Disgruntled Amazon customers are complaining that their packages keep arriving late, and it could be an ominous sign for Prime

via businessinsider: Some Amazon Prime customers are fuming, claiming the company has repeatedly delayed their shipments and backtracked on the two-day-shipping guarantee that comes with membership. But the data shows that Amazon has actually sped up the process of getting packages to customers. It’s …

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2019 is precisely 90 years from start of Great Depression. Not a prediction, just an interesting and slightly unnerving fact. Add in wealth gap, record asset prices, record debt etc etc etc. Lot of similarities

2019 is precisely 90 years from start of Great Depression. Not a prediction, just an interesting and slightly unnerving fact. Add in wealth gap, record asset prices, record debt etc etc etc. Lot of similarities https://t.co/LOZlb0EthF — Zach Abraham (@KYRRadio) …

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Japan has a 2.5% unemployment rate and a higher labor participation rate than America so its labor market is tight. However, economists are only expecting 1% wage growth in Japan in 2018. Will America become Japanified?

via upfina: The April jobs report in the US wasn’t great as there were misses across the board. The total jobs created was 164,000 which missed estimates of 191,000. The participation rate missed estimates for 62.9%, coming in at 62.8%. …

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The Big Chill

by Martin Armstrong They are calling it the “Big Chill” because we have just had two years of really Global Cooling. The NASA data has shown that the last two years have been the most dramatic two-year cooling event of the last …

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The Wild West of Crypto Hacks in One Graph

by howmuch Pundits and commentators have long worried about the security of decentralized cryptocurrencies. In fact, detractors often complain that investing in cryptocurrencies carries far too much downside for the average investor—even if the price goes up, you can still …

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Nobody has seen or heard from Julian for 44 days now.

John Kiriakou (CIA whistleblower) tried visiting and dropped off a letter for Assange on April 4th. Kiriakou has been tweeting about how dangerous Haspel is. https://www.couragefound.org/2018/04/ex-cia-and-intelligence-officers-appeal-to-ecuador-in-support-of-assange/ Assange was gagged by the Ecuadorian president March 28th. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/wikileaks-julian-assange-gagged-and-isolated-by-ecuadors-president This tweet from Julian’s mom yesterday really hit home. It’s …

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