Tips to Stop Your Kids From Using Your Credit Card on Videogames - WSJ

“I thought we had an agreement with our boys that if they were interested in buying something, they’d ask us.”

You mean a 10 and 12 year old didn’t do exactly as they were told? Gasp!

This article should be entitled Tip to Stop Your Kids from using Your Credit Card on Videogames. The article would be four words: Don’t give them access.

Treat for the summer readers.

Future of U.S. Healthcare Is Playing Out in Nevada - WSJ

Nevada recently adopted a law that increases the state’s role in healthcare

Healthcare and health insurance are completely different things. Still not sure why over a decade later we haven’t figured this out.

Bishops Advance Effort That Could Restrict Communion for Biden - WSJ

The controversial measure, which had drawn objections from the Vatican and from Pope Francis’s strongest allies among the U.S. bishops, required only a simple majority but passed with 73%, or 168, of the 229 votes cast on Thursday. More than 270 U.S. bishops were eligible to vote.

In 2019, Pew Research said their survey suggested that only 31% of Catholic believe in the true presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. I guess we can stop the false surprise. 27% of bishops don’t either.

HUD Aims to Boost Homeownership for Buyers With Higher Student Debt - WSJ

The surge in student debt over the past two decades has coincided with historically low homeownership rates among younger households.

So the solution is to loan more money to people who are already having trouble paying off their loans?

Is There a Central Banker in the House? - WSJ Opinion

Near-zero rates and asset purchases were sold as a response to the pandemic emergency. With Covid-19 fading and the economy’s health improving, shouldn’t the Fed be returning quickly to normal—or at least to a slightly less abnormal—policy stance?

Wonky but true. This is no longer an “emergency” in any sense of the word.

How committee members think they can project with any certainty the shape of the economy or appropriate monetary policy in 2½ years is a mystery. And everyone knows it.

ProPublica’s Plan for a Poorer America - WSJ Opinion

ProPublica laments that taxpayers are acting “perfectly legally” in not paying a federal wealth tax, which doesn’t exist.

Experts in conflation wrote that PP piece

Private investment has created $32 trillion of equity wealth in America. “Public investment” has created $21 trillion of public debt. Proponents of a federal property tax on wealth offer guarantees and protections that they will only tax the superrich like Mr. Buffett, promising not to touch your retirement plan, home, farm or business. But the federal income tax started out only taxing the superrich like John D. Rockefeller. The same politicians who promise to protect you from the federal wealth tax voted to impose income taxes on “wealthy” Social Security retirees with an annual incomes above $25,000. And these are the same politicians who are proposing to tax your businesses and farms at 43.4% when you die, before they take another 40% in death taxes.

I didn’t think that moving my daughter to sleep in the office would be so disruptive to my productivity.

Totally worth the quiet sleep at night, tho.

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Supreme Court Exempts Catholic Foster-Care Agency From Nondiscrimination Law - WSJ

Philadelphia prevailed in lower courts, but the Supreme Court, particularly with the arrival of three Trump appointees since 2017, has repeatedly found that secular laws and regulations must yield to the requirements of religious exercise.

True that those three Justices played a role, but it should be strongly noted that this case was unanimous.

The California and Texas Greenouts - WSJ Opinion

Millions of Texans lost power in February amid an Arctic blast that froze power plant equipment including wind turbines. Climate activists blamed fossil-fuel plants for not rescuing the state though they supplied power that more than compensated for the ebbing wind power. Texas was also berated for not “weatherizing” power plants to operate in frigid conditions. But heat waves are common in Texas. So what’s the excuse now?

Number of things on AppleTV+ I’d like to watch: 0.

Number of dollars I’ve paid for months of access: $0.

Coincidence?

Global Tax Deal Holdouts Face Squeeze Under Biden Administration Plan - WSJ

The Shield is closely tied to the rest of the Biden agenda. The harder it is for corporate income to escape the U.S., the easier it is for Democrats to raise the corporate tax rate without driving business away.

This is such a perverse tax policy.

Kim Jong Un Attends Ivy League University To Learn New Brainwashing Techniques - The Babylon Bee

According to experts, Ivy League schools in America boast the world’s finest anti-Western propaganda and brainwashing techniques. The North Korean dictator expressed hope that his newfound knowledge would help him make his citizens more robotically obedient.

Plants are remarkably resilient.

Day One was bought by Automattic, thus highlighting the impermanence of technology.

You just can’t trust that a tool that you use today will be around or function in the same way tomorrow.

At G-7 Summit, Boris Johnson Can’t Shake Off Brexit - WSJ

President Biden, while reaffirming the special relationship with Britain, made a show of striking up a close partnership with French President Emmanuel Macron and described the EU as “incredibly strong and vibrant.”

Strong and vibrant? I don’t believe that’s a view widely shared outside of the corridors of power in European capitals.

High-Speed Trader Virtu Fires Back at Critics Amid Meme-Stock Frenzy - WSJ

Payment for order flow is fundamentally flawed because it poses a conflict of interest for brokers, said Tyler Gellasch, executive director of Healthy Markets Association, a trade group for institutional investors.

Tyler’s own conflict of interest was pointed out by the reporter.

Still, he’s totally wrong. Even if and investor paid fractions of a penny more per share than the price on the exchange, that overpayment is far less than a $7 or $10 commission that they had to pay before payment for order flow.

People Who Ruined World’s Economies Gather To Discuss How To Fix World’s Economies - The Babylon Bee

The very people who implemented anti-science policies that simultaneously did nothing to stop COVID and ruined millions of livelihoods gathered to enjoy their triumph over the virus and talk about how to fix everything.

I feel better already!

The Babylon Bee Guide To Crypto - The Babylon Bee

You never have to worry about using your wallet because there’s no physical money to keep track of. All you have to do is remember one simple 38-character hexadecimal password, answer the bridgekeeper’s five three questions, and go on a quest across the galaxy to retrieve all six Infinity Stones to access your account. Easy!

Whew! Remembering my wallet is such a pain.

Cryptocurrency can be used for many things, such as paying off Russian hackers who are holding your mainframe hostage with ransomware.