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Pete Hegseth says US-China ties are ‘better than in years' Financial TimesPete Hegseth tells Asian allies to boost defence spend to counter China buildup NBC NewsHegseth tones down warnings about China: "We respect their ambitions," but "position hasn't changed on Taiwan" CBS NewsWhat Hegseth's comments at Shangri-La Dialogue say about US foreign policy Al Jazeera
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We did the math on Ken Griffin's pied-à-terre tax bill Business InsiderLawmakers approved a pied-à-terre tax. Now comes the hard part. Crain's New YorkNYC Property Taxes Expected to Rise as Values Inch Upward Commercial ObserverKathy Hochul's pied-à-terre tax spells challenge for co-ops The Real DealNew York passes
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Topic: RobocarsTags: forbes13 years ago, at the Wired 2013 event in London, I was asked when robotaxis would arrive there and as a joke, gave an answer of June 22, 2026 that turned out to be impossibly spot on. (3 companies are waiting on regulators to deploy right now.) It wasn't just a joke, though, it was based on my real predictions of the time, so as we approach the date I predicted, I've made a video to review just how predictions about self-driving by all sorts of people (especially including Elon Musk) have been right and wrong over the years, and why.
Why did so many get it so wrong? How did I get it almost dead on? Enjoy the video, or a text version which is up on the Forbes site.
Plus, here's the original talk from 2013, with the prediction near the end:
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How America does, and does not, redistribute income
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For richer, for poorer
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Redistribution
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A hated tax but a fair one
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For richer, for poorer
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AMERICANS are not known for their love of income redistribution. Asked to rank, on a scale of one to ten, how important it is for democracies to reduce inequality, they say only six; Europeans say eight. Yet the country is hardly indifferent to who gets which slice of the economic pie. Three in five Americans say that income and wealth should be spread around more. The most potent charge laid against the unpopular Republican tax plan making its way through Congress is that it is a ...
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