Yeah, I get that the actual regs call for a freeze. But Trump summoning automakers to the White House to get them to not comply with lower emission standards = asking automakers to produce more emissions than they would otherwise produce. 

No. Trump wants the auto manufacturers to not comply with California’s emission standard. He is, in fact, urging them to produce cars with emissions higher than what they are willing to do to.

I understand the Republican belief that eliminating regulations is good, but what’s the point of urging car manufacturers to raise emissions? Like, isn’t the whole point of eliminating regulations to give business the freedom to do what it wants? And if what it wants is even better for the Earth, why fight it?

“McDonald’s wants you to help it advertise its coffee.” 

Bingo. Old, gullible consumer base is too good to pass up.

Bond traders are now considered “the Left?” That’s funny. Every bond trader I know is on the right half of the political spectrum.

That’s weird. I was living in NYC at the time and was watching for the giant price drop. It never came because of the Wall Street bailout. Prices dipped about 10-15%, which is not bad, but it didn’t become the fire sale I was looking for.

That’s funny. Neither I nor my retired parents are 1%ers but we paid more in taxes last year than the year before. Significantly more. I paid more because of the elimination of the SALT deductions, but my retired parents had basically the same income and their federal taxes doubled.

The problem with using industries that are heavily reliant on interest rates as predictors of recessions is that historically, recessions have been caused by the Fed raising interest rates to combat inflation. Tightening credit will shrink the economy- that’s almost by definition. Currently, rising interest rates have…

Wall Street Journal news operation = prestigious.

They gotta shorten that overhang a little.

I can’t wait for the county to tell everyone that his cam had malfunctioned.

Nothing says “rubber stamp bullshit board” like a board with 76 members.

If I paid for my son to take Princeton Review, and he went to Syracuse, I’d be fucking pissed.

It’s kind of different to say that all black people are entitled because they have a victim mentality, which is obviously racist, and saying that a black man who keeps smoking a joint when cops pull him over is entitled.

This is the canary in the coal mine. Trump’s trade policy (read: none) and his unpredictable tweets are killing hedge/private equity funds’ ability make money. A lot of them are invested in China. Scaramucci knows this, suspects that we’re at the top of the market with nowhere to go but down, and is trying to get…

Many owners of meat plants are not Republican, and they choose to locate the plants in red states because labor is cheaper.

LGA has been this way ever since construction started, so like . . . 5 years now? If you’re still stupid enough to fly in and out of LGA, you get no sympathy.

I’m going to BK for the first time in a decade because of this. I started going to White Castle last year because of the Impossible Slider, which is hardly a reputable meat-quality burger.

morningstar patties are disgusting. I’ve tried every fake-meat burger option and none of them come close to Impossible. Even Beyond Burger is nowhere near.