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"Wall Street is sinking again, following other global markets, as worries deepen about whether President Trump’s trade war will torpedo the global economy." Wall Street is sinking again, following other global markets, as worries deepen about whether President Trump’s trade war will torpedo the global economy. https://t.co/jM58qFisL1 — Los Angeles Times (@latimes) April 7, 2025 Jumping ship: Four more Wall Street strategists cut S&P 500 target on Trump’s tariffs https://t.co/0u8E3VrVIJ — CNBC (@CNBC) April 7, 2025

Rachel Maddow explains how Trump’s tariffs policy came from his economic advisor Peter Navarro, who invented a fake expert in his books to justify it “Ron Vara is an anagram of Navarro.” Jared Kushner found Peter Navarro, an economist and senior counselor for trade and manufacturing for U.S. President Donald Trump, after Kushner browsed Navarro's book "Death by China" on Amazon and asked him to join Trump's 2016 presidential campaign as an economic adviser. “At one point, Ron Vara wrote in the memo that Trump could, quote, ‘Ride the tariffs to victory,’” Maddow said. The problem is, Ron Vara doesn’t exist. He never has. The economics expert that Peter Navarro has long cited to explain why he’s so gung-ho on tariffs, this person, Ron Vara, is a made-up person.” “He is a fictional person. Peter Navarro invented Ron Vara as his expert source, so he could quote this expert source over and over and over again in his crackpot books,” she continued. “Who is Ron Vara? R...

Every July 1st until 2035, Bobby Bonilla receives a nice little pay day from the New York Mets. TSN baseball insider Steve Phillips talks about the infamous Bobby Bonilla 25 year buyout with the Mets that Phillips was involved in. Happy Bobby Bonilla Day. Bobby gets his 14th installment of $1,193,248.20 today. There's 11 years and $11,932,482 left. The Mets have paid him $16,705,474.8 so far for him to *not play* the 2000 season. pic.twitter.com/MABQvc8zE5 — Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) July 1, 2024

We finally hit the $100 Google Adsense threshold and should be getting a Google payment soon It only took three years this time! 😁  As you can see in the image, the last (and first) Google payment was issued on January 27, 2021. If Google issues the payment by June 27, it will only have taken three years and six months. The last Google Adsense payment of $120.10 in 2021 took FIVE YEARS, if memory serves. Can you imagine if I had a big family who could click on my links, and make comments on my posts?! I could make $100 per month! Per day even. Let's see if I made $100 per day times 365 days, that's $36,500. Not bad right? In comparison, here's Facebook's ad revenue: Meta, formerly known as Facebook Inc., reported a total revenue of $134.9 billion for the 2023 fiscal year, which is about $369 million per day. This is an increase of 15.6% from the previous year. Facebook's primary source of income is digital advertising, and it's the leading platform for social m...