• Nets, Magic kneel together for anthem as one player stands

    Nets, Magic kneel together for anthem as one player stands

    The Nets’ first game of the NBA restart in Disney was poor. But their social justice statement beforehand was perfect. Before the anthem and tipoff at ESPN Wide World of Sports, the NBA played a video documenting the league’s commitment to fighting social injustice and racism. The Nets donned Black Lives Matter shirts, and both …
  • Antonio Brown suspended 8 games with NFL future in limbo

    Antonio Brown suspended 8 games with NFL future in limbo

    Last week, Antonio Brown announced his latest retirement from football. Now, the controversial receiver will likely find out if he has an NFL future. Brown will have to serve an eight-game suspension for violating the NFL personal conduct policy, should the receiver resume his career, the league announced Friday. Brown has been a free agent …
  • Economic growth results from increasing production, and the money supply is always sufficient to foster exchange

    Economic growth results from increasing production, and the money supply is always sufficient to foster exchange

    The credit cycle drives the business, or trade, cycle. It should be obvious that changes in the quantity of money, mostly in the form of bank credit, have an effect on business conditions. Indeed, that is why central banks implement a monetary policy. By increasing the quantity of money in circulation and by encouraging the banks …
  • Former Giants coach Tom Coughlin breaks ribs, punctures lung in bike accident

    Former Giants coach Tom Coughlin breaks ribs, punctures lung in bike accident

    Tom Coughlin is recovering from a serious bicycle accident. The former two-time Super Bowl winning head coach with the Giants fractured four ribs, slightly punctured his lung and needed stitches in his head, according to ESPN. Coughlin, 73, was hospitalized for a night, according to the report. Another rider on a racing bike “comes out …
  • Julianne Moore, Don Cheadle, Chris Cooper and more cast in lockdown anthology ‘With/In’

    Julianne Moore, Don Cheadle, Chris Cooper and more cast in lockdown anthology ‘With/In’

    EXCLUSIVE: Julianne Moore, Don Cheadle, Sanaa Lathan, Rebecca Hall, Chris Cooper, Alessandro Nivola, Emily Mortimer, Rosie Perez and Debra Winger are among the all-star cast of innovative feature “With/In,” a made-at-home anthology film revolving around themes of confinement and isolation. Trudie Styler and Celine Rattray’s newly rebranded Maven Screen Media (“American Honey”) is in production …
  • Fauci Recommends Wearing Goggles or Eye Shields to Protect against Coronavirus

    Fauci Recommends Wearing Goggles or Eye Shields to Protect against Coronavirus

    Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, suggested Wednesday that Americans consider wearing goggles or an eye shield in addition to face masks to ensure more complete protection against the coronavirus. “If you have goggles or an eye shield, you should use it,” he said in an interview with ABC News on Instagram …
  • NYC’s Nello has liquor license suspended for COVID-19 violations

    NYC’s Nello has liquor license suspended for COVID-19 violations

    Upper East Side restaurant Nello has lost its liquor license for violating COVID-19 regulations. The New York State Liquor Authority posted the suspension on the doors of the exclusive eatery on Wednesday for violating three executive orders that Gov. Andrew Cuomo had put into place amid the pandemic. Investigators with Cuomo’s task force “observed at …
  • Congress's anti-trust accusations against big tech are as ironic as they are ignorant.

    Congress's anti-trust accusations against big tech are as ironic as they are ignorant.

    Congress should ease up on big tech companies. Despite Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook’s best efforts to help Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic, Democrats in the House and Senate continue to attack them, likening them to monopolies, and seeking to break them up. Congress’s economic illiteracy in understanding market power and antitrust is leading them …
  • Hamptons Il Mulino, six other non-NYC locations file for bankruptcy

    Hamptons Il Mulino, six other non-NYC locations file for bankruptcy

    Celebrity-magnet Hamptons restaurant Il Mulino and six other outposts of the glamorous Italian eatery empire have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy – the latest big dining-world name victimized by the Covid-19 pandemic. Il Mulino owner Jerry Katzoff said the step was needed to prevent lenders from trying to take over the trendy trattorias following a …
  • Nate Solder’s gut-wrenching Giants decision should be applauded

    Nate Solder’s gut-wrenching Giants decision should be applauded

    Wellington Mara as the Giants patriarch balanced his franchise on three pillars: Faith. Family. Football. Nate Solder embodies those tenets and took them to heart when he made what had to be a gut-wrenching yet logical, necessary decision to, as he posted on Twitter, “pause for this season.’’ He has opted out for 2020, and …