It’s the question I get asked most often. The short answer is, you probably don’t. A slightly longer version is, if you have plenty of money you don’t mind spending and never seeing again, you can.
The rule here is, If the percentages don’t get you, the con artists will.
I’ll break that down for you in a second. First, though, let’s consider what’s left that IS possible. Because, as I said above, if you have money, you can get published.
(more…)Common wisdom has it that tariffs in general are bad for trade. They’re old-fashioned. The word “regressive” is thrown around by people who either aren’t certain what it means or really shouldn’t be.
And, in general, the common wisdom is quite correct: Tariffs, as a rule, are bad for business, which means they’re bad for the economy.
Mind you, most business experts will also be happy to tell you why exceptions ought to be made in order to protect their industry, but decidedly no other. Therein can be found the roots of a dirty little secret that most citizens don’t know about, most political partisans don’t care about, and most major media outlets didn’t bother to find out about.
(more…)Whenever I begin one of these with “I personally despise Donald Trump”, his supporters immediately tune out. “Another mindless liberal” is one of the nicest things I’ve been called. It’s a little sad, because the next word from me is likely to be “but”.
Whenever I begin one of these with “I personally despise Donald Trump, but”, the legion of his haters collectively throw up their hands. “Another Nazi lover” is usually truncated to “Another Nazi”.
And so it goes.
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It’s easy to quote a simple internet meme and use it to point to Trump’s tariffs to call him an idiot. Thanks to memes, I now know that his list was generated by internet domain, that it’s a formula based on trade balance, that they’re effectively arbitrary numbers, and that it’s all theater. Thanks to a quick glance at my Robinhood account, I can tell that his tariff talk has wiped out a trillion dollars of other people’s money overnight (and, on paper, $200 of mine).
So, yes, I have cause to be irritated at the man. So do you. Fair enough — so far as it goes.
BUT.
(more…)TL;DR: It has some.
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You’re sick of reading about Elon Musk and the App Formerly Known As Twitter. I know this through observation and extrapolation. If it’s not true of you, you’re an exception; congratulations on being thus exceptional.
Either way though, I won’t take up much of your valuable time.
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Billionaires do have too much money. It’s true. If you’re searching for a sign that our financial system is seriously flawed, the mere existence of billionaires is sufficient evidence. You need look no further.
But that’s no reason to hate them.
(more…)We never even noticed the demise of the glossy magazine. One day they were just gone, missing from waiting room tables everywhere as though they’d never been, with only empty racks and dusty outlines to mark their passing.
By and large they’re quite unmourned, it’s sad to say. It’s tough to miss the sort of writing one only reads while killing time waiting for a haircut, articles you can put down unfinished without regret.
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In a last gasp effort to remain relevant — and, knowing Uncle Joe, to do what he feels is the right thing — our president has announced that, as far as he’s concerned, the ERA is the law of the land, the 28th Amendment, properly ratified by the states.
He’s wrong, but that didn’t stop him.
Mind you, he doesn’t actually need to be right for his announcement to matter.
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In 2017, Clinton’s supporters were traumatized. They couldn’t understand how she lost.
In 2021, Trump’s supporters were traumatized. They refused to believe he lost, and have been sulking ever since.
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If you’re paying attention, you’ve heard the rumors: Putin shill, friend to dictators, traitor to her political party, spy for America’s enemies.
Which is, I gotta say, totally nuts. No, not just the spy bit — all of it, beginning to end. For anyone who’s followed her career, she’s been nothing but consistent, and she wears her heart, and her convictions, on her sleeve for all to see.
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