California’s proposed billionaire wealth tax is being sold to voters as a way to replenish the state’s tax coffers... What it actually will do is to end the vital capital investment that has driven California’s economy for decades...

I go by Timothy Eugene, and so I get called that all the time...

An American in an American airport on American soil has to surrender his rights to an American customs agent? What is this sorcery?

Essentially a handover deal with greatly reduced Russian troop presence...

...the practical edge lies in staying long the constructive scenario while using cheap optionality to protect against the tails that matter most...

Everyone got blown out of Korea. Leverage is gone. Vol has crashed. Valuations have reset. Now it gets interesting.

"...not a close call... It's pretty clear that pregnant women should get vaccinated,"

Gov. Healey erases final limits, joining states where viable babies have no protection...

It would be ironic that while we wait for the unemployment rate explosion as a result of chatbot agents taking millions of white collar data-heavy jobs, the unemployment rate would actually drop thanks to all those who were long AI stocks. 

The state says it's looking out for the value of its pension fund's 160,000 shares of NY Times stock. The newspaper sees the demand as an intimidation tactic.

"We are aware of reported sightings..." 

 

Critics alleged a pay-to-play scheme, pointing to large donations (roughly $145 million) to the Clinton Foundation...

Roughly $272,500 of the $425,000 she took from World Learning was taxpayer money. She was sentenced to probation.

Semis lagging. Korea washed out. Puts dirt cheap. And everyone is chasing the upside.

In California, Maryland, New York, Oklahoma, and Virginia, homeschool students are barred from public school sports...

... unanswered questions about what happened to $51 million in reported assets. 

 

Oil prices extended on gains albeit in a choppy fashion amid reports of ships targeted in Bab al-Mandab and Gulf of Oman.