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BLUE STATE BLUES: What A Deal! San Jose To Pay Homeless To Clean Up Their Mess. Granted, a 25 person workforce isn’t all that large in terms of getting the homeless off the streets, but this phase of the project is only a pilot program and it could be expanded later. A couple of challenges the … Read more
A disturbing report by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. “Picking flowers in foreign lands to make honey in China.” via aspi.org.au: Since 2007, the PLA has sponsored more than 2,500 military scientists and engineers to study abroad and has developed relationships with researchers and institutions across the globe.1 This collaboration is highest in the Five Eyes … Read more
Lawyers for the federal government told a federal judge in 2015 that failing to allow U.S. immigration officials some leeway in how they implement the infamous Flores settlement would prompt an explosion of immigrant families – real and otherwise – trying to enter the country. The judge refused, Obama did nothing to prepare for the … Read more
For those that follow PV Just popped up recently h/t Darkness
via usatoday: What happens when there are 129 million winners in a class action lawsuit, each of whom stands to receive 4 cents? Federal judges in California thought they had an answer. Faced with a privacy invasion lawsuit first filed against Google in 2010, they approved an $8.5 million settlement that split most of the proceeds … Read more
TECH STOCKS VOLATILE… Bezos Loses $19 BILLION! (Bloomberg) — Jeff Bezos is still the world’s richest person, but he’s a lot closer to No. 2 Bill Gates than just a few months ago. The Amazon.com Inc. founder lost $19.2 billion over the past two trading days — the most ever in that time, according … Read more
by ogordained UNITED STATES US core inflation met the feds expectations at 2.0% Consumer spending is 5% higher this time around compared to last year Meanwhile income growth fell shy of expectations by about half The Dallas Fed reported very strong activity in their regional manufacturing report Labor shortages are easing Costs of inputs are still rising, but the pace is slowing Delivery bottlenecks are easing OTHER The S&P 500 closed yesterday hovering … Read more
President Trump plans to sign an executive order that would remove the right to citizenship for babies of non-citizens and unauthorized immigrants born on U.S. soil, he said yesterday in an exclusive interview for “Axios on HBO,” a new four-part documentary news series debuting on HBO this Sunday at 6:30 p.m. ET/PT. Why it matters: This would be … Read more
by Michael Snyder A second migrant caravan has been attempting to breach Mexico’s border with Guatemala, and the media is reporting that some migrants in that second caravan are armed with “guns” and “bombs”. This is a very serious claim, and it needs to either be confirmed or retracted, because it is not helpful to … Read more
by Michael Snyder We continue to see extremely wild swings on Wall Street. On Monday, at one point the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 352 points, and then later it was down 566 points. At the closing bell the Dow had officially lost 245 points, and all of this extreme volatility is making investors very … Read more
via howmuch.net Ernest Hemingway once supposedly wrote, “How did you go bankrupt? Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” Hemingway’s observation looks increasingly spot on when it comes to the U.S. national debt, which now stands at well over $21 trillion. A trillion dollars written out is $1,000,000,000,000. That’s 12 zeroes. How did we get here? Our visualization offers a … Read more
So you have evaluated your life and finally decided that you need a life insurance policy. There is no doubt that this is one of the best life decisions that anyone could make. Life is full of risks and as you all know, waking up to see a new day is always a gamble. Nobody … Read more
A HELOC loan is more commonly known as a second mortgage where you can leverage how much equity you have in your home to borrow money intended for personal expenses like consolidating debt or remodeling a kitchen. The math is simple; your home equity is the difference between the current property value and how much … Read more
She knocked ‘Socialism’ out of the park. Wish Government and Ethics classes were still being taught in our schools instead of ‘safe spaces’ and ‘politically (in)correct speech.’ Every 14 year old student should see this clip. ML
Democrats Caught Registering Non-Citizens To Vote according to the Associated Press. Democrats were sending out voter registration forms to non-citizens who then, in confusion, called the state asking if they were allowed to vote. They were not. This is compounded by recent stories of non-citizens being registered to vote in Texas and in California. Republicans … Read more
via cdc.gov: NCHS Data Brief No. 322, October 2018 PDF Version (412 KB) Cheryl D. Fryar, M.S.P.H., Jeffery P. Hughes, M.P.H., Kirsten A. Herrick, Ph.D., MSc., and Namanjeet Ahluwalia, Ph.D. Key findings Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey During 2013–2016, 36.6% of adults consumed fast food on a given day. The percentage of … Read more
The devil’s oldest trick point the finger at others to keep the attention off of themselves, get you to stand on their rug and then they pull it from under your feet and watch you fall down. Leftist aren’t liberals, they’re scum NW
by badpauly These are the latest Schedule 13D forms filed by activist investors in the last 7 days. Activist investors are investors that make an investment with the intention of influencing management in some way. There is evidence that following activist investors into investments can generate excess returns. Schedule 13G forms, in contrast, are filed … Read more
by badpauly This is a list of the top 20 companies that experienced the largest change in insider shares in the last seven (7) days. The SEC defines an insider as any officer, director or 10% shareholder. It is not illegal for these people to buy or sell their own shares. In fact, since most … Read more
by Lewsk55 Interesting video on the logical fallacies that can lead to dumb financial decisions: I thought the concept of the “endowment effect” was useful — the tendency for us to assign more value to the things we already own/paid for, then the things we could own. Or the sunk cost fallacy i.e. when you … Read more