He’s baaaaaaaaaaaaaaack… but only on Mondays, through the end of the election season.
Jon Stewart Returns to ‘The Daily Show’ as Host
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/jon-stewart-the-daily-show-host-1235802984/
Category: Politics, Religion & Money
Tomorrow’s History Today
This was forwarded to me by mih. Heather Cox Richardson is a Harvard-educated History professor at Boston College.
In 2016, 70% of Republicans said they trusted national news media; by 2021 that number was 35%.
Regulation Regurgitation
Again and again and again, corporations insist that regulation and oversight inhibit their ability to innovate and manufacture their products. Again and again and again, more regulation and oversight, not less, is shown to be essential for public safety.
Murdoch Mysteries
Trump attorney Joe Tacopina quits, and Matt Murdoch gets the nod, based on the argument he used in his courtroom defense of Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner. Justice is blind, and so is the defendant’s lawyer!
It looks like the judge’s word balloon was originally going to be in the lower, left corner.
Urban Doom Loop?
Will post-COVID New York City and San Francisco end the 21st century as ghost towns? Or will they be transformed from centers of commerce into mixed-use living space?
I chuckle when the current interest rates are called “too high.” This attitude is the result of banks and businesses being addicted to the free money that followed the Great Recession. My first mortgage, in early 1988, was for 10.125%.
In my opinion the Fed should leave everything as it is. Let the markets adjust to the long-overdue hike in rates and the end of quantitative easing. Once again I point to Frontline’s “Age of Easy Money” from a year ago. Where’s the recession that so many were predicting from the higher interest rates?
Table Stakes
A withdrawal approach based solely on required minimum distributions (RMDs) not only fails to meet retirees’ annual income needs but can also leave money on the table at the end of their lives, the financial services firm found.
https://news.yahoo.com/finance/news/84-retirees-rmd-mistake-130022029.html
Leaving money “on the table” at the end of my life is exactly what I want to do, and I’m setting up a trust to make sure that happens.