The Trump administration is attempting to lower the cost of hospital visits with free market reforms to achieve “value-based care.” Thanks to a new rule issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMMS) on August 3, hospitals will be required to post their pricing for medical procedures online. The rule also mandates that […]
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Some of the highest-flying stocks of the past few years have been tech stocks. With the rise of cryptocurrencies and the creation of “disruptive” companies such as Uber and Airbnb, investors have been falling all over themselves in an attempt to cash in on the latest tech boom. Whether it’s investing in newer companies such […]
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One of the side effects of the surging popularity of cryptocurrencies has been the overwhelming demand for computer video cards. Due to the performance of the graphics processing units (GPUs) in video cards, they make an ideal source of computing power to mine numerous popular cryptocurrencies. And while Bitcoin mining has long been more efficient […]
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Miami Marlins CEO Derek Jeter has a new proposal to help bring the team closer together: force all players, coaches, and senior executives to learn Spanish. According to Jeter, “Everybody expects the Latin players to make an effort to speak English. Well, especially here in Miami, if you don’t speak Spanish, you don’t fit in. […]
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One of the most striking details to come from the Mollie Tibbetts murder case was that her alleged killer was able to legally work in the United States despite the government’s claim that he was actually an illegal immigrant. The suspect, Cristhian Rivera, worked for an Iowa dairy farm. While it was initially reported that […]
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A Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index poll conducted between July 11 and July 18 found that small business optimism in the United States is at an all-time high, reaching 12 percentage points higher than last quarter. This is the highest level in the survey’s 15-year history according to Tullahoma News. Small business owners are reportedly […]
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Twitter and Facebook have angered conservative users in recent weeks as prominent conservative activist Candice Owens had her account suspended and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones had multiple media accounts banned. Facebook had also shut down three other pages that they felt “sought to inflame social and political tensions.” The suspensions come on the heels of […]
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The millennial generation, those born between about 1981 and 1996, has been the subject of a lot of press. Millennials differ significantly from their parents in their consumption patterns, particularly when it comes to homeownership. If you’ve been keeping tabs on the housing market in the past few years, you probably are aware that housing […]
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We live in a society where self-medication and self-numbing is rampant. Everyone is attempting to escape themselves through distractions and escapism of all kinds. We become addicted to these distractions that take us away from the present moment, away from reality. These addictions can be towards literally anything – overthinking, negativity, sensory pleasures, mindlessness, television, […]
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Rapper Kanye West has received intense pushback from Hollywood since he first started his Twitter rants this summer about how black Americans should not feel pressured to continue voting for the Democratic Party en masse. West started to question why “unpopular questions” were being punished by a societal “thought police” and stood up for the […]
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