In early 2024, MicroStrategy (MSTR) became a meme stock favorite thanks to its close ties to Bitcoin. If you rode the hype to its peak in March, hopefully you cashed out before hedge funds began shorting it heavily and going long Bitcoin instead. How would you have known that hedge funds would begin plunging the stock? Like most traders, you ...
The Biden administration is accusing Russia on Wednesday of trying to influence the 2024 U.S. presidential election by targeting American voters through state-run media and other online platforms as part of a campaign referred to as ‘doppelganger.’ Attorney General Merrick Garland, speaking alongside FBI Director Christopher Wray and Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, said prosecutors today have unsealed an indictment ...
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., unveiled a plan to avoid a partial government shutdown at the end of this month during a lawmaker-only phone call Wednesday morning. Johnson is aiming to hold a vote on the measure as soon as possible, likely next week, two sources familiar with the call told Fox News Digital. House GOP leaders hope to link ...
David Inserra On August 31, Brazil’s judiciary blocked X from being available in the country due to X’s refusal to secretly censor important political content. This includes content from accounts outside Brazil and even sitting legislators. More radically, the rogue justice Alexandre Moraes ordered app stores to block various virtual private networks (VPNs) and created a brand new penalty for ...
Polling is a useful tool in politics, if somewhat blunt and slow, and this weekend Democrats were taking no small comfort in a ABC/Ipsos survey showing Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump by 4 points nationally. But the important thing about this poll is not the margin. After all, Rasmussen has Trump up by 2 points. Nobody knows which is right. ...
James Bacchus One of the few issues our two major political parties appear to agree on is their mutual embrace of protectionism in international trade. They are both increasingly committed to raising barriers to trade while ignoring the global rules that make freer trade possible. Yet a recent national survey by the Cato Institute shows that, with some quibbles and ...
Roughly 11 months have passed since former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s historic ouster in October 2023. Now, his successor, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is navigating the same fraught political web on government funding that amounted to one of McCarthy’s ‘final struggles’ – but it is not yet clear that he will meet the same fate. House Republicans are huddling ...
With regard to the new movie ‘REAGAN,’ I fully admit to a very large and enduring bias in favor of the former president. I worked as a writer in the White House of President Ronald Reagan from 1987 until the end of his administration in January 1989. More than that, I was blessed to share a deeply personal and emotional ...
The freedom of flexibility is why a dynamic pricing strategy is the solution you have been waiting for to elevate your company to the next level Dynamic Pricing Strategy Businesses are now more adaptive and essentially intuitive when it comes to revenue management and this is thanks to having well-manicured strategy systems in place. Supply and demand is a continuously ...
Labour’s plan to overhaul the non-dom tax regime could cost the UK government up to £1 billion as wealthy individuals flee the country, a report by Oxford Economics has warned. The proposed reforms, which will take effect from April 2025, aim to replace the current system allowing non-doms to avoid tax on overseas income for up to 15 years with ...