In the latest socially distanced episode of ourUseful Idiots podcast, hostsMatt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by Ryan McMahon and Jon Thompson of the Thunder Baypodcast. For “Democrats Suck,” Katie dives into former President Barack Obama’s new best-selling memoir A Promised Land, particularly the section in which Obama laments …
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This story appears in the June 2020 print edition of Rolling Stone. In late April Marko Kolanovic, a financial analyst for JPMorgan Chase, wrote to clients with good news. Pandemic aside, investors should expect stock prices in S&P 500 companies to return to record numbers some time early next year! …
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