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President Biden accelerated the regulatory state on his first day in office by ordering agencies to consider aspirational but vaguely defined goals and benefits when imposing new rules on businesses large and small. The order greenlighting regulations even when the benefits “are difficult or impossible to quantify” sent shudders down the spines of CEOs. They fear business growth will … Read more

by laflammaster Caption: $750,000 https://www.sec.gov/rules/other/2021/…   Caption: $24,000 https://www.sec.gov/rules/other/2021/…

The Commission “will retain the authority to inspect, examine, and supervise those SBS Entities’ compliance and take enforcement action as appropriate.” https://www.sec.gov/rules/other/2021/34-93412.pdf     h/t laflammaster

Now we know why the Pope canceled a live broadcast with Biden on Thursday. When Joe Biden met with the Pope on Friday, he uttered a line that is so awkward that it defies belief. Watch: “You’re the famous African-American baseball player in America.” The purported President of the United States actually said this to … Read more

Prices for gasoline in one of nation’s major cities reached an all-time on Thursday— the highest average price ever recorded in the United States, according to fuel savings platform GasBuddy. Average prices for the fuel in the San Francisco metro area reached a new all-time high of $4.75 a gallon, breaching the previous record of … Read more

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not much to be said that isn’t already in the screenshot but yeah, we live in an oligarchy where the rich can do whatever they feel. Bonus bonus: the actual ruling he won has been blocked. Read more: https://amazonwatch.org/news/2014/1029-judge-kaplan-held-investments-in-chevron-when-he-ruled-for-company h/t  scentlessgrape

Democratic cries to ‘defund police’ fade in U.S. mayoral races as crime surges Oct 29 (Reuters) – Felicia Moore, Atlanta’s city council president, vows to hire 250 police officers to help combat her city’s rising crime rate if she is elected mayor next week. Her most prominent Democratic rival, former Mayor Kasim Reed, wants to … Read more

Ticket prices on the secondary market for Friday night’s World Series game at Truist Park remained above $1,000 as of Thursday afternoon, and some of those tickets came without a seat. Some sellers on StubHub, the official fan-to-fan ticket marketplace partner of MLB, and other resale sites were seeking between $1,000 and $1,300 for standing-room-only … Read more

Cuomo sex crime case: New York sheriff says ‘we have an overwhelming amount of evidence’ A New York sheriff said Friday that “we have an overwhelming amount of evidence” against former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a day after a criminal complaint accused him of a sex crime against an aide. Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple also … Read more

The contractors working for the Austin Code Department had been mowing the lawn of a home in an upscale neighborhood for an hour on Wednesday when bullets suddenly began flying from inside the house. What had begun as a routine enforcement of a local ordinance quickly devolved into a five-hour standoff, police said. By the … Read more

A white-haired, green-eyed pixelated character known as a CryptoPunk 9998 just sold for more than half a billion U.S. dollars — or so it appeared — the latest wild development in the booming non-fungible token space. But the Ethereum blockchain shows the money from the NFT trade ended up right back where it started, raising the question of why … Read more

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