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TAOS, N.M. (Reuters) – The FBI on Saturday said it had arrested Larry Hopkins, the leader of an armed group that is stopping undocumented migrants after they cross the U.S.-Mexico border into New Mexico. The arrest came two days after the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) accused the group of illegally detaining migrants and New … Read more
Wokeness Will DESTROY 2020 Democrats Paving The Way For Trump. As more stories emerge about Democrats and the left getting woke it seems every more likely that they will go broke as well. “Get Woke Go Broke” may be more than just a comment about business practices as Democrats are losing white male voters to … Read more
by William L. Anderson via Mises Wire One of the first lessons I give my economics students in the principles courses I teach or in my MBA classes is the famous Diamond-Water Paradox, or what economists historically have called the Paradox of Value. Why are diamonds more expensive than water? Why are professional athletes paid better … Read more
By Irina Slav A team of researchers from the University of California Los Angeles have created a unique device that can generate electricity from snowfall, science media report, citing a paper published in the journal Nano Technology. The device is basically a vastly improved weather station, which, in addition to measuring how much snow is falling … Read more
BY SRSROCCO If you think the carnage taking place in the shale oil companies is nearly over, you couldn’t be more wrong. I believe the bloodbath in the shale oil stocks has only just begun. Once we see the majority of shale stocks trading on the pink sheets as penny stocks will we finally close … Read more
It’s happening again. People who should know better are pointing to California’s current budget surplus as proof that the state, the world’s fifth largest economy, is in sound financial shape. That figure is also being used to support the claim that California’s relatively high tax burden and onerous regulations are not too problematic, as CNBC’s Robert Frank did on … Read more
U.S. support of a Saudi-led genocide of Yemen continues, thanks to the Obama administration. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ proposed Yemen resolution, fails, as Trump vetoes and claims “no constituting hostilities.” #Yemen #DonaldTrump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPG9Bq2ylJc Elizabeth Warren calls on Congress to begin impeachment proceedings against Trump Elizabeth Warren became the first Democratic presidential candidate to call for Congress to begin impeachment proceedings against President Trump Friday afternoon, citing the “severity” of “misconduct” detailed in the report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. “The severity of this misconduct demands that elected … Read more
Trump soured relations in Latin America. China and Russia have welcomed the chaos. With Venezuela in flames, China and Russia are seeking claims in the rubble. But the United States has been caught flat-footed, and the Pentagon is struggling to develop ways to blunt the countries’ influence in Latin America since President Donald Trump has … Read more
Cornell scientists create ‘living’ machines that eat, grow, and evolve The field of robotics is going through a renaissance thanks to advances in machine learning and sensor technology. Each generation of robot is engineered with greater mechanical complexity and smarter operating software than the last. But what if, instead of painstakingly designing and engineering a robot, you … Read more
February was bad. Housing market weakness is now spreading out from London. By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. London home prices in February took their biggest one-off hit since the dark days of the last crisis, according to data published Thursday by the UK’s Office of National Statistics. The average price of a residential … Read more
Jim Hoft from The Gateway Pundit reports, The Hill’s John Solomon joined Sean Hannity on the eve of the release of the full Mueller Report on Thursday. Solomon told Sean Hannity that the spying on the Trump campaign began back in January 2016 and it was all run by the Obama White House. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oqYqRIR9A8 Read … Read more
via CNBC: Robinhood’s co-founder and CEO Vlad Tenev defended the practice in a blog post. Tenev said like its broker-dealer peers, the start-up “participates in rebate programs which help customers get additional price improvement for their orders by creating competition amongst the exchanges and liquidity providers who fill the orders, often resulting in superior … Read more
via @mcm_ct: How much COLLUSION was involved to make this happen after the Dec 27 calls to hedgefunds and likely guarantees against losses offered to banks and HF’s by the admin and Fed…for BUYING markets – this is all very 1929ish type behavior! via @C_Barraud: #SPX | Factset: Analysts still expect an earnings recession with: *a 3.9% … Read more
via @chigrl: “US refiners prefer a heavier crude slate, which further supports increased exports of domestic #lightsweet crude favored by less-complex refineries abroad.” #oil
by Dr. Eowyn St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan, New York City, narrowly avoided a fate like France’s Notre Dame Cathedral. On Wednesday, April 17, 2019, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) tweeted that around 7:55 pm that evening, “a man walked into St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan with gas cans and lighter fluid,” and was apprehended … Read more
RT, Released on 4/20/19 Max interviews Wolf Richter of WolfStreet.com about interest rates, property markets, Uber’s IPO and the future outlook for Amazon and Netflix. Max Keiser is an American broadcaster and film-maker. He hosts Keiser Report, a financial program broadcast on RT. He presents a weekly show about finance and markets on London’s Resonance … Read more