theory Dr. Krugman. I am going to guess a different explanation.Jewelry manufacturing is still the biggest use of gold, about double the amount purchased for investment.It turns out jewelry sales has gone nuts since Covid, up 40% in 2021 from 2020 and then another estimated 45% last year. So I’m going to guess gold is being propped up by this.One of my favorite reasons provided for the increase is people buying new larger jewelry that can be seen at work on video calls!
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Paul Nanson Your points are valid for negotiating important legislation. Including the $1.7 trillion omnibus bill.But that is not how it works for choosing a Speaker. At least for the last 100 years. The Republicans had nearly two months since the election to work this out among themselves.
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Cat Seriously--when you know you could be let go and lose your computer?Computers are not that expensive these days. A decent laptop can be had for under $1k. Not like in 1984 IBM AT was $4500 or in 1990 a Compaq portable was $2500 which would be $12,675 and $5597 in todays dollars.
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I would add that many Democrats (and that includes a disproportionately loud group of their voters) like their culture wars for roughly the same reason. They may not share Ron's hatred of the welfare state, organized labor etc, but they're far more comfortable virtue signaling about the Oscars, or Covid than they are with boosting economic reforms that might actually improve the lives of those they claim to speak so passionately for. I have been supremely disappointed over the last few years as I watched the left spend vast quantities of political capital on language policing race and gender that should have been spent on expanding access to healthcare, on investments in public education, raising the minimum wage and taxes and on and on. That these things are potentially inconvenient for the liberal donor class in a way that identity issues often aren't is probably not a coincidence.
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Geopolitics is realigning the globe. It is looking bad demographically going forward for former powerhouses like China, Russia and Germany. However, the banking and insurance systems will hold, but the shadow banking systems (MBS, derivatives, crypto, etc) will weaken. Regional alliances will result as we muddle through resulting in 4-5 regional economies (In order of importance -North America, Europe, the Far East, South America, and Australia). North America will emerge as the powerhouse over this decade. There will be no civil war. Democracy will survive. The companies that are loosing the most value are technology related as these scams are discredited. This includes social media, EVs, grid electrification, artificial intelligence and cryptocurrencies. Climate change will not destroy the planet. We will not go extinct although demographics will affect each country individually. I would not invest in commercial real estate for the rest of this decade, as big cities will not fair well, since half the work force does not want to show up for work. The hope of working at home is putting residential real estate at a temporary premium. Home improvements are now slowing as the article suggests. There will be no major recession this year as sales will remain strong. The S&P will not lose 6% per year over the next decade. The S&P will move sideways this year at around 4,000 and then start growing at around 6%. No worries. Have a nice day.
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My wife and I are grandparents now, and we openly wonder how we parented without hardly any support system for the first years of our son’s life. Now, both our son and his wife work normal jobs, and my wife and the other grandmother split four days of child care duty. Not only do our son and daughter-in-law save on child care, but the granddaughter gets one-on-one attention from people who love her. Conversely, I remember our son being in several child care centers in his early years, with no grandparents around. There’s little question that my wife and I were often stressed about finding decent child care. It wasn’t until we placed our son in a Montessori school at age three that we were confident that he was in the proper environment. It wasn’t necessarily that the other child care options were bad, but there was a lot more to worry about.It seems to me that no modern parents, particularly those with mothers who work can succeed in our fast paced world without a full support group for their children in the early years of life. It doesn’t have to be immediate family, but other caregivers are necessary, even essential to providing the space for the mother and father to deal with all the demands, from sleepless nights to feedings to doing laundry to time for playing and connecting emotionally. The country should cut the military budget by $50 Billion per year and provide qualified child care for those families in need of it up to age five.
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I have been visiting the web site for years trying to figure out how to get back into the building. When I saw the Sorollas for the first time over 40 years ago, I was blown away. But even then the place seemed like a fortress. Having the full story was eye-opening. What a tragedy that it has taken this long to engage with the living, breathing Hispanic communities of NYC. Glad to hear a new set of trustees is opening things up.
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1.6 mil is pocket change for Trump Org.. not Trump himself. So technically the 1.6 mil is coming out of a business loan Trump Org. took and will write it as a loss at the next return or carry that over to the follow year. Financial impact will be nothing, a mere fly on a horse. Image will not be hurt because people forget as well. I agree with most, financial penalties should be more.. Remember MSFT was fine $1 mil a day back in the 90s....
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David, You are wrong. It's not a "free market" when the insurance companies are taking massive profits and NOT funneling it back into the hospitals or patient care. You can google all these companies financials, for example "UnitedHealth Group Revenue To Hit $360 Billion Next Year "
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MK The other question is how Harry can trust his family. He clearly said, every time he tried to talk this situation privately, it all ended up in the press anyway. So, now he controls what gets to the press because he is being open. And he's not just speaking to the press.
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russ Nonsense. The incremental cost of software validation to an established standard would be minimal compared to the $1B+ cost of developing a new car model. And it would be less expensive than the litigation costs when people are killed by faulty software.
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LennyN It's Florida. Everything costs more there. They don't tell you that, though. I paid less than $4 for eggs and butter. And gas is $3.29 and stable.
