The day Hillary lost? Clinton tax plan to take $550bn out of voter pockets.
Hillary Clinton wants roughly $550 billion in new taxes and fees over the next decade that have received little to no public discussion from her campaign.
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Tech billionaire Thiel admits bankrolling Hulk Hogan’s $140m sex video case
The billionaire investor and Facebook Inc. board member Peter Thiel secretly helped bankroll the defamation case that resulted in Hulk Hogan’s $140 million verdict against Gawker Media, threatening its very existence.
If BRICS ran SA: Growing Chinese media repression reflects alternate future
Alec Hogg says there is much in the BRICS that South Africa is better off without.
Bloomberg View: SA will not prosper while Jacob Zuma remains President
Unlike the 25 percent of his fellow citizens who are without one, South African President Jacob Zuma doesn’t have to worry about finding a new job – for now, at least.
Zumas nailed – Khulubuse named in global “Panama Papers” corruption expose’
Named among those implicated in this morning’s expose of the biggest international corruption scandal ever (Panama Papers) is President Jacob Zuma’s nephew Khulubuse.
Bloomberg View: Media disruption expanding, now hammering local newspapers
Does it just keep getting worse for newspapers until they die? Or is there hope, or at least a temporary respite, in sight?
Bloomberg View: Centrefold killed so that “Playboy Man” may keep on living
Megan McArdle says we know already that we’ve seen the last generation of men who will have to defend themselves by saying they read Playboy for the articles.
New York Times moves into loss as print ad revenue fallsÂ
The New York Times reported on Thursday a $14.3 million loss for the first quarter, hit by a drop in advertising revenues and one-time pension settlement costs.
Bloomberg View: Hillary Clinton caught up in financial scandal
The New York Times is probably making a mountain out of a molehill by wondering whether Hillary Clinton helped Russia’s state-owned nuclear energy company, Rosatom, buy US based uranium mining assets when she was secretary of state.
Japan is running out of options in fight against deflation
The Bank of Japan’s unprecedented stimulus and Abe’s pro-growth reforms have yet to spur a recovery in inflation and gross domestic product growth, and the country is yet again in recession.