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[Editor’s note: What follows is Tim Price’s hilarious, satirical take on a recent Financial Times fawning article on “Lunch with Ben Bernanke” by associate editor Martin Wolf.] — After literally saving the universe while at the helm of the US Federal Reserve, its former chairman is now quietly pursuing lucrative
High up Yuntai mountain in China’s Henan province is a glass bridge that lets tourists walk out across the sky and look down at the lush valley floor over 3,000 feet below. Glass walkways like this are quite popular across China, stunning visitors with both beauty and the thrill of
It wasn’t that long ago that you could travel from one corner of the world to another with nothing but your good looks. There are people still alive today, in fact, who were born into a world where passports were not widely used for international travel. The passport itself is
It was just weeks ago that the US government barely averted a debt ceiling shutdown with a last-minute bill to kick the can down the road until December. This gave them 2 months to tackle a problem that’s been decades in the making, with a debt that now totals nearly
Now I’ve seen everything. For anybody who thought that the Obama phone or giving out food stamps to 50 million Americans was ridiculous, the Turkish government is taking campaign promises to a whole new level. “Once you have a job, salary and food. What is left? A wife.” Turkish Prime
1,426. That’s the number of Americans who renounced their US citizenship last quarter according to the US government’s report just released this morning. That’s a record high for a single quarter, easily beating the last record high set earlier this year, which beat the previous record high set in 2013.
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