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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eenv6SUw3ag Apple may be closing a billion-dollar deal to buy Intel’s modem business. RT America’s Michele Greenstein joins Rick Sanchez to discuss how the deal will position Apple to develop its own 5G modem in the future, giving it the patents, IP and talent hitherto belonging to Intel.
Junk food brands love to associate themselves with sports to improve their brand image.
C-Span piece from 2013. Haven’t heard much chatter about this; can’t be good for business. https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4455340/irs-head-steve-miller-admits-income-taxes-voluntary h/t MrJDouble
by Tha_Dude_Abidez John McAfee is threatening to do a document dump. He’s already dropped info on some agents in the past few weeks on his twitter. He’s fled on a boat to try and evade capture but it appears he’s now being taken into custody. It’s be interesting what his dead man’s switch is. … Read more
by Keith Weiner of Monetary-Metals Folks in the liberty movement often say that the economy is fake. But this does not persuade anyone. It’s just preaching to the choir! We hope that this series on GDP provides more effective ammunition to argue with the Left-Right-Wall-Street-Main-Street-Capitalists-Socialists. We frame it that way, because nearly everyone loves to tout GDP (though some do so only when it … Read more
UBS CEO Warns of ‘Dangerous’ Bubbles Spurred by Central Banks (Bloomberg) — UBS Group AG’s chief executive officer is sounding the alarm on fresh monetary easing just as European policy makers appear poised to deliver another helping to stimulus-hungry markets. “I’d be very, very careful about growing further the balance sheet of central banks,’’ Sergio … Read more
From MarketWatch: First the good news: As you know, the stock market has surged for more than a decade. Since the recession low of March 9, 2009, the S&P 500 has rocketed from a devilish 666 to over 3,000 today. That’s a gain of 350% in 10 years. Talk about building wealth. Now the bad news: This … Read more
by DCG This is not from The Onion. From MyFoxChicago: Criminal activity has been officially canceled in one suburban Chicago town due to the extreme heat that’s cooking most of the country. “It is just too hot to be outside committing crimes,” the Park Forest Police Department said on Facebook Friday. “We’re asking all aspiring criminals, seasoned veterans, … Read more
by Simon Black In 1993, William Kurt Hauser, a San Francisco investment analyst, presented his results from an incredibly interesting study. Hauser had analyzed tax revenues in the United States over time and came to the conclusion that tax revenue as a percentage of GDP had remained around a narrow band of 19% since 1946. That … Read more
THE MONOPOLY MONEY THEORY OF GOVERNMENT: Print it, and they will spend. Sadly, there’s nothing new or uncommon with this kind of thinking. h/t SG
Over the weekend, young toughs with buckets full of water randomly soaked cops in Harlem and Brownsville just for the hell of it. At one point, an officer got conked on the head by an empty plastic bucket — to the vast amusement of jeering onlookers. It was apparently an internet challenge sort of thing — and … Read more
A corrupt judge had to be dragged out of a courtroom by police to begin her prison sentence. Juvenile judge Tracie Hunter began her six months jail sentence Monday for illegally giving her brother, a former government employee, confidential records to help him keep his job in Hamilton County, Ohio. The packed courtroom erupted into … Read more
Watch the latest video at foxnews.com Maybe you’ve noticed this from watching TV in the past couple of years. When it’s about tax returns or executive orders, or of course, Russia, the left strikes a law and order pose. Nobody, they’ll remind you — finger wagging in your face — is above the law in this … Read more
China June pork imports surge 62.8% from a year earlier. BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s pork imports in June surged from the previous year, customs data showed on Tuesday, as the world’s top consumer of the meat stocked up on supplies after African swine fever has decimated domestic pig herds. China brought in 160,467 tonnes of … Read more
Just one week after the tech world’s most visible conservative and entrepreneur to back President Donald Trump, Peter Thiel, slammed “treasonous” Google for agreeing to work closely with China, trying to get its search engine back into the Chinese market, while deciding to let a US defense department contract that gave the military access to its artificial intelligence … Read more
by Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics “Tesla’s headed for bankruptcy. It’s got a flawed business model; costs are way too high for the price charged for the vehicles and its riddled with accounting fraud. But the regulators will look the other way until it’s too late.” Silver Liberties invited me on to its podcast to discuss reality. We … Read more
By The Phoenix Yesterday I asked, just what exactly is terrifying the Fed? As a brief recap, there are three main issues grabbing their attention. 1) The collapse of German banking giant Deutsche Bank (DB). 2) China’s banking system entering a credit freeze. 3) The bursting of the Everything Bubble. Of the three, it is the … Read more
By The Phoenix Yesterday I asked, just what exactly is terrifying the Fed? As a brief recap, there are three main issues grabbing their attention. 1) The collapse of German banking giant Deutsche Bank (DB). 2) China’s banking system entering a credit freeze. 3) The bursting of the Everything Bubble. Of the three, it is the … Read more
Posting reviews has become second nature for many consumers nowadays – 82 percent of adults say they read online reviews at least some of the time, according to a Pew Research Center Study – so when they have a bad experience with a business, up goes a review, to share it with others. But for one man … Read more
by TFittonJW https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-files-house-ethics-complaint-against-rep-ilhan-omar-over-potential-immigration-marriage-tax-and-student-loan-fraud/ The Judicial Watch complaint is reprinted below: Ethics Complaint Against Rep. Ilhan Omar Concerning Possible Violations of Federal and State Law Dear Chairman Skaggs, Judicial Watch is a non-profit, non-partisan educational foundation, promoting transparency, accountability and integrity in government and fidelity to the rule of law. We regularly monitor congressional ethics issues as part … Read more