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Jack Interesting. I just finished reading Chapter Four of Carol Anderson's book, "White Rage." As a Black woman and Senior Citizen who was a young woman during the Reagan Administration, I am absolutely astonished at the amount of American History I did not know. In that Chapter, Anderson uses solid historical facts to recount how the Reagan Administration actually assisted the Contras to form alliances with South and Central American Drug Cartels and Gangs and encouraged the sale of cocaine and crack in poor neighborhoods in the US to finance that Right Wing group in its rebellion against the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. Then, when the gangsters the Reagan Administration enabled flooded the inner cities with drugs and drained them of financial resources, the POTUS initiated a major anti-drug program that led to mass incarceration and the destruction of Black and Hispanic families. Anderson thoroughly outlines how US Intelligence agencies and the military were abused in this debacle.It was part of the racist movement to "kill two birds with one stone" by illegally financing the destabilization of Central America while at the same time destroying and handicapping American communities of color. This move to re-institute apartheid in the US set progress in Black communities back DECADES and is still affecting POC today. I see echoes of that very same thinking in the purpose and composition of these "investigative" committees. Nothing good will come of this.
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Kathy M Demand and supply. Supply and demand.There is blame to go around for everyone.It's a vicious circle and all sides are guilty of perpetrating and profiting from it. Tabloids/newspapers print/profit from it - people choose to buy it/buy into it—while railing against it. The 'victims' also make millions from the exposure and keep their brand front and center—while railing against it. Not to say that the tabloids and newspapers bear no responsibility for running a cruel and nasty business.I agree, such a vicious game: feed the beast should have rules. But where to start? Who is the beast? Censorship is not a valid option, it ruins minds and stunts personal and public positive evolution and growth. Simplest would be don't buy it, don't read it, don't watch it, don't add to the demand, the supply would soon dry up when profits disappeared, as would multi-million dollar deals.
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It’s been decades since workers have had leverage in the employer - employee relationship. It’s way overdue.If employers want to retain good employees that they’ve invested time and training into, they can offer competitive wages, benefits and create a non-toxic workplace.
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Ken Kesey once said of his experience as a writing teacher that it was just as much work writing a bad novel as it was writing a good novel. For most authors, writing doesn't pay by the hour. If so, even a $1 million advance for something that took, say, seven years to write would still be miniscule. Ms. Paul has it right about the money--had the novel only had a $50K advance, the heat wouldn't have been near so great and might not have happened at all.Novelists are inherently people of hope and ego. Why else would you think the world would want to hear what you've got to say? I do understand why people would ferociously want to protect their culture from appropriation from without. But cultural appropriation, for good and a whole lot of ill, is as American as April in Arizona.The publishing industry tends to be pretty white and pretty liberal. It is changing. Macmillan's response was shameful and pathetic and makes them look like something out of a parody of liberal shame and vanity. Yet the vanity of the nearly 150 authors who cranked up their dudgeon for so much self-righteous vitriol seems equally shameful.I wonder of the same set of authors is working up a letter about Mike Pompeo's new screed.
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This article waits until the end to deliver its punchline: owners or renters of units in these buildings are often more grateful (for whatever reasons) about having a place to live than to gripe about aesthetics.The article downplays the economic, cultural and legal imperatives underlying design. The challenging but meaningless guessing games of which-buildings-are-located-in-what-cities could be played (as the article itself suggests) with photos of 19th-C rowhouses in Boston, NYC, Cleveland or Chicago.If critics want a “better” look for urban environments, they should try embedding themselves in the design process of a typical multiuse/multifamily project— and see how that goes. There is little “room to move” due to external forces which come to play on the plan/section/elevation of a building.The way out of this may lie in more active participation of government in arranging the urban environment: flexible zoning with minimal “design guidelines,” real subsidy (a la Peter Cooper Village/Stuyvesant Town) of affordable middle-class housing, subsidies targeting niceties like street-facade detailing, improved street design (including trees, setbacks for planting/gardens, burial of utilities, meaningful parks/open space) and— the biggest ask of all— control of land values.
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J One great problem with defense spending is also that it does little, if anything, to increase productivity and, in fact, robs the country of the opportunity to increase productivity. If the country spends a trillion dollars on defense, much of that money certainly filters into the economy. And it is also true that defense spending has produced enormous technical advances (at least in the past) that have increased productivity--jet planes, computers, the internet, etc. But the end result of the spending is mostly a bunch of weapons and people that do nothing productive. If the country spends a trillion on upgrading roads and bridges; on high speed internet access for everyone; on vocational and technical training; on health care and care for children; etc. etc., the country's productivity increases, as does the general good. Admittedly, we need to be safe, so we spend money on the the military, but it seems to me that we'd be a lot safer if we spent more to take care of our internal needs and thereby created a more vigorous society and economy than than to stagger along carrying defense spending on our backs. From a liberal (and conservative) point of view, Trumpism might then be viewed as a very rational, albeit veiled, response to defense spending.
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As long as the ROI exceeds the interest payments on the debt, it's a win. And infrastructure spending usually has a pretty good ROI.I'm not exactly sure how the infrastructure bill was financed, but it would be nice if was with long-term bonds that locked in the low rates of 2021.
