Month: June 2018

A Yellow Alert Has Just Been Issued For 2 Major Volcanoes In North America

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by Michael Snyder  Massive eruptions of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano and Guatemala’s Fuego volcano have captivated the entire world in recent days, and now it looks like even more volcanoes are starting to wake up.  In fact, yellow alerts were just issued for Mexico’s Mt. Popocatepetl and Alaska’s Great Sitkin volcano.  Mt. Popocatepetl and Great Sitkin both … Read more

Every McDonald’s In U.S. Will Have Self-Order Kiosks By 2020

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl6ZNezHI6I Workers complaining because McDonald’s would not raise their wages might want to start looking for other jobs sooner rather than later: CEO Steve Easterbrook has announced that by 2020, every McDonald’s in the U.S. will be stocked with self-order kiosks. http://marygreeley.com/?p=70986

Largest, Fastest Supercomputer in the World Made Just For Artificial Intelligence

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coeE2WdHUw0 It’s an order of magnitude more powerful than current US supercomputers and fast enough to beat every other system in the world with a theoretical peak performance of 200 petaflops per second. More than that, it has the hardware to support machine learning and artificial intelligence processing on a previously unheard-of scale. http://marygreeley.com/?p=70916

The US Economy Is a Giant Ponzi Scheme

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“The hallmark of an economic Ponzi scheme is that the operation of the economy relies on the constant creation of low-grade debt in order to finance consumption and income shortfalls among some members of the economy, using the massive surpluses earned by other members of the economy.” “Debt-financed prosperity is typically abetted by central banks … Read more

Fortnite Addiction Is Real: 9-Year-Old Girl Checks Into Rehab “After Getting Hooked Playing Fortnite For 10 Hours A Day”

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by Michael Snyder  Fortnite is the most popular video game in the entire world right now, and for some people it is literally taking over their entire lives. More than 40 million people have downloaded the game since it was released last July, and it just seems to keep getting more and more popular. In fact, … Read more

WHEN YOU’RE TOO WOKE FOR STARBUCKS…Leftist Starbucks Founder Says Democrats Have Gone ‘Too Far Left.’

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via lidblog: Wow. In a surprising move, Starbucks founder, Howard Schultz, was recently heard arguing that the Democrat Party has swung too far to the left. He’s right, of course, but one can’t be blamed for cynically wondering if Schultz is saying this merely to make up for the many leftwing decisions the company has recently … Read more

Still Waiting for Evidence of a Russian Hack: More than two years after the allegation of Russian hacking of the 2016 U.S. presidential election was first made, conclusive proof is still lacking and may never be produced

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This interesting article by Ray McGovern alleges that the reason actual discussion on the details of the 2016 “Russian hack” has waned is because there simply isn’t enough evidence that indeed occurred. If this is true, then much of the political foofaraw of the last 2 years has been based on a lie, or at … Read more

Amazon Secretly Profits From “Unethical And Illegal” Chinese Sweatshop To Make Your Echo Speaker

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by stockboardasset Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos recently became the world’s wealthiest man. Bezos’ fortune is mostly tied to Amazon’s inflated stock price trading at a nosebleed price/earnings ratio of approximately 265, with a market cap around $811 billion (as of June 08). But how did Bezos managed to become the world’s richest man by disrupting America’s retail industry? New evidence from … Read more

25 Things To Improve Your Home Security

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Via Survival Sullivan With the state of the world today, it’s likely that you’ve begun to see some changes in your neighborhood. If you’ve witnessed increased activity in your area at night or an increase in “strangers” that seem to be visiting your neighborhood at various times of the day and night, it may be … Read more

Humans Need Not Apply: AI to Take Over Customer Service Jobs

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“With Amelia, we graduate into automating the knowledge worker, the customer service agent.” By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. The last ten years have been a rough time for many bank employees in Spain. The country’s lenders have laid off 89,500 workers on the back of narrowing margins, industry consolidation, mass closures of branches … Read more

Brace for World Economy’s Most Important Week of Year

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Trump meets Kim, Putin meets MBS, U.K. MPs vote on Brexit bill Fed to hike, ECB to update bond plan, BOJ to keep stimulating https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-10/brace-for-the-world-economy-s-most-important-week-of-the-year It’s supposed to be a week when many in Europe are on their to, if not already at, their first summer vacation, while Wall Streeters are enjoying the lovely weather … Read more

Americans Are House-Rich but Cash-Poor

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via Marketwatch: When Mike Lindsay’s energetic young wife was diagnosed with cancer, it was a shock. To Mike, it seemed like one moment Vanessa was happily gardening in their spacious backyard, and the next she was gone. The couple and their two sons lived in a rambling Spanish-style house at the end of a cul-de-sac in … Read more

One in three Americans say their financial stability is dependent on receiving an inheritance.

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via Marketwatch: The key to your financial future may lie in your parents’ bank account. One in three Americans say their financial stability is dependent on receiving an inheritance, according to a survey released Thursday by Merrill Edge, an online discount brokerage service provided by Bank of America Merrill LynchBAC, -0.27% Some 36% of Generation X-ers and 32% of … Read more

IRS sent CP14 letter stating 2017 taxes weren’t paid, but they were paid on time. This is our experience (a good one!) with getting it corrected.

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by smelling_the_roses I’m posting this in the hopes that it helps someone else. On Thursday, my husband and I received a CP14 letter from the IRS saying our full balance of 2017 taxes were due. Of course we immediately worried that someone else cashed our check, which was withdrawn from our account on 4/24. We … Read more

Preparing for market crash

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by Rutgeurr   So I realize that statistically speaking it’s generally a bad idea to time the market. Statistically speaking it’s a good idea to buy a few ETFs that are tracking some of the major indices and this was what I was doing up until recently. However, the more I study about history of … Read more