Gov’t capping credit card int. rates at 10% won’t help consumers. It will restrict lending, raise costs, and reduce choice. If lenders can’t be compensated for the risk of unsecured lending, they will stop lending. And consumers will have to turn to more expensive alternatives
Vladimir Putin intends to rebuild the Soviet Union, and he uses the most brutal forms of torture to accomplish his mission. We must accept the reality that this is his goal.
Unlike MAGA, Ronald Reagan understood that foreign aid is vital to America’s national security and economic interests:
“You know the excuses: We can't afford foreign aid anymore, or we're wasting money pouring it into these poor countries, or we can't buy friends…all these excuses are just that—excuses—and they're dead wrong…Is there anyone who believes that we in America would live in as good a world and be as secure if we could turn back the clock and undo the Marshall plan?”
If ByteDance were a normal market actor, they would have taken the tens of billions of dollars people are willing to offer them.
But they are not a normal market actor. TikTok is a weapon in the hands of Xi Jinping, and only changing the ownership structure will fix that.
Not the results I personally wanted, but I’m grateful to live in a democracy & respect the outcome. My congratulations to the Trump-Vance team. A bright spot: I am hopeful that the admin will be aggressive in trying to free American hostages being held in captivity by Hamas.
#bringthemhome
Van Jones with absolute moral clarity:
"The Palestinian cause has been hijacked by a Nazi organization called Hamas, they are not freedom fighters, they are freedom takers... They are trying to destroy Israel way more than they are trying to help the Palestinian people."
Both presidential candidates have big spending plans, but economists say Trump’s proposals carry the greater risk of stoking price increases https://t.co/rpRaFmR3DS
We’ve never lived in a moment in modern history where so many Sr Military Officials & political officials have warned about the danger a POTUS they served under poses to America.
Let that sink in.
40 years ago today: @springsteen releases his “Born in the U.S.A.” album — with its iconic hit single, made famous by the video directed by Brian De Palma.
Shot live in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Two takes.
Wins Bruce his first Grammy.
“Dancing in the Dark”