Author: nick

Affordability has become the latest go-to buzzword for politicians across the ideological spectrum. Food has received special focus, with everyone from New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani to President Donald Trump pledging to make mealtime cheap again. But despite all the rhetoric, both parties continue to push policies that spike the cost of groceries and meals. Earlier this year, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a portion of the Trump administration’s tariffs, but the decision did not affect Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum. These metals still face a 50 percent tariff rate. The impact can be felt in grocery store aisles…

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Six weeks of war have revealed that bitcoin’s floor depends entirely on a handful of mandated buyers absorbing what everyone else is trying to get rid of. What to know: Bitcoin’s price has stayed in a relatively tight range around $65,000 to $73,000 during six weeks of war, but that stability masks a market increasingly dependent on a small group of mandated institutional buyers. Strategy, U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs and a few other institutional channels now provide most of the sustained buying, while whales, mid-tier holders, miners and even Bhutan’s sovereign holdings have been selling or sharply slowing accumulation. The…

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Two years after the U.S. Senate held hearings on the threat that comic books purportedly posed to American youth, a Rhode Island commission reported its findings on the subject to the state legislature. “After months of study of this demoralizing material, it seems to us that what’s at stake here is the decency of society,” the 1956 report said. “The issue is not censorship but one of self-defense.” Although “we can do little other than urge the publishers or producers to clean house,” the commission said, “there is a definite responsibility on the distributor and retailer alike to avoid feeding our children a constant diet of…

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Getty Images and Unsplash+. The long and serpentine queue at the refuelling station is a simple reminder that the world cannot run without fuel. In the current situation, we have to consider various options to address the energy crisis in Bangladesh. Bangladesh, like many other countries, is suffering due to the oil crisis caused by the most recent geopolitical war. Wars are waged for the control of natural resources, driven by resource magnetism. The colonial era was heavily motivated by the plundering of natural and cultural resources. Some farmers are concerned about the possibility of irrigation amid the oil crisis…

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