How Did Chicago Turn Parking Meters Into Wall Street Gold?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The second item that caught my attention as I was whiling away my day in the infusion center was this: Investors on track to recoup entire investment in Chicago parking meters by 2021, thereafter enjoying 62 more years of gross revenue as pure profit https://t.co/XdILw1mywG…
American Car Companies Just Don’t Care Very Much About Europe
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. While I was being infused this morning, a couple of items caught my eye that I bookmarked for later research when I was back in front of my desktop computer. The first is American market share of the European auto market. Note that this has…
Morning Joe’s Mika Brzezinski Says Donald Trump Pressed Her for the Name of Her Cosmetic Surgeon
Steven Senne/Chris Kleponis/AP/Zuma Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Almost a year ago, in the early hours of a Thursday, President Trump took to Twitter and launched an angry attack on Morning Joe co-anchor Mika Brzezinski. The provocation might have been Brzezinski’s ardent on-air criticism of the president, but it…
Illinois Just Ratified the Equal Rights Amendment
A woman cheers as feminist Gloria Steinem takes the stage at the Women’s March on Washington on January 21, 2017, in Washington, D.C. Alex Edelman via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Wednesday night, the Illinois House of Representatives narrowly voted to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, the…
Is a Lousy Economy Responsible for the Baby Bust?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over at Vox, Alex Press says that it’s not just teen birthrates that are down. Birthrates are down among all age cohorts. But why? That brings us to the economics. Following a significant drop in the birthrate after the 2008 recession, women are continuing to…
Canada, Europe Getting Slapped With Steel Tariffs
SIPA Asia via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Trump mad! President Trump smash bad Canadians! Tariffs start at midnight: Chuck Bradford, a U.S.-based metals analyst, said there would be “no effect” on Canadian steel producers, who will “just charge more for the steel.” Their U.S. customers, he said,…