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Apparently, Humira was developed by Cambridge Antibody Technology in the United Kingdom (a collaboration of the government-funded Medical Research Council and three academics) and BASF Pharma/Knoll, which has roots in Germany. Abbot paid nearly 7 billion for rights and then made 100s billions on that drug and used those profits to acquire more drugs invented by others, that pretty much says it all about their business model.
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I do not trust most people to use FSD responsibly. Humans simply do not have the wisdom or maturity, especially behind the wheel of a car. Musk has conned $15,000 from some Tesla owners to test a self-driving feature that will always be ready next year.He is a genius. He figured out a way to “part a fool from his money”.The only question a jury has to answer is would a reasonable average driver been able to avoid said accidents in the article.
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1. "One after another, employees at the New Hampshire manufacturer W.H. Bagshaw said goodbye"Perhaps low wages is the reason for the exodus?W.H. Bagshaw Job Opening: CNC Parts Cleaner & InspectorCompensation $14-17/hr DOEResponsibilities: 1. Interpret router and part specifications.2. Provide updates on work in process to sales.3. Work directly with engineering to ensure work instructions are clear and correct.4. Load and unload pins into cleaning equipment.5. Periodically measure product and record the data on audits sheets per the process.6. Inspect and sort parts based on quality specifications.$14 - $17/hour is not anywhere close to a living wage in Nashua NH. McDonalds and Walmart will start workers at the same wage.Per Zillow..."The median rent for all bedrooms and all property types in Nashua, NH is $2,015 ($24,000/year)"After paying for rent...good luck paying for utilities, transportation and food.
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Prior to boarding a 747 flight from Tokyo to New York in the early 1990s I could not resist buying a copy of the Sunday New York Times (which had probably just arrived at the airport on a flight from NYC). It cost around $20 at the time and was a splurge. I spent the flight on the nearly empty upper deck in bliss reading the paper, drinking a glass or two of wine, and looking at arctic glaciers out the window.
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Bob Tonnor And yet any federal employee will tell you there is a very clear, definitive line about what can and cannot be considered income, gift, or reimbursement, and it is tightly enforced. If I can't accept any gift over the $20 allowable amount ($50/calendar year from one person), neither can my spouse. If I can't do it at my low level, because I could be unduly influenced when awarding contracts, why should a member of the judiciary be able to? SCOTUS is able to influence untold millions in their positions, an order of magnitude more than I am dealing with.
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The thrust of this article is curious given said investor’s history as the US based moneyman for his cousin, Russian oligarch Victor Vekselberg. In fact Mr Intrater’s hangdog regret for having been aw shucks guys I was “duped” into backing a “bum..Republican”, nor wanting “to have a guy who’s committed crimes walking free” are even curiouser given that the bulk of the money he gave Santos’ for his election bid came after he’d given his statement to the SEC, and after he’d seen his only investment dividend rescinded. So this guy is worried about putting a bum in office after all the money he’d funneled to Trump? And Santos just happened upon this perfect patsy, easily bilking him out of $625k and lived to use that money in a fraudulent election scheme? Money funneled from his cousin the Russian oligarch, who hired mercenaries to take out competitors and their workers? Intrater, this self described dummy is supposedly the same guy entrusted by his Russian cousin to invest (launder) his billions as well as recoup them from US sanctions, reaching a successor settlement with the Treasury?Does anybody still wonder why the SEC didn’t include Mr Intrater’s sworn testimony in their court filing?
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Simon Swain Huh? Maybe in NYC but you could live quite comfortably in Chicago on $100K as a single person. No roommate needed.
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Budget Slashes 3-K for New York City Children Mayor Eric Adams’s budget proposal retains funding for the police, sanitation and housing, but 3-K will no longer become universal for city preschoolers. Good morning. It’s Friday. We’ll look at a part of Mayor Eric Adams’s proposed $103 billion budget that may upset some parents with young children. We’ll also see what nurses gained in the agreement that ended the three-day strike at two hospitals. Mayor Eric Adams’s budget proposal retains funding for the police, sanitation and housing, but 3-K will no longer become universal for city preschoolers.
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Ms. Jordan has been a great council-member, going to great lenghths to help her constituents (including this one). Non-experts can't begin to fully understand all the complexities involved. However it IS clear from this article that only about 10% of the apartments would be actually affordable for people in the district, with a mere 13% more for those families making $160,000 or below. Yet Mr. Teitelbaum complains that he needed "some" market-rate apartments in the project (insidiously implying there weren't any in the planned building) to make it worthwhile -- while he had about 87% market rate apartments (or so the article suggests). Teitelbaum's revenge, which endangers the health of neighborhood residents, especially children and the elderly and the immuno-compromised -- is a shonda.
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Americas healthcare system is beyond broken. It’s corrupt. It’s medical mafia. I’ve had pneumonia for ten days. I thought it was a bad cold until I fainted. Went to the Urgent care in my health plan.They quickly diagnosed pneumonia and sent 4 prescriptions to a local pharmacy. It was too late that evening to pick them up, Friday December 30. The pharmacy’s website states if they are open on Saturday at 8 am. I’m there at 8am, no one there. A sign on the door, sorry we are closed, no staff. Go back to Urgent Care to have the Dr change pharmacies.They are closed on the weekends. But the hospital under the same name is literally right next door to Urgent care. Basically the same building. Remember, I have pneumonia and feel pretty sick. I ask if one the Drs there can resend the prescription to an open pharmacy. It is NYE morning. They tell me they will but it may take a few hours. I call them after three hours, talk to the ER admin who says she will take care of it. Two more hours go by. It’s now 3pm NYE. No pharmacy is open on NYD. I call the ER admin again. Now she tells after waiting 5 hours they are not going to send the prescriptions over to an open pharmacy unless I get reexamined. I was just there the night before at their clinic. They waited all day after promising me in person and on the phone twice it would happen. Bottom line, they wanted to charge me again. I had to wait until Monday to get my meds, three day after they were prescribed for Bacterial Pneumonia.
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Square peg What this comment misses is the following basic principle - if Microsoft continues paying these employees just to "keep them on", even though the employees are no longer necessary, then Microsoft will no longer remain competitive, and more layoffs will be forced to come down the line, but that time it will be significantly more of the company. Oh and by the way, it's not good for the employee to be stuck in a rut in a job that serves no purpose just because the company decides to "put the interest of the employees first" and to continue paying them in perpetuity just because that's the "right thing to do", according to your philosophy. In that case, everyone loses - the company in the long run, as well as the employee who loses a sense of purpose and accomplishment.
