by Thinker President Barack Obama made many promises while campaigning for office in 2008 and 2012, but very seem to actually be top priorities for the commander in chief. From closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility to increasing government transparency, a wide range of issues the president promised to address have been ignored, with some … Read more
via confoundedinterest: (Bloomberg) — Short-end U.S. rates have been buoyed by a tightening of Federal Reserve policy and an increase in issuance, and the U.S. Treasury on Monday sold $51 billion of three-month bills at 2 percent, the highest rate for an auction of the tenor since June 2008. Three-month bills in the secondary market already cracked 2 percent earlier … Read more
By Bob Shanahan Cover image from Drudge Report We now have less than 100 days left until the November 2018 midterm elections. While the economy hums along at its highest growth rate since 2014 and taxpayers have more money in their pockets, the liberal mainstream media is clinging to the notion that … Read more
by Chris Black Watch liberal heads explode! President Trump has stated the obvious on Tuesday, just as Paul Manafort trial saw its first day in court: Collusion is not a crime. Indeed, that’s what normal people were saying since like, I don’t know, 2016? Even if the alleged Russian collusion (whatever that means) conspiracy theory … Read more
by Thinker New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger says he is worried about threats against journalists, even as his publication has all but ignored more than 500 attacks against President Trump and his supporters. After meeting with the president this month, Sulzberger released a five-paragraph statement about the weekend meeting: I told the president directly … Read more
via nzherald.co.nz: Former Prime Minister Sir John Key has warned the global economy is starting to splutter and that in the event of a downturn the parties in power in New Zealand are not the ones to set it right. Sir John, who is now on the board of ANZ and Air New Zealand, made the … Read more
h/t @HayekAndKeynes Twitter down 27% in past 2 trading days, worst two-day decline since it went public in Nov 2013. $TWTR pic.twitter.com/pMLdr2d4xz — Charlie Bilello (@charliebilello) July 31, 2018 Peak Tech? peak-tech-mp4 Bet this number won't make the headlines… but it should!Find it here first.Chartmas 2018.August 1.$TSLA #Chartmas2018 pic.twitter.com/MaDKfj2hhs — TC (@TESLAcharts) July 29, 2018 Cramer … Read more
via MarketWatch: After spending his days teaching AP American history and economics at the public Live Oak High School in San Jose, Calif., Matt Barry drives for Uber. Barry’s wife, Nicole, teaches as well — they each earn $69,000, a combined salary that not long ago was enough to afford a comfortable family life. But … Read more
via moneyweek: It’s very easy to become parochial when it comes to thinking about property markets. We focus on the slowdown in the UK market and we ponder what’s causing it. Could it be new rules on landlords? Could it be the crackdown on overseas investors? Could it be Brexit? But this really is less than … Read more
via Reddit: This is something I noticed right around the time I stopped working for Amazon a few years ago, and now that they’ve tumbled the tiniest bit I feel like sharing a fair warning for anybody paying attention. Amazon is an amazing company with incredible long term growth prospects. Due to antitrust issues, they … Read more