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Trade chaos may be part of a game

You can get rich when stocks go up. You can get rich when stocks go down. When stocks go up, people who knew to buy them in advance may win big. If they go down, investors who had the wisdom to “go short” on them — that is, bet on their decline — can make a bundle. Clearly, anyone who ...

Reparations are a bad idea

A new law, buried inside an otherwise obscure piece of federal legislation, permits the Washington, D.C., City Council to establish a commission that will give “reparations” to descendants of enslaved people who can demonstrate how slavery and Jim Crow laws have negatively affected their ...

Obtuseness painfully obvious

It’s amazing how men who prided themselves on strength and toughness will submit to a gangster. In 2022, after Russian tanks rolled across an international border into Ukraine and missiles pierced the quiet of cities like Kharkiv and Kyiv, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy earned ...

Reflecting on the pandemic

National Public Radio recently posted a questionnaire on its website asking readers to reflect on their experiences when the COVID-19 pandemic shut everything down in 2020. For those who were able to quickly resume their usual routines after the World Health Organization announced an end to the ...

Heed the warning of first U.S. death from measles in a decade

Bearing in mind that any child’s death is a tragedy, many American media consumers could nonetheless be forgiven for wondering about the proportionality of national news coverage regarding the death of a single Texas child from measles Wednesday. In fact, the outsized attention to the ...

Thunder Bowl Lanes

BOWLERS OF THE WEEK WEEK ENDING 3-6-25 SATURDAY DROP IN LEAGUE BLIND DOUBLES WINNERS JUSTIN STANDEN & CHLOE ANN 1442 Sarah Nunez & Loretta Helzer 1404 MINOR MIXED JOJO POLANCO 219 149 241-609 GWEN SNARE 177 176 146-499 Off In The Corner 3 Brian Mischloney ...