If the only reason you pay for Amazon Prime is because of 2-day shipping, there is a good chance it’s a smarter financial move for you to cancel it than continue.

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by 83wonder I’ve paid for prime since it was available, and lately I’ve noticed it’s gotten increasingly worse with shipping. FYI – Prime doesn’t mean you will get an item in 2 days, it means you should get the item 2 days after it ships, and there will often be multiple days between order and ship date meaning a $119 prime … Read more

Verizon to cut 44,000 workers and shuffle a bunch of IT workers to Indian Oursourcing Giant

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Verizon Communications offered voluntary severance packages last month to roughly 44,000 employees.That comes to more than a quarter of the carrier’s workforce. A spokesman for the company confirmed the scope of the offer, which was previously reported by The Wall Street Journal. The severance packages will give Verizon “an opportunity to find more efficiencies in the size and … Read more

Danish bank shares fall sharply

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by Lass3BTC Danish Bank shares fall sharply on Friday morning. At 04.10, the value dropped by 10.6 percent after the stock market opened at 9:00 this morning. Overall, shareholders have lost nearly 40 percent this year, the money laundering case in Estonia has taken the headlines. Financial Times writes Friday how Danish Bank Estonian branch in … Read more

Former Barack Obama operative John Burton has a team of 16,000 who are seeking to uncover dirt on key Republican candidates up for re-election.

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A former Barack Obama operative has amassed a team of 16,000 ‘amateur sleuths’ who are seeking to uncover dirt on key Republican candidates up for re-election this November. John Burton is his name, and he’s an angry 38-year-old former JP Morgan employee and Barack Obama opposition research guru. Starting shortly after President Trump was elected … Read more

Return of volatility: more short term weakness for stocks ahead

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by Troy As you would recall, I said in late-September that the stock market’s volatility would probably spike in October. Volatility was extremely compressed, which set the stage for an expansion in vol. Yesterday, the stock market went down and volatility spiked a little. Spikes in volatility are usually larger than this, so perhaps the stock market … Read more

40% of millennial men identify as socialist

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A new poll examining the political leanings of the next generation of leaders found 31 percent of millennials identify as “democratic socialist” or “socialist” while 40 percent of men in that age group say the same. The study by Maru/Blue and BuzzFeed News released Thursday, reported by the Daily Caller, asked 1,006 randomly selected 22- to 27-year-olds to … Read more

SHOT AT ON A BASEBALL FIELD, CRIPPLED BY A BEATING IN HIS OWN YARD, NOW THIS: Kavanaugh Protesters Chase Down Rand Paul at DC Airport.

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via dailysignal: Protesters against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh chased down Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., at Reagan National Airport just outside Washington, D.C. As Paul was exiting the airport Monday, the group of several women began shouting at Paul, asking him if he would call for an investigation into Kavanaugh. Paul did not respond and continued walking, to … Read more

Panic Borrowing in China

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by FS China is slowing down, and tariff troubles are only making this fear worse. We spoke with Shehzad Qazi, managing director at China Beige Book International, about his thoughts on China’s weakening economic conditions. For audio, see China Seeing an Explosion in Corporate Borrowing, Says Shehzad Qazi. Not as Weak as We Thought Since the … Read more

SO 650 LAW PROFS ARE SLAVISH TOOLS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY? SEEMS LOW: 650+ Law Profs Call No Vote on Kavanaugh Due to Temperament.

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via victorygirlsblog: Six hundred and fifty law professors seems like a lot of law professors. It’s not. There are over 20,000 law professors in the United States teaching at our 200 law schools. It is true that the legal profession of 400,000 lawyers is mostly left leaning, there are some carve outs in the profession – like business lawyers … Read more

Report: Ford’s FBI Friend, Monica McLean, Pressured Witness To Modify Testimony and Statement…

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by sundance If you thought it was sketchy that Ms. Christine Blasey-Ford’s life-long best friend was a recently retired FBI agent and DOJ official, Monica McLean {Go Deep}; and if you thought it was sketchy that McLean and Ford were together on July 30th when Ford was writing a  letter to Dianne Feinstein, likely making the friend Ms … Read more

Bill O’Reilly says there is a “cabal of media companies” out to get Kavanaugh

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In this video, Bill O’Reilly says that when every nasty unsubstantiated allegation about Kavanaugh comes out, even from disreputable people, the news media rams it down our throats, while any exculpatory news about Kavanaugh is not presented. O’Reilly says there has to be orders from the top telling reporters to only broadcast the negative allegations. … Read more

Facebook employees in the midst of a week-long meltdown after high-ranking Facebook exec supports Kavanaugh at hearing

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Facebook employees are reportedly in the midst of a week-long meltdown after vice president for global policy Joel Kaplan sat behind Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh during Kavanaugh’s Sept. 27 testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Hundreds of Facebook employees expressed their displeasure with Kaplan since Kavanaugh’s testimony, according to reports in The New York … Read more

Danielle Park – ETF’s Never Go Down, Right?

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from Financial Survival Network Danielle Park notes that ETF’s (exchange traded funds) are all the rage on Wall Street. They’ve seemingly eliminated the need to be a stock picker. Just choose a sector, buy the EFT, set it and forget it. But there’s a problem. The number of publicly traded US stocks is down nearly 50 percent. … Read more

Running Out of Affordable Homes

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By Harry Dent Bubbles are self-defeating. Their success is what eventually kills them. The same is true for cycles. Take the urbanization cycle for example… As a population urbanizes, people get wealthier. But more affluent urbanites have fewer kids and that slows future demographic growth for the next generation. Real estate is the latest bubble/cycle to prove this … Read more

US index futures are flat ahead of September jobs data release while global stocks are declining with higher bond yields globally

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by QuantalyticsResearch US Stocks Global stocks are declining this morning with bond yields inching up higher as traders await the release of September’s payrolls data US stocks index futures are pointing to a neutral open in NY with the Dow Jones minis +0.11% S&P500 minis +0.08% and Nasdaq 100 minis –0.01% US Non-farm payrolls for September … Read more

Tucker obtains internal emails from Google/YouTube proving that they alter search results for political reasons

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Transcript: Previously on this show we’ve told you how employees at Google discussed altering search results to undermine the White House’s immigration policies. At the time Google said it has never changed search results for political reasons, and it never will. We knew it was untrue then, now we can prove that it is untrue. … Read more