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by Shaun Richards As we move into July we have been provided with a reminder that the effects of the credit crunch are still with us. That is because the benchmark ten-year yield in France closed for the week in negative territory and is 0% as I type this. It is yet another sign of … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIWghdDXQbQ A UK startup claims to have pioneered the use of artificial intelligence technology to reveal whether you’re lying. It reportedly determines the hidden emotions and subtle reactions of suspects by scanning for facial “micro-expressions.” Already, the company has contacted authorities in India and the United Kingdom. Legal and media analyst Lionel of Lionel Media … Read more
“What’s odd about this is, supposedly he’s only agreed to testify for four hours — but four hours with the House Intelligence Committee and the House Judiciary Committee is not enough time to get everyone’s questions in,” he said. So, who will be left out of asking questions? HMMMM????? There’s more… Mueller refuses to testify behind … Read more
from Zero Hedge It’s official: as of this moment, the US economic expansion is now the longest on record, entering its 121st month since the end of the 2009 recession (which according to the NBER ended in June of that year), and surpassing the previous 120 month record – the March 1991 – March 2001 expansion … Read more
From the Boy Scouts to literature, from the arts to universities: the left ruins everything it touches. Dennis Prager explains.
via techspot: When it comes to privacy, using Google search is not a good idea. When you use their search engine, Google is recording your IP address, search terms, user agent, and often a unique identifier, which is stored in cookies. Here are ten alternatives to Google search: StartPage – StartPage gives you Google search results, but … Read more
By Jared Dillian Trump is the most polarizing figure of all time. If you say something good about him, half of people will hate you. If you say something bad about him, the other half will hate you. It is a no-win situation. So financial writers, myself included, never write about him. But that’s dumb! … Read more
By Patrick Watson Just as an army moves on its stomach, an economy moves on ships, trucks, and planes. They carry the goods whose purchase adds up to growth. Nowadays many goods are digital, delivered electronically. But we still need lots of physical stuff which must travel to the customer. Fewer goods in motion mean … Read more
by independenttrader Crypto market has again started raising strong emotions among investors. It is worth noting, however, that ongoing works on the digital currencies implementation into financial system look equally interesting. What’s next with cryptocurrencies? Previous year brought falling prices among vast majority of cryptocurrencies. The most important of them lost about 80% of their … Read more
Hidden-camera video exposé showed Google executive conceding political bias Trump says the company and other tech giants are skewed toward Democrats Suggests lawsuits or new legislation could be needed to bring them in line President claims Twitter intentionally stops people from following his account White House will host online tech ‘summit’ in July with executives … Read more
via campusreform: Beijing Kaiwen Education Technology Co. Ltd. is set to be the new owner of a Rider University satellite campus in July. The company is projected to spend $40 million in the acquisition of Westminster Choir College. A Chinese education company is set to buy a New Jersey university by July 1. Rider University signed an … Read more
via nypost: President Trump must have looked at the Democratic debates the way Bruce Willis looked at the famous wall of weapons in Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction.” Should he choose the crossbow or the mace or the samurai sword or the baseball bat or …? It was as if the Democratic Party’s goal was to give Trump objects … Read more
via pjmedia: “What you just saw was a pack of privileged white dudes in masks beating up a smaller guy who’s a minority (Ngo is Vietnamese-American) and a member of the LGBTQ community (he’s gay). These cowards punched him and threw things at him in the middle of the street, in broad daylight, because they knew … Read more
via taxprof: IR-2019-120, IRS Issues Guidance on the Tax on the Net Investment Income of Certain Private Colleges and Universities (June 28, 2019): The Internal Revenue Service today issued proposed regulations for the new 1.4 percent excise tax on the net investment income of certain private colleges and universities. The proposed regulations define several of the terms necessary for … Read more
https://youtu.be/L4tgcVxLGrk Google has made it easier than ever for parties to manipulate search results and give you false and fake information on things that should be very readily available. There is an information war that is being waged big time. h/t no1113
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Josh Sigurdson reports on the global economy as it continues to crumble at the seams. A recent BIS (Bank Of International Settlements) meeting made global headlines as global “leaders” attmempted to brainstorm solutions to the global financial crisis as the everything bubble pops and the US dollar loses global dominance and faith. The BIS warned … Read more
Shot: Bill de Blasio: The federal government should pay for gender reassignment surgery. —The Washington Examiner, today. Chaser: It takes the city more than a year to fix a sidewalk, audit finds. —The New York Post, yesterday. Hangover: Graffiti complaints up more than 50 percent in de Blasio’s New York. —The Post, Saturday. In 2011, Victor Davis Hanson warned of “The Bloomberg Syndrome:” “Quite simply, … Read more
Brief summary of the MANY smoking guns in this collusion: Oct. 11, 1996 False Statements Accountability Act—parties can lie to Congress and courts); Nov. 29, 2001 IBM forms The Eclipse Foundation Jun. 05, 2002 Chandler takes custody of Leader’s invention source code Aug. 29, 2002 Leader’s invention appears in Eclipse version 2.0.1 Aug. 30, 2002 … Read more
Do you think that HFT and computer algorithms in general will pose an issue in the next financial crisis? In previous market sell-offs, there are times in which stocks get hammered down in a particular trading day. To prevent this, trading is halted. Markets reopen after investors have been reassured everything is ok. That was … Read more