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by YouOnlyLiftedOnce On 27 November 2018, the Australian Parliament has concluded a detailed report with detailed proposal including classify games including loot boxes as gambling. [1] After repeated delayed release and confirmed under-performance of EA’s latest releases Star Wars: Battlefront II and Battlefield V, compounded with increasing likelihood of complete lootbox bans, which accounts for … Read more

via Bloomberg: A key regulator of Wall Street banks has joined the Federal Reserve in warning about risky corporate borrowing that has reached record levels as lender protections are eroded. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency cautioned in its Semiannual Risk Perspective released Monday that it’s looking at “transactions with increasing leverage, weaker capital structures, … Read more

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – European Central Bank policymakers are debating ways to wean the euro zone off years of easy money, floating ideas such as a new kind of multi-year loans and staggered increases in interest rates, sources told Reuters. The ECB will have a difficult task over the next couple of years: dialing back its … Read more

via J-L-Picard: Sources: ​ https://historyinpieces.com/research/presidential-inauguration-dates ​ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States_by_date_of_death ​ Made on MS Excel 365 ​ Inspired by: https://xkcd.com/893/  

via Meadow Clark: China’s social credit system is in full swing and has already blacklisted more than 15 million Chinese residents from travel. Is it coming soon to the U.S.? Recently, The Organic Prepper reported some shocking news of China’s newest rollout: a social credit system. It’s a system of surveillance and governance using a social scoring system … Read more

by Zia Haq via the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Russia nudges Indian policymakers to move away from the dollar To counter US President Donald Trump’s economic sanctions, snap trade wars and the dollar’s dominance in world trade, Russia is nudging Indian policymakers to explore ways to stop depending on the greenback and conduct trade in alternative … Read more

by Shaun Richards Let us take the opportunity to be able to look at some better news from Greece which came from its statistics office yesterday. The available seasonally adjusted data indicate that in the 3 rd quarter of 2018 the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in volume terms increased by 1.0% in comparison with the … Read more

by Vitaliy N. Katsenelson The Roman philosopher Seneca wasn’t talking about the stock market when he wrote that “Time discovers truth,”but he could have been. In the long run a stock price will reflect a company’s (true) intrinsic value. In the short run the pricing is basically random. Here are two real-life examples. Let’s say you had … Read more

by John Ward The only thing missing from the utter disgrace of the last ten days has been the taxpaying voters who keep all these arrogant poseurs in a job. It is time we had our say. ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ Yesterday’s antics in Parliament have convinced the ever-gullible old media in Britain that somehow, an historic victory for … Read more

Nice little short video.. https://twitter.com/MarkACollett/status/1070249596704702464 It’s true. People are marching throughout Europe, but no mention in the media.   Fox news just addressed that the liberal media are covering it all up.   This thing has legs and its about to explode Europe is unraveling before our eyes. Something big is happening and the media … Read more

JUSTICE.GOV: An attorney with a Panama law firm – which listed Podesta as a Board member – was just indicted for money laundering and tax evasion https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/four-defendants-charged-panama-papers-investigation-their-roles-panamanian-based-global-law Four individuals have been charged in an indictment unsealed today in the Southern District of New York with wire fraud, tax fraud, money laundering and other offenses in … Read more