All posts tagged: Dollars

Verizon Simplicity, Verizon Shine, and Verizon Dollars: What You Need to Know

Verizon Simplicity, Verizon Shine, and Verizon Dollars: What You Need to Know

Published by skeptic

I’ve been a Verizon customer since T-Mobile and Sprint merged, and I’ve always had consistent luck getting solid service, even in crowded environments and intense weather. This year, I moved states and added on Verizon Home Internet, which has also been a positive experience and is cost-effective since I get to bundle it. I already have the most expensive Verizon service plan. I also bought a new device, added a cellular plan for my Apple Watch, got YouTube Premium along with Hulu and Spotify … there’s a good chance that I’m paying my power bill through Verizon and I just haven’t realized it yet. (The last part is a joke.) Verizon just announced the new Verizon Simplicity Plan meant to reward loyal customers like me and make all these bits and pieces feel a bit less confusing. At $45, it’s priced like an entry-level plan but offers top-tier network service, plus access to perks usually reserved for premium plans, like travel passes and discounted bundled streaming services. There’s also a new rewards program with cash …

Trump, Hegseth lean on GOP to move defense dollars

Trump, Hegseth lean on GOP to move defense dollars

Published by Sam Flores

President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are in a full court press to sell GOP lawmakers on a massive funding injection for the Pentagon’s budget. Hegseth this past week spoke with senior House Republicans in at least two separate conversations to discuss military spending, with the most recent taking place Thursday at the Pentagon.… Source link

Americans Are Trading Billions of Dollars on Polymarket’s Banned Offshore Platform

Americans Are Trading Billions of Dollars on Polymarket’s Banned Offshore Platform

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Approximately 30 percent of the trading volume on Polymarket comes from the United States, according to a new study—an eye-popping number, considering that none of those people are legally allowed to use the crypto-based platform. The study, conducted by Rutgers University statistician Harry Crane, estimated that people in the US funneled between $10.6 to $26.7 billion through Polymarket. To track the platform’s activity, Crane looked at what appeared to be US-based trades on offshore prediction market platforms from May 2025 to the end of April 2026. He found that many of the highest-volume markets on Polymarket were US-centric, including those covering US elections and sporting events. US-based traders appeared to participate on Polymarket’s sports vertical at especially high rates; the study estimated that they accounted for roughly half of the activity in those markets. “It’s been known that there are individuals on there, but what hasn’t been known is the extent, whether it’s one or 10 or an actually appreciable fraction,” says Crane, who is also a member of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Innovation …

A Mid-Career Stall Is Costing White-Collar Workers Thousands Of Dollars

A Mid-Career Stall Is Costing White-Collar Workers Thousands Of Dollars

Published by Jenni Sidey

We’re all used to being told that white-collar workers have an advantage in the world because of their higher-paying jobs. It seems that even their advanced degrees and spacious offices can’t protect them from the pitfalls created by this economy and job market, though. According to research conducted by New York University’s School of Professional Studies and Burning Glass Institute, the white-collar workers society has idealized for decades now are actually losing thousands of dollars because of a crisis few talk about but many experience. These employees are, essentially, stuck. White-collar workers are facing what experts call a ‘mid-career stall.’ The researchers described this kind of stall as “a period of five or more years with no meaningful promotion and negligible wage growth.” 24.2% of employees who are considered to be “mid-career,” or 10 to 15 years from the beginning of their professional experience, have been hit with this unfortunate stall. A CBS News analysis of the research noted that this lack of mobility can add up to tens of thousands of dollars less made …

Trump Directs Hundreds of Millions of Dollars to Support Coal Using Emergency Powers

Trump Directs Hundreds of Millions of Dollars to Support Coal Using Emergency Powers

Published by Sam Flores

By Timothy Gardner and Jarrett Renshaw WASHINGTON, June 4 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump ⁠said ⁠on Thursday he is directing hundreds ⁠of millions of dollars to support U.S. coal power plants and to ship the ​carbon-intensive fuel to Asia, with most of the funding coming from Cold War-era emergency powers. Trump invoked the Defense Production Act, a 1950 ‌law granting presidents broad authority over ‌industries deemed critical to national security, to fund $425 million in upgrades to 13 coal-fired power plants and $75 million to support ⁠the proposed West ⁠Gateway coal export terminal in Oakland, California. His Energy Department also said it was finalizing ​up to $350 million in previously announced funding to help develop four coal facility projects, including new power plants in Alaska and West Virginia.  The Trump administration has framed energy policy as a national security issue to ensure electricity for AI data centers and reduce reliance ​on other countries. At an event in the Oval Office, Trump, flanked by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Energy Secretary Chris ⁠Wright, ⁠and Republican governors Mark …

The Sopranos star Jamie-Lynn Sigler claims ex-husband stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from her