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What a big heart you have! But you may not know where welfare dollars go, so look below for the data. Hint: it ain't just "red" states. Ever look at welfare dollars that support millions of city residents? Or are you, like Mr. Krugman, of the opinion that it's only rural areas that have conservative voters? (Actually, Krugman knows better.)Here's a list of states with the highest number of SNAP recipients"The ten states that have the highest number of SNAP recipients are: California (3,789,000), Texas (3,406,000), Florida (2,847,000), New York (2,661,000), Illinois (1,770,000), Pennsylvania (1,757,000), Georgia (1,424,000), Ohio (1,383,000), North Carolina (1,298,000), Michigan (1,180,000). The states with the highest percentage of SNAP recipients are:New Mexico (21%), Louisiana (17%), West Virginia (17%), Alabama (15%)Mississippi (15%). New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Oklahoma, Nevada, and Rhode Island all have 14%. In Wyoming and Utah, only 5% of residents are SNAP recipients, the lowest in the U.S.Source: <a href="https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/welfare-recipients-by-state" target="_blank">https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/welfare-recipients-by-state</a>Here are the 10 states with the most welfare recipients:New Mexico - 21,067 per 100kWest Virginia - 17,309 per 100kLouisiana - 17,136 per 100kMississippi - 14,884 per 100kOklahoma - 14,412 per 100kAlabama - 14,100 per 100kIllinois - 13,890 per 100kOregon - 13,399 per 100kPennsylvania - 13,323 per 100kRhode Island - 13,287 per 100k
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Ann E See my comment above. I am mostly through the Audible version of Spare and it's a highly sensitive, courageous, open hearted invitation to deeper healing. It's nothing the like the media portrayals which have highlighted one sentence worth of disclosures into major scandal. Just like what happened to his mother, aggressive media can be a death knell to someone trying to heal. I suggest reading or listening to him read this and see if you still feel the same.
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There's a certain satisfaction in seeing McCarthy getting his comeuppance. McCarthy has always lacked a moral compass. He always tries to figure out which way the wind is blowing & then heads that way. No wonder some don't trust him. The radicals on the right have no desire to govern, only to cause chaos & jam their way into more power. The country is against them, & the party should be as well. The GOP needs to find a more rational & courageous moderate to be their speaker who will force the radicals to fall in line. Even if it means threatening to fund challengers to them in 2 years. Having said that, there's something to be said for spending curbs in exchange for raising the federal debt. Will we ever fix the ballooning federal deficit, or will we watch it spiral out of control? Earmarks to direct federal money to individual projects are out of control. They vanished for a decade after 2011 following the “bridge to nowhere” & other embarrassments. Last year's $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill contained no fewer than 367 pages of pet projects that lawmakers earmarked for their home state or district. Congress brought home the bacon for some 5,000 separate earmarks at a cost of $9.7 billion. Insane. The GOP group of 20 is also seeking to heavily fortify the U.S. border with Mexico. Are we ever going to repair this broken system, or is the plan to keep accepting more illegal immigrants until we are overwhelmed? These legitimate issues have to be addressed.
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So I'm a photographer and had a book of portraits published back in 1996 (Couples - A Photographic Documentary of Gay and Lesbian Relationships, UPNE). I didn't get a huge advance for the project, but they printed 10K copies for a first run, so I was happy... The point of the book was not to make a million bucks. It was to highlight an injustice that I had experienced firsthand. I'm a straight guy and one of my best and oldest friends is gay. It dawned on me one day that he and his boyfriend didn't feel comfortable to just simply hold hands in public (unless of course they were in certain areas or neighborhoods like West Village or Chelsea, etc). But at the same time, my girlfriend and I were able to do that anywhere, naturally and unconsciously, like any couple might do. So I shot a portrait project of gay & lesbian couples and it became a book. (Not overnight, it took three yrs to do the whole thing). What I'm wondering though is, would I have been able to do that today? Is it that I'd have to be gay, to make that project valid, to get that project published today? So even though the advance didn't cover my expenses for the project, I still think it's the most valuable thing I've ever done: About a year after it came out, a friend told me that he had read in some article about a closeted gay kid in middle America somewhere, that would sneak to the back of B & N and look at my book, to just not feel so alone - That's worth way more than six figures.
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Was just in the grocery stores yesterday for the first time in about a month and was doing a large order for relatives with mobility issues and I had to get lots of canned vegetables .I can say, without exaggeration, that it was shocking to see the continued price increases from four weeks ago.When a can of vegetable beef soup is $3.45 instead of around $2.00 something is way off and I think it's called price gouging.So Inflation decreasing? Ha, on groceries, inflation continues to skyrocket.
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'The company, which was convicted on all 17 counts of tax fraud and other financial crimes, will be sentenced on Friday. It faces up to $1.6 million in penalties.'What? How can that be? Where's the deterrence for the Trump Organisation and other firms breaking the law?The architect of the scheme was facing years in prison until he agreed to roll over and became the star witness for the prosecution of the Trump Organisation.All this effort for a slap on the wrist. Look at the draconian sentences handed down to a black woman for voting illegally. Look at the excessive prison sentences handed down to the teachers in Atlanta, almost all black women, who elevated their students results.What an unjust and cruel society the USA is. In the end, all that matters is making money. The business of America is truly business.
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Charles trentelman What retirement fund? The Nasdaq is down 20% in real (inflation adjusted) value in the last year.Legit or not, patronizing the advertisers is voluntary.What wasn't voluntary is Biden's $36 billion bail out of the Teamster's Pension. An overt payoff that every taxpayer will be forced to pay. Why is the Teamster's pension sacred and your personal retirement account not? The answer is obvious ... buying their votes with your money.Medicare is due to be insolvent in 2028. Why not bail that out? What happened to Biden's promise of lowering the Medicare eligibility to 60?To add insult to injury, the Biden admin called the Teamster bailout "COVID relief". You have to be kidding me! But I'm not laughing
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What we have reached is the new level of exploitation. A new level of pricing. Wages remain more or less flat. Here is where the unrealistic, highly-pressurized demands for unlimited growth brings us.Inflation is always discussed as fear of wage increases, not price increases.Deficit spending always focuses on cuts to social programs, not on increasing IRS funding to bring in missing revenue from the rich. Deficit spending always focuses on cuts to the vanishing middle-class and poor, not on revenue from the rich.Yet the economy is driven by consumer spending. What does the economy do when consumers have no more to spend?Might some blame for this situation be placed on the small handful of men who have more money than half of humanity, as Oxfam has evidenced? When those few men have managed to put the wealth of the globe, the last pennies, in their piles—what will they do then? Will they feel lost? Billionairism is an illness which may help lead us to extinction."World’s billionaires have more wealth than 4.6 billion peoplePublished: 20th January 2020"<a href="https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/worlds-billionaires-have-more-wealth-46-billion-people" target="_blank">https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/worlds-billionaires-have-more-wealth-46-billion-people</a>
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$17 billion in profits and employees with families to feed are reduced to the phrase "trim costs".
