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For many of you who hate waiting overnight or even a few hours to get stuff, your long national nightmare is (at least partially) over: Amazon announced the launch of its 30-minute delivery option, dubbed “Amazon Now,” in dozens of U.S. cities. This ultra-fast delivery option will allow customers to shop across “thousands” of items, Amazon says, i...
There's only one way to explain the continued rise of the stock market as the Iran war continues: As a forward-looking-discounting mechanism, it believes that there will be a resolution at least on the Straight of Hormuz so that the economic dislocations going on will end and normalcy will return. But, think about what happens: (i) if there is no ...
In the May 12 Spelling Bee (as seen below), "conman" produced a "not on our word list" response. I submitted a "suggest a word" on their form and sent them a blistering email about how outrageous it was not to include a word unqualifiedly accepted by Merriam-Webster (as seen below).