Buy now, pay later is not a cure for credit building
Buy now, pay later (BNPL) products have exploded in popularity in recent years. Nearly 8.5 million consumers used BNPL in one month alone (December 2021) and the industry is expected to
Read MoreWho is Shaye Moss, former Georgia elections worker to testify before Jan. 6 panel?
A former Georgia elections worker is set to testify before the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot during the panel's latest public hearing on Tuesday as it seeks to show former President Trump’s pressure campaign on state officials to overturn the 2020 presidential election results and his role in the riot. That official, former Fulton County, Ga., elections worker Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, will appear before the committee during their second panel. Georgia was among a handful of battleground states that Trump lost during the last presi
Read MoreMusk says recession ‘is inevitable at some point’
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Tuesday that he thinks the United States will likely fall into a recession in the near future. “A recession is inevitable at some point,” Musk told Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait at the Qatar Economic Forum in Doha. “As to whether there is a recession in the near term," he added, "that is more likely than not.” Musk's remarks follow other top industry leaders who have voiced concerns that risi
Read MoreChappelle won’t name space after himself at alma mater
Dave Chappelle says he’s opting against renaming a space at his alma mater after himself — as he defended a past controversial Netflix comedy special — instead choosing to give a nod to artistic freedom. “We call it the Theater for Artistic Freedom and Expression,” Chappelle told WRC-TV on Monday of the theater at Washington’s Duke Ellington School of the Arts, which the comedian attended. “Because to me, that’s what I would want for myself, a
Read MoreIs it just me, or is it really hot again?
The summer solstice is here, and it’s historically hot again in the northern hemisphere. Millions of people have been under heat watches in the U.S. Parts of Europe are experiencing record-setting temperatures. And this spring South Asia had one
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