UNION CITY BLUES: New Jersey Takes A Swipe At The Gig Economy With New Independent Contractor Bill.

by

New Jersey Takes A Swipe At The Gig Economy With New Independent Contractor Bill. New Jersey has been cracking down hard on the gig economy, with state regulators and lawmakers both trying to put an end to businesses classifying their workers as independent contractors. App-based businesses like Uber, Lyft, and Doordash make heavy use of … Read more

50,000 Food Stamp Recipients in Cook County Will Be Forced to Find Jobs in 2020 or Risk Losing Benefits

by

Almost 50,000 able-bodied, working age residents receiving food stamps in Cook County, Illinois, will be forced to find jobs as of January next year. The change is the result of Cook County’s falling unemployment rate, the Chicago Tribune reports, as it is no longer able to qualify for waivers from the federal government granted for high unemployment rates or … Read more

Chinese Stock Collapses 98% in Hours After MSCI Flip-Flops: How Index Providers Saddle US Pension Funds with Stock Scams

by

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Despite my assurances that “Nothing Goes to Heck in a Straight Line,” a Chinese stock just did. I’m infamous for saying that “Nothing Goes to Heck in a Straight Line.” This piece of immortal wisdom even made it onto our official beer and iced-tea mugs. But today, I was proven wrong. A … Read more

THE LAST STABLE SOUTH-AMERICAN COUNTRY ERUPTS- MASSIVE RIOTS AND LOOTING HITS COLOMBIA

by

General Strike is being called against the Colombian government – Clashes, riots, lootings … and even some curfews have been already imposed. People are protesting against low wages and low pensions. SOUTH AMERICA IS COLLAPSING, AND ALL OF THEM WILL BE GOING NORTH VERY SOON! – List of countries with clashes, killings, riots, curfews, social … Read more

Explosion that caused brief radiation spike in northwest Russia involved the development of a weapon that has ‘no equal in the world,’ Putin

by

Those who were killed in an explosion that caused a brief spike in radiation in northwest Russia were developing a weapon that ‘has no equal in the world,’ President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday, more than three months after the accident. “The very fact of possessing such unique technologies is today the most important reliable … Read more

RUSH: This could be why Sondland wrote his opening statement to please the Democrats and the media.

by

via rushlimbaugh: RUSH: By the way, I have just been informed… Snerdley’s been asking me, “Do Vindman and Sondland not know what’s gonna happen to ’em?” I need to run this down because anybody can say anything and maybe I should run it down before I say it. Apparently, the reason Sondland is trying to thread … Read more

VIX Rises Even As Stocks Hit New Highs

by

by Dana Lyons This is the third in a mini-series look at some unusual behavior we’re observing in the S&P 500 Volatility Index, aka, the VIX (on 11/19, we looked at the VIX’s historic streak without hitting a 52-week low and on 11/20, we looked at the abundance of 52-week highs in the S&P 500 since the last … Read more

ADVERSARY TECHNOLOGY: Google Confirms Android Camera Security Threat: ‘Hundreds Of Millions’ Of Users Affected.

by

via Forbes: The security research team at Checkmarx has made something of a habit of uncovering alarming vulnerabilities, with past disclosures covering Amazon’s Alexa and Tinder. However, a  discovery of vulnerabilities affecting Google and Samsung smartphones, with the potential to impact hundreds of millions of Android users, is the biggest to date. What did the … Read more

CBS News Cuts and Schiff Interrupts After Witness Begins to Fumble at Impeachment Inquiry

by

How is this possible at 2:13pm? Organizations don’t interrupt at this time, only at top of the hour and bottom of the hour. They were planning for a scenario like this. Schiff immediately cut the questioner off and the media cuts. It’s all smoke and mirrors. The witness couldn’t detail his so called “perfect recollection” … Read more

You can stay at hotel for $1 — if live-stream everything

by

The voyeurs around the world logged onto a YouTube stream Wednesday, hoping to see a random hotel guest scurry about their room. Instead, the viewers were greeted with an empty manager’s chair and a whiteboard registering mutual disappointment: The guest canceled tonight . . . “Life happens,” reflected a user named Ruinga, as messages in … Read more

Powell’s Fantasy: The Economy Should Grow Faster Than Debt

by

Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, In recent testimony to Congress’s Joint Economic Committee, Jerome Powell stated: “The debt is growing faster than the economy — that’s unsustainable. It’s not the Fed’s job to say how the government should cut the deficit, but we need to get the economy to grow faster than the debt. … Read more

Mapping The Cost of U.S. Prisons on Each State

by

by howmuch The U.S. has both the highest incarceration rate in the world and more people are in U.S. prisons than any other country. That means that Americans spend a lot of money caring for and maintaining prisoners, but just how much depends on where you live. Use this visualization Louisiana puts more people behind bars on a per … Read more