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I shared an office with a business partner in the 00’s who was a foodie. He insisted all in office meals be the stuff of dreams. He’s spend over an hour every day pouring over delivery choices & menus chasing the perfect gastro dream lunch often from restaurants I’d only visit for a celebration. Cater in 5 course meals when we had a lunch guest. He was my culinary opposite. After a few months I had to speak up. Not every meal has to be an event. We’re so moored to all the amazing choices we have, every lunch delivery or dinner out (or in!) must come from a fabulous place and be a gastronomic delight. Yes it can be truly enjoyable, but food is fuel-most of the time a snack, soup or simple salad is all that’s needed. Conflating meals with entertainment can be dangerous in America. I learned at 21 (thanks to, of all things, a 1979 Cosmo article) to disassociate from food that delights at each and every meal. Much like the smoker who learns to stop craving a cig after meals, one must practice to lower expectations when hunger strikes and eat for the body, not the mind. Sure I love a gastro adventure but not unless I’ve made sure to super serve the needs of my body first. The first priority is nutrition, so no sugar until something healthy is eaten first. And like dessert, fat laden and multi course meals themselves should be your mind’s reward for feeding your body’s nutritional needs first. The only diet one needs is a healthy mind.
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Imagine how many people you could hire and pay with $54 million dollars!
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Beth Grant-DeRoos In fact, 85% of the tax breaks that went to companies were used to buy back stock. Those buybacks did zilch for creating jobs, and just bumped the stock price (and lined the pockets of some of the fat cats who sold stock, and/or exercised stock options).Look it up.Link: <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/annemarieknott/2019/02/21/why-the-tax-cuts-and-jobs-act-tcja-led-to-buybacks-rather-than-investment/?sh=13a024c737fb" target="_blank">https://www.forbes.com/sites/annemarieknott/2019/02/21/why-the-tax-cuts-and-jobs-act-tcja-led-to-buybacks-rather-than-investment/?sh=13a024c737fb</a>Quote:For the first three quarters of 2018, buybacks were $583.4 billion (up up 52.6% from 2017). In contrast, aggregate capital investment increased 8.8% over 2017, while R&D investment growth at US public companies increased 12.5% over 2017 growth.End quote
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David Kesler No offense to Ben Hodges, but how would he know? No one can predict whether Ukraine can take Crimea by September 2023. Or what Russia will do if Ukraine does do so. We need to avoid making big bets and take it slow. We've given Ukraine tens of billions of dollars in weapons and aid already. It will never be enough. We have to stop sometime.
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I have visions of many thousands if not millions of bison roaming across the open prairie where they replace the cattle and are harvested for the delicious meat they produce. Instead we have much of our agriculture production going to produce feed for cattle instead of directly food for humans. It will involve a significant realignment to fix what we have destroyed. I wish American Prairie success.
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This article is too focused on b2c tech companies which over-invested hard assets using access to “cheap money”.The real big story right now is over-hiring by b2b software companies (almost all “SaaS” or software as a service). Carvana’s precipitous valuation decline is a sensational story for sure, but the issue that’s causing the most economic pain for individual employees is in b2b.Cash rich but profit poor b2b companies staffed up on an “anticipatory” basis in departments like sales and customer service (and the dept feeling the pain worst of all right now - talent/recruiting). They also felt pressure to do so from the competition for talent. Now, without the assurance of future access to that cheap money (or even uncheap money), they are being forced to make massive cuts to preserve cash runway (aka staying in business).The lessons learned for founders (and everyone):1) Raise as much money as you can, when you can. Founders who took smaller rounds during the good times (ie, pre mid-April’s bust last year) to reduce dilution are now kicking themselves.2) Build for the moment. Tomorrow is never promised, in life or in business. There’s no need to hire more people than you need for today and the next 3 months in anticipation of really needing them 6 or 12 months from now. If your business is doing well you’ll be able to hire them when the time comes.
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If you want to raise the retirement/Social Security age, you first need universal nationalized health insurance. As long as health insurance is primarily employer-based, there will be a very strong incentive to discriminate based on age and medical condition, regardless of what the law says. As it stands now, if you lose a good, long time job at, say 55 or 60, you are unlikely to find anything comparable, unless you have very specialized, in-demand skills. Beyond that, technology is always changing, and this new technology tends to replace or eliminate old jobs.And bottom-line driven corporations have figured out that it is cheaper to hire 20 somethings for 10 years.With Social Security, you pay in as you work and take out when you retire. You've earned it. So please get out of my face, Republicans!Any idea to "privatize" social security is completely wacko, to put it mildly. News reports say there are pension funds that bought crypto. One reader said there are pension funds buying Russian government bonds, which I find hard to believe, but.... Pension funds bought home mortgage derivatives prior to the 2008 economic debacle, investments as sound as a railroad track -- built of balsa wood. Something tells me these pension and private investment advisors aren't too bright. If they were, they would have gotten rich off their personal investments and retired at age 35. Instead, they will probably have to live off their Social Security, like the rest of us.
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Kate In NorCal - I do most of my reading now by checking out library books on my e-reader, too. So much of what I enjoy are mysteries that are worth one read and that’s it. What’s the point of buying them and keeping them around if I’m never going to touch them again? By checking them out via Overdrive, they’re delivered straight to my Kobo e-reader and I only have to hit a tab to return it. Even better, if I forget, it “self-destructs” on my reader and returns itself when it comes due! And Kobo—and Barnes and Noble’s Nook—uses the open source EPub reading software, not Amazon’s proprietary Kindle software, which I find ethically dubious, so it’s even better.When I find I want to reread a book, or it has graphic content like maps that work much better in physical rather than digital form, or for some other reason need a hard copy of a book, I tend to order it from Biblio.com, an online clearinghouse of used bookstores much like ABE.com but independent of Amazon and, I’ve found, with better functionality.
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Newsflash Bidens hands off DOJ made a deal with him not to disclose the documents and they did hide the info . How did the 1000.00$ an hour attorneys know to look for the documents ? .And one more ,and this is a big one JOE BIDEN was involved in a deal with his brother and son for the purchase of 5 million tons of gas by CEFC the chinese gas company …..But ther is no there ,there ……Really ?
