Yesterday, hundreds of employees of the Carnegie Library system in Pittsburgh voted to unionize with the United…
Is a recession coming? The very nature of time assures us that, yes, sooner or later, a recession—like all…
If I were to ask you: “Who are ‘the new birthers?’” What might you say? I bet you cannot guess what the actual,…
Forty years ago today, BusinessWeek ran a famous cover story declaring “The Death of Equities.” Since then, equities have risen by 7,000%. That’s “kind of embarrassing,” the magazine admits. Points for honesty. Read more
The Trump administration is like the morally bankrupt black hole at the center of a galaxy of craven, depraved…
New research finds that “employees who have a white male advocate often end up with higher pay, and most of those employees are white men. Women—particularly black and Hispanic women, are the least likely to have such a lucrative connection.” Meritocracy! Read more
Luxury fitness chain Equinox has been in the news after evil billionaire owner Stephen Ross decided to host a Trump…
Uber, a machine for using investment money to artificially subsidize car rides, lost more than $5 billion last quarter. Heh. It’s gonna crash and burn before it destroys public transportation after all! Calling it now. Invest in buses. Read more
Well well, the evil billionaire chief of Equinox gyms is holding a big Trump fundraiser, and now Equinox customers…
You probably didn’t pay much attention to Monday’s 767-point drop in the stock market, because you were thinking…
Lloyd Blankfein, Jeff Bezos, and Jared Kushner’s brother all partied on David Geffen’s mega-yacht last weekend, yet the boat did not sink—proving that there is no god. Read more
When times are troubled, when disasters happen, when it feels like we are facing an unfolding national crisis, it is…
Milk: creamy dream, or homogenized disaster? Fortunately we have a platform from which to explore this topic, for…
Last week, we published a story showing that Andy Stern, the longtime former leader of one of America’s most…
Now that Night Two of the Democratic debates is officially underway, we can report that every single one of the 20…
This guy Tim Ryan has a real look about him. Where’s this joker from—Boston?
New research shows that being bought by private equity firms raises a large public company’s probability of bankruptcy by 1000%. Best of luck to our friends at Univision. Read more
Billionaire hedge fund manager Leon Cooperman has written an op-ed in the FT today revealing that he is,…
A mind-boggling optical illusion has divided the internet after appearing to show a black-and-white picture of girls—…
Here is what we talk about in the “political” world: blah blah Trump, blah blah Pelosi, blah blah terrifying slide…