For the fabulously wealthy, paying taxes is pretty much optional. They can borrow against their vast wealth, which is mostly an untaxed capital gain, without paying taxes. When they die, the capital gain goes to zero. And loopholes exist to bypass the estate tax too.
“Billionaires who popularized stock-based lending include Larry Ellison and Elon Musk. Both borrow to avoid having to sell shares—which could trigger a taxes and dilute their voting rights—in companies they founded.”
www.wsj.com/finance/the-...
Growing body of evidence demonstrates that Trump was an active participant in Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women and "DOJ and FBI are doing everything they can to keep the American people in the dark about it." - House Judiciary Democrats democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
EL-SAYED: I get that the President takes personal offense to my first name. He doesn't mind as much when it's the Saudis who are funding his son-in-law's private equity. Doesn't seem to mind as much when it's the Qataris who are giving them a $400 million private jet…
Rally speaker: "Mike Rogers is an American. Abdul has a birth certificate. The birth certificate says he's a citizen of America. You know what? a birth certificate doesn't make you an American."
Oil markets are increasingly pricing persistent elevated oil prices. How investors are unprepared for this new reality, free on the blog app this week:
bobeunlimited.substack.com/p/higher-for...
SLOK: “.. Revenue per worker is rising for the Mag 7 but is flat for the S&P 493. .. Mainstream corporate America is pulling back and starting to view token spending not as a source of growth but as a cost center that weighs on margins.”
@bloomberg.comwww.bloomberg.com/news/article...
A would-be governor cannot run a state while picking which political donors to sue.
Rick Jackson’s GloriFi mess is an extreme conflict. As former ethics czar, I told @nytimes.com: not in a million years would I allow this arrangement in government. -TN
JENKINS: “.. Trump says and does whatever, in his cynical mind, he thinks will benefit Mr. Trump in the next five minutes. This is a universal theory of Trump behavior to which I have yet to find a significant exception.”
www.wsj.com/opinion/amer...
JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story.
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...
“The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”
— United States Constitution, Article II, Section 4
Eight months in, the decision to go to war with Iran is looking like the worst presidential decision since the last Republican president blundered into a needless Middle East war.
“.. The world’s richest man poured $446 million of his own money into this year’s midterm elections, mostly aimed at preserving the Republican Party’s control of Congress, recent election filings show.”
@washingtonpost.comwww.washingtonpost.com/elections/in...
We’ve allowed Trump et al to normalize this kind of cruelty and misogyny in politics. But now it must stop. This man must be pilloried and trounced on Election Day. Or these animals won’t stop.
I still believe the people of Ohio will reject this cartoon villain.
Vivek Ramaswamy mocks Amy Acton for being raped by her stepfather and abused by her biological mother, saying she "complains about what someone else did to her."
Aside from being legally ridiculous, Trump's Alaska gambit is just dumb. Will only pump up Dems. But that is Trump -- a stupid autocrat, a lawless bumbler. Alaska voters can make that perfectly clear and defy attempts to take away their votes.
The pedophile protection party’s president is laundering right-wing conspiracy theories through the most corrupt DOJ in American history.
Whenever the news turns bad, this creep reaches for one name: mine. So let’s make it crystal clear. My name has always been Ilhan Omar.
What does Jared Kushner actually do with all that Saudi oil-dictator cash?
After Trump hyped a massive gas plant and Amazon data center in tiny Homer City, Pa., Kushner and his Arab money bought into the project
It's a climate disaster
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/hype...
BOB RUBIN: “.. When I talk to leaders in business and politics, .. they do not tend to take Mr. Trump’s attacks on voting seriously. That’s another way of saying that the markets are not pricing in what I consider a meaningful risk.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/o...
If your elderly relative routinely blew up at women and insulted them, grossly sexualized other men in public, regularly fell asleep in public mid-meeting repeatedly, and babbled incoherently you'd put him under care and not let him make important decisions.
It’s a strange strong nominal economic growth environment:
-basically no free cash flow/shareholder returns from the biggest, most profitable companies leading the boom
-not much money being returned to investors in PE funds
-record-low housing transaction levels
I'm not kidding, the guy simply has to be at the very least deported at the end of this. If we're doing "he's not from here" shit, he is the most not from here guy alive. He needs jail or deportation the second it's viable to do it.
“.. They offered her $10 million a year for four years along with a range of bonuses. .. At the time, Ms. Habba was also a senior adviser to Attorney General Pam Bondi, overseeing U.S. attorneys.”
@nytimes.comwww.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Top Trump adviser Ric Grenell allegedly outlined a stunning pay-for-influence offer to a Turkish billionaire last year that included access to Trump, according to a text message reviewed by Axios that the White House counsel is investigating.
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Top Trump adviser Ric Grenell allegedly outlined a stunning pay-for-influence offer to a Turkish billionaire last year that included access to Trump, according to a text message reviewed by Axios that the White House counsel is investigating.
It's a story the media is afraid to touch
With Trump facing a Dem Congress, the question is becoming less about whether POTUS will try to upend democracy, but how
2 veteran DC insiders think the keys to a Trump coup are locked in a White House safe
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
Yesterday, Trump ally Mark Zuckerberg tried to squelch the voice of the people. He failed. More than seven million people came out for No Kings rallies.
Now we need to ensure that Trump, Musk, Zuckerberg, and other powerful authoritarians inside and outside the government, fail again on November 3.