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Public domain photo via Federal Reserve From Birch Gold Group The “drop-dead date” for raising the debt ceiling is quickly approaching… That’s a quote from a recent article: The Treasury now estimates that the “drop dead date”, i.e. the date at which the Treasury will exhaust all of its extraordinary measures if Congress has not acted to raise … Read more
Police in Texas’s most populous county routinely ask drivers if they have cash in the car, only to seize the cash, accuse it of a crime, and drive away with it in their patrol car. Texas’s civil forfeiture law allows police and prosecutors to take cash from people they don’t arrest, and hand it over … Read more
The U.S. consumer is maxed out. They need more stimulus in order to continue this economy. And of course, stocks need their artificial boost as well. The U.S. consumer is maxed out. Consumer sentiment is down heavily. Real estate continues to increase in price right now as we see low interest rates keep this going. … Read more
A familiar face is returning to Foxboro this weekend. Yet when Tom Brady spoke to the media on Thursday afternoon, he did not have a familiar voice. The 44-year-old quarterback gave his weekly press conference for the media in Tampa, and immediately, his raspy voice was startling to hear. Brady has had some on-and-off rasp … Read more
Translation: Our children grow up in a sanitary dictatorship. If they see their parents, they’ll shut up If they don’t complain, they’ll take it dictatorship as something normal. And in time, they’ll cease to be anyone’s children… Деца нам одрастају у санитарној диктатури.Ако виде родитеље да ћутеда се не буне, прихватићедиктатуру као нешто нормално.И временом … Read more
No one likes losing money, but Tuesday’s stock-price fall worries me more than the headline of a 2% fall in the S&P 500 should. In itself, 2% is no biggie: three days this year had bigger falls, and on average we have had seven worse days a year since 1964. What bothers me is that … Read more
Raw video files were not provided to WISN 12. Police have also not answered questions about the deadly police shooting.
A new study suggests that the Canadian government is vastly underestimating changes in food costs, and that the real prices increases may be double what has been reported. Statistics Canada has reported a 2.7 increase in food prices over the past year, but new research is now showing that it may be actually five percent … Read more
A general in China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has challenged the US to “meet in the sky” to see whose air force is superior. That was in response to something the US Air Force secretary said about the next generation of a military technology he wants the US to invest in. China is investing in … Read more
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett signaled to the world this week that Israel is preparing to take action against the Islamic Republic of Iran as it rapidly nears the point of having enough nuclear material to build a nuclear bomb, something that he vowed Israel would never allow to happen. Bennett told reporters on Monday following his … Read more
White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan figures prominently in a grand jury investigation run by Special Counsel John Durham into an alleged 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign scheme to use both the FBI and CIA to tar Donald Trump as a colluder with Russia, according to people familiar with the criminal probe, which they say … Read more
Here it is the TRUTH Clive Palmer from Australian United Party, says Gladys Berejiklian has been doing lobbyists bidding, ie lock-downs, to force clotshots in exchange for her not being prosecuted for past crimes/corruption. The lobbyists have been paid tens of millions to get clotshots into arms by Pfizer and Johnson. If only someone tried to … Read more
WASHINGTON/BOSTON, Sept 29 (Reuters) – The top U.S. securities regulator on Wednesday will propose requiring large hedge funds and endowments to disclose how they vote on executive pay, bringing this clutch of influential investors in line with other top funds that have made their pay votes public for a decade. The changes proposed by the … Read more
Full article here. Gems include: “In 2008 a group of quants from Citigroup Inc. published a paper that found a portfolio mirroring insiders’ trades could yield an astonishing 23.5% a year, more than all but the most profitable hedge funds.” ““There is a lack of appreciation for the amount of opportunistic abuse that exists under … Read more
by Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics “There was a complete rout of net favorable views of buying conditions: household durables fell to the lowest level since 1980, vehicles fell to the lowest level since 1974, and homes to the lowest level since 1982. These record drops were all due to complaints about high prices: homes had the … Read more
Restrictions on imports of Australian coal, China’s plans to reduce carbon emissions and a surge in exports have contributed to power cuts across the country in the last few weeks. The power crunch comes as the massive real estate industry — and related construction — is under tighter scrutiny. BEIJING — Local Chinese authorities have … Read more
Business confidence in the UK has collapsed after a month that has seen supply bottlenecks, rising energy prices, fuel shortages and looming tax increases combine to stifle growth. In its latest health check on the economy, the Institute of Directors said sentiment had “fallen off a cliff” in September, adding to fears that Britain was … Read more
