Where to Watch July 4 Fireworks in the New York City Area
Numerous firework displays are scheduled to light up the skies in and around New York City this Independence Day, including the 47th annual Macy’s Fourth of July celebration, which will…
Despite Battle Over Politics, Florida Tourism Rolls On
For months leading up to Jean Franco Rivera’s one-year wedding anniversary, he had the perfect plan to celebrate: Travel to Disney World and go on all his favorite rides with…
A Bond Built Over Coffee Leads to Success in Love and Business
Erics Kun was fighting yawns the first few times he and Sahra Nguyen got together in the fall of 2016. This was no reflection on her. After staying up all…
France Arrests Hundreds More in Fifth Night of Unrest
Several cities in France were surveying the fallout on Sunday after protesters clashed with riot police and hundreds were arrested during another night of violent demonstrations, the fifth in a…
Why Buy Anything You Could Borrow (Especially If You’re Renting)?
Brooke Renteria moved to a studio in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, from California two years ago. All she had to unpack were her suitcases. The unit of less than 400 square…
Reading the Tea Leaves on the End of the War in Ukraine
The Russian invasion of Ukraine that began in February last year has led to the biggest war in Europe in many generations. Even before the Wagner Group — the 50,000-strong…
California reparations: How do you put a price on racism?
To calculate the cost, the task force looked at state data on the financial impact of harms in five categories: health, housing discrimination, unjust property takings, devaluation of black businesses,…
Links 7/2/2023 | naked capitalism
UPDATE Triage, organization, and bucket-tossing complete. Sorry for the excitement! Patient readers, I reset my computer clock to attempt to deal with the Twitter debacle, and having done so, forgot…
Climate Risk Stress Tests Underestimate Potential Financial Sector Losses | naked capitalism
By Henk Jan Reinders, PhD researcher at Rotterdam School Of Management, Erasmus University, Economist at The World Bank, Dirk Schoenmaker, Professor of Banking and Finance, Rotterdam School of Management at…
Opinion | Biden Is Trying to Co-opt Trump’s Biggest Strength
Back in May, Jake Sullivan, Biden’s national security adviser (and a key aide, before that, to both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama), made this explicit during a speech to the…