Dispatches From The Intersection Of Hollywood Interrupted And The Education Apocalypse

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A Nation of Felicity Huffmans. The latest elite-college admissions scandal rests on a foundation of pure silliness; as Jim Geraghty writes, people with rich, famous, well-connected parents are the ones who least need the imprimatur of a famous college to speed them through life. Yet these same people are the ones with the means to indulge the status … Read more

Firearms Registration Act Introduced in Pennsylvania

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Via Ammoland (Ammoland.com)- A new bill introduced in Pennsylvania would establish a gun registry within the state. HB0768 is known as the Firearms Registration Act. The Democrats that introduced the bill were Mary Louise Isaacson (D), Angel Cruz (D), and Mary Jo Daley (D). Last Friday, the General Assembly referred the bill to the committee … Read more

The Next Step In Social Security’s Ponzi Scheme

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by Gary Galles via Mises Wire On January 30, Rep. John Larson and 200 Democratic co-sponsors introduced the Social Security 2100 Act. Portrayed as giving retirees long-overdue benefit increases, it would actually add another step to Social Security’s long-running Ponzi scheme. Despite Democrats’ history of rejecting that term for Social Security, it has been the biggest … Read more

Household Wealth Close to Stall Speed

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Originally posted at ExecSpec.net Corporate balance sheets are in excellent shape, but equally impressive is the net worth of the American household that grows virtually every single quarter year over year. During rare periods when it doesn’t expand, it typically coincides with economic trouble. Historically, more than a four percent decline in sequential quarters is a … Read more

Elite schools hit with first suit in college admissions bribery scam… $500 billion…. Will children pay price?

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U.S. college admissions scandal sparks $500 billion lawsuit March 14 (Reuters) – The U.S. college admissions scandal that erupted this week has triggered private litigation accusing rich, well-connected parents of buying spots for their children at prestigious schools, and keeping children of less wealthy parents out. A $500 billion civil lawsuit filed by a parent … Read more

Boeing planes have trouble flying, Tesla cars can’t stay on the road, and social media companies’ websites are down across the world.

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Boeing planes have trouble flying, Tesla cars can't stay on the road, and social media companies' websites are down across the world. — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) March 14, 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV4l2y9ISqE cancellation wave has begun https://t.co/GtRXpiDIvO — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) March 14, 2019 https://twitter.com/Tslareaper/status/1106219599509356545 Goldman Sachs says Tesla's new Model Y SUV could make its Model 3 demand … Read more

GOLDMAN SACHS layoffs

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via nypost: A dreaded bloodbath at Goldman Sachs under the bank’s new boss has finally begun. The Wall Street powerhouse — whose new Chief Executive David Solomon took the reins from Lloyd Blankfein last October — had laid off 65 employees in its New York office at the end of February, according to notice filed on … Read more

BREXIT ON DELAY… FOR TWO MORE YEARS?!

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UK lawmakers gear up for vote on delaying Brexit LONDON (AP) — British lawmakers were voting Thursday on whether to scuttle the already dwindling chances the U.K. will leave the European Union this month as scheduled, but EU officials warned they would only allow a delay if the country made a fundamental shift in its … Read more

188 Internet Shutdowns In 2018 Show Why Physical Gold Is Ultimate Protection

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by GoldCore – Internet’s “off switch” increasingly used to curb political and economic freedom – Internet shutdowns were seen 188 times throughout the world in 2018 (see table) – Democratic India experienced 154 internet shutdowns in just 30 months – Technologically advanced EU countries Spain and Estonia experienced shutdowns – Gallup poll shows people more worried … Read more

Were Today’s Massive Outages On Facebook And Google Part Of A Psychological End Times Experiment To See How People Would React?

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by Geoffrey Grider Then, at noon here in California, a Facebook spokesman denied one possible explanation: that the Silicon Valley giant, and Google before it, were being subject to a massive denial-of-service attack. Today as nearly all the main social networks collapsed, I couldn’t shake the creepy feeling that whatever or whoeverwas behind the outages was paying … Read more

When is Forecasting Not Forecasting?

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by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: There are a number of people who claim to have called the 2008 crash. What I find absent is that there is no one who brags on calling the rallies and crashes as you have and I have witnessed from going to your WECs since 1985. I still remember you in 1985 … Read more