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Overvalued and ready to sell some shares while the getting is good. Trump’s Truth Social reveals $58m loss as auditor raises doubts about viability. Shares dropped by as much as 25% as investors scrutinize fundamentals of company’s business....
by annieli
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on Mon Apr 01, 2024 at 11:22 AM PDT
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Really a fairly conventional fraud and not so much about crypto, a rival executive had expressed concerns on social media about the finances of Bankman-Fried's crypto exchange, spooking customers into a multi-billion dollar bank run. Sam Bankman-Fried...
by annieli
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on Thu Mar 28, 2024 at 10:27 AM PDT
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Purportedly Trump’s net worth is now $9B, which simply makes him (even more) gross on a cap of $15B. Will this bail him out or simply be icing on a cake left out in the rain. Allegedly Trump brought to his first Stormy Daniels encounter, a fresh issue...
by annieli
22 comments
on Tue Mar 26, 2024 at 11:43 AM PDT
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Money still counts even at $23 x 1018 dollars. Where will Trump get the cash on Monday even if he’s only an ultra-lite villain at 215 pounds, wet. Hard Work, Talent, and Luck is not his law firm, but his ideology is some form of Crypto, likely fascism....
by annieli
8 comments
on Fri Mar 22, 2024 at 06:56 AM PDT
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Property concepts at risk again as at least in the UK, Craig Wright is not the inventor of Bitcoin. Charles Ponzi didn’t think what he did was illegal, and historical revisionism is always a hot stock. LONDON, March 14 (Reuters) - An Australian...
by annieli
12 comments
on Fri Mar 15, 2024 at 09:35 AM PDT
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Lawrence O’Donnell gave us a couple of reasons why dumping President Biden now would be a terrible mistake if we want to win the 2024 presidential election. First, Lawrence points out that President Biden is polling better against Donald Trump than any...
by Dem
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on Thu Feb 22, 2024 at 08:20 AM PST
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Every year, my next door neighbor went down to the local strip mall to have his taxes done, by a professional tax preparer. The company advertised on prime time. He had no reason not to trust them. My neighbor had grown up in the Depression. His mother...
by MeJean
7 comments
on Thu Feb 08, 2024 at 05:55 PM PST
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The Delaware Chancery Court ruled on Tuesday that a nearly $56 billion compensation package awarded to Tesla CEO Elon Musk in 2018 was invalid. The decision was made by Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude ...
by Mark Sumner
99 comments
on Wed Jan 31, 2024 at 01:25 PM PST
with 256 Recommends
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In one of his free-associative rants, Trump went on about how he would not let his followers be “de-banked” for their political beliefs. Which isn’t really a thing. Now, he may have had his hostages martyrs minions in jail on his mind. Admittedly, a...
by strawbale
9 comments
on Sun Jan 21, 2024 at 04:24 PM PST
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Bad Madoff. Faulty neoliberal capitalism where corruption and theft get rationalized. Is Sam Bankman-Fried now the exemplar for the excesses of the Effective Altruism movement, especially when he tried to front end his legal defense with a rebranded...
by annieli
18 comments
on Thu Nov 02, 2023 at 10:30 PM PDT
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“The corruption that hides in plain sight is the real threat to our democracy…Under current law, campaign contributions are illegal if there is an explicit quid pro quo, and legal if there isn’t. But legal campaign contributions can be as bad as bribes...
by frankfaiola
12 comments
on Sat Oct 21, 2023 at 03:39 PM PDT
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Gazans, who have been subjected to decades of systemic oppression under Apartheid Israeli occupation, have been in favor of tempering positions against their occupiers while remaining defiant towards occupation and insistent on reclaiming territory...
by greenandblue
47 comments
on Sun Oct 08, 2023 at 03:00 PM PDT
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The greed of VISA and the big banks is driving a return to transacting in cash. The fee is just too high to ignore. - The convenient gas station has cash pricing. - The vendors at the farmers’ market take cash or charge a fee for using a credit card. -...
by SCRW56
29 comments
on Sat Sep 02, 2023 at 11:14 AM PDT
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Politics is corrupt I don't have to tell people here that American politics is broken. We all have a sense that our representatives do not listen to their constituents. In a landmark paper, Gilens and Page clearly demonstrated this disconnect. They...
by DrSpike
23 comments
on Fri Sep 01, 2023 at 09:31 AM PDT
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This is going to ramble, so grab a snack.
I was listening to the excellent Print Run podcast the other day and they were discussing a couple of trends they felt were interrelated — the purchase ...
by angryea
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on Mon Aug 21, 2023 at 05:00 AM PDT
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Make no mistake, we are in the midst of a global climate crisis. Much of the globe is experiencing deadly wildfires, floods, and record-shattering heat waves.
As long as the climate crisis remains ...
by Erin Tulley
20 comments
on Tue Aug 22, 2023 at 01:00 PM PDT
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More capital than brains. Want to bet? The company that operated the Titan released a promo video boasting about its “very safe” submersible just weeks before the vessel catastrophically imploded. Online gamblers bet hundreds of thousands of dollars on...
by annieli
35 comments
on Mon Jul 03, 2023 at 11:11 PM PDT
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The GOP recently unveiled their latest tax plan in a trio of bills that are a testament to the party's continued prioritization of the rich and corporations over everyday Americans. Their ...
by msouza
21 comments
on Wed Jun 28, 2023 at 09:00 AM PDT
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In the wake of the recent debt ceiling crisis, we must examine the political maneuvering that has pushed us to the edge of an economic catastrophe. Once again, we found ourselves in a situation where extremist Republicans used the threat of defaulting...
by msouza
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on Tue Jun 13, 2023 at 08:13 AM PDT
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In another blow to the notorious Conservative Political Action Conference, one of the top officials at its funding organization has called it quits, citing mismanagement by top dog Matt Schlapp. Bob Beauprez resigned this week after being the American...
by Walter Einenkel
66 comments
on Sat May 27, 2023 at 07:30 AM PDT
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