Bitcoin Makes Tulips Look Cheap
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For all you bitcoin skeptics out there, here’s a lovely chart from Jeremy Grantham that compares bitcoin to other famous bubbles in history: In other bitcoin news, I’ve wondered aloud several times about how many bitcoin trades involve real money vs. other cryptocurrencies (tether, ethereum,…
California Is Doing Fine, Thank You Very Much
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Whenever I see an op-ed insisting that California is a total, um, shithole of a state, I always check the credit line at the bottom. Four times out of five it comes from City Journal, often by professional California scold Kerry Jackson. Sure enough, that’s…
Can This Colorado City Really Afford 100-Percent Clean Energy?
Historic South Pueblomilehightraveler/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The first things you see driving down from the Rocky Mountains into Pueblo, Colorado, are smoke stacks. Three big ones sprout from the Comanche coal plant at…
Maternal Deaths Are Increasing in Texas, But Probably Not as Much as We Thought
NataliaDeriabina/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by ProPublica. A startling spike in recent years in the number of Texas women dying as a consequence of pregnancy or childbirth has spurred a furious debate over whether deep funding cuts to reproductive health services are to blame. A…
White House Denies Reality Yet Again
Alex Edelman/CNP via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In his recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, President Trump said “I probably have a very good relationship with Kim Jong Un of North Korea.” It was certainly a peculiar thing to say. Today, instead of explaining it, the ever…
Can We Please Get the Mark Wahlberg Feeding Frenzy Right?
TriStar Productions/Entertainment Pictures via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Chris Barton of the LA Times reports that Mark Wahlberg and his agent will donate $2 million to Time’s Up in an effort to make amends for the huge fee Wahlberg got for reshoots of All the Money in the…