Crisis Risks Looming, UK Edition | naked capitalism
Yves here. The Bank of England and Fed are engaged in economic malpractice on a large and increasingly dangerous scale. The Fed did recognize that its post-crisis experiment with super…
Dick Butkus, Fearsome Hall of Fame Linebacker, Is Dead at 80
Dick Butkus, the Chicago Bears’ famously hard-hitting Hall of Fame middle linebacker of the 1960s and ’70s and a selection for the N.F.L.’s 100th anniversary all-time team, died on Thursday…
Remembering Senator Dianne Feinstein: ‘She Showed the Way’
Almost everyone on the stage outside San Francisco’s City Hall on Thursday afternoon was a woman: the vice president, the former speaker of the House, the city’s mayor and more.…
How Do You Fight Bird Flu in France? Vaccinate 64 Million Ducks.
To protect its flocks and its foie gras from the ravages of bird flu, France has begun a mass vaccination of 64 million ducks. The campaign, which started this week,…
‘Too Young for Me!’: A Senior Center Watches ‘The Golden Bachelor’
After Zumba class wrapped up at the Oakland Senior Center on Friday, regulars gathered around a projector screen with mocktails and plates piled with cheese and crackers to watch the…
Opinion | If Moderate Republicans Were Brave, They Could Save the House
Now that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has been tossed aside, one possible choice to replace him is Steve Scalise, the Louisiana Republican who once reportedly described himself as “David Duke…
Opinion | Will Voters Send In the Clowns?
I’m not a historian, but as far as I know, America has never seen anything like the current political craziness. There have been bitter disputes within Congress — in 1856,…
George Santos campaign aide pleads guilty to fraud
Nancy Marks admitted to falsifying hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign finance reports.
U.S. Will Build Stretch of Border Wall and Begin Deportations to Venezuela
The Biden administration on Thursday said it would expand former President Donald Trump’s wall on the Mexican border and begin deporting thousands of Venezuelans in an effort to cut down…
Trump Endorses Jim Jordan in Race for House Speaker
The two leading candidates to become the next Republican speaker of the House worked the phones and the halls of the Capitol on Thursday, vying for support from within their…