The Right Thing: Should I tip my food delivery person? jeffreyseglin.blogspot.com/2025/09/should…

Retail credit card rates remain sky-high. Bankrate’s new study finds the avg APR is 30.14% — 63 cards top 30%, and some reach 35.99%. Great if you pay in full, but carrying a balance could cost you dearly. bankrate.com/credit-cards/n…

Robinhood has filed to register a listed closed-end fund that'll invest directly in a concentrated portfolio of 5+ privately-held 'frontier companies' (definition shown in screenshot). Relaxing of illiquidity limits in CEFs prob has made this possible. spr.ly/6015AP98h

I'm not sure where he's getting his information, but JD Vance is lying about The Nation magazine. We'd welcome donations from anyone who respects our editorial independence, but we're not funded, not one dime, by Soros or Open Society Foundation.

Top 5 online savings accounts by APY as of 9/15/2025 & thread on online savings account (OSA) yields and how OSA & money market fund (MMF) yields have changed since the first Fed rate cut (9/18/2024):

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This aged well.

Hey, Grok, how many new jobs were created during the Biden administration?

Where has all the leadership gone?  If not for university presidents, law firm managing partners, and corporate chief executives standing up against bullies, who then will step up for the first amendment?  The “suspending indefinitely” of Jimmy Kimmel immediately after the

On Morning Joe today: ‘The World’s Worst Bet’: How globalization went wrong, leaving workers behind msnbc.com/morning-joe/wa… via @msnbc

Border Czar Tom Homan was caught by the FBI accepting bribes - on camera - to deliver government contracts in exchange for $50,000 in cash. Pam Bondi knew. Kash Patel knew. Emil Bove knew. And they made the investigation go away. A corrupt attempt to conceal brazen graft.

Applebaum: Russia occupied Poland, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia after WWII. It's exactly the same. They arrest teachers, policemen, mayors in Ukraine, put them in filtration camps, move people to prisons in Crimea and Russia. Ukrainians disappear like in the gulag. 1/

And the sound that I'm hearing is only the sound of The low spark of high-heeled boys

For the Union Dead One of my favorite poems. poetryfoundation.org/poems/57035/fo…

July 1935 German generals were called to a surprise assembly in Berlin and informed that their previous oath to the Weimar constitution was void and that they would be required to swear a personal oath to the Führer. Most generals took the new oath to keep their positions.

Please everyone in #WarRavagedPortland post your best photographs of the devastation there so that you will not suffer alone!!

FWIW, here’s the documents

How long it really takes to recover from crashes: 1907 Panic: –48% … 10 years to make new highs. 1929 Great Depression: –89% … 25 years to recover. 1973 Oil Shock: –45% … 9 years to recover. 1987 Black Monday: –36% … 2 years. 2000 Dot-com Bust: –78% Nasdaq … 15 years to

Trump plan would limit disability benefits for older Americans washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…

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