6 Reasons Why the Poor Stay Poor and Middle Class Doesn’t Become Wealthy To hear people on the left, the poor have no agency, no control whatsoever over their own lives. To hear people on the right, anyone can pull themselves up by their bootstraps and increase their net ... 04/28/2024 - 5:00 am | View Link
Here's the annual income you need to fall in America's lower, middle, and upper class — plus 3 simple tips to boost you up the ladder Commercial real estate has beaten the stock market for 25 years — but only the super rich could buy in. Here's how even ordinary investors can become the landlord of Walmart, Wh ... 04/28/2024 - 12:13 am | View Link
The Hartford Announces Strong First Quarter 2024 Financial Performance First quarter 2024 net income available to common stockholders of $748 million ($2.47 per diluted share) increased 41% from $530 million ($1.66 per diluted share) over the same period in 2023. Core ... 04/25/2024 - 5:14 am | View Link
This is what a middle-class budget in Chicago looks like compared to Madrid, Spain This is what a middle class budget in Chicago looks like compared to Madrid, Spain. The definition of a middle class salary and lifestyle varies between countries, as does the existence of a safety ... 04/11/2024 - 2:00 am | View Link
Former Trump attorney Jim Trusty weighs in on how the jury may react to an exchange between former President Donald Trump's attorney and Stormy Daniel's former attorney during Trump's criminal hush money trial.
Russian state-affiliated accounts have boosted their use of TikTok and are getting more engagement on the short-form video platform ahead of the U. S. presidential election, according to a study published Thursday by the nonprofit Brookings Institution.
The report states that Russia is increasingly leveraging TikTok to disseminate Kremlin messages in both English and Spanish, with state-linked accounts posting far more frequently on the platform than they did two years ago.
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Such accounts are also active on other social media platforms and have a larger presence on Telegram and X than on TikTok.
Mike Lindell was a great American success story, coming from nothing to owning a successful business. From being a crack addict to earning millions from his flourishing business. And then he threw it all away for Donald J. Trump, a raging narcissist, possibly a sociopath, who is hungry for power.
The pillow salesman is looking rough these days.
Even before he formally announced his campaign to be the Republican candidate to run against Senator Tammy Baldwin, Eric Hovde has been getting hammered on the fact that he is living large in Laguna Beach, California, so that he could do hands on management of his banks out west.
In a lame effort to counter this, Eric Hovde made what just might be the most cringeworthy video of this campaign season by going out in an icy lake, because he apparently thinks that is what Wisconsinites do, and then challenging Baldwin to join him in the water:
Considering the fact that the only time you will find a Wisconsinite in a frozen lake is during a New Years Day Polar Bear Plunge or if their ice fishing shanty fell through the ice, he didn't convince a lot of people.
Tax justice advocates this week are expressing hope that delegates at a United Nations summit aimed at drafting an international tax convention will take the "once-in-a-century opportunity," as one campaigner and researcher said, to place the common good at the center of the global tax system instead of individual and corporate greed.
Representatives of U.