Visa, Mastercard Prepare to Raise Credit-Card Fees(wsj.com)

47 points by marban 3 years ago | 47 comments

Germany Is Losing Its Mojo. Finding It Again Won’t Be Easy(wsj.com)

21 points by TMWNN 3 years ago | 27 comments

How to pronounce the trickiest English words(wsj.com)

68 points by lxm 3 years ago | 195 comments

Chromebooks Were Once a Good Deal for Schools. Now They’re Becoming E-Waste(wsj.com)

30 points by lxm 3 years ago | 31 comments

When Markets Melt Down, These Traders Cash In(wsj.com)

45 points by ksajadi 3 years ago | 34 comments

Hotel Owners Start to Write Off San Francisco as Business Nosedives(wsj.com)

56 points by rgrieselhuber 3 years ago | 59 comments

Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules(reason.com)

773 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 385 comments

Reason article reporting that the D.C. Circuit ruled police cannot hold seized property indefinitely after an arrest, calling it unconstitutional.

One in ten people are older than 65. Three in four live under a leader who is(hannahritchie.substack.com)

50 points by gumby 12 days ago | 22 comments

Hannah Ritchie's Substack post analyzing the ages of world leaders and how long they've held power compared to the populations they govern.

Elon Musk's foundation is opaque, miserly and self-serving(economist.com)

12 points by kensai 9 days ago | 2 comments

An Economist business article arguing that Elon Musk's charitable foundation is opaque, gives away little, and serves Musk's own interests.

CEO of data privacy company Onerep.com founded dozens of people-search firms(krebsonsecurity.com)

549 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 142 comments

KrebsOnSecurity investigation finding that the CEO of data-removal service Onerep.com, operating from Belarus and Cyprus, founded dozens of people-search sites.

Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon(wilsoniumite.com)

466 points by Wilsoniumite 8 months ago | 597 comments

A personal blog post revisiting the author's failed prediction of a 2025 US economic crash and arguing a crash may still be coming, using data such as FRED unemployment charts.

Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely(old.reddit.com)

520 points by rajeevk 3 years ago | 549 comments

An r/technology discussion thread on old Reddit linking an Independent article reporting that the Reddit blackout protest will continue indefinitely.