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This Is The Salary Needed To Live Comfortably In US Cities
This Is The Salary Needed To Live Comfortably In US Cities
How much do you need to earn to live comfortably in a major American city? Increasingly, the answer is a six-figure salary.
This map, via Visual Capitalist's Bruno Venditti, shows the income required for a comfortable lifestyle across 56 U.S. cities, factoring in housing, food, transportation, savings, and discretionary spending.
The data comes from SmartAsset, using the MIT Living Wage Calculator and updated in February 2026.
The Highest-Cost Cities Now Require Nearly $160K
New York tops the list at $158,954, narrowly ahead of San...
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Mar 25, 2026 / Tyler Durden
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Another day, another very ugly auction.
After yesterday's appallingly bad 2Y auction, moments ago the Treasury sold $70BN in 5Y paper in what was another terrible auction.
Just after 1pm, the auction stopped at a high yield of 3.966%, up from 3.608% in February and the highest since May 2025. It also tailed the When Issued 3.966% by 1.4bps, the biggest tail since Oct 2024.
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Apr 17, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Hochul Joins Mamdani In New York's "Eat The Rich" Movement
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Authored by Jonathan Turley,
The hunt is on...
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani used Tax Day to announce a new fee targeting wealthy people who still linger in the city after moving their primary residences to other states.
The tax, called pied-à-terre (or “foot on the ground”) is designed to hit people who still maintain high-value properties in the city. It is a remarkably moronic effort to ensure that wealthy people cut all ties with the city. However, Gov. Kathy Hochul has...
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Apr 2, 2026 / Tyler Durden
New Bill Opens Door For Killer AI Weapons
New Bill Opens Door For Killer AI Weapons
Authored by Jon Fleetwood,
A newly introduced U.S. Senate bill would allow the military to deploy autonomous lethal artificial intelligence systems by granting the Secretary of Defense the authority to override its own restrictions.
Senate Bill S.4113—the “AI Guardrails Act of 2026,” introduced March 17, 2026 by U.S. Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI)—is being presented as a framework to limit how the Department of Defense uses AI.
But the actual text includes a built-in waiver mechanism that enables those same systems to be approved and used...
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