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This is an exciting and hopeful benefit from the pandemic-induced supply chain fragility that could revive economies of life in Mexico and Central America! And resolve the immigration disaster in the US. Businesses investing in Mexico would provide employment for many and the systemic growth that accompanies that growth, eg, shops, restaurants, other goods that communities develop to support employees. Also importantly, the opportunities for sustaining a livelihood increase, keeping people at home in their country and culture of choice! Win-win. Have you ever asked a migrant or refugee where they would prefer to be? Home is always the answer. No one chooses to be a refugee, even an economic refugee forced to seek a way to survive. I hope this is the start of a trend that grows quickly. Even if china has a head start in infrastructure and low price, it’s time to take a more holistic and longer term view.
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There are not enough GOP millionaire voters to elect anyone to even town dogcatcher let alone Congress or state houses or the White House. So who are the millions of GOP voters who would rather commit financial suicide as they age rather than let people they don't know, and possibly some they do know, not benefit from a properly funded national government. Why do they support under-taxing the wealthy by not funding the IRS to audit people who pay millions to accountants to not pay their fair share of taxes. And that results in the rest of the working and middle-class population to pay more to keep the government running. Is it really possible that members of their church, synagogue or mosque are not being punished by there willfulness to hurt themselves? Raise the amount that can be deducted from people making over $200K or $300K and the SS and Medicare issues will be resolved. And do these voters not understand that every GOP politician has a generous pension so when they vote to limit SS payments and the elderly struggle to live out their lives it really may not be an issue for well-funded politicians. GOP policies seem to be focused on cutting taxes for the wealthy. Why is that not an issue for the majority of GOP voters? Finally, tax the corporations that are making windfall profits while they destroy our planet so that the young of today can have a home on earth on which to grow old.
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I am all for public transportation and believe we should be investing in it whenever possible. However the statistics in this story seem biased against roads. All increase in highway traffic should not be contributed to people changing their mode of transportation or deciding to drive more. Most areas that find themselves widening highways like the pictured Houston have a population growth rate of over 1.5 percent a year. This population growth rate does not appear to have been considered in the statistics. I do not think Cities are unaware of the benefit of public transportation. I think it is hard for Cities to find support for the finding the funds necessary for these projects. I hope with the added Infrastructure money cities will be able to make investments in public transportation
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I like that Prof Krugman expanded the perspective on inflation to include Prof Blanchard’s insight on competing groups - workers, firms, taxpayers. We need this to shift the analysis of income distribution away from the usual frames that constrict discussion: the political tinged with leftover Marxists hangovers or the mantra of free market versus government policies. Income distribution between wages and profits by firm size should be standard data released with GDP. Then we can start a real discussion on profits. This opens the door to corporate limitarianism which is becoming our children’s issue. Profits are not bad. They are not always in conflict with labor. For small firms we should consider profits as wages. Small business owners work extremely hard and have to face greater survival risks. They need to have wealth buffers. Profits, however, can be too high for some large firms giving them excessive power over our economic world and squeezing out our economic freedom. Anytime we can discuss income distribution outside of its historic (leftist) frame, we can have a more important discussion about excessively largecorporations and economic freedom. The Chicago School should be leading the way on corporate limitarianism.
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DM "there's plenty of waste in the government."Actually, there isn't. There was, then Clinton and Gingrich purged it. The budget was balanced until Bush said "we'd rather run horrible deficits in exchange for more tax cuts for rich people." Then Obama found some more things to cut, and Trump said "yay! More tax cuts for rich people!"There's not really anything left to cut of significant size. The military, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare and interest payments on the existing debt are well over 90% of the total budget. And we need to cut at least 20% off the budget to have a hope of ever balancing it. Even worse, the last 10% are really popular and highly effective things like making sure you don't die on the way to work from a bridge falling on you. So. What exactly are you going to cut?
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Sue G Nixon was trying to assure his proto-MAGAt base that the money wasn't going into his pocket. It was.Now days there is no pretense of propriety when it comes to payoffs for the far right.Thanks to the endemic Gerrymandering, their need for financial support to campaign is limited to their primaries. Everyone knows that most of the money is a retirement slush fund.
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MikeFee I suspect that $500 meal would cost closer to $5000 if all the labor were properly paid."The Menu" has it right, the "best" restaurants, who make it a habit of sending diners away hungry, are on the verge of immolation.
