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by DCG Shocker, not. From NY Post: For the world’s richest man, charity begins — and stays — at home. Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has given only a tiny fraction of his $160 billion fortune to philanthropic causes, falling far behind fellow billionaires such as Bill and Melinda Gates and former New York mayor … Read more

By Irina Slav Venezuela will continue trading with the United States despite the fact Washington broke off diplomatic relations following president Nicolas Maduro’s inauguration for a second term in office, which the U.S. and a host of other countries decried as illegitimate. Turkey’s Anadolu Agency quoted Maduro as saying, “We have multifaceted relations with the … Read more

by visualcapitalist Every year, the United States generates 4,000 million MWh of electricity from utility-scale sources. While the majority comes from fossil fuels like natural gas (32.1%) and coal (29.9%), there are also many other minor sources that feed into the grid, ranging from biomass to geothermal. Do you know where your electricity comes from? THE … Read more

by Daisy Luther We’ve had all sorts of articles on this website about technology run amok, like videos that are undiscernable from reality and doorbells that monitor the entire neighborhood and China mining data from the brains of workers. But this one takes the creepy sci-fact cake. According to MIT, (Edited to add: the website where this paper is hosted … Read more

by Frank Holmes, CEO, U.S. Global Investors Summary: Despite the government shutdown, airlines beat on earnings and offer exciting guidance for 2019. Global airlines are expected to log their 10th straight year of profitability—an industry first. With incomes expanding worldwide, air travel demand is projected to outpace economic growth for the next couple of decades. … Read more

by Lance Roberts Martin Tarlie of GMO just recently wrote a great piece on the issue of the current U.S. Stock Market Bubble asking the question of whether or not it has finally burst. To wit: “A new model explains this dichotomy between price action and fundamentals by suggesting that a bubble in the U.S. stock market started … Read more

by Jeremiah Johnson Stretching in an instinctive movement and one we see in not only our physical behaviors but in the observation of animals. Looking more closely at our domesticated pets, we see this as a biological response that is ingrained in animals. As a result, they are more agile predators, with better balance and better … Read more

by Michael Snyder  The experts are telling us that the Midwest could experience the coldest weather that it has ever seen this week.  Wind chill temperatures of -40 and -50 degrees will be common throughout the region, and it is being projected that some spots will actually get hit by wind chill temperatures of up to … Read more

by Charles Hugh-Smith Rising income inequality may be a reflection of the changing nature of work. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s story The Rich Boy included this famous line: “Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.” According to a recent paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER),Capitalists in the … Read more

by howmuch Selling weapons to other countries is big business. It’s so lucrative that President Trumpfamously refused to cancel an American arms deal with Saudi Arabia in the aftermath of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder. So just how big is the international market? The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and the World Bank keep detailed figures on … Read more

by sundance Devin Nunes dropped a bombshell yesterday in an interview with Maria Bartiromo [Video Here].  Many people are overlooking the implications of his speculation; and, more importantly how Nunes statement answers just about every contradictory question people have carried.  Including: Why Rosenstein introduced Mueller to President Trump the day before he was appointed as Special … Read more

by Michael Snyder If it would add a decade to your life, would you allow the blood of young people to be injected into your veins?  I understand that this may sound very strange to you, but the truth is that interest in this sort of “anti-aging therapy” has surged among the elite in recent … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcOMf4zM7fE Reporter Asks Sarah Sanders About Trump Pardoning Roger Stone Today During white house press briefing, sarah sanders press briefing happened, it was on government shutdown and trump shutdown this is current events and latest news and breaking news in business from the white house briefing this is also news in politics and political news … Read more

Interesting. An electronic upside down wedding cake look. IBM is in a race with its fellow tech giants to build a practical quantum computer, and its made a big leap forward with its 50 qubits quantum computer. We were on the ground in Las Vegas for CES 2018 to check it out, and ask the … Read more

by Simon Black Mexico is in the midst of a crisis again. And no, it doesn’t have anything to do with the border wall that caused the US government to be hopelessly deadlocked for more than a month. Or the economy. Or murders and violence. Or drug trafficking. Or bird flu. Nope. Mexico is battling an … Read more