Lucas Kaplan

Lucas Kaplan, Net Income Late on Monday night, the Brooklyn Nets acquired Julius Randle via trade, jettisoning Nic Claxton and moving five spots in the NBA Draft, from #33 to the back of the first round at #28.

Once again, the Brooklyn Nets made multiple first-round picks. It felt much better this time around.

The Liberty limped out of the gate and never recovered. Classic trap game. The New York Liberty had just convincingly beaten the Las Vegas

The New York Liberty lost an ugly. nationally televised game, but was it really so bad?

Brooklyn introduced their draft picks on Monday afternoon, with comments from Sean Marks, plus some roster news.

The WNBA slammed head-first into one glaring logistical risk of holding a mid-season tournament championship game smack-dab in the middle of the calendar.

Social Security is back in the headlines this summer, driven by both hopeful developments and urgent warnings. Look no further than Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Moreno (R-OH), who announced a bipartisan proposal to adjust the Social Security payroll wage cap and stabilize the program’s revenue ahead of looming insolvency in the early 2030s.

Egor Dëmin and Jordi Fernández spoke to the media ahead of Brooklyn’s trip out West, seven summer league games.

President Trump has once again set his sights on Americans’ earned retirement benefits. On Monday, he announced that his administration is “working on a plan” to create accounts for adults loosely inspired by Australia’s retirement savings system – and similar to the Trump accounts for children. Our president and CEO Max Richtman told MarketWatch today that Trump should be working on strengthening Social Security instead of “toying around” with federally-seeded private accounts.

In his latest column for The Atlantic titled “An Oligarchy of Old People,” author Idrees Kahloon correctly identifies a troubling symptom of the 21st century economy — a younger generation left worse off than those who came before them — while misdiagnosing the cause.