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https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1188232619365814272   Donald Trump’s intrepid 49-year-old campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, will go down in history as the first woman to ever manage a successful presidential campaign. The veteran Republican pollster and mother of four became Trump’s campaign manager in late August, shortly after her predecessor, Paul Manafort, resigned from the post. Manafort had assumed the … Read more

via thegreggjarrett: President Barack Obama’s CIA Deputy Director Michael Morel and Retired Adm. James Winnefeld used their appearance on Face the Nation to criticize President Trump’s statement on the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Morel had issues with President Trump saying that the leader of the terrorist organization “died after running into a dead-end tunnel, whimpering and … Read more

Someone is betting big that the U.S. stock market is on track for the kind of turbulence not seen since the global financial crisis. Trading in call options on the Cboe Volatility Index, known as the VIX, outweighed puts by more than 2-to-1 on Friday with the index at its lowest level since July as … Read more

(Reuters) – Louis Vuitton owner LVMH (LVMH.PA) has approached Tiffany & Co (TIF.N) with a $14.5 billion acquisition offer, people familiar with the matter said, at a time when the U.S. luxury jeweler grapples with the impact of tariffs on its exports to China. LVMH, which has for years been looking for ways to expand … Read more

Robert Shiller, who won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2013, told Investor’s Business Daily he expects just 4.4% average annual returns in U.S. stocks over the next 30 years. That’s a disappointing return expectation — less than half the market’s long-term return and well short of what pensions are calling for. The S&P 500’s … Read more

https://www.wsj.com/articles/pg-e-shares-tumble-as-wildfire-complicates-bankruptcy-case-11572013663?mod=hp_lead_pos1 PG&E Corp. PCG -25.07% stock and bond prices tumbled on Friday, as Wall Street wagered that the damage from the Kincade Wildfire will likely complicate the utility firm’s attempts to emerge from bankruptcy. PG&E shares dropped 24%, tumbling $1.70 to $5.50 each in early New York Stock Exchange trading, after the Kincade fire spread … Read more

The storm system bringing heavy snow to parts of the Rocky Mountains this weekend will be the first of a pair of storms to track across the Plains and Midwest this week. Snow will spread from Colorado into northern Kansas throughout the day on Monday, then into southern Nebraska and western Iowa later in the … Read more

via NYPOST: New York City generously shares its homeless crisis with every corner of America. From the tropical shores of Honolulu and Puerto Rico, to the badlands of Utah and backwaters of Louisiana, the Big Apple has sent local homeless families to 373 cities across the country with a full year of rent in their … Read more

by Natura Naturans   The total annual renewables subsidy impact on UK household cost of living is £9 billion — which comes to £340 per year per household. The low and much-publicised offshore wind bids for Feed-in Tariffs with Contracts for Difference (FiTs CfDs) continue to confuse many analysts, even those from whom one might expect … Read more