Tootfinder

One of the reasons I support free transit is because relying on fare revenue is a trap. One economic downturn, one pandemic, and suddenly the transit system is on life support and needs to drastically reduce service. On the other hand, funding operations through general taxes allows voters to dictate how to handle funding operations, rather than markets.
[This is just one reason I like free transit; I have many. And yes, if your democracy is broken, so is your transit]

An interview with WaPo's new Opinion Editor Adam O'Neal on its editorial pivot to "personal liberties and free markets", why people don't trust WaPo, and more (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/media/editorial-ov

Editorial overhaul: Washington Post's new opinion chief feels the weight of the challenges ahead
The Washington Post's new opinion editor Adam O'Neal spoke with Fox News Digital about the challenges he faces as he reshapes the paper's editorial pages.

Taiwan indicts three people for allegedly stealing TSMC's 2nm secrets to help Tokyo Electron, the first such case, and recommends a combined 14-year prison term (Wen-Yee Lee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/markets/emerging/t

Let me give you some sense of how staggeringly large and complex the capital markets have become.
If we go back ten years ago, there were about 1700 mutual funds with about $700 billion in assets.
Today, we have about 7,000 mutual funds with $3 trillion worth of assets.
There are so many funds and so many stocks and so many bonds and so many warrants and so many options,
it's such a dizzying universe of choice for people that, inevitably,
they're attr…