US citizens: call on Congress not to give any handouts to the cryptocurrency industry. Let regulators do their jobs and protect consumers now.

The Capitol Switchboard number is +1-202-224-3121.

If you call, please spread the word!

The US "Business Roundtable" represents businesses that claimed to promote decarbonization, but secretly lobbied against measures that would achieve it.

In the US, UK, Mexico and China, non-rich people who have been shafted and cannot possibly afford the payments they are compelled to make are starting payment strikes.

I am puzzled by the concept of "energy bills" used in articles about the UK. What is an "energy bill"? I have never received one. I get bills for gas and bills for electricity. Some people use fuel oil and get an oil bill. Is the term "energy bill" an oversimplified way of generalizing about various kinds of bills? Does the system in the UK send people just one bill for all kinds of energy?

The term "fuel poverty"

Some Africans blame Queen Elizabeth II for the evils of the British Empire.

Since the British monarchs did not make policy decisions in the 20th century, I don't see that they were to blame for injustices that the British Empire committed then. It's the elected officials that we must blame.

A new merchant code for credit card charges will eventually make it easier to see who is purchasing a lot of arms or ammunition from firearms stores with a credit card.

It seems that a substantial fraction of people who commit a massacre spend a substantial sum to buy weapons for it, and a credit card is the only way they can pay.