The opportunity created for Enterprise by the turmoil in the banking industry, combined with a possible recession, is that it can pick up clients as competitors make fewer commercial loans, said Jim Lally, president and CEO, Enterprise Financial Services
Hazelwood-based courier company Associated Couriers LLC said it will begin using drones to transport medications through a collaboration with San Francisco-based drone company Zipline.
Today really is the start of the French Open, so here's a pair of pictures of Court Simonne Mathieu, the newest of the courts at Roland Garros. As you can see in the top picture, it's a sunken court. The entrance leads to the top level, not the bottom. The bottom picture shows the court ...continue reading "Lunchtime Photo"
An op-ed in the New York Times today caught my eye: "The Real Reason Your Groceries Are Getting So Expensive." This got me curious: are groceries getting more expensive? I haven't checked for a while. Here's the answer: Food inflation peaked in early 2022 but it's been plummeting since then. Groceries are still more expensive ...continue reading "Grocery prices are going down"
Just as a minor historical note about the debt ceiling, it has been killed off before—for nearly 15 years. Dick Gephardt did it in 1979: He consulted the parliamentarian. "I asked if there was a way that when we pass the budget [the debt ceiling] can be deemed 'raised' to accommodate the budget people are ...continue reading "We haven’t always had a debt ceiling"
Hundreds of people flocked to a small town in Missouri this week and last to see a Black nun whose body has barely decomposed since 2019. Some say it's a sign of holiness in Catholicism, while others say the lack of decomposition may not be as rare as people think.
A new study of online news in 2020 has produced some dramatic—if unsurprising—results about consumption of misinformation between conservatives and liberals. It's a little complicated so I've split it into multiple simpler charts. Here's the first one: The top set of points shows raw exposure: it's what Google shows you when you perform a search. ...continue reading "Conservatives actively want to believe only lies"
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