Shanahan talked about her hardscrabble upbringing in Oakland, relying on government assistance before becoming “very wealthy later on in life."
New York City's high property taxes aren’t the result of discrimination; they’re just one example of a dysfunctional tax-assessment system that burdens homeowners and discourages new housing construction.
In many ways, director Doug Liman’s re-imagining of the 1980s cult hit Road House can be seen as a companion piece (and low-key rebuttal) to the many machismo-drenched Indian action movies that we’ve recently seethed at. At one point in the first act, the hyper-violent protagonist’s love interest, a doctor, declares that she’s fed up with rage-filled maniacs clogging up her ER room after nightly brawls. And towards the end, a chirpy child assures him that while he isn’t the hero of this story,...
Canada’s housing minister openly mocked Ontario Premier Doug Ford on social media Friday over his concerns over fourplexes. Throughout the week, the premier has made it clear that he does not support a provincial mandate to build fourplexes in residential neighbourhoods—something that both the Ontario Housing Affordability Task Force and the federal government have recommended. Later, he clarified he was just against four-storey “towers.” “You have to differentiate between putting four...
A new chapter in the Sam Bankman-Fried saga: On Friday, federal prosecutors asked a New York judge to sentence the founder and former head of cryptocurrency exchange FTX to between 40 and 50 years in prison. They cited claims that Bankman-Fried participated in a “historic fraud” and cost customers and investors at least $10 billion as the rationale behind the hefty jail time. Bankman-Fried’s lawyers have argued that five or six years behind bars would be appropriate, maintaining that he’s not an...
MacKenzie Scott, billionaire ex-wife of Amazon's Jeff Bezos, just gave away another $640 million in gifts of $1M to $2M to 361 nonprofit groups.
It's also been reported that Rishi Sunak was given a tour of Frank Hester's office, before the pair engaged in 'private talks'.
Small business focused lending startup Optimo Loan has secured $10 million in its first equity fundraise from Blume Ventures and Omnivore along with additional infusion from Prashant Pitti, the founder.Pitti, the cofounder of publicly listed travel platform Easemytrip, had previously worked at financial institutions like Capital One and HSBC in the United States.With Optimo, Pitti wants to bridge the $530 billion credit gap in MSME lending in India. Optimo will leverage technology and a phygital...
India-focused Malabar Investments is in talks to pick a Rs 80-100 crore stake in Sugar Cosmetics via a secondary deal. This and more in today's ETtech Morning Dispatch. Also in this letter:■ SaaS’ future in a Gen AI world■ AWS, Indian startups working closely■ Cedar Capital's fintech fundExclusive: Malabar may pick up Rs 80-100 crore stake in Sugar Cosmetics 108600481Vineeta Singh, cofounder, Sugar CosmeticsMalabar Investments has held talks with early backers in Sugar Cosmetics for...
For our government, its institutions, or its officials to actively censor protected speech strikes at the core of who we are as citizens of a free nation with a government created by the people, for the people.
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As he stages Shakespeare’s bracing tragedy with a cast who share the main role, the choreographer and his company’s managing director Iiris Autio discuss the upswing in Finnish danceIs this a dagger I see before me? Not at all. Macbeth is centre-stage and thrusting a hand towards a juggler’s ring instead of a weapon. A handful of rings are then fashioned into a crown that is precariously balanced atop the acrobat’s head. There are no other props, and not a damned spot of stage blood, in this...