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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…

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…

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…