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Deficits can be an issue, but the federal Debt is as close to a non-problem as there can be--it’s a historical accounting. Deficits can be a problem, they can drive inflation or squeeze private investment, but no one is talking about that.Most everyone intuitively, and wrongly, equatesSovereign Debt with private debt. They should ask themselves how much debt they could manage if they could set interest rates and print money?The only sane part of the argument is about increasing interest expense (which, like other government spending, can drive inflation) which affects the deficit--but the ignore the other half of the equation which is that high interest usually accompanies high inflation--which reduces the overall Debt burden. No one is talking about how inflation wiped out $3T of Debt in real dollar last year. i.e. Debt + Budget in real dollars ran a surplus.Every time I start feeling I’m in crazy land surrounded by a deluded mass of people, I remind myself that accounting isn’t the real economy and, whatever we can do, we can afford.
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John D Warnock really? Trumps family’s time will come? What about those Chinese patents? What about the $2 billion for kushners from the Saudi’s? Who knows what else? Nothing ever happens to them
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JW,It just cost them an estimated 60% of revenue along with that $44B investment. Definitely a roadmap for future managers.
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Late 30s and enjoy a glass of wine, but will rarely spend more than $20 per bottle. There is no great mystery for how to appeal to people like me: affordability and quality. There is no future in which its commonplace to spend $50 on a bottle.
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Reading Stephens' take on the poor couple struggling to get by on $400K reminds me of a quote by Henry Kravis, in Barbarians At The Gate, concerning his squeezing an extra $100 M in fees for his firm out of the Nabisco- RJ Reynolds merger (earning a total of approximately $1 billion in fees)- "I've got to feed my family".
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The internet is supposed to save time and help you make better decisions, but now just buying $5 batteries on Amazon requires me to read through various reviews, trying to figure which reviews are legit, and thus deciding overall whether these batteries will work or not. Or just going to grab some dinner outside my hotel when my flight is delayed, suddenly I find myself reading reviews. I'm beginning to be aware that I'm just wasting time, but it's hard to stop, you keep thinking you'll be making an uninformed choice. But if the reviews are mostly bunk, maybe it's time to go back to trusted brand names, experience, and maybe going for a walk and taking a look at the food.
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Eric B Wordle 586 4/6*⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩🟩⬜🟨⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩Only one letter wasn't much to start with. The second, meant to place the opening yellow, also landed the first two letters, but added another yellow, which the third landed. Then the fourth brought it all home.Yesterday's words:STARE 45 words leftWAIVE 1 word leftMAIZE — words leftBack on Jan. 1, when the word was WHINE, I played CHIVE as my second try. The bot said that in addition to the solution, WAIVE and MAIZE were possible (NAIVE had been used by then.), so I laid them aside for future use. Yesterday was that day. Either could have gone second, and the wrong one did. The deadly coin toss. Gets me too many times. Today's four has got the fours starting to catch up with the threes again in my statistics. They're not quite there, but closing in.Since pronouns were mentioned earlier, I'll throw in that I'm a he—my actual name is Michael, which was a perfect pangram on 4-17-22. I'd love to talk more, but I have to take care of other things.See you all later.
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The income earner who makes less than $150,000 a year is fully subsidizing corporate CEO's who make millions a year and get millions in annual bonuses (and pay no corporate taxes). The Republican Party has always endorsed this robbery by robber barons. You wonder if during the Gilded Age most worker bees were aware of this disparity. Of course, the greed heads got too greedy and the economy melted down but who suffered. The worker bees suffered.The hospital administrators in New York just made a deal in two days that they had refused to make in two years of negotiating. Why do they always force workers into a work stoppage to concede the least improvement in wages and benefits? They do this because they are trained not to share the wealth. How much does the CEO of each of the hospitals make? Patient care suffers and management doesn't care. They roll out the rhetoric about how much they care, but they don't care. It's all about the dollars, baby. And then they are mystified by the Great Resignation. Watch the movie, Elysium, and wonder.
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Awe?To be in awe is to be on edge of transcendence, to have one's entire system emotional/mental/physical pushed in the direction of development of natural capacities, to be something like a flower opening up in presence of rays of sun. To become wider awake than regular awakening from sleep. Super stimulation which brings forth all one's faculties. Something of being pushed to orgasm of body and mind without sex although there are sex traditions such as the tantric which seek to develop awe by a grounding in highly developed sex act. So awe can be spoken of as the preliminary state on which all higher education is to be founded and higher education without awe is a failure of higher development of person somewhat like cultivating a flower in every way but without providing sun is lackluster success if any in developing a flower.So awe is best achieved in a person by something of total and perfect and balanced stimulation of all the senses, to have the eyes pushed to point of exquisite appreciation and tracing of the most sophisticated and pleasurable physical movements, to have the ears exquisitely registering sound, to feel all body touched at once, hence goosebumps, to have the palate pushed to utter delicacy, to have the sense of smell registering all upon the wind, a keening state of one's entire being.In full blossom of one's self we have what's called inspiration, a profound sense of taking in and understanding entire surroundings, which we long to communicate.
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I spent many, many extended visits at a relative’s co-op which is in a building located on the same block at Baruch College. It was regularly mentioned in passing as students came and went along Lexington Ave. This astonished Midwesterner, whose college campus reference was a huge land grant university taking up ALOT of geography, was fascinated by such a different way one could have a college experience. Now I know more! And I admire their students even more! And they deserve all the free publicity this silly fib has given them! I hope their Development office sends all their alumnae “I am not GS” buttons to wear.
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LennyM If that is true, perhaps Mr. Walcott could live on $500,000 per year instead, which would leave $220,000 to help keep a branch open.
