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UFC commentary on scoring is not good — here’s an easy fix

There were problems with the scoring at UFC Vegas 32, especially in the main event bout between Cory Sandhagen and T.J. Dillashaw. With the judges taking most of the heat, the UFC’s commentary team of Daniel Cormier, Dominick Cruz and Brendan Fitzgerald escaped criticism. They shouldn’t have. The commentary spoke little about the scoring of…

Maybe Mitch McConnell Is Just an Evil Mediocrity

Finally, no joke, it’s Infrastructure Week. At least, that was last week’s scuttlebutt—senators from both parties dismissed last Wednesday’s failed procedural vote as nothing to worry about and talked as if a deal was imminent, perhaps by midweek. The Sunday papers were oddly quiet on the matter, which was really weird, considering what a big…

Robinhood’s IPO roadshow answered questions I wasn’t asking

“What’s your favorite planet?” is a real question that Robinhood execs really picked to answer during the Q&A section of its retail investor roadshow. “Definitely Pluto,” says long-haired CEO Vlad Tenev. He is having a good time. He goes on to explain that there will be a great view of Venus tonight after sunset. Many…

Bunge Limited Declares Dividends on Common and Preference Shares 2021

ST. LOUIS – WEBWIRE – Friday, August 6, 2021 Bunge Limited (NYSE: BG) announced that its Board of Directors has declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.525 per common share. The dividend is payable on December 2, 2021 to shareholders of record on November 18, 2021. The Company also declared a quarterly cash dividend of $1.21875 per share…

Top men’s freestyle wrestling contenders to win Olympic gold

In a way, the Tokyo Olympics will be the first major wrestling championship event since the World Championships in the summer of 2019. COVID-19 kept several major wrestling powers out of a potential 2020 World Championship, resulting in an unofficial “Individual World Cup” tournament in Serbia, which functioned as Worlds last year. Which means this…

Bytom and Moonstake form partnership for Bytom 2.0 and DeFi Collaboration

SINGAPORE, July 8, 2021 - (ACN Newswire) - Bytom and Moonstake, one of the industry's top staking providers, have entered into a strategic collaboration. Moonstake develops a staking pool protocol to meet the growing user and commercial demand in the Asian region and global market, aiming to become the largest staking pool provider (PoS staking)…

Let’s Tax Dead People

President Joe Biden has proposed a tax increase that you may not have heard about. It would make the tax code more progressive without extracting even one cent from the wages of the rich or the poor. Nor would it take from the investor any of the dividends or capital gains that accrue from wealth.…

When ‘Cheap’ Money Won’t Be, What Then?

President Joe Biden gestures during a meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C., June 28, 2021. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Welcome to the Capital Note, a newsletter about business, finance, and economics. On the menu today: the dangerous illusion of cheap money, cutting dividends is not the answer, home prices and inflation, warning signs from the…