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Trump 2.0 Trump crows about champagne tariffs while stocks plunge yet again Carla Sinclair

politics John Oliver: Britain's 14-year decline more about austerity economics than Brexit, but all of it sucked Rob Beschizza

John Lennon The fool in Steely Dan's "Only a Fool Would Say That" is John Lennon Elías Villoro

We can give you two tens JP Morgan attempts to put out the fire on TSLA Jason Weisberger

Cassandra Sentinel intelligence, explained Jennifer Sandlin

Tom The Dancing Bug A brand new, epic Tom the Dancing Bug book is out! Tom the Dancing Bug: Eat the Poor! Boing Boing

tabloids Are the tabloids in a death spiral? Peter Sheridan

let them eat cake Ivanka tells 18 million out-of-work Americans: "Find something new!" Carla Sinclair

Economy Another 4.4m filed for unemployment last week Rob Beschizza

Business U.S. weekly jobless claims 5,245,000 last week Xeni Jardin

Business Arbitrage nomads are stripping the carcasses of America's dying big-box stores and moving the choicest morsels into Amazon warehouses Cory Doctorow

canada Canada's housing market is slowly but surely imploding, and Canadians are more exposed than the US was in 2008 Cory Doctorow

trump After Trump nicknames himself "Tariff Man" the stock market plunges Carla Sinclair

work Ghosting is now happening at the workplace too Rusty Blazenhoff

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class war 2018 tsunami: Teachers lead mass strikes in four red states that voted for Trump in 2016 Cory Doctorow