Monthly Archives: August 2022
3 Reasons NOT to Tap Your Home Equity Right Now
(Liz Weston, NerdWallet) Soaring real estate values mean many homeowners are awash in equity — the difference between what they owe and what their...
Cubans Flee Island’s Economic Woes by Air, Land and Sea
(AP) One Cuban man endured a trek through eight countries that lasted more than a month. Another man paid a small fortune for a...
Evicted Tenant Kills 3 After Setting Fire to Lure Victims
(AP) A man evicted from a Houston apartment building shot five other tenants — killing three of them — Sunday morning after setting fire...
The Rise of ESG and Centralized Control
(Kimberlee Josephson, American Institute for Economic Research) Traditionally, investments in entrepreneurial ventures were based on expectations for a favorable return given the risks involved....
Hospitals Cut Jobs and Services as Rising Costs Strain Budgets
(Kaiser Health News) Bozeman Health had a problem, one that officials at the health system with hospitals and clinics in southwestern Montana said had...
Low Fuel Inventories Cause Concern in Northeast
(AP) Diesel and heating oil supplies in the Northeast are more than 50% below the recent average, raising concerns that an extreme weather event...
Ponzi Schemer and Epstein Mentor Hoffenberg Confirmed Dead
(AP) Medical examiners confirmed Friday that convicted Ponzi schemer and Jeffrey Epstein mentor Steven Hoffenberg was the person found dead in a Connecticut apartment...
Zuckerberg Explains to Joe Rogan Why Facebook Censored the Hunter Biden Laptop Story
(Patrick Carroll, Foundation for Economic Education) In a recent Joe Rogan podcast, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg explained the chain of events that led Facebook to censor...
L.A. Residents to Decide if Vacant Hotel Rooms Offered to Homeless
(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) In the 2024 elections, Los Angeles residents will be voting to decide if vacant hotel rooms should be offered to homeless people.
According to CNN, there are...
At $249 Per Day, Prison Stays Leave Ex-Inmates Deep in Debt
(AP) Two decades after her release from prison, Teresa Beatty feels she is still being punished.
When her mother died two years ago, the state...
