Good news this week for anyone on the East coast dreaming of a white Christmas — they may get their dream come true a little early. Winter storm Carly is bearing down on that part of the country, as is a blast of wintery cold — goodie,...
On this day 83 years ago, the United States government pulled the plug on one of the great failures of social engineering in American history — prohibition. The 13-year effort to curb alcohol consumption with a universal ban was pretty much a bust. The experts estimate...
We cannot report that the holiday shopping season got its start this weekend — because we are committed to honesty in our reporting. The holiday shopping season got its start right around the time that we were all packing away our Halloween costumes. But despite its...
It has been, to put it mildly, a full two weeks with lots to watch. Jamie Dimon and President-elect Donald Trump’s “one-step forward, two steps back” dance over the role of Treasury Secretary, earnings reports, Samsung upping the ante in the loyalty/rewards arena, and, well,...
There are now a little over 24 hours left until the election finally happens, and Americans are breaking down into two camps. No, not Democrats and Republicans. American is now populated by people who are refreshing their news sources every ten minutes trying to get a last-minute glimpse of...
Most people know the expression “truth is stranger than fiction,” though a smaller number know that it comes via American quote factory Mark Twain. An even small number then that know the quote has a second half: “but it is because Fiction is obliged to...
The top news of the week has, of course, been political scandals of all stripes, but at this point, cataloging it all would actually require an entirely separate Data Dive. We somehow imagine that everyone has had enough already, so we’ll skip happily to the sanguine world...
A full week in the news. EMV officially got to celebrate its first birthday, and while perhaps the cheers were less than rousing, the jeering was also fairly muted. American Express got to enjoy the big win of the week when an Appeals Court judge overturned an...
In something of a strange switch for the news media last week, reporters nationwide decided to split their time between covering both the immediate past and the immediate future. A person who has been watching CNN, MSNBC or Fox News out of the corner of...
