The Federal Reserve cut its target federal funds rate last week by 25 basis points, half of the 50 basis points that Wall Street had hoped for. That came after …
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Recent news brought to light that Apple contractors frequently listen in to people’s sexual encounters. Their job is to monitor conversations overheard by Apple’s Siri voice assistant and perform quality …
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One thing that has characterized political debate in recent years is the profusion of insults that pass for argument. Chief among them is one of the oldest in the book, …
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If there’s a country that could challenge North Korea for world’s least predictable government, Turkey would have to be it. Recent actions taken by the Turkish government have people scratching …
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More and more research is being done all the time to discover the importance of gut bacteria to overall health. Whereas once the gut was all but ignored, the huge …
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Hugelkultur comes from a German term for hill culture, and it refers to a method of growing plants in mounds or hills. Those mounds are created by placing together a …
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Special Counsel Robert Mueller testified before Congress last week in appearances that were widely panned. The consensus was that Mueller left Democrats with egg on their faces. Many analysts noticed …
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Attorney General William Barr has gone on record to ask that all tech companies provide backdoors into their encrypted products. According to Barr, consumers should be willing to accept the …
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Many of us know that stock markets have always been a poor proxy for judging the health of an economy. But most people do it anyway. When stock markets do …
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We like to think of America as a free country. Many of us expect to be able to do whatever we want as long as we’re not bothering anybody. But …