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We did find a few local factors that may have mattered.
But they all paled in comparison to what matters most: Places with more nonwhite voters shifted farther to the right. And that's a national story, not just an urban one.
A populist uproar forced Anthem to back off imposing cost controls on anesthesiologists. That is bad, and illustrative of why healthcare is so expensive in the United States.
Leading cnbc discussion this morning: "best government money can buy," "the oligarch era," "kleptocracy," "when you're a billionaire...desire for making a lot of money doesn't get away"
Romanian high court just canceled the presidential election over allegations of social media disinformation? Uhhh
Earthquake in SF?
Happy to be proven wrong, I don't know the truth, but this emerging claim that the UnitedHealth CEO was killed over an insider trading lawsuit seems nuts. Fortune 500 firms get hit with these lawsuits all the time, why the hell would an assassin care about this in particular?
SMU monitored 700,000 online sports bettors. Less than 5% withdrew any profit
The rest were were losers 3% of the losers lost so much they made up for 50% of the revenue
My article today - How one of the world's richest men, Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang, is on pace to dodge $8 billion in taxes: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/business/nvidia-jensen-huang-estate-taxes.html
My turbocentrist take is that leftists celebrating murder are deranged cosplayers exploiting violence for online engagement & right-wingers reflexively defending the insurance industry serve as a reminder that many are hopelessly servile to corporate America's worst abuses