I really hope that Harris wins Iowa since that would be a big damper to Trump declaring victory.

Not every sector has.

What is showing itself as a major weakness in retirement saving is that a lot of retirement account managers think that bonds are relatively safe when they really aren’t.

The Great Recession went bad because they miscalculated the risk of two unrelated mortgages going bad.

When Covid hit, the increase in interest rates devalued a lot of bonds, something that wasn’t seen since the 1980’s.

Most of the people here who are confused by your accounts’ performance probably have a mix of index funds tied to a basket of stocks.

That’s messed up.

Yeah. You can protest against the politician you voted for.

I thought Mpox is rather controllable right now as the smallpox vaccine works on it.

There are enough Cuban refugees that make it a big enough issue that the embargo stays.

He won it in a Total Recall.

Collective guilt combined with massive Israeli political pressure.

It depends on where. There are some toll highways that are 12+ lanes wide.

The best argument to toll every Interstate quality highway is that the toll revenue acts as a pretty good use tax. It is the reason why most toll highways are in better condition than free ones.

And figuring out how to fund free highways in the future is going to be a lot harder when the number of gas vehicles goes down and the gas tax, a pseudo use tax, isn’t enough to fund maintenance.

He’s bragged about doing it before. I don’t see how this would affect his popularity.

The CDC has been held up as the example of what could be done. The organization that became the CDC started in Atlanta, but it shows you don’t need to be near Washington, DC to be important.

The idea is to move more research based organizations to lower cost cities since they don’t have to be in DC to be effective, the federal government could save on living expenses, and the agency could act as stimulus to the area.

You get what you pay for.

I’m saying boo-urns.

Yahoo under Mayer seemed to have the same strategic issue as Yahoo before Mayer; it didn’t know what to do with what it had.

Tumblr should still be a giant in social media. Flickr should have been a better used product than Google Photos and the basis for building their cloud storage service.

Yahoo could never figure out the step 2 required before making a company profitable.

Can they revoke a franchise that quickly?

And it turns out there aren’t a lot of franchises in Palestine.

It is more that the cost of operating a dining area isn’t worth it for a lot of fast food restaurants.

You have to dedicate staff time to maintaining the dining area. You also have have to maintain a public restroom, even if it is only for customers. At best, you only get the random biohazard of someone shitting themselves. It then slides to being the bathroom and living room to an unhoused population or a place where junkies go to do heroin.

The original McDonald’s didn’t have a lobby. You were supposed to eat the food in your car.

It looks like McDonald’s is trying to get back to its roots.

It was a franchise that did it, and a shitty one at that.