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Let's see: People don't want tons of immigrants from Mexico and Central America trying to live in the US. (They are misguided but politically potent, so let's accept that as a major factor in policy). Mexico has a large labor force and untapped industrial capacity. Mexico and CA are closer to the US and shipping is less difficult and cheaper. US companies can interact with Mexican concerns quicker and easier than with Chinese vendors.Sooooo....why not make investments in industries in Mexico and Central America that would be win-win results for all? More and better jobs in Mexico, reduced emigration pressures, numerous advantages for US companies looking for partners closer to their home turf - seems like this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship!
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Republicans and Democrats refuse to raise the income limit on Social Security because many of their large donors benefit from a low cap. Imagine if all those Goldman Sachs wunderkinds had to pay Social Security on more of their income?! The limits are far too low. The Medicare tax is too low also, and of course Republicans won’t fund IRS - it would mean more audits and perhaps we’d collect more taxes - which Republicans never want to pay! As for Part D and Insurance insinuating itself into Medicare, it was George Bush who opened the door to privatizing Medicare, not Democrats.
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Linux-based Raspberry Pi line of computers and the far less powerful but in some ways even more versatile line of Arduino microcontrollers are amazing little computers that can be used to build some remarkably powerful and useful devices, such as the ones highlighted in this article.I built a home weather station out of a combination of both devices and for a time uploaded my readings to Weather Underground. I've read about people building security cameras, nature monitors and irrigation systems around these devices, and so much more.They form the basis of today's thriving digital "Maker" communities, and are a wonderful way for people, especially young people, to learn about computers and programming, and have a very low cost of entry, usually less than $100 total if like most people you already have some of their core components lying around like spare keyboards, mice, USB power supplies and cables and MicroSD cards. The devices themselves cost anywhere from $2 (yes you read that right, on eBay) to just over $100, with very capable ones averaging $20-$40.
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Dan Why would they need to declare a "code red" if they already had products in the pipeline? They have been caught sleeping. Innovation has long departed and if they are to attract the talent needed to reestablish themselves as a tech force it's going to require a very different CEO at the helm. I wonder if we will see Sergey or Larry back or they will leave the company to flounder a la Microsofts Balmer years.
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Private equity limited partners (investors) are predominantly pension funds and university endowments. These limited partners keep investing with, and enriching, the general partners (fund operators) with fees and carried interest because the funds consistently outperform other investments like mutual funds, hedge funds, etc. If you have an issue with private equity, it should start with its limited partners.
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Food is political because it's big business in America. Big business as in corporate. I've been vegetarian for 40 years and coming from the Midwest ( beef country), I'm pretty much a heretic. Take note: Being both a woman AND a vegetarian means it's open season to attack, denigrate, and belittle my personal food consumption choices. Never mind that I keep my political and ethical opinions to myself. By the way, it is always men who feel comfortable heaping personal insults upon me along with their ignorant "facts" about vegetarianism.
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Sherry How does "investing" in immigration help manage Covid? Perhaps you are thinking of bringing workers from the outside but that would drive the people profiled in this article to abject poverty.On the other hand, nations such as Japan, S. Korea, Australia, New Zealand, and Taiwan which have had good outcomes for Covid have enforced rigorous border controls.US, whose borders are the most open, to migrants as well as drugs such as fentanyl, has bad by far worst outcome among advanced nations.
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AnneW Fund the IRS. That by itself if done properly would yield 1 trillion to 1.6 trillion year over year we lose.
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The Congress passed the spending bills. If they don't authorize the (deficit) funding to pay their bills by the required deadline, the debt limit should be extended by default. Congress should be pairing the means to pay with the spending they authorized.
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Jonathon D. Oe Depends on what you describe as privilege!My father was a mid level civil servant ( mother was a home maker) who spent his last penny (about 80 percent of his salary) on the education of his 3 children. Luckily we did get benefits such as government housing and transportation but I remember that there was no money left on the 30th of each month. I also remember my father borrowing money from friends and family to pay our expenses ( Liam’s that I paid off later). Also some of the ‘government bungalows’ we were assigned at nominal rents had no indoor plumbing or running water ( but there were hand pumps).As far as coming to US I did get lucky. Was admitted to Ohio State university with full financial assistance mostly because I had excellent grades with Honors in Economics and Mathematics and a GMAT score in the 99 th percentile.My brother who was an engineer in Singapore paid for my air ticket and loaned me 10000 USD to get through the first year (I did get a full tuition waiver at OSU but the monthly stipend of a doctoral student in 1984 at Ohio State Finance department was only 485 USD - not enough to pay for books and to live on).Hope this helps!
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With all of the emphasis on how stairs are connected to making connections, I kept looking for the ways people who aren’t able to climb stairs are being looped in. Are there moving sidewalks for students and faculty with mobility challenges? Open elevator spaces with windows and places to socialize? Or is business only meant for the wealthy and able-bodied? Another message sent loud and clear about the values of capitalism and corporations.
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Oh man, Harvard comes out of this little contretemps smelling like skunk cabbage. But they'll get over it. The $42 billion endowment will help.
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Itamar So which ar f the facilities was the one spent on and are LBGQT students barred form those areas? A college is not a bunch of disparate rooms but a whole institution. So did they accept money as a secular institution open to all or a religious based institution which Barrs certain groups that don't follow their religion or religious attitudes? Simple question.
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I bought my first stocks with money I made doing landscaping in High School. I failed to graduate and went right to work at 18. I bought a cheap home in a bad area and kept buying more homes and more stocks over time. 48 years later I'm retired with 12 million dollars in assets. Anyone can create wealth in America, but you have to actually do it, not just dream about it and buy lottery tickets.
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It’s disturbing that many politicians see this as something too celebrate. Yes… it’s a step in the right direction but shouldn’t our goal be to operate with no deficit? 1.6 trillion is well wide of that mark.
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Luis Mejia I would love to switch to induction, but the cost of doing so makes it very hard to seriously consider.I already have a very nice gas range. What am I supposed to do? Spend $3000 on a comparably nice induction range to replace my current one? That sounds like a luxury most Americans can't afford when most families don't have $400 of emergency funds saved up.
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When we allow the wealth created by the many to flow to the few, not only is the future of freedom from natural and social constraint promised to those who acquire it bought at the expense of those who will have to work to guarantee these freedoms, but society at large is at a loss to do much of anything until these empowered ones allow it. (The rich)"Takes up a space that many poor supplied;Space for his lake, his park’s extended bounds,Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds;The robe that wraps his limbs in silken slothHas robbed the neighboring fields of half their growth."
