Here's something you probably don't know. In the West, they throw rice at weddings. In the East, they throw Wonder Bread. ["I d...

Tesla closed today at nearly $333 a share but fell in after-hours trading. Among the 10 most valuable companies in the world, nine have an a...

I think most people are overestimating the degree to which Trump will lose any support because his closest friend was a pedophile. First a c...

"We had inflation but it's gone now."- Trump this week Inflation in ... - November , the month of the election, when Trump cla...

I feel like I’m more alarmed than most people by what’s happening in American politics right now - and more hopeful about what might come af...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., our Secretary of Health and Human Services, has declared that “being healthy is a patriotic duty.” If you hear that c...

File under: Well, it amused me …A spinoff from the Mission Impossible franchise: Mission Preternatural. Two priests, three nuns, and an incr...

Alexander Hamilton – the genius killed in a duel on this day (11 July) in 1804 – created the US Bank to stabilize currency and capital marke...

Here is a huge problem that rarely gets discussed. Private sector CEOS make 100X what members of congress make. Related, we so highly value ...

This morning, Nvidia became the first company in history to reach a $4 trillion market cap. Our economy has evolved: from creating wealth th...

In the US, there are 735 billionaires and 535 federal legislators – about 200 more billionaires than lawmakers. * Legislators earn roughly 2...

New term: Deja nu.  The distinct feeling that this has never happened before.

Just finished Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation . It’s fascinatin...

It is the anniversary of start of one of the more weird and wonderful experiments in human affairs. In his Gettysburg Address, Lincoln dated...

    This graph illustrates a crucial insight: government spending as a percentage of GDP depends not only on how fast spending grows but on ...

We often see polls that show self-proclaimed Democrats or Republicans or Independents' mood about the economy. Positive? Negative? It se...

In April .... Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Republican Senator from Alaska) said a fear of retaliation under President Donald Trump’s administration ...

I wonder, when AI evolves beyond us and humanity is gone, how will we be remembered? Will AIs look back on us as the Greeks did their gods -...

A dating app that lets you swipe up to see their shoes. I'll call it "SoleMate."

What's not on this list? The assassination of a state legislator and her husband by a MAGA goon.  It was just 10 days ago that Melissa A...