by atc2017 I’ve created a dashboard which shows the (rolling) average of headlines mentioning ‘recession’ as percentage of total headlines in the dataset. Since this gave some interesting results I decided to add more terms (eg TRUMP, TENSION or headlines with negative or positive connotation), in order to see how they compare the sp500. You … Read more
via freebeacon: A “dark money” group that was established to push back against the judicial nominations of President Donald Trump, and which was at the forefront of the battle against Justice Brett Kavanaugh and continues to go after him to this day, was heavily financed by liberal billionaire George Soros around the time of its inception, … Read more
Passive investing through ETF’s have given investors the chance to have their money in something they know nothing about. They simply want money in the stock market and they can easily trade broad indexes, commodities, anything really. While this has some very clear positives, investors are unprepared for events that will take place in which … Read more
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Democrats Have LOST Their Polling Advantage, Social Justice Policy VERY Unfavorable. Bear in mind this is a favorability poll and polling aggregates for vote are different and still favor Democrats (hard to get that in the title with only 100 characters) But what we are seeing is that far left ideology, social justice and wokeness, … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz50GL1-r4o The Democrat U.S. senator and presidential hopeful Kamala Harris has shared her vision to overhaul the country’s criminal justice system: ambitious plans include legalising marijuana, ending the death penalty and reducing the number of Americans locked-up.
https://youtu.be/LiRNDH3r0As Not a peep about the mountains of radioactive trash or contaminated water! h/t Captain Casey Jones
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSzl30XSI74 Beijing has more gold in its reserves than at any time in the past six years. China-watchers attribute the 100-ton increase to the country’s ongoing trade war in the US. Meanwhile, retaliatory tariffs on US goods went into effect in September. RT America’s Rachel Blevins reports for News.Views.Hughes.
http://www.thecrimson.harvard.edu/article/2003/6/5/people-in-the-news-jeffrey-e Elusive financier Jeffrey E. Epstein donated $30 million this year to Harvard for the founding of a mathematical biology and evolutionary dynamics program. While the mathematics teacher turned magnate remained unknown to most people until he flew President Clinton, Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker to Africa to explore the problems of AIDS and economic … Read more
by TheBirdmanArises Kids lack emotional maturity, life experience, and coping tools. When these characteristics are jammed together via schools or situations that lack oversight, conflict will arise. Children are also encouraged to think hierarchically, as they are constantly in the position of needing people to take care of them and to give them guidance and … Read more
via denverite: Connor Swatling doesn’t want Big Brother watching you. The Denver resident has introduced a ballot measure banning the Denver Police Department and every other city entity from using facial recognition technology for law enforcement purposes. DPD does not currently use the technology, department spokesperson Sonny Jackson said. He added that the department does … Read more
Authored by Raul Ilargi Meijer via The Automatic Earth blog, It’s undoubtedly better to leave some stories alone, and this may be one of them. Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov perhaps put it best when he called it “pulp fiction” (and what’s more American than that?). But this one is so exemplary of how the news is cooked … Read more
BONKERS: A 1% Growth Limit Across The Front Range Could Be Up For Vote On Your 2020 Ballot. The state Title Board, which determines how measures appear on ballots, approved Golden resident Daniel Hayes’ Initiative 122, an updated version of a measure he introduced earlier this summer. It would limit the number of residential building permits … Read more
Prosperity Breeds Idiots. At the start of Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s novel In the First Circle, a Soviet diplomat on home leave in Moscow tries to make an anonymous call to the U.S. embassy. His purpose: warning the Americans of a Soviet theft of atomic secrets. But he gets a dull-witted, indifferent embassy staffer on the line, … Read more
McDonald’s has agreed to acquire Apprente, which uses artificial intelligence to understand speech. The technology will be used in its drive-thrus and could be used in its self-order kiosks and mobile app. Earlier this year, McDonald’s bought Dynamic Yield and took a minority stake in mobile app vendor Plexure. McDonald’s said Tuesday it has agreed to … Read more
“Is the DNC rigging…” you can stop there. Rubin at one point mentions his watcher’s apprehensions about her policy toward the second amendment, which they briefly discuss. She getting the Ron Paul treatment. “As Tulsi Gabbard returns to the campaign trail, let’s look back at how the media has treated her so far….. Here’s a … Read more
By Robert Ross Let’s face it: You probably think you pay too much in taxes. That’s especially true if you’re trading dividend-paying stocks at a rapid clip. See, if you hold a dividend-paying stock for less than 60 days, its dividend payments are considered unqualified for tax purposes. Unqualified dividends are taxed at your ordinary tax rate. … Read more
by TlvmmCpoft The next time someone tells you “this chemo has a ____ percent success rate,” I just want you to consider something I learned from experience. When I was about eight years old, I was in one of those chemo trials at a pharmaceutical company in Farmington, Connecticut. It was a paid study using children. … Read more
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, liberal billionaire financier George Soros offered some rare praise of President Trump for his policies around China and Huawei. But Soros said he worries that Trump will reverse his own strategies to use Huawei as one of his “bargaining chips” in trade talks with China in the run-up to … Read more