Dreaming of a White Christmas? America’s 6 Craziest Holiday Snowstorms.
Larry Levine/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Newsweek and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Snow can turn Christmastime into the magical, winter holiday you might be hoping for. But so far this week, it appears much of the country will miss a white…
A Tribute to My Improbable Tea Party Friend
Robin Stublen, on his birthday last year, before he was diagnosed with cancer.Courtesy of the Stublen family Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On paper, Robin Stublen and I should never have been friends. He was a Donald Trump-supporting self-identified redneck who hated Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, thought liberals were…
Christmas Eve in Southern California
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Your Periodic Reminder About the Republican Corporate Tax Cut of 2017
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Under the new Republican tax law, big corporations will get a permanent tax cut of 14 percentage points. You will get a tax cut of about 1 percentage point—until it expires, that is, at which point your taxes will be…
Raw Data: The S&P 500 Price-Earnings Ratio
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s the price-earnings ratio for the S&P 500 since World War II. Right now it’s hovering a little above 25. In the past three decades, it has never reached that point without leading quickly to either a deep correction or a full-blown recession.¹ Of course,…
Thinking About Investing in Bitcoin? Take a Look at How It’s Ruining the Planet in Real Time.
This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Let me freak you out for a second. You know what bitcoinis, right? I mean, no, but quickly, it’s a “cryptocurrency” that’s basically secret computer money. One bitcoin, which doesn’t actually have a real, physical form, is worth at this moment upward…