By Tsvetana Paraskova Saudi officials have approached some of the richest families in Saudi Arabia about potentially becoming anchor investors in the initial public offering (IPO) of state oil giant Aramco, Bloomberg reported on Monday, citing five people familiar with the discussions. Saudi Aramco could hold more formal meetings with some of the Kingdom’s wealthiest business families … Read more
by Chris Vermeulen of The Technical Traders As much as we would like to report that the US Stock market has recently cleared the future concerns of a global economic recession as well as expanded into a new growth phase, we simply can’t make that claim give the data we are seeing from our proprietary price modeling systems. … Read more
via physics-astronomy.org: The high pollution in the oceans is a big problem on the planet. According to recent research, it is likely that in the year 2050 we will find more plastic than fish in the waters of the seas, and for this reason there are many people working to generate solutions to this problem, some … Read more
via frontpagemag: The Washington Free Beacon reported Wednesday that “the Obama administration skirted key U.S. sanctions to grant Iran access to billions in hard currency despite public assurances the administration was engaged in no such action, according to a new congressional investigation.” And it gets even worse: “The investigation, published Wednesday by the House Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, further … Read more
Andrew Yang refuses to say that Americans won't be forced to drive electric vehicles Yang mentions a possible confiscation of gas vehicles, says the best option is a buy-back program pic.twitter.com/EXfjWsgteI — Ryan Saavedra (@RyanSaavedra) September 4, 2019 He’s a nut case like the rest of the dems. AC
Texas will lead a joint state investigation into Google over antitrust concerns, state Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Monday. The news follows the announcement of a joint state Facebook probe led by the attorney general of New York. Google is also reportedly facing an antitrust probe from the U.S. Department of Justice. Fifty attorneys general … Read more
Baltimore police discovered a van loaded with 1,000 gallons of gasoline Monday morning and are evacuating several office buildings from the Inner Harbor — where emergency officials are urging people to stay away, city council members confirmed. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is assisting Baltimore police on the scene. A police spokesperson … Read more
Andrew Yang is doing what Beto O’Rourke could only dream of. The 2020 Democrat and entrepreneur was spotted performing what might be a presidential campaign first on Saturday: crowd surfing across a wave of supporters at the AAPI Democratic Presidential Forum in California. And if the sight of Yang’s ride wasn’t triumphant enough, the fact that … Read more
by Lance Roberts In 2016, I first touched on the impacts of hiking the minimum wage. “What’s the big ‘hub-bub’ over raising the minimum wage to $15/hr? After all, the last time the minimum wage was raised was in 2009. According to the April 2015, BLS report the numbers were quite underwhelming: ‘In 2014, 77.2 million workers age 16 … Read more
Democrats have gathered information from 7,000 lawsuits from nearly 50 states Information includes documentation about every time Trump told supporters at his 2016 campaign rallies that Mexico would pay for the wall The Democrats will use the research against the president in the 2020 election, particularly in key battlegrounds states Information was gathered through news … Read more
via realclearinvestigations: Records recently posted online by the FBI indicate that it did little to investigate allegations from private sources connected to Republicans about a scheme in which associates of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tried to exploit their connection to her to profit from the turmoil in Libya in 2011. The FBI received the documents … Read more
via americanthinker: “Political consultants burn through billions of dollars and have no idea what they’re doing except to enrich themselves. “They do a number of things over and again of limited effect: TV and radio ads, direct mail, robocalls. And burn through money they do. Jeb Bush’s campaign famously spent $139 million and he dropped out … Read more
Parkland dad uncovers how district enabled deranged student-turned-shooter. After the deadly Feb. 14, 2018, mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas HS in Parkland, Fla., national media focused largely on a handful of student activists, leaving it to victims’ parents to unravel why the slaughter happened. Andrew Pollack, whose daughter, Meadow, was one of the 17 killed, … Read more
by Simon Black of Sovereign Man Let’s bring on the weekly absurdity! School cop handcuffs and screams at autistic 8-year-old An eight year old autistic boy in Southlake, Texas became agitated in his guidance counselor’s office. At one point the child became fidgety and took out a jump rope (that had been provided to him by the school). … Read more
by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, Elizabeth Warren’s proposal seems to lack any comprehension of the economic impact. She has said: “To put our economy — and our families — on firmer ground, it is essential to reduce household debt both by raising people’s wages and by bringing down their costs. That is the heart of her economic … Read more
by Robert Murphy via Mises John Cochrane has an entertaining and informative blog called “The Grumpy Economist,” offering insights centered in the Chicago School approach that nonetheless will resonate with the Austrian reader. However, in a recent post Cochrane erroneously claimed that people living in high-rent areas of California were effectively using a different currency than other Americans. This type of loose … Read more
by Martin Armstrong Margaret Thatcher on the ERM Crisis & why even the euro will fail.
by independenttrader Companies listed on the stock exchange may reward their shareholders in two main ways: by buying back their shares or by paying dividends. Let us remind you the meaning of the former. Share repurchase or buyback is a transaction whereby a company buys back its own shares from the stock market. After repurchase, … Read more
GOP faces must-win race in North Carolina CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Republicans are scrambling to avoid what would be a devastating loss in the special House election in North Carolina’s 9th District. Internal polls from both sides show Republican Dan Bishop and Democrat Dan McCready running neck and neck in a traditional GOP stronghold that was unexpectedly competitive in … Read more