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A friend of mine from Quaker meeting who repairs computers for a local university convinced me that I was more than capable of replacing the screen in my son‘s laptop … And you know what, he was right … $37.99 later my son‘s laptop was back in action, and with it, ultimate mojo … Yes I can … the quote from the local gadget guys to replace the screen was $250.00.
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I contracted for AbbVie for about a year and would never do so again. It was just as the split from Abbott was being finalized. I have never seen a more complacent workforce in my life, the status quo ruled. Every division had its own IT department and the level of cooperation was poor. The only people who didn't appear to spend half the day socializing and generally screwing around were the contractors, and every morning I got to walk past a lifesize poster about diarrhea at the entrance.I also worked for other Abbott spinoffs TAP (same experience, company created for Prevacid) and Hospira, the latter of which was really starting to shake off its stain of unjustified Abbott superiority when Pfizer bought it out. There are no ethics in this business, no concern for the ultimate consumers. It's all about profit.
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I've added rice and beans and green pea soup as staples in my diet.I make a 5 qt Dutch Oven full and store left overs which becomes a large part of my diet for a week.I do this for several reasons:1: I am not ready to go totally vegan, but I am trying to significantly reduce meat in my diet because we need that for the planet. Perhaps 100 years from now kids will be asking their parents whether people really ate animals 100 years ago. (At some point in the not too distant future they will also be asking if people really had guns). 2: Rice and Beans are pretty healthy for your diet. Complete protein, lots of fiber. Just avoid adding too much cheese, but a little cheddar makes it particularly yummy. Also, rinse the rice because of arsenic. 3: By cutting back my purchases of meat I am contributing a very little bit to reducing the price for others who still rely on meat in their diets and don't have a good income.4: Pea Soup and Rice and Beans are pretty tasty and satisfying if you add spices and seasonings to your taste. 5) A Dutch oven full of rice and beans costs less than $10 and makes at least 10 servings. Mine contains a pound each of brown rice and black beans, a little over a pound each of onions and carrots, and a little olive oil. 6) It is very sustainable.
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CRAIG LANGEmployers, small and large, contribute to the common good by (1) providing jobs and (2) producing goods and services desired by the consumer. They accomplish this by organizing and investing in capital - and, yes, employees _are_ a form of capital.It is not an employer's role to lose money - for themselves (in the case of a sole proprietorship) or their owners (for example their shareholders). Doing so "takes down" far more people in the end than necessary layoffs do.
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Being laid off can be very bad or very good or somewhere between. Its very bad if you live paycheck to paycheck and receive no severance or health care benefit extension. But these tech layoffs likely are the opposite, for workers who are mostly highly employable. For them, the issue is psychological. Having worked in an industry that is highly cyclical, I have seen a lot of staff cutbacks up close, usually during broader economic recessions like in the early 1980s, with double digit unemployment. We quit our jobs then to do some traveling, and it was harder to re-enter the workforce than expected. We literally spent our last dollar at one point. There can actually be a longer term benefit to unemployment, especially being prepared for the unexpected, spending less, saving more and having contingency plans (ours was an improvised pickup camper). Of course, you don’t have to experience unexpected unemployment to be prepared for it. Live your life like you don’t know what’s around the next corner… because you don’t.
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You don’t bring up the monetary cost of these investigations, but that, too, deserves attention. Republicans who claim to want to cut government spending and didn’t support extending the child tax credit and want to do away with social security are about to spend away on these investigations. I hope the press keeps an eye on the expense.
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Lennerd Just imagine what the donors expect to make it worth that $16 billion. What the politicians owe and who they owe. Imagine if all that money was directed to fix some of the major problems in the US instead of buying power and influence. It's enough to make you sick.
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When we face the known and unknown unknowns, the best option is to focus on what we know.No party is going to increase the taxes or repeal the reckless tax cuts hurting the country.No party is going to insist on balancing the foreign trade. They might move the manufacturing from China to India, meaning repeating the same mistake twice.No party is going to balance the federal budgets and insist on fiscal discipline and responsibility.No party is going to block the corrupting influence of the campaign donations on our domestic policies.No party is going to try to force the global corporations to give up the ownership of the free press and media outlets. Without their financial independence, there cannot be editorial independence either.No party is going to stop polarizing and antagonizing the voters in order to secure the power. No party is going to stop exploiting the people’s bias and prejudice to get their votes.No party is going to fight to slash the cost of health care and drugs down to the level of other developed countries.No party is going to try to pacify the world in order to be in position to dramatically slash the defense spending across the globe.Only such a stance would be the prerequisite for investing about two trillion dollars per year in something more useful than the weaponry capable of destroying the life on this planet.The critical unknown is why we have two political parties at all if both have the same guiding principles.
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It’s interesting reading the comments, and the variety of takeaways from Britain’s decline. It’s quite clear that their austerity measures were a huge mistake. But then where should the government invest and how much spending is sustainable? Liz Truss found out you can’t ignore the bond markets.It’s also clear that Brexit was an enormous mistake. But how do you participate in free trade with partners but still control borders and ensure employment opportunities for your own citizens?The Conservative Party seems to have gotten wrong at every turn, and we should all be wary about the decisions our own government is making.
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Same happened with Bitcoins. Lots of people got into because some celebrities said it was safe to invest there. And then we all know what happened
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This is one of Michele Goldberg's best columns. The opening paragraph and the final sentence are gold! Also, kudos to the editor who came up with the title. This made my week, and it's only Wednesday!
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If Krugman truly believes that the newly armed IRS (87K strong) will only go after "wealthy tax cheats" he should support changing their rules to only audit those with incomes in excess of some figure - call it $500k. He might then get some buy-in for his partisan embrace of the execrable IRS. Till then - not so much.
