admin June 25, 2022 at 8:00 am EDT North Plains, Ore., Mayor Teri Lenahan, outside of the town’s library. (Leah Nash/For The Washington Post) NORTH PLAINS, Orc. — Since the day she heard the golf tournament was coming to town, Teri Lenahan, the mayor of this 3,400-person city on Portland’s outskirts, has been worrying about things … Read more
It seems like “everybody” these days is saying we’re going into recession. So: are they right? I’ve covered the markets and the economy for four decades, and I can’t recall a time when more people — or at least prognosticators, economists, and bankers — were more certain that an economic downturn was imminent. And if … Read more
👋 Want to work with us? CryptoSlate is hiring for a handful of positions! The volatility that has become synonymous with the crypto industry has not deterred institutions from participating in it, hedge funds investing in crypto are at an all-time high, according to PwC’s 2022 Global Crypto Hedge Fund Report. The annual report surveys … Read more
Musicians, athletes and other celebrities are using their platforms to respond to the US Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade and Casey v. Planned Parenthood on Friday. The conservative-heavy court’s decision has already triggered abortion bans in a number of states and has sparked protests across the country. Singer Lizzo, in the wake of … Read more
Yet a big question still facing investors, lenders and anyone trying to navigate the still-hot housing market is whether the Federal Reserve will start selling its trove of mortgage holdings to fortify its inflation fight. The central bank is so far trying to counter inflation by more traditional means: raising benchmark interest rates. No doubt, … Read more
This is an editorial opinion by Rowdy Yates, a former Marine and practicing lawyer. What’s It Backed By? One of the most common criticisms from nocoiners remains, “But bitcoin isn’t backed by anything.” This criticism targets bitcoin’s dearth of a quality that I term “correlated-redeemability.” The most common rejoinder to this criticism is, “Your US … Read more
This is an editorial opinion by Joe Moffett, a creator and author. He is dedicated to philosophizing and extreme deductive reasoning in a world of hot takes. Aristotle had a lot to say about money, but what would he have said about bitcoin? “There are two sorts of wealth-getting, as I have said; one is … Read more
Kendall Jen and her NBA boyfriend allegedly split after their relationship Devin Booker was not progressing Reports began swirling this week that the duo had brought the curtain down on their romance for about two years. And now an insider has claimed to Page Six: ‘After two years they had the ‘where is this going’ … Read more
But extracting wax from our ear channels is precisely why most of us buy Q-tips in the first place. The humble Q-tip was so perfectly designed for this purpose that it turned into a generic word for a product. Yet, somehow, we use it for the very thing it specifically warns us not to do. … Read more
From his humble beginnings in Mississippi, to his Graceland mansion in Memphis, Elvis Presley’s net worth at the time of his death was a fortune fit for a king—especially when we’re talking about the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll himself. However, his net worth him at the end of his life pales in comparison to … Read more