The Sopranos star Jamie-Lynn Sigler claims ex-husband stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from her

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter The Sopranos star Jamie-Lynn Sigler claims in her new memoir that her ex-husband took “hundreds of thousands of dollars” without her knowledge throughout their marriage. The 44-year-old actor, best known for playing Meadow Soprano in the acclaimed HBO series, married her then-manager, A.J. DiScala, in 2003. They divorced three years later. In her autobiography And So It Is…, Sigler writes that she hired a forensic accountant during the divorce proceedings who told her: “There are hundreds of thousands of dollars missing.” It was only then that Sigler learned that significant portions of her earnings from the hit show were being moved from a corporate account into their joint account, and from there, into another account that she did not have any access to. She writes: “This was important money. My accountant was adamant we try to go after it, but my …

Tax It, and Use the Resulting Billions of Dollars to Fund Cultural Institutions, Artists, and Researchers

Tax It, and Use the Resulting Billions of Dollars to Fund Cultural Institutions, Artists, and Researchers

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech If you can’t beat ’em, tax ’em.  AI slop is as certain as government levies these days, infecting every corner of the internet and increasingly intruding on real life. It’s not going away, and surely any attempts to ban the stuff will be futile. So what should we do about it? Well, why not institute a “slop tax?” proposes technologist Mike Pepi in an essay for The Guardian. Such a tax would “restore balance to what has heretofore been a one-way extraction,” and “ensure robust institutional support structures for human creativity forced to compete in a sea of meaningless content,” Pepi writes. Essentially, you shave off a little of the AI industry’s bottom line to fund the arts, sciences, and other cultural institutions that they mined for free. AI slop is more than just an ugly annoyance. In Pepi’s view, it’s a “malicious manipulation of human cognitive labor and the institutions that support it.” These billions of “facsimiles of …

Gamblers are betting millions of dollars on measles outbreaks

Gamblers are betting millions of dollars on measles outbreaks

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New York State Department of Health Commissioner James McDonald talking in New York last year about measles outbreaks Jim Franco/Albany Times Union via Getty Images Gamblers are increasingly placing bets on the number of people infected with measles in the US. Since January alone, nearly $9 million dollars have been bet on future cases of the disease on prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket – and there is some evidence that the predictions are accurate enough to be useful for modelling its spread. Prediction markets involve buying and selling shares related to an outcome. Each market offers a question about future events and the option to bet “yes” or “no”, with the cost of a bet determined by the way others have bet. For example, if 86 per cent of wagers on a given future event are “yes” bets, the cost of a “yes” share is 86 cents. If that event does in fact occur, successful gamblers receive $1 for every share they have bought, with the unsuccessful gamblers – who lose their money – footing …

The Dollar’s Funeral Keeps Getting Rescheduled

The Dollar’s Funeral Keeps Getting Rescheduled

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, 💰 The Dollar’s Funeral Nobody Attended Open any finance corner of social media this week, and you will be hit with some version of the same obituary. ZeroHedge declared in December that the dollar’s death in 2026 is now a mainstream talking point, citing a WIRED piece arguing that this is the year “dollar dilution” truly accelerates. A widely circulated Dollar Collapse post this month warned that foreign demand for Treasuries is fading and that the greenback is losing its safe-haven status “in a generation.” WatcherGuru ran a headline last fall declaring rapid de-dollarization is happening right now, while YouTube personalities brandish century-long purchasing-power charts preaching gold and Bitcoin as salvation. The story writes itself: investors positioning capital today need to decide how much survives contact with the data. To be fair, there is enough truth in the narrative to keep it alive. The DXY has retraced roughly 10% from its early-2025 peak near 103.5. The IMF’s COFER data shows the dollar’s share of global FX reserves has slipped from 73% in 2001 to around 58% today. Central banks purchased 863 tonnes of gold …

California drone maker to spend billions of dollars as it expands manufacturing in the state

California drone maker to spend billions of dollars as it expands manufacturing in the state

Published by Sam Flores

A Californian drone manufacturer plans to pour billions of dollars into the defense technology industry, which is booming in the state. The San Mateo-based company, Skydio, will invest $3.5 billion in domestic manufacturing over the next five years, the company announced Friday. Defense technology operations, along with aerospace and artificial intelligence, have flocked to California, even as retail and fast-food chains bail out of the Golden State. The funding is meant to expand the country’s domestic manufacturing of drone technology over the next five years. The company plans to create more than 2,000 new jobs and support the development of over 3,000 more U.S.-based positions across the industry. The company expects most new jobs will be California-based, though some will be with its American suppliers, a Skydio spokesperson told The Times on Monday. The investment comes during a time when demand for autonomous drones is at an all-time high. The investment is part of the company’s broader efforts “to ensure the future of flight is built in America,” according to the company’s news release. In …