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Two emerging questions. 1. Just how fragile is our current economic ecosystem? 2. How big is the shock wave? Consider, Netflix just took a massive beating when its subscriber numbers dropped, leading to a massive stock value drop, followed by a directional shift. Now, another of the FAANG monsters gets its turn in the ducking…

The world has been watching the siege of Shanghai, starving people in perpetual lockdown and subjected to mass testing in pursuit of Zero COVID. Is Beijing about to join the party? Not the Communist Party.The other party. The lockdown party. Beijing will conduct mass testing of most of its 21 million people, authorities announced Monday,…

The party that claims to be all about women’s rights, really doesn’t want them to have even the most basic rights. Like the right to privacy in the bathroom. A Kansas state lawmaker said she isn’t thrilled about having to share a restroom with her “huge” transgender Democratic colleague. Rep. Cheryl Helmer made her stance known in…

Call it the new Age of Aquarius.  While a growing share of U.S. adults are religiously unaffiliated, there is one belief that appears to unite a significant share of them: astrology. YouGov’s latest poll finds that a little more than one-quarter of Americans (27%) – including 37% of adults under 30 – say that they believe in astrology,…

It’s not Putin’s price hike, it’s Biden’s. And he insists on reminding us of that every few days. The Biden administration on Monday reversed a Trump administration plan that would have allowed the government to lease more than two-thirds of the country’s largest swath of public land to oil and gas drilling. The Bureau of…

Much like police defunding, lefties might want to check with the constituency they claim to be protecting. In this poll, a majority of black respondents agreed with most other New Yorkers that eliminating bail was bad for New Yorkers. 60% of white people, 44% of Latinos, and 46% of black people all said that it was…

Awesome news from an unbiased source. Nearly 9 in 10 young Americans are in support of the government taking action on student debt. That’s the finding from a survey conducted by the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School.  The highest share of young adults interviewed by Harvard – 38% – favor the full cancellation of…

The problem with equity is who’s more equitable? And who gets the blame for it?  Having learned nothing from San Francisco, another California school boss is in trouble for her remarks about Asians. Superintendent Cheryl James-Ward is reportedly filing a lawsuit against the San Dieguito Union High School District (SDUHSD) after its board placed her…

Elon Musk actually buying Twitter seemed wildly implausible, but we live in a world in which human rights groups protest the lack of censorship, so we certainly live in an implausible world that is anything but the best of all possible worlds. The Left, its activist groups and media outlets (but I repeat myself) keep…