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Day: July 23, 2026
What if last month’s New York Knicks championship parade never had to end?
With the kickoff of its annual Summer Streets program this weekend, the city Department of Transportation is giving Knicks fanatics the chance to keep the celebratory vibes of the ticker tape parade down the Canyon of Heroes going in perpetuity.
To promote the events, the agency is raffling off replicas of the “Champions Way” signs that adorned street poles along the Knicks parade route. Summer Streets participants in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens will be entered into the contest automatically by taking a selfie in front of a Knicks sign mounted on a DOT truck, following @NYC_DOT on Instagram, and sharing the picture in a publicly available post.
The signs were just some of the many Knicks-themed decorations adorning the parade route celebrating the team’s first National Basketball Association championship win in 53 years — a 4-1 series win over the San Antonio Spurs. The festivities culminated in a ceremony on the City Hall steps where Mayor Zohran Mamdani gifted the team members the key to the city.
Summer Streets gives cyclists and pedestrians the chance to take over large stretches of major streets in all five boroughs by closing the thoroughfares off to car traffic across five Saturdays between this month and August.
The events take place along upwards of 20 miles of city roadways and drew over 500,000 participants last year.
“Summer Streets is a celebration of the season and how we can bring public space alive to benefit all New Yorkers,” DOT Commissioner Mike Flynn said in a statement.
“Summer Streets builds community
The program will kick off this weekend with Summer Streets along Queens’ Vernon Boulevard in Long Island City and Astoria and Staten Island’s Broadway in its West Brighton area. The changes will be in effect between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m in both boroughs on that day.
The Manhattan Summer Street — running along Park Avenue, 110th Street, and Broadway from the Brooklyn Bridge to Dyckman Street, 12 miles in all — will be in effect on the Saturdays of Aug. 1, 8, and 15. Cars will not be allowed on those streets between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m. across the three dates.
Finally, the Brooklyn and Bronx Summer Streets will be held on Saturday, Aug. 22, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. The Brooklyn route will snake down Eastern Parkway from Grand Army Plaza to Buffalo Avenue, and the Bronx path will go up the Grand Concourse from East Tremont Avenue to Mosholu Parkway.
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We need a reckoning with the fact that public economics cried wolf for so long about the risk of “democratic deficits”. In fact American democracy was comparatively responsible. It is really the crisis of American democracy driven by GOP radicalization that has produced the deficits.
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Consumer confidence in the US is not just at a low ebb, it is lower for those with College degrees than for the rest.
Source: SoC UMichigan
Why Trump Is Going After Brazil’s Beloved Payment System
Kick out Chinese companies. Free right-wing former President Jair Bolsonaro from jail. Scrap tariffs on American ethanol. President Trump has bombarded Brazil with a list of demands as Washington seeks to assert its influence across Latin America. However, few things have provoked more outrage here than Trump’s attack on PIX, the country’s beloved instant-payment system that Washington cited as a key justification for its decision this week to impose a 25% tariff on many Brazilian goods. From coconut sellers to billionaires, more than 90% of Brazilian adults—more than 140 million people—regularly use PIX, a government-run program that allows users to transfer money in seconds on cellphones at no cost.
In less than six years since its creation, PIX now handles more transactions in Latin America’s biggest economy than credit and debit cards combined. The Trump administration disagrees. Washington said Wednesday that, as of next week, it would impose a 25% tariff on some 3,000 goods from Brazil. It is the first country hit with duties under the Trump administration’s new strategy of using Section 301 of U.S. trade law to punish alleged unfair trade practices. Among a host of grievances, including anticorruption enforcement and barriers to U.S. ethanol imports, Washington argues that PIX has become so ubiquitous in Brazil it unfairly disadvantages U.S. payment companies such as Visa and Mastercard. There is also growing concern in Washington that Brazil and other countries are seeking to reduce their dependence on the dollar. The Trump administration says Brazil has tilted the market toward PIX in several ways, including by requiring financial institutions with more than 500,000 active accounts to offer it. Unlike state-backed PIX, private providers, many of them American, must also cover fraud prevention, technology and shareholder returns through fees, making it nearly impossible for them to compete.
Source: Samantha Pearson in Wall Street Journal
Why are UK bonds costlier than those of any other G7 country?
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The gloss is coming off Russia’s war economy
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Americans are highly polarized around higher education.
And that in turn correlates with their views about the likely impact of AI
Among those who are confident in higher education, 29% believe college degrees will become more important with AI, 39% expect no change, and 32% think they will become less important.
In contrast, just 10% of those who are not confident in higher education think degrees will become more important, 23% foresee no change, and 64% believe they will become less important given impact of AI.
Source: Jeffrey M. Jones for Gallup
Latest evaluations from the Yale Budget Lab put BA-based employment squarely in the crosshairs.
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New translation on French Theory coming soon
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The 1990s and the Role of Paramedics
The major change in the 1990s was the introduction of the title “Paramedic,” which indicated a professional with advanced training in pre-hospital care. This marked the beginning of a new era, in which ambulance personnel not only transported patients but were also capable of providing a range of advanced treatments at the scene of the incident. This development paved the way for an increasingly professionalized system capable of handling complex emergencies.
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