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History repeating. Trade with China funds the greatest military expansion and spy network in world history. Europeans bought oil from Russia for years then were surprised at the obvious — Russia, a totalitarian militaristic dictatorship, would use the money to attack Europeans. Americans sold oil to the Japanese War Machine right up to the eve of Pearl Harbor attack.
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It's a real pity to see this, l love Bed Bath and Beyond, l rely on it for buying my sheets, towels and other household items too innumerable to list here. I really dislike Amazon and much prefer shopping for things in person, the one thing that brick and motar stores provide is the ability to examine what you buy before you buy it, to know exactly how it's made, to physically compare it to other items to make a decision and to take it to the register and buy it . All ordinary inconsequential things that have become a luxury. Amazon has an abundance of cheap mediocre garbage, that you can be quite painfully unaware of until it arrives in the mail and you realize what you bought is useless and worthless, lt can be quite easy to be led into making bad decisions, with poorly written or misleading descriptions,-cotton sheets that are "cotton feel polyester" - bad product photos and glowing reviews that are written by the seller. Actually receiving it in the mail can be another hurdle if you live in a building in NYC that doesn't have a doorman or a kind neighbor who is at home to let in the delivery person to deliver your package. No l'm not going to wait at home all day to receive a $10 package. This is why I prefer Bed Bath and Beyond and dread being thrown to the mercy of Amazon.
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Emily Hey, New York Times! Do an article on the "continuing service certificate" racket in all professions. The way Microsoft Office now operates on a subscription model, workers and staff are required to "log in"and get 're-certified' in their areas. This is the new normal.
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It’s a lazy trope to say that “Republicans repeatedly passed tax cuts when they controlled the White House over the last 20 years. Democrats have expanded spending programs that have often not been fully offset by tax increases.” The last President to produce a budget surplus was a Democrat, Bill Clinton.Then, between Bush’s unpaid for wars, unpaid for Medicare Part D, and tax cuts, Bush DOUBLED the national debt during an economic expansion, when Keynesian economics argue for cutting debt. Inheriting Bush’s economic calamity, Obama spent through the crisis (what governments are supposed to do) then cut the deficit through the rest of his presidency. Indeed, Obama spent too little on getting us out of the crisis, leading to years of sluggish growth.Then trump arrived and the Republics proceeded to explode the debt AGAIN, during an economic expansion. And after COVID hit, Republics were all in on pandemic spending, at least until they realized that supporting workers through the pandemic could make workers demand better conditions ALL THE TIME.The fact is, Democrats have actually tried to control the debt- tried too hard, in my opinion. On the other hand, Republics yawp loudly about the debt when out of office, going as far as to trash the US credit rating and shut down the government, and then do their best to expand debt when in office.And too many journalists just let Republics get away with this nonsense, relying on lazy tropes that were out of date by 1996.
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Anne Because there are so many of us, a small increase Medicare payroll taxes (one fourth of one percent) would keep the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund solvent for the next 10 years.Social Security Retirement Benefits and Disability Benefits trust funds are safe at current tax rates for many years.Read the 2022 Social Security and Medicare Trustees Reports.
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Zelensky has a high bar to cross.After independence in 1991 Ukraine was run by alternating groups of oligarchs, Pro- and Anti-Russian, taking turns to campaign on their rivals' corruption.Zelensky's own anti-corruption campaign in 2019 was said by his opponents to be bankrolled by his former business partner Kolomoisky, wanted by the FBI, who fled Ukraine for Switzerland after Poroshenko's corrupt regime found him guilty of siphoning off over $5bn in public funds via Cyprus to Israel (he has both passports).Ukraine before the war was the most corrupt, and consequentially the poorest country in Europe. Zelensky's anti-corruption credentials had fallen with his popular support from 80% in 2019 to 20%.The 'anti-corruption' TV president has now fired for corruption several of the personal assiociates he brought in to replace others he previously fired for corruption.Questions still remain about his wife's offshore accounts revealed in the Pandora Papers just before the Putin's invasion.All this like the war is ultimately the legacy of a corrupt Soviet Empire before 1991. Putin's 'solution' was to give his own corrupt Yeltsin-era oligarchs an ultimatum 20 years ago: pledge allegiance to me as the new Boss, or face prosecution for corruption.Ukraine stuck to alternating billionaire gangs.The war is a nightmare for Ukraine, as for many ordinary people in Russia, and a bad dream for Europe.Yes, flood the poor country with defensive arms - but also with daylight.
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PS My institution has spent over $18 million on a DEI program that pays the administrators in charge, about $300,000 a year. I am all for DEI, but at the same time, it feels like another boondoggle for over educated do-nothings.If they were really serious about DEI, they would be going to universities, community colleges and other institutions with large numbers of students of color and recruiting them to work for us, and offering tuition help. Instead, they just create another layer of administrators and send endless emails to those of us doing the actual work.
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Chetan Saiya Because we have a revenue problem due to tax cuts. The US has a $21 trillion economy. We should revoke those and invest. Not lay the burden on the poor and middle class.
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Jeeb Oh, right you are and it makes sense . I was thinking about apartment doors that open into the apt. and which per fire regs, must close themselves shut behind you (from a fully- or mostly- ajar state) So... maybe the Masters (etc), distracted, think they're basically at home at the office?
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We're getting distracted by the $400,000 number. The mega-rich can structure their finances so it looks like they have no taxable income at all. They're why the IRS needs the money.
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You clan thank the “Fight for $15” rabble and Jessie Smalls and his ilk for making wages far more expensive than the not inconsequential costs of automation. When pie in the sky socialism insists on paying $15 to someone who’s labor is worth $5, employers will do what they have to.
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The USA has rebounded better than any other G-7 nation from the Covid Pandemic.What President Biden has done in his first 2 years:10.7 new jobsLowest unemployment rate in 50 years.Lowest poverty/uninsured rate ever.Elevated wage gains/real earnings up in 22.Reduced deficit in both years/ After it going up all for years by his predecessor and $8 trillion dollars.Chips Act and IRA. Biggest investment in climate change ever/ Largest investment in good paying factory jobs in decades.Biggest investment in infrastructure in 2 generations.Truly a remarkable job.
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Hal - One must always be aware of regional colloquialisms. Years ago, I was working as a contract mechanical designer at a large rocket testing facility in the Wasatch mountains outside of Brigham City, Utah.In need of a relatively common office supply item, I began opening filing cabinet drawers when a nearby middle-aged woman employee asked me if she could be of assistance. I asked her if she had a binder. While I meant a rubber band, she understood the word "binder" to be a slang word for a "bra". Whoa, instant faux pas there!Luckily another passing male employee defused this rather embarrassing moment by explaining to her what I had meant and managed to save the day. What’s in a word, eh?