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Elected officials make decisions that will affect us all, young and old. People need to pay attention and be informed before casting their votes. It is alarming that the new congress threatens to use cuts to social security and medicare as leverage to default on debt. The US has already spent the money and now must pay for it. These "entitlements" are something working people have paid into their entire lives. How dare they even consider doing this! If they are so concerned about spending they should consider forfeiting their salaries until the budget is under control.
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As an affluent Manhattanite who votes straight ticket Democrat, my only complaint is that every time the government or my party decides it needs to raise more revenue, they come after the merely affluent as opposed to the super rich. Getting the super rich is hard. Getting the affluent is easy.Contrary to many of the morally superior individuals commenting here who are able to manage their less complex and expensive financial lives and undoubtedly live in lower cost areas with no issue: variability in tax policy every few years is very difficult to manage. Plus or minus a negative $30-75k a year matters over the course of a lifetime.The Trump Salt cap was tough to swallow. Limited warning, $50,000 less cash the next year and every year until it expires.
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It would be fun to watch two people who get paid to think aloud, if they were two people who had thoughts worth listening to, if they were in any way in touch with the fact that we pay into Medicare and Social Security, if they'd ever tried to live on less than $15 per hour, if they had a clue what it meant to save up to be able to visit a dentist, or try to figure out how to pay for life-saving medical care...if only. I never found this column terribly edifying, but it's not even interesting anymore. It's just a really loud reminder if the differences between the haves (of both parties) and the rest of us.
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"In its latest quarter, Microsoft had $50 billion in sales that produced $17.6 billion in profit."That works out to a profit rate of 35.2% on sales. (And the stock price is DOWN about 1% as I write this at 12:28 PM.)That is not high enough? So they need to fire 10,000 people to push the profitability to what, 40%?
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Phyliss Dalmatian: To the best of my knowledge, Germany actually subsidizes US military here. Please see "Germany spends millions on US military bases" at Deutsche Welle for details. Anyway, would you be happier if there were US bases in Ukraine, where russian missiles strike every other day? I'm all for sending Leopard tanks to Ukraine, but please spare me "holier than thou" accusations. There's hundreds of Abrams tanks in Europe, including maintenance teams and spare parts, and thousands in the US, but Biden won't deliver any of them. Ask him why. And, no, it ain't because they're gaz guzzlers, the Ukraine already has similarly thirsty T-80 BV turbine tanks. No problem.
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Remember, it was this NY field office that leaked the info of the laptop of Anthony Weiner's to the media just days before the 2016 election. It forced, FBI Director Comey to public reopen the FBI investigation of HRC. Weiner's wife, Huma Abedin was engulfed in the scandal, as she was a senior advisor to HRC.The FBI found nothing new, but it is what cost HRC the election.The DOJ must open an investigation, if they already haven't on this FBI office and the DOJ under the former president. It was reported at the time that most of the agents at that office were pro supporters of the former president and that is why the leaked it to the media. Was it more than that? Was one or more of them working for Putin to undermine our democracy and swing the election to the former president?Will the MSM do their own investigations into this?This is real serious. A rogue law enforcement officer in the FBI working for our enemy is terrible, but the vast majority of the FBI do their job honorable.But, if the worst of this what might have been is true. the 2016 election was really stolen from the American people.
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Lew Bryson I guess we won’t be deficit spending...rich pay more taxes, government spends less. Less military, less oil and ag giveaways, price controls on medical procedures, fully staffed IRS. Plenty to do.
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I love the possibilities this technology opens up for all people. Many people are visual learners and communicators and this can enable people to create images to tell both fantasy stories as well as depict data in new ways. However, the way it achieves that by ... borrowing ... from the works of artists and others borders if not crosses the line of theft. Perhaps there will eventually be a mutually agreeable way for artists and others to license their work for AI training in a manner akin to shutter stock. In the meantime this seems terribly unfair to the people who created the substrates for AI to use.
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Okay, not a good news...The former head of counterintelligence of FBI New York Field Office Charles McGonical was arrested over his ties to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska close friend of Putin. Allegations of money laundering and violations of Russia sanctions on behalf of this rich Putin's gangster.<a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/former-fbi-agent-charged-with-aiding-russian-oligarch" target="_blank">https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/former-fbi-agent-charged-with-aiding-russian-oligarch</a>NATIONAL SECURITYEx-FBI official arrested for alleged money laundering, Russia sanctions, taking money from former foreign agent.Charles McGonigal allegedly took $225,000 in cash from a former foreign agent while still working for the FBI.Greed and betrayal goes hand in hand.
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One of the greatest of all time, all sports, anywhere. When you look at the French Open- grinding tennis in the red dirt.I named my dog Rafa - b/c Nadal is a class act who embodies everything you want in sportsmanship and athleticism.I wish him well- hopefully, we get to see him raise the French Open trophy one more time.
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Sounds like these frozen pies cater to regional styles. In my unofficial role as a connoisseur of pizza, I've learned that regional pizza styles are more common now than they were not long ago. I visited a friend from college in Phoenix (he grew up on Long Island, and I grew up in Rockland County) about 10 or 12 years ago. He took me to a pizzeria in Tempe and introduced me to the owner, also from Long Island. The owner explained that he uses most of the same ingredients, but because of the lower altitude and the water (hard, soft, mineral dense, etc.), he cannot replicate the pizza dough from NY. He still made an excellent pie. He said it took him a while to put green chilies on his pizza, but he gave his customers what they wanted. It's an excellent topping, by the way. It just took me a while to open my mind to the fact that not all pizza is going to be NY-style and enjoy the regional differences.
