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Wall St. For Main St., Released on 8/10/21 Ex-Merrill Lynch Gold Traders Found Guilty in Spoofing Trial https://news.bloomberglaw.com/banking… Yes, the trader was found guilty. But, what the article did not say was how many charges in the RICO investigation that the judge dropped, like commodities fraud, that were far more serious than the one charge that … Read more
by Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics In the last FOMC policy announcement, the Fed announced that it is establishing a “standing” $500 billion repo facility open to domestic and foreign banks. A repo facility provides overnight or short term liquidity to the banking system. It moves liquidity around from banks that have it to banks that need … Read more
by Simon Black In the year 1202 in the town of Albi in southern France, the local market price for a measure of wheat was 34 grams of silver. Decades later in the year 1290, the price of wheat was exactly the same: 34 grams of silver. And even centuries after that, in the year 1527, … Read more
looks familiar: Welcome almost two years of chinese qr code vaccine passport life which is hell for less fortunate less wealth people😡😢😣😪l hate it pic.twitter.com/arMNEJl6m5 — Songpinganq (@songpinganq) August 11, 2021 AC
via Jeff Thomas via International Man In 1759, Scotsman Adam Smith, who is widely regarded as the world’s first true economist, published his first great work, The Theory of Moral Sentiments. In it, he postulated that all social evolution can be attributed to “individual human action,” as opposed to “individual human design.” By this, he meant that whatever … Read more
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Online-scam complaints from the under-21 crowd to the FBI reached about 23,200 last year, up from 9,000 in 2017. That age group reported total losses in 2020 of roughly $71 million, compared with $8.3 million in 2017. Across all ages, scams last year translated into a collective loss of $4.2 billion. Being ultra-tech-savvy apparently isn’t … Read more
The National Security Agency has awarded a secret cloud computing contract worth up to $10 billion to Amazon Web Services, Nextgov has learned. The contract is already being challenged. Tech giant Microsoft filed a bid protest on July 21 with the Government Accountability Office two weeks after being notified by the NSA that it had selected AWS for the … Read more
(Bloomberg) — New York Times Co. technology employees plan to walk off the job Wednesday over what they say are the newspaper publisher’s illegal efforts to stymie their unionization campaign. Workers will stage a half-day stoppage, according to the NewsGuild of New York, the affiliate of the Communications Workers of America that the employees seek … Read more
CNN — Serenade Foods is recalling nearly 60,000 pounds of frozen, raw, breaded and pre-browned stuffed chicken products that could be contaminated with salmonella enteritidis, the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service announced Monday. The products were produced on Feb. 24 and Feb. 25, 2021, and were shipped to distributors across the country, the service said. They … Read more
Tesla CEO Elon Musk received almost $6.7 billion in compensation in 2020 — earning the tech entrepreneur over 11 times more than the country’s next highest-paid chief executive, a recent analysis found. Musk’s massive pay came in the form of stock options that give him the right to purchase shares of Tesla at a pre-set … Read more
No doubt the counter the rising threat from China. h/t Justme C’est Moi
how is that possible? h/t Deplorable QuantumLove
Fred is moving along at 17 mph near Puerto Rico. Projected path and center of cone potentially places Fred over Florida Keys Saturday morning moving north to potentially make landfall sometime late Monday night or early Tuesday morning on Florida’s panhandle. View post on imgur.com https://www.accuweather.com/en/hurricane/tropical-storm-fred-breaks-atlantic-lull/996922 Potential impacts on Florida, southeastern US After it tracks … Read more
“A college professor suspected in a series of arson fires in remote forested areas of Northern California near the massive Dixie Fire has been charged in connection with one of the blazes in Lassen County and was ordered held Tuesday in the Sacramento County Main Jail. Gary Stephen Maynard, 47, is believed to have worked … Read more
Fox Boston reported how Tyson Foods is raising prices for restaurants and how pork prices are up 40%, beef up 12%, and chicken up 16%, during a segment on WFXT’s (Fox) “Boston 25 Morning News at 7 AM” (Boston, Massachusetts) on 8/10/2021. Be sure to like, subscribe, and comment below to share your thoughts on … Read more
South Carolina's economy and schools must remain open! pic.twitter.com/UpsQlDjEI0 — Gov. Henry McMaster (@henrymcmaster) August 10, 2021 Governor of SC Henry McMaster says state will stay open this fall despite any Federal mandates. I expect to see a lot more of this. Good to see some positive news esp living here.
After a dramatic rise, the price of lumber has plummeted. If you’re a homeowner, or anticipate buying or selling a house, here’s an insight that you need to know.
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FLASHBACK: Biden on Cuomo: "Your governor in New York has done one hell of a job… I think he's sort of the gold standard." pic.twitter.com/ajf9pKRpJU — Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) August 10, 2021 President Biden tells @edokeefe his assessment of Andrew Cuomo's tenure as governor of New York: "He's done a hell of a job — on … Read more