I’ve been an Amazon Associate for many years, which means I’ve gotten a small commission on every Amazon order that comes through a link on this blog. Years ago I used to make around $6K a year from those links, … Continue reading →
The situation was a vote on the minimum wage hike to $15, but for some people the issue was not primarily the hike itself but the process by which it was being voted on. It was attached to the so-called … Continue reading →
A good point is made here in some commentary on the GameSpot hedge fund wars: One of the perennially frustrating things about “the people,” in their collective incarnation and also as individuals here in America, is that they are middle … Continue reading →
Glenn Greenwald with some thoughts, including a caveat about who’s doing the buying. Among other points he makes, he points out that although much of the recent buying of GameStop stock has been driven by the redditers, the price of … Continue reading →
Wow, just wow. Could this be true?: Now comes news that Robinhood went further than just freezing trades on GameStop; They have allegedly begun force-selling investors’ shares. On Twitter, investors began sharing their stories of being notified that their shares … Continue reading →
So I’ve spent a while trying to get up to speed on the GameStop battles. If I can be said to have a wheelhouse, this is not it, and I’m going to assume that most of my readers already know … Continue reading →
Something to celebrate, and a long time coming: On Thursday night, the island nation formally separated from the EU after an 11-month Brexit transition period. “A new era has begun for the United Kingdom after it completed its formal separation … Continue reading →
I see this move as being motivated by (a) the fact that if Trump had vetoed the bill, Congress was able to override his veto anyway or pass it next session; and (2) he was looking to the January 5th … Continue reading →
An article about the tech drain from San Francisco includes this: …[A] moral argument for tech’s responsibility to California, and specifically the Bay Area, has recently been produced. It goes something like this: young ambitious people moved to the state, … Continue reading →
Six hundred dollars of stimulus for Americans versus gazillions for pork, over five thousand rushed pages, and Congress has passed the stimulus bill at last. Trump has threatened to veto it if the amount of relief isn’t raised and if … Continue reading →
…has outraged nearly everyone on the right. Simply put, its ratio of pork to relief is high. Articles like this one are fairly typical; you can read them at almost every site. This kind of action has been typical of … Continue reading →
How important is liberty to people in the US today? It’s probably important to a higher percentage of them than in most countries – but still, a lower percentage than in previous times in the US. For example, we have … Continue reading →