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"An even better system would be a low universal flat tax that radically simplifies the job of doing, collecting and checking taxes."A flax tax will give a break to wealth taxpayers and cost everyone else. It is entirely possible to have a progressive tax rate schedule, dramatically simplify tax rules regarding deductions, credits, pass thru's, etc. and produce an automated filing process for most taxpayers.Also, the 90% plus Americans who don't live in Manhattan think $400,000 is a lot of money and frankly if you are making that much hire competent tax help and file a return that will withstand audit. It's not that hard.
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T.I.H. The propaganda is demonization of Putin, and ascribe to him expansionist intentions. We call the initial incursion unprovoked by us, despite our role in Ukraine in toppling a democratically elected government that was pro-Russia, and Nato expansionism, which explicitly crossed Putin's stated red line.Our policy is no diplomacy, no negotiation, no understanding of Russia's requirements for security, which are not unlike our own. Russia's conditions for peace are not unreasonable: recognition of Crimea; no more Nato expansion (that would place missile bases on its borders) proscribing Ukrainian membership; recognition of the self determination of the two republics in Donbas, (recognized as separate entities by a handful of countries but none in the west and not by the U.N, set up in response to regime changing coup d'etat in 2014 and after 8 years of civil war)We are being prepared for WWIII by the Warhawks in our country who profit from war and from those who believe in U.S. global hegemony, (requiring domination over Russia, China) rather than a multi-polar global cooperation. Expansion of the war is our choice. I want a courageous journalist to follow the money to see who profits and follow who accrues more power, besides the neocons flanking both sides of the aisle at this point.I predicted our troops on the ground months ago, justified by pinning the escalation on Russia. The rich and powerful have their bunkers ready. Do you?
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Conservative Geezer Exactly. Yet even though corporations spend on average 10% of their budgets on employee health insurance premiums, they still crazily refuse to back universal healthcare that would help their own bottom lines. The conservativiest of the conservatives in other countries think we are nuts for not doing UHC...you don't take care of your people's health, you lose customers.
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Rick Rosen I’d just like to point out that as a party Democrats take more money from pharmaceutical companies—but both take a lot (<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?ind=H04" target="_blank">https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?ind=H04</a>++). If you care about this important issue I strongly encourage you to vote third party, or research your local candidates on OpenSecrets to see how much money they take and demand they serve you instead.This is a tale of one America, make no mistake, but we can put the country on a better path together.
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I am a nurse (RN, PhD) and the only nurse on the board of directors at our regional medical center. I take very seriously my role on the Board as a voice for nursing. The CEO and Board members had intense discussions the last 6 months on countering the RN turnover & surge in travel nurses by offering bonuses, increasing pay, and creating partnerships with local nursing programs. Some solutions are reaping rewards but as the article correctly points out, the answer cannot depend on increased wages alone. A safe working environment is key, too. The chief nursing officer has lost many of her 5-10 yr experienced nurses & almost 50% of her RNs have only 1-2 yrs experience. So, the solutions are complex; mentoring/safe staffing levels are critical. Good work NY nurses!
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RF They also need to know exactly how much a 30% national sales tax on ALL goods and services will do to their finances. Spell it out in black and white how the cost of your rent will increase 30%. Do the math for them so there will be no room for ambiguity and spin. That their eggs will now cost $10 a dozen. That their bread will cost $8 a loaf. That their $30K car purchase will now be $39K. That their baby's diapers will go up x-amount. The formula will go up x-amount. Have the hard numbers so there is no room for doubt. And talk about it non-stop. The culture wars won't matter if the lower and middle class can no longer afford to pay their bills.Hammer home the fact that republicans want to steal your Social Security retirement funds, money you had no say in contributing. To steal your access to healthcare once you retire. It's time to take the gloves off and go for the throat. Democrats need to stop being nice and go in for the kill!
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Zdanko absolutely. I wouldn't have given up for $17k. My point is "these people" shouldn't have to give up so much of their time to get a fair (and obvious) resolution.
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DonS - I don't believe that the problem is limited to confidential documents. I believe Americans in every field have devolved administratively. Open a file cabinet where you work. Look at your desk and the desks of your colleagues. Look at the directory structures on the company file shares. We are so unkind to our future selves who will inevitably need to find something among all those papers and files. Don't let's even get started on the topic of email inboxes! Search software does not overcome all disorganization--especially not poorly organized paper files.
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Whatever POLITICO 07/09/2019Bidens earned $15 million in 2 years after Obama administrationBy Maggie Severns and Natasha KoreckiFormer Vice President Joe Biden and his wife Jill earned more than $15 million during the two years after they left the White House, with the bulk of it coming from lucrative public speaking and book deals, according to new financial disclosures and tax returns released Tuesday.The disclosures offer a new, more comprehensive look at the money the Bidens amassed since leaving the White House — a sharp uptick from where their finances stood in the final years of the Obama administration and Biden’s time in the Senate, when he referred to himself as “middle-class Joe” and put a working-class life story at the center of his political campaigns.The new documents show Joe Biden earned more than $4 million in late 2017 and 2018 from giving more than four dozen speeches, banking up to $235,000 for one appearance. He was paid $540,484 for in role at the University of Pennsylvania. And he owns a corporation, established to handle his post-White House speaking and book deals, now valued at between $1 and $5 million
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