“A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the…
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This is a stunning story. Kentucky, Oklahoma, Penn State, Connecticut, and other big public universities have spent billions on fancy campus upgrades paid for, in part, with tuition increases financed by student loans. @melissakornwsj.com/articles/state… via @WSJ
The best reason to get rid of legacy admissions at Harvard is the most powerful people in the world whose kids don't get in will engineer a PR campaign about how going to Harvard isn't important.
@Sherman1890@RrjohnR Yes, I agree it is odd to ignore so many primary sources showing the theory of the Sherman Act as a consumer welfare statute focused solely on price/output is just not a reasonable interpretation.
@Sherman1890@RrjohnR Yes, I agree it is odd to ignore so many primary sources showing the theory of the Sherman Act as a consumer welfare statute focused solely on price/output is just not a reasonable interpretation.
Not surprising when you build a giant, complex machine in a harsh environment and expect it to last: Siemens shares plunged by a third after it said turbine components are degrading faster than expected. @DoombergT @Mining_Atoms wsj.com/articles/clean…
J.D. Vance is now going after the credit card oligopoly, along with Roger Marshall, Dick Durbin, and a host of other lawmakers. @jbouiewsj.com/articles/lawma…
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The Fed decides on a whim to spend tens of billions of taxpayer dollars helping Silicon Valley bros which is cool but the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's spends $5 trying to stop a banker from charging unfair overdraft fees to poor people and it's unconstitutional.
The Fed decides on a whim to spend tens of billions of taxpayer dollars helping Silicon Valley bros which is cool but the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's spends $5 trying to stop a banker from charging unfair overdraft fees to poor people and it's unconstitutional.
Why did all commercial shipping fleets move away from wind power 100 years ago?
Because no matter how big your sails or however many you have, if you've no wind, there's no power.
You are becalmed.
Same with windmills to make electricity.
A fatal flaw.
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