Month: March 2018

How Global “Free Trade” Killed the Middle Class

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by Spencer P Morrison, NEE a wolf in sheep’s clothing In a piece for the Washington Post, former CNN correspondent Heather Long, and her colleague Andrew Van Dam, write that President Trump’s tariffs will hurt Trump voters the most.  Their conclusion is unsurprising, as the mainstream media’s raison d’être is to rebuke the President and gaslight his supporters into … Read more

Time to break up the media: “Anchors at Sinclair stations in Pa. forced to read same script about ‘one-sided news'” — FCC is permitting more mergers

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We all know that the media has been consolidated under fewer and fewer owners. This company, which is about the be approved to go from 40 percent coverage of the public to 70 percent of the public with a large acquisition, is handing out news scripts TOP DOWN for all these TV stations.   @CBS21NEWS … Read more

Central Banks Seem Leery About The Chinese Yuan

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter What will finally pull the rug out from under the dollar’s hegemony? The euro? The Chinese yuan? Cryptocurrencies? The Greek drachma? Whatever it will be, and however fervently the death-of-the-dollar folks might wish for it, it’s not happening at the moment, according to the most recent data. The IMF just released its report, … Read more

Amazon HQ2 is coming to Virginia.

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Evidence is mounting that Amazon‘s second headquarters could end up in an area of Northern Virginia known as Data Center Alley, or, as one author described it, the “bull’s-eye of America’s internet.” It’s estimated more than 70% of the world’s internet traffic flows through Data Center Alley. Amazon recently put the headquarters of its cloud business just … Read more