A troubled insurance company owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has agreed to pay $3 million to settle allegations by New York’s top financial regulator that it jacked up prices on unwitting customers, The Post has learned. Linda A. Lacewell, the superintendent of the New York Department of Financial Services, settled with Applied Underwriters and Read More…
In a summer of scandal for the British royal family — William and Harry’s reported falling out, Meghan Markle’s diva antics at Wimbledon — one truly sordid royal has not been making headlines. Prince Andrew, the Duke of York. The Queen’s favorite son has always been useless at best, a liability at worst — boorish, Read More…
Thursday, Aug. 15. Mark this date on your calendar. A very good source of mine says a report from Inspector General Michael Horowitz of the Justice Department on spying and other nastiness during the 2016 presidential election will be out by then. And, I believe, it will be a blockbuster. So investors and all Americans Read More…
Here we go again. The president said this week that negotiations with China over trade are far from resolving anything. So he’s talking punitive tariffs again. And that is bothering the stock market. The Chinese tactic is to stall. Trump could be out of office in 2021, so why should they negotiate with him when Read More…
As I was saying in a column back on May 22, bitcoin and all the other phony cryptocurrencies need to be investigated. They are “bitcons” — confidence games that are going to eventually cheat anyone foolish enough to entrust their money to these scams. And they are dangerous because they allow rogue governments and crooks Read More…
A US senator is about to turn up the heat on Subway Restaurants amid complaints by mom-and-pop franchisees that they are victims of the restaurant chain‘s downsizing efforts. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) on Wednesday announced she will introduce legislation this month to require companies like Subway to disclose their rate for defaulted government-backed small Read More…
Shares of Netflix plunged more than 10% in late trading after the streaming giant reported a rare slowdown in subscriber growth. The Los Gatos, Calif.-based company on Wednesday said it added 2.7 million subscribers in the quarter ended in June — down 2.3 million from its forecast of 5 million new viewers. The company behind Read More…
We have heard a lot about the importance of the rule of law from Democrats lately. “No one is above the law, especially the president of the United States,” declared House Speaker Nancy Pelosi amid the special-counsel probe. “No one is above the law. Not even the president,” echoed Sen. Elizabeth Warren. “Everyone should be Read More…
How is cultural orthodoxy enforced? According to some, cultural orthodoxy emanates invisibly from the powerful as a means of reinforcing and cementing their control over society. But you don’t need a complicated theory to explain the transmission of cultural orthodoxy throughout the land. These days, you can simply watch the mobs form, then see how Read More…
Even with President Trump still throwing hanging fastballs down the middle of the plate, The Squad just can’t resist slamming Speaker Nancy Pelosi. On Wednesday, Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn) and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass) sat down with Gayle King on CBS’s “This Morning.” The president had kept up his Twitter Read More…
Bad enough that Mayor Bill de Blasio’s presidential campaign has raised less cash total than South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg has raised in New York City. Far worse is where Blas is getting his dough. Specifically: As FiveThirtyEight notes, more than 90 percent of the $1.1 million that Mr. Progressive raised through June 30 Read More…
Is there a break that Jeffrey Epstein didn’t get? The long list of ways the criminal-justice system went easy on the confessed sex criminal just boggles the mind. We’ll grant that public opinion has shifted rapidly in the years since he swung his first plea deal, making it easier now to hit such pervs hard. Read More…
In the early hours on Saturday, police in Tacoma, Wash., rushed to the local Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility. An armed man was firebombing the building and nearby vehicles. Police killed him in a shootout after he attempted to set off a large propane tank connected to the facility. Antifa social media accounts subsequently identified Read More…
Norah O’Donnell’s debut as the new “CBS Evening News” anchor drew much media fanfare but fewer viewers. The former co-host of “CBS This Morning” came in last place among evening shows on Monday despite a much-publicized premiere that included a sit-down with Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world. O’Donnell not only trailed “ABC’s Read More…
CES is going back and forth on sex toys again. The giant Las Vegas trade show said this week that its yearly event in January will allot floor space for sex-toy makers to exhibit their wares and compete for prizes — a year after the tech bash made headlines for stripping an award it had Read More…
From the left: Joe Biden’s Fall to Earth For months, Joe Biden assumed he could “project confidence and calm, and the delegates would fall into his lap,” observes The New Republic’s Alex Shephard. But after he “responded like a deer in headlights” to Sen. Kamala Harris’ attacks in the first debate, Biden has had to Read More…
Virgin Holidays will no longer offer tickets to tourist attractions featuring captive whales and dolphins — and SeaWorld fired back at the travel site for succumbing to “pressure from animal activists.” The travel company has announced the new policy will “come into effect as soon as possible” and will impact major parks such as SeaWorld, Read More…
It’s déjà vu all over again. President Trump has given the hanging party a first-rate piece of rope to use against him. His tweet will not live in infamy, but his cringe-worthy “go back” language rhymes with many of his earlier self-inflicted mistakes. The pattern was established during the 2016 campaign and he has been Read More…
The Democratic Party bears little resemblance to the themes Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton embraced in the 2008 primaries. The parameters of marriage — “between a man and woman,” in Obama’s words — has now transmogrified beyond gay civil unions to legal gay marriage to transgendered fixations. Obama once protested that he was no king Read More…
When lawmakers in Albany passed the state budget last spring, Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared it “both timely and fiscally responsible.” Timely was true enough. But fiscally responsible? Not so much. In a maneuver disclosed weeks later, Cuomo balanced his latest budget with some fiscal sleight-of-hand — deferring $1.7 billion in state Medicaid payments to health-insurance Read More…