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In 2021 my husband and I were audited and our combined income was $139,500. We use an accountant for our income tax returns. Our accountant faxed requested documentation to the IRS and they lost it!We are progressing Democrats and believe everyone should pay their fair share, but this has been a nightmare to deal with.
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Wendy The Project was approved after a public jearing at which more than 600 people spoke. The project was approved after hearings before both the City Planning Commission and theCity Council and was supported by the two most significant pulbic officials representing the area--Borough President Gale Brewer and city Councilwoman Margaret Chin. The question at the hearings was the narrow interests of the residents of Southbridge towers as against the benefits of the South Street Seaport museum (whose representativessaid they could not remain open without the subsidy) andj jobs and housing for people in the broader City. The Judge did not side with "the community" but only with a narrow segment of it. It is a sad day when a judicial decision can stop an important project that isapproved by the areas elected officials and most of the citizens who live and work in Lower Manhattan, as well as interested parties throughout the City. Hopefully this judicial interference with the democratic process will be quickly overturned by the higher courts.
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So glad that one of the major Cheatros isn't coming to the Mets. Also delighted that karma has given Correa a $150 million hit so far. Here's hoping the Twins dump him, too.
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Read this with and note the following. First, Nashville city government coming out foursquare against the Republican party attracted Tennessee state government retaliation. This seems rather petty on both sides, but one cannot help but notice that state governments have done this for some time, California being a past master. If Ms. Renkl has taken strong exception to California legislative retaliation, a quick internet check (e.g., her essays archive) reveals nothing.Second, and back to basics. Cities are creatures of the states; the federal government is also a creature of the states. And, of course, all these governments are subject to the will of the people expressed in free and open elections.I suggest she expand the scope of her indignation to include subjects such as the federal government's imposing its will on the states; the Biden Administration's agenda provides much material here. Worth noting is that states can, and should, exercise more oversight of cities than than feds over the states.Finally, I suggest Ms. Renkl focus her indignation at the Biden Administration's heavy handedness in many areas. And while she's at it, there's also the matter of federal officials sabotaging elections through attempts to disrupt elections through censorship of opposition political speech, not to mention disinformation which led DOJ's willfully false statement to FISA courts.Have at it, Margaret. There's much work to do.
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PB Is money spent now on health, education, and climate change mitigation not an investment in the future? Can we find many worthy uses of money right now that don’t fall into this category? Public spending is not the same as investing in stocks p, bonds, and real estate, but it is a form of investment for future gain.
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Eric Shen New Study: In the Midst of COVID-19 Crisis, 7 out of 10 Big Pharma Companies Spent More on Sales and Marketing than R&D.Imagine how it must be in normal times!Added tidbit: during the first 15 months of the pandemic the total wealth of vaccine billionaires had increase by over $50 billion. Hey, isnt $50 billion the same amount of the record charitable donation recently made by Bill Gates?$50 billion back to the normal folks, and $50 billion into the pockets of...I have no words (that I'd be allowed to say here).R&D? Give me a break. Greed.
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Antoine Individual suppressor ownership is prohibited in 8 states : California, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, and Rhode Island. The other 42 allow individual ownership. Suppressors are subject to NFA rules. Purchasing one requires completion of the NFA paperwork, fingerprinting,BATF background check, sometimes an interview with local LEO. The fee is a $200 tax stamp. It's actually - a $200.00 stamp. The approval process takes several months. After approval, the suppressor may be purchased or transferred by the selling FFL to the individual. It's a time consuming, moderately expensive, and throughly vetted process.
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We are pushing 80. My husband has A.D.D. and I am what they call anal. The clutter makes me nuts. Now my husband has vascular dementia and the disorder has overtaken my life. Plus I take care of him, the house, an acre, and all the chores he used to do. Shingle the roof, repair the fence, replace the washing machine parts the rodents ate, etc. Can't afford to have it all done. I pray for a few quiet moments when I can do some needle work. Dr. Gabor Mate's book "Scattered" helped me understand my husband. Wonderful book. Decluttering gives me a feeling of accomplishment and is done in the spirit of a gift for my son when God calls me home.Ms. Brooks' first step was an eye opener for me. Figuring out why things are where they are! Wow. Thank you for a very helpful article.
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Peter A D In the 2022 fiscal year, the federal government spent $6.27 trillion. Ukraine is fighting for its own survival, but it's also shielding the West from Russian aggression. In terms of protecting our national security, the aid we've given to Ukraine is a bargain at twice the price.As for Russian crimes, they are well documented, and your comparison is way off.
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jim bez In his excellent 2013 book, Rise of the Warrior Cop, Radley Balco provided details on municipalities across the country using tax payer money to pay off families of victims of police brutality as well as the items you listed. We're talking hundreds, if not billions of dollars a year. He suggests that if that money were to come instead from police pension and union funds, we would likely see a decline in these incidents. I agree. They police should be entirely responsible for their unacceptably behavior.
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A friend if mine was an ADA. In every single case a gun was used against another person, a gun was being carried by one of those people. This sounds obvious, because it is. His point was that escalation to the point of shooting someone doesn't happen if a gun isn't readily available. As soon as one (pathetic broken clown) pulls a gun, arguments that might end in a fist fight, end in a shooting death. As soon as a gun becomes part of the equation, the chance for criminal use skyrockets. I agree with a commentor on this page. Anytime you see someone with an open firearm - call the cops. Every single time. How are we supposed to know what they're going to do with it?
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Just don't do it in Pheonix Arizona in front of a bank, while being a black Wall Street Journal reporter. Open carry in Arizona applies only to guns, not note pads.
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PurnaPhD wrote:"As a Millennial starting college, my Boomer parents's wisdom was still 'Study what you love, the rest will fall into place.' But mounting college tuition, student debt, recessions, wars, political chaos, and climate change now render that idealism quaint."Well said. We really need to do something about college tuition and invest in our state schools. A student should be able to choose to attend a high quality state institution AND not be in terrible debt at the end of four years. We have this idea that if our kids don't go to a top 10 or 20 school for undergrad that they're going to flounder in life. Nonsense. Instill in kids a love of learning, a solid work ethic, and how to be decent people (and not be materialistic consumers) and will they will be just fine.
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Futbolistaviva Exactly. Since they opened a satellite in Boston, it's the gold standard in town with Galleria Umberto a daytime winner, too.
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R.J. Reynolds Pivots to New Cigarette Pitches as Flavor Ban Takes EffectNow that California’s tobacco prohibitions are in place, some Camel and Newport items are billed as newly “fresh” or “crisp” non-menthol versions.[ This is beyond horrid, showing an open disdain by tobacco company executives for consumer health and life. ]
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Kate C -- First paragraph was pretty good. However, I see you have used a speaking point commonly used by the right/conservatives/Fox News/et. al.The United States does not have 'open immigration policies.' Many may not like these policies, but our borders are not 'open.' I fall into this trap of using right-wing points from time to time also, but we cannot use these inaccurate terms so oft repeated by right-wing people and groups.As noted in the piece and elsewhere, GWB and Democrats tried aggressively to reform our immigration policies in the mid-2000's but were foiled by Tea Party types. Now...we face labor shortages in a number of industries and (importantly) our birthrate is 1.7 which is below the required rate of 2.1 A shrinking population requires immigrants to continue to fuel the economy.Will the House Republicans how in majority try to do ANYTHING about this? (Rhetorical, of course.) Nope, the story by now already is well-worn. We will have 2 years of investigations of social war and incendiary memes which aid fund-raising (wokeness, book-banning, Hunter Biden, etc.), but not seek serious solutions.This is the Republican party -- performative and anti-democratic with no guiding principles except being against Democrats, pro-Russia and pro-insurrection.
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Why don’t you give Robert Isom a call or emai;? <a href="mailto:robert.isomaa.com">robert.isomaa.com</a> (682) 278.9000 As President at AMERICAN AIRLINES GROUP INC, Robert Isom made $5,001,360 in total compensation. Of this total $766,146 was received as a salary, $0 was received as a bonus, $0 was received in stock options, $4,180,000 was awarded as stock and $55,214 came from other types of compensation. This information is according to proxy statements filed for the 2021 fiscal year.
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People who are not working class (most columnists) and who have had no direct dealings with working class life have NO idea how hard it is to work very long hours, come home exhausted, and have no choice but to do it again, over many decades. They do not know what it means to calculate paying $7.00 for a box of cereal or $15.00 for a box of cold remedies when that same money has to be allocated to medical bills, child care and many other things. Only someone who is paid a great deal more than what they need has the luxury to not look at price tags. Everyone in Congress needs to have worked for a few years in a blue collar job. Ha! There is plenty of fat in the Pentagon, in farm subsidies, in other places but they don't want to look there. Lacking a college education (for either financial or intellectual reasons) forces someone to find a job that pays decently and then making everything else work. You live in a tiny apartment and/or take roommates you don't want, or you only eat in, or you never take vacations, or you don't buy new shoes or clothes. This is LIFE. Neither GOP nor DEMs in Congress have a clue about this. They are all rich and/or educated (although some of them are not too bright). Congress functions like a stubborn 12 yr old and we all suffer. Gail and Bret, go "undercover" and work at McDonald's for six months -- no outside income. Your columns would change (a lot).
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Bret, rather than a low universal flat tax, how about a high universal flat tax, but with one whopping standard deduction... say $500,000 (to pick an arbitrary, generous number). The flat tax rate could be something like 67%. Get rid of all other deductions, and you'd have a simple, and viable number. Nobody making less than $500K would pay a cent in taxes (including your suffering two-income coastal elite professional couple), and anyone should be able to live on $500K a year. Most tax returns could be postcards. Throw in an assets tax of 1% on all assets after $10M and you've got a decent tax code.
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I been traveling none stop the moment borders opened since 2021 and it’s been absolutely wonderful without the hordes of China Chinese tour buses and groups. They had zero class and understanding of how to be a good visitor to European Union countries and the UK… and their presence isn’t missed at all. I’m finally was able to relax at popular tourist spots, take photos calmly, generally enjoy travel again. I’m American Chinese and absolutely not looking forward China Chinese tourists return at all and I know the European locals aren’t either. They rather have American tourists come to spend money since we have more class than that horde.
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This is a significant overstatement. The large tech companies have been so flush with cash and demand, that they got massively fat. This is trimming the fat and hardly the return of the robber baron. From real data - Microsoft Content design director - $259-277K - Software engineer - $132-200K, Data. Even an office manager is between $71-$79K. This doesn't include options, etc. Most of the talent reductions are from low performers, marketing assist roles, and low-performing salespeople.
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There are many nuggets of wisdom in this article. May I share two, which a valued mentor conveyed to me when I was a budding professional in my early 30's: First, never confuse your current job with your career. No matter how valuable and secure and rewarding you believe your job to be, it can quickly change for the worse. Your lovely boss might die suddenly and be replaced by a tyrant; your wonderful employer gets acquired by a sociopathic corporate machine or goes bankrupt. Invest foremost in yourself and your career, which is different from investing in your current job. Second, always keep in mind that, except for some core basics, you can probably do with less material wealth in your life. Have a mortgage? If necessary, you can move to a less expensive residence. You don't really need that 10 day overseas vacation every year. And if the people in your life truly love and respect you, they will understand and never begrudge a job change. You can't (and shouldn't try) put a price on mental and physical health when faced with truly toxic work cultures and personnel.
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Maybe parents, instead of being offended that school officials didn't notify them, should ask themselves why their child didn't feel comfortable talking to them about it in the first place. As a parent, it's your job to maintain an open relationship and keep communication channels open. Listen to your child and work to support them. Explain to them why you disagree on a topic, if you do disagree. It's a very delicate situation. Teenagers often have a fluid identity and are trying to figure out who they are. Parents should support them in that journey. Trans people have always existed. In many cases, people are finally able to put a name to how they feel as the concept has been more widely publicized. Social transition and changing pronouns and names are not permanent and are easily reversible. Even puberty blockers are not permanent and, while bone health can be affected when they are used for prolonged periods of time (i.e. years), bone mass begins to accrue again at a normal rate when the puberty blockers are stopped. A teenager who identifies as trans is not going to be able to access hormones without parental permission, and gender-affirming surgeries are not available to patients under the age of 18. In very, very rare occasions, top surgery may be available to patients under the age of 18 with parental permission, but no surgeon is going to perform surgery to modify a patient's genitals if they are under the age of 18.
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This is an eye-opener. It shows the real world of animals, for long unknown and unseen. It shows more cooperation and collaboration than we have long thought was possible among different animal species. Animal scientists have gotten it wrong, too. Maybe we humans can observe and learn.
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Hojo Bonefield Forgive me if I'm getting something wrong, but while you and others like you did pay into social security, it wasn't actually enough to fund the benefit that you are receiving right now. Instead, your benefit is subsidized by the federal government as part of our welfare system. It may be true that you could have invested your money outside of this system for greater gain, but that would have exposed you to greater risk along with the opportunity for reward. Regardless of your calculations of what might have happened, my tax dollars today are helping to fund your retirement. I've been paying into social security for 35 years, but it's very possible that I get a much lower return on that investment than you've received because the subsidies your generation set yourselves up to receive appear to be unsustainable.
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I encourage the New York Times to survey Germany's economic interests in Russia. For Chancellor Scholz's caution about sending German tanks to Ukraine is not only due to his fear of the memories of the Second World War. More important is Germany's economic cooperation with Russia. German companies have for a long time invested in Russian raw material producers, and even after the embargo was introduced, there are still German companies back in Russia. Even today. We have to face it: German foreign policy is not only controlled from the Reichstag, but also out of consideration for the country's industrial companies.
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Tax wealth. Balancing the budget in 10 years would be easy.
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NP bought pre-IPO Visa shares at $11 per share in 2008 ; as of 2022, she's sold those same shares for between $185-201 per share. Meanwhile, a proposed bill to regulate credit card companies (thus potentially hurting NP's intial investment) somehow disappeared from the House floor. When questioned about this by a 60 Minutes reporter in 2011, NP pretended not to understand what he was asking even though, in my opinion, he was quite clear. I only wish this reporter had felt emboldened enough to ask NP directly if she (or, sorry, "her husband" because of course you would never discuss finances like this with your spouse) bought the shares based on inside information. I'm sure she's a lovely person, but the fact that we allow legislators to continue to trade on information like this is pretty abhorrent. I'm not sure why there aren't rules in place to prevent this. As a legislator, your duty is to the American public. Not to your own financial interests. You will never govern fairly otherwise. I respect NP as a woman, but I cannot respect this. I also really don't respect details this reporter felt the need to include, like catching up at the Four Seasons over "French fries, a truffle butter-roll and chocolate-covered macadamia nuts." Whilst complimenting NP's four-inch Jimmy Choos. This isn't Sex and the City. This is the American government. This article is giving off very "let them eat cake" vibes. Then again, maybe that's the intent.
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Unfortunately the daily ticket prices are out of range for 99.9% of families. Be sure to check inntopia and directly with Sun Valley lodge for deals. Otherwise it is not feasible at $500+/day for a family of 4.
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Electric Vehicles Keep Defying Almost Everyone’s Predictions The revolution is also a case study in how much further we have to go. It is striking that in the same year that Tesla’s stock price dropped by about two-thirds, destroying more than $700 billion in market value, the global market for electric vehicles — which for so long the company seemed almost to embody — actually boomed. The revolution is also a case study in how much further we have to go.
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I want to point out two other things; "The companies have already spent more than $2 billion on exploratory work and to prepare for the project.", the author of this article does not mention how much of the $2B went to political contributions for McCain, Flake, and Kirkpatrick. The "...slipped a federal land swap in an appropriations bill...", is actually McCain and Flake's rider, Section 3003 of the 2014 NDAA, titled "Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act" (titled as innocuous and pro-conservation as possible). In 2014, just hours before the vote on the "must pass" NDAA, McCain added the land exchange deal to the bill, which Obama signed. The author makes no mention of how much money was spent to influence State and Local Government. The "A required environmental review was completed in the final days of the Trump Administration", "completed" is a generous term to use to describe the 2021 USFS EIS. It was rushed, incomplete, and lacking. As far as the Apache Tribe in the EIS, there was very little meaningful consultation. The relationship of the Apache Tribe to the Federal Government is government-to-government and should be treated as such.
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Jackson George we have to leave open venue for talks. It’s getting more adversarial between the superpowers to a point of complete mistrust.
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The gaslighting of gas lighting and the war on education is typical gamesmanship to create outrage for its own sake. The gop scorched earth campaign on research and science may ultimately prove to be our tragic flaw. If we are to understand, much less solve the problems of our age we will need every bit of evidence based research to help us. Sadly, there is money and power in the denial business and it seems to have anointed the so called governor of Florida to keep the stunts coming portraying a liberal arts education as an enemy of the state. To paraphrase the old ad: 'an open mind is a terrible thing to waste.'
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Nancy - think this way - a person who says “I’m beat” is saying something about the forces outside themself: I have been out mastered by the external forces.A person who says “I’m spent” is saying something about their own personal resources: I have used up everythingj I had inside myself.Not only is there a difference, it is a significant difference.Windows are for opening.
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Jane I could find plenty of eggs yesterday in my Shoprite supermarket in Northern NJ. But the cheapest on the shelves was $5.66 per dozen. That was in a 2 dozen pack.
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Someone making $400K a year using state supported facilities should be charged $400K a year for the use of the facilities to make money --- like all businesses, you have to pay the piper for building the product.The Supreme Court says athletes can make all they want ... the offset, the State legislature should charge uniform facility utilization fees equal to the money athletes are making in the State facilities and redistribute proceeds to other school programs. More radical...end all cable and television contracts... return to the old days when sports entertained the campus in a stadium not the nation.
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Admittedly I've never watched any of the TV shows Mr. Segel was in, but any time I've seen him on the "big screen" I am always drawn in, even when I don't particularly like the character or even the movie. (I Love You Man comes to mind, I had very mixed feeling on that one.)That said, I thought he was phenomenal in Dispatches from Elsewhere. Truly moving. I still can clearly reflect upon his portrayal of David Foster Wallace and scenes from that film, he hit it home with that one. Unfortunately I don't have Apple TV, so I might have to miss this, though it sounds evocative. Something I would definitely watch.But, I am glad to read Mr. Segel is seemingly really coming into his own. It is not easy to make the transition from young adult acting too full on adult. A very smart and insightful move on his part to seek out therapy and do some inner work. Not only for his own peace of mind and heart, but for us, his audience. I look forwards to his future projects. I agree there is something very humane, likable and even tender, that he emanates, and I feel he is extremely talented. His investment in himself will hopefully only add to his potential with age, experience and wisdom.
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As for me and my house, we will invest in eggs!! Eggs are fungIble and convertible. Think omelettes and chicks. I remember when the egg was under attack as unhealthy because it contained too much bad cholesterol. At six bucks a dozen, I actually walked away without them! With a tear in my eye, too. I wonder how supply and demand will evolve as the hens begin producing in about a half year! I bet the price regime may dip at bit but remain moderately high. Professor Krugman what does the expression "libertarian derp" mean? It sounds like an epithet I would employ against Senator Ron Paul.
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J c No, equal education is not more money as NYC proves, spending $18,000 to $20,000 per pupil per year. This is three times the amount spent many other places, and double the national average. Most of the money never reaches actual instructors with class sizes of 25 to 30 students, being reduced to 20 to 25 thanks to a new law passed in 2022 (New York State). Inheritance tax is less about raising revenue than ensuring that we don't create more inequality, a privileged aristocracy by birth that may last several generations, and replenished by newly minted 1%. I don't want or need a level playing field either. Instead you want a higher floor. But recognize the truly bottom 1/3 poor are plagued by households with 0 to less than 1 full time job holder. Full employment as we have now doesn't solve. More free childcare, school days that don't turn young children loose at 3:00pm and two to three month summer gaps are a problem throwing money at current systems won't solve.
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Carvana stock is down from a lifetime high, two years ago, of $360, to about $9.50. I get the feeling that things may not great there.
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Ten months ago Imran Khan’s elected government was dismantled by corrupt mafia and the country was further destabilized, opening doors for anarchy. People of KPK and Punjab have literally been on streets since then, demanding their rights and the eradication of lawlessness in all forms while their souls are crushed under inflation. Who knows who was behind this gruesome attack …. a sectarian fanatic, the Taliban, or those who want to warn people of KPK to back off their democratic movement. RIP Peshawar!
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I expect the next two years to be years of obstruction from the U.S. House of Representatives. The GOP opposes federal government spending for all purposes except war and preparation for war. They want government regulators to stop regulating. In some ways that has already been achieved. The PPP Covid cash giveaway program produced billions of stolen dollars that are probably unrecoverable. The Securities and Exchange Commission was repeatedly told about the Madoff Ponzi scheme, went through the motions, could have done a real investigative job, yet did nothing. Wall Street Investment Banks were lending mortgages to people who could not make the payments. They made the loans so that they could be "securitized" in "tranches" that included falsely rated bad mortgages and some good mortgages. The packages of loans were sold to investors. The federal government had to bail out Wall Street Investment Banks or risk Great Depression II. Crooked businessmen must be as well treated as every gun toting drug dealer on the streets.
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In our Co-op we have adopted these rules for smoke/odors. Our building is non-smoking in common areas, but shareholder may smoke inside their units."Noxious fumes and odors emanating from any dwelling unit into common areas or any other residential unit is not permitted. Shareholders will take any or all of the following steps to ensure no noxious fumes emanate from the dwelling unit into any other apartments or building common areas.These steps include (but are not limited to): installation of door sweeps, sealing of openings (including all baseboards, pipes, radiators, plumbing fixtures, window frames, washer and dryer vents) and the utilization of HEPA certified air purifiers and/or fans and air conditioners. The expense of all steps to mitigate the detection of fumes, including inspection costs, will be born solely by the Shareholder. Failure to prevent noxious fumes or odors is considered a material violation of the lease."
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Because executives like Nardella maximize their company bonuses by maximizing short term profits, not by making a long term investment in their employees. They do much better treating their employees like disposable assets, maintaining their excessive compensation plans, and flying business class to Davos.
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It is all richly deserved. Carvana at an $80 billion market cap? Says it all. A lot of people walked out with a lot of money, but far, far more got fleeced by having their hard-earned retirement funds put into stocks like Carvana, Peloton and so many others by lazy mutual fund managers who do not do their jobs.It was all a free ride for those people. They bought these hollow stocks in the millions of shares, drove up the share prices so it all looked like major gains across their portfolios, received huge bonus checks by doing this and they did it all by taking money belonging to other people and mismanaging it into nothingness. I would name some of the names of the BIG mutual funds that did this, but I want to see this comment printed. It really is a scandal.
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Here's my personal encounter with David Crosby. It was early 1970 and I was a college senior. The movie Woodstock had opened and was in exclusive engagement at the Fox Wilshire Theater in Beverly Hills. The lines were long, so I went to an 8pm mid-week show with 2 friends.About 5 minutes after the movie started and the theater was dark, 3 guys walked in and sat down next to me. They were Graham Nash, David Crosby and Neil Young. I was stunned. They were the biggest group in music at the time. When C,S,N & Y came on screen for their set I looked over and they were all leaned forward really digging it. Before the film was over and the lights came up, they hurriedly got up and walked out. A peek behind the curtain how recognizable celebrities go see a movie without being recognized. An only in L.A. story.
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This article needs to be paired with another in today’s NYT…the closing of the Copenhagen destination joint, Noma. What a difference in management and chefs. And, while El Cholo may not have any Michelin stars, it sounds like a much better place to enjoy a meal than a $500 reindeer heart on pine needles haute cuisine “must see” kitchen nightmare.I’ve not eaten here, but as a native of Albuquerque who hits the occasional TexMex place in Houston, my mouth was watering. Maybe a quick trip to LA is in order.
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This has to stop. I am so tired of having to give up our most cherished freedoms to appease a small number of complainers. If you want to live and go to school in this country, you have to understand that FREE SPEECH, and the open exchange of ideas are two of our most important principles. What about the vast majority of students who were enriched by seeing that painting? Fayneese S. Miller should be ashamed of herself, what a cowardly act.
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Solomon We had a very good $120+ electric kettle that lasted several years. Then a small mesh filter that snaps into the spout degraded and fell apart. Without it, the kettle would not shut off when it reached boil. I contacted the manufacturer to see if I could order a replacement filter. It's a piece of plastic about 1 by 2 inches that could have been mailed in a tiny envelope. Nope. They are not sold or shipped separate of the kettle. So the entire perfectly good metal and plastic electronic appliance had to be tossed and a whole new kettle purchased. We went with a different brand, obviously.
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David Bruce "During the current session of Congress, Greenberg wrote, “I bet that there will be 10 to 20 Republicans who will work with Democrats to pass important legislation. And they will be empowered by the state examples and the perception that McCarthy is just in the pocket of the Tea Party and Trump Republicans.”Wow - I would love to meet Greenberg and take that bet. 10 to 20 Republicans who will work with Democrats to pass legislation??? On what planet? I would bet Greenberg $1000 on this. I really would.
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