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UN Sustainable Development Goals: How Companies Stack Up

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by visualcapitalist Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing witnessed a breakthrough year in 2020 with the most fund inflows on record. Importantly, for companies that are judged according to ESG metrics, one way to track their progress is through their alignment to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Established in 2012, the UN SDGs are a … Read more

Anyone wondering why JPMorgan Chase & Wells Fargo are holding stimulus checks until March 17, look no further than this. Each bank makes around

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Anyone wondering why JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo are holding stimulus checks until March 17, look no further than this. Each bank makes around $5,000,000 per day on overdraft fees. Since this is getting some attention, I’ll just say: 1. Banks, take a hard look at your overdraft fees and policies 2. Please keep wearing … Read more

The biggest US mass shooting of 2021 just happened in Chicago, it’s barely covered by the news.

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CHICAGO (WLS) — Exclusive video shows the moment when someone fired shots inside a warehouse party on Chicago’s South Side over the weekend. The scene was chaotic, with bullets flying as people ran for cover. Now the mayor plans to hold the owner of that building responsible. The large party inside of a warehouse on … Read more

100 million Americans in path of dangerous severe weather, tornado outbreak

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AccuWeather forecasters warn that a dangerous severe weather outbreak could put at least 17 states and more than 100 million Americans at risk across the United States this week. Severe thunderstorms will erupt each day through Thursday across parts of the southern U.S., with the greatest threat and potential for tornadoes Wednesday, lasting well into … Read more

A Hacker Got All My Texts for $16: A gaping flaw in SMS lets hackers take over phone numbers in minutes by simply paying a company to reroute text messages.

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I didn’t expect it to be that quick. While I was on a Google Hangouts call with a colleague, the hacker sent me screenshots of my Bumble and Postmates accounts, which he had broken into. Then he showed he had received texts that were meant for me that he had intercepted. Later he took over … Read more

Uber to pay UK drivers minimum wage, holiday pay and pension; Uber is to guarantee its 70,000 UK drivers a minimum hourly wage, holiday pay and pensions after a landmark supreme court ruling.

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Uber is to guarantee its 70,000 UK drivers a minimum hourly wage, holiday pay and pensions after a landmark supreme court ruling. The ride-hailing app said drivers would start benefiting from the changes from Wednesday while retaining the right to choose when they work, as it accepted they were classed as workers in line with … Read more

Flashback: Dalai Lama was paid $1 MILLION to endorse women-branding ‘sex cult’ after secret deal

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January 2018: * Buddhist leader the Dalai Lama was linked to NXIVM, the controversial self-help organization described by former members as a ‘sex cult’ * He spoke at an event in Albany, New York, in 2009 and put a Tibetan scarf round the neck of its founder Keith Raniere in what was said to be a ‘victory’ … Read more

You Have to See This – Plane Crashes into a Moving Car, Kills Two in Plane!

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Single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza plane crashed in Pembroke Pines, Florida, shortly after it took off from North Perry Airport at around 3pm Monday  Neighbor’s Ring camera caught the plane crashing into passing SUV and bursting into flames  Plane’s two occupants were pronounced dead at the scene  Woman and young child who were riding in the SUV … Read more

1 hour apart

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https://twitter.com/Boomieleaks/status/1371932231816638477 Four migrants with names on terror watch list picked up at border since October Four foreign nationals, whose names match those on the terror watch list, have been stopped trying to enter the U.S. via the southern border since October, a congressional aide familiar with Customs and Border Protection (CBP) information told Fox News. … Read more

Federal Judge Ordered HHS to Release Information on Purchasing Organs Harvested From Human Fetuses

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A federal judge ordered the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to release additional information about its purchases of organs harvested from aborted human fetuses, according to a statement issued by Judicial Watch on Monday. Two agencies under the HHS, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), … Read more

New Finding In Tiger Woods Crash Shows There’s More To The ‘Accident’

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The LA Coun­ty Sheriff’s Depart­ment made sev­er­al crit­i­cal deci­sions in the inves­ti­ga­tion of Tiger Woods’ dev­as­tat­ing crash that were favor­able to the golf­ing leg­end — who was giv­en the ben­e­fit of the doubt despite indi­ca­tions he was inat­ten­tive or had dozed off, accord­ing to a report. Sher­iff Alex Vil­lanue­va announced on Feb. 23 — when … Read more

The Biden Effect: Oil Prices And 10Y Treasury Yield Soars After Biden Took Office (Mothra/Godzilla Effect?)

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by confoundedinterest17 The Biden Effect is unlike the Butterfly Effect. More like the Mothra/Godzilla Effect. Oil prices and the 10-year Treasury yield have risen since Ol’ Joe took office. Check out the 10Y-2Y yield curve slope after Biden took office. But wait! Godzilla (The Federal Reserve) and Mothra (Biden/Pelosi/Schumer) are on the same side!    

Did S&P go to sleep in 2019? US AA+ rating affirmed by S&P, outlook stable despite exploding debt.

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Did S&P go to sleep in 2019??The last two stimulus bills account for approximately 25% of GDP. Add another $2 or $3 trillion in infrastructure fiscal stimulus and your north of 33%. pic.twitter.com/98Ri9tXTrm — Jack (@JackPScott) March 16, 2021 US AA+ rating affirmed by S&P, outlook stable despite exploding debt. pic.twitter.com/Uilp6EEgn1 — Holger Zschaepitz (@Schuldensuehner) March … Read more

$DXY calling FED’s bluff as there are too many dollars that where leveraged out – FED can’t print enough money

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https://twitter.com/farrisbaba/status/1371794139600334854 Retail sales fell in February, but economists expect improvement in coming months as vaccines become more widely available https://t.co/84Bp5gXgBK — Real Time Economics (@WSJecon) March 16, 2021 There is no inflation Call Jerome Powell to print more stimulus checks pic.twitter.com/67V50IMu48 — Alessio (@AlessioTMAD) March 16, 2021 Hard-core CPI ‘inflation’ is dead in the US … Read more