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The Great American Tax Hike
https://americanconsequences.com/the-great-american-tax-hike-trish-regan/
Joe Biden’s tax plan, explained
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22336892/joe-biden-tax-hike
Biden’s Rescue Plan Won't Reduce Poverty
https://mises.org/wire/bidens-rescue-plan-wont-reduce-poverty
Biden Adviser Cecilia Rouse Vows ‘Aggressive’ Moves to Reduce Inequality
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-18/biden-adviser-rouse-vows-aggressive-moves-to-reduce-inequality
To Tackle Inequality, We Need to Start Talking About Where Wealth Comes From
https://evonomics.com/to-tackle-inequality-we-need-to-start-talking-about-where-wealth-comes-from/
NYC man sells fart for $85, cashing in on NFT craze
https://nypost.com/2021/03/18/nyc-man-sells-fart-for-85-cashing-in-on-nft-craze/
Market Manias Galore, But Long-Term Interest Rates Smell a Rat
https://wolfstreet.com/2021/03/18/market-manias-galore-but-long-term-interest-rates-smell-a-rat/
Powell Fed Is in It to Win It Despite Bond-Market Inflation Fear
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-19/powell-fed-is-in-it-to-win-it-despite-bond-market-inflation-fear
Will ‘Running the Economy Hot’ Really Help Workers?
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-03-19/will-running-the-economy-hot-really-help-workers
A Crisis of Long-Term Unemployment Is Looming in the U.S.
https://hbr.org/2021/03/a-crisis-of-long-term-unemployment-is-looming-in-the-u-s
COVID hollows out the middle class everywhere, pushing millions into poverty, new research finds
https://fortune.com/2021/03/18/covid-middle-class-shrinks-poverty-pew/
HUD: Growth Of Homelessness During 2020 Was 'Devastating,' Even Before The Pandemic
https://www.npr.org/2021/03/18/978244891/hud-growth-of-homelessness-during-2020-was-devastating-even-before-the-pandemic
An ‘Affordability Crisis’ Could Hit Key Housing Markets. These Ones Are the Most Stretched.
https://www.barrons.com/articles/housing-market-affordability-crisis-home-builder-stocks-51616101866
On The Verge Of A Global Crisis: One Bank Warns Of A "Biblical" Surge In Food Prices
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/verge-global-food-crisis-one-bank-warns-biblical-rally-food-prices
Need Amid Plenty: Richest US Counties Are Overwhelmed by Surge in Child Hunger
https://khn.org/news/article/richest-us-counties-overwhelmed-by-surge-in-child-hunger/
Bank stocks just hit their highest level since 2007. Two traders on when to buy in
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/19/bank-stocks-just-hit-their-highest-level-since-2007-when-to-buy-in.html
Penny Stocks Are Booming, Which Is Good News for Swindlers
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/18/business/penny-stocks-trading.html
U.S. to erase $1 billion in debt for students scammed by for-profit colleges
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/student-debt-for-profit-college-forgiveness-1-billion/
Cybercrime Is Booming and It's Costing America Billions
https://gizmodo.com/cybercrime-is-booming-and-its-costing-america-billions-1846503330
Surge in gun violence is stress test for Oakland's defund the police campaign
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/mar/19/defund-the-police-gun-violence-surge-oakland
CHILLING: California Police Reform Bill May Ban Christians From Law Enforcement
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2021/03/18/witch-hunt-calif-bill-may-exclude-conservative-christians-from-police-departments-n1433573
Don’t Discount Evangelicalism as a Factor in Racist Murder of Asian Spa Workers in Georgia
https://religiondispatches.org/dont-discount-evangelicalism-as-a-factor-in-racist-murder-of-asian-spa-workers-in-georgia/
Atlanta Shooting and America's Legacy of Anti-Asian Violence
https://time.com/5947723/atlanta-shootings-anti-asian-violence-america/
Two Asian People Were Attacked In San Francisco A Day After The Atlanta-Area Spa Shootings
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/juliareinstein/two-asian-people-attacked-san-francisco
Study finds Trump’s ‘Chinese virus’ tweets closely linked to anti-Asian hate online
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-tweets-chinese-virus-asian-hate-b1819504.html
‘I Am Not A Virus’: Rep. Ted Lieu Urges His GOP Colleagues to Stop Using Ethnic Identifiers to Describe Covid
https://www.mediaite.com/news/i-am-not-a-virus-rep-ted-lieu-urges-his-gop-colleagues-to-stop-using-ethnic-identifiers-to-describe-covid/
Texas Rep. Pretty Sure Hearing On Anti-Asian Violence PERFECT Place To Call For Lynchings
https://www.wonkette.com/texas-gop-rep-pretty-sure-hearing-on-anti-asian-violence-perfect-place-to-call-for-lynchings
Rep. Grace Meng Gives Powerful Rebuke to GOP Rep. Chip Roy’s Racist Remarks
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/grace-meng-asian-americans-chip-roy-1144054/
Rep. Chip Roy Walks Back ‘Rope’ and ‘Tree’ Comments: No, He Does Not Support Lynching or Vigilante Justice
https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/rep-chip-roy-walks-back-rope-and-tree-comments-no-he-does-not-support-lynching-or-vigilante-justice/
Sen. Warnock Accuses Sen. Ron Johnson Of ‘Racism And Moral Blindness’ Over Jan. 6 Comments
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2021/03/18/sen-warnock-accuses-sen-ron-johnson-of-racism-and-moral-blindness-over-jan-6-comments/
Fired-Up Rand Paul Takes Fauci to Task During Heated Senate Hearing
https://www.westernjournal.com/fired-rand-paul-takes-fauci-task-heated-senate-hearing/
As Rand Paul Fights Fauci on Masks, COVID is Coming Back in Michigan, New Jersey
https://www.newsweek.com/rand-paul-fights-fauci-masks-covid-coming-back-michigan-new-jersey-1577262
Covid Spiking In Over A Dozen States—Most With High Vaccination Rates
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2021/03/18/covid-spiking-in-over-a-dozen-states-most-with-high-vaccination-rates/
Scientist behind coronavirus shot says next target is cancer
https://apnews.com/article/technology-world-news-coronavirus-pandemic-coronavirus-vaccine-d6fd143e9fd9b4bd50d0c1cb697b6dab
New monkey model of Alzheimer’s disease may accelerate search for human treatments
https://www.statnews.com/2021/03/18/monkey-model-of-alzheimers/
Psychedelic Drugs to Treat Pain in Workers’ Compensation Cases?
https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2021/03/19/302655.htm
Doctors Found Jet Fuel in Veteran’s Lungs. He Can’t Get Full Benefits.
https://khn.org/news/article/military-veteran-toxic-exposure-burn-pits-health-care-benefits-lung-disease/
China Buys More Iranian and Venezuelan Oil, in a Test for Biden
https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-buys-more-iranian-and-venezuelan-oil-in-a-test-for-biden-11616146203
In First Talks, Dueling Accusations Set Testy Tone for U.S.-China Diplomacy
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/18/us/politics/china-blinken-sullivan.html
Mr. Biden, Enough With the Tough Talk on China
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/19/opinion/us-china-biden.html
Biden Administration To Russia's Putin: POTUS 'Is Not Going To Hold Back'
https://www.ibtimes.com/biden-administration-russias-putin-potus-not-going-hold-back-3165174
After Biden’s ‘killer’ comments about Putin, time to make a break in Russia-US relations; further engagement is pointless for now
https://www.rt.com/russia/518573-biden-putin-killer-comment-escalation/
Getting along with killers: Historian Sergey Radchenko reviews the bad blood and diplomatic restraint of U.S.-Russian relations over the decades
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2021/03/19/getting-along-with-killers
Life after death for the neoconservatives
https://asiatimes.com/2021/03/life-after-death-for-the-neoconservatives/
The Blob Is Back Under Biden
https://inthesetimes.com/article/joe-biden-foreign-policy-donald-trump-the-blob
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