MAJOR HURRICANE LANE: TO GET HAWAIIAN ISLANDS ON WEDNESDAY! IT’S A CAT 5 NOW! POTENTIAL IMPACTS: Devastating to Catastrophic!

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@TropicalTidbits Seguir Seguir @TropicalTidbits Mais The forecast for Hurricane #Lane continues to shift closer to #Hawaii. Lane has strengthened after completing an eyewall replacement cycle last night, now with max winds of 150 mph. Impacts could arrive as early as Wed night. Stay tuned to CPHC & @NWSHonolulu for the latest info The forecast for … Read more

Average Age of Cars & Trucks by Household Income and Vehicle Type over Time

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter A deep dive based on the report by the Federal Highway Administration for 2017 compared to 2009. When I entered the auto industry in 1985, there was a lot of hand-wringing about the average age of vehicles in operation in the US. After a brutal recession, it had jumped to 7.9 … Read more

An Analysis of Charitable Giving Using Donor Advised Funds

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by Mrme487 Basic Reminders About Charitable Giving Before diving in to some unique points about DAFs, I wanted to give a quick reminder about how charitable giving impacts your finances and taxes. If you’re familiar with this, please feel free to skip this section. Giving money away to qualified charitable organizations (typically called 501(c)(3) organizations) … Read more

Examining The Economies Of The EU

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msCuwDf_WTc The EU is a coalition of nations, but in any group there are the ones that do well versus the ones that don’t. Peter Oliver and Hilary Fordwich join Bart Chilton as they discuss everything from Greece to Germany. Alex Mihailovich is covering French company Total while Sara Montes de Oca covers Monsanto and … Read more

Investor Alert: US buyback announcements slow, QT is accelerating, the percentage of unprofitable US small-cap firms (Russell 2000) keeps rising…

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the most underreported news of the session pic.twitter.com/DpD5SpwjVZ — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) August 21, 2018 The percentage of unprofitable US small-cap firms (Russell 2000) keeps rising. h/t @SoberLook pic.twitter.com/5BLM39JACg — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) August 21, 2018 pic.twitter.com/Kbw1ZaWDa2 — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) August 21, 2018 pic.twitter.com/vzL5v2QqPo — zerohedge (@zerohedge) August 21, 2018 US Futures Tumble After Cohen "Campaign Finance … Read more

BREAKING: Washington freezes Russian assets in US worth hundreds of millions of dollars – US Treasury

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Russian-owned assets in the United States worth hundreds of millions of dollars have been frozen as part of Washington’s sanctions campaign against Moscow since 2013, said US Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Sigal Mandelker. “The actions of the US Treasury have had significant consequences for the financial interests of individuals and businesses that were affected, … Read more

The Chinese are now writing our laws and its terrifying

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by scholes44 The American Legislative Exchange Council or ALEC has abandoned their commitment to America’s free market economy. American companies like Exxon Mobil are leaving ALEC organization in droves, and massive Chinese conglomerates like Alibaba are replacing them. What model bills is China writing? ALEC is a non-profit group with hundreds of corporate members. Those … Read more

During the 2013 California drought, Nestle extracted 27,000,000 gallons of California drinking water for only $524, and resold it for millions. This received almost no news coverage.

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via  The Anti Media: Nestle has found itself more and more frequently in the glare of the California drought-shame spotlight than it would arguably care to be — though not frequently enough, apparently, for the megacorporation to have spontaneously sprouted a conscience. Drought-shaming worked sufficiently enough for Starbucks to stop bottling water in the now-arid state entirely, uprooting its operations … Read more

See a pattern yet?

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JIM LINDGREN LOOKS AT A UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PROGRAM ASKING IF THERE CAN BE CAPITALISM WITHOUT RACISM: IMO, the answers to these questions are fairly obvious: 1. Racism came first. Every inhabited continent had slaves, and ethnic out-groups were among the most likely to be enslaved. It is the abolition of slavery that is particularly Western, … Read more

No matter how good algorithms become, there may be some things where people still insist on dealing with other people.

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THE HUMAN TOUCH: Why Banks Are Giving Tellers Raises, Instead of Firing Them All. When Goldman Sachs Group Inc. launched its digital consumer bank, it conducted a survey on customer attitudes. It turns out people want to find answers without assistance — until they can’t and immediately want help from a qualified banker. There’s high tolerance … Read more

“THE MOUNT RUSHMORE OF SCARIEST URBAN PLACES IN AMERICA:” Looking back at the hell that was Chicago’s Cabrini-Green, Public Housing’s Most Notorious Failure.

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via city-journal.org: For writers, it pays to be a contrarian. That is, it’s hard to make a living pitching books and articles that say: “The conventional wisdom about Subject X holds up pretty well.” A more promising approach is to contend that what everybody “knows” about X is wrong: the truth is very different, or at … Read more

STEIN’S LAW, REAL ESTATE EDITION

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Luxury Apartment Sales Plummet In New York As Sellers ‘Capitulate.’ “Sales of luxury apartments that cost $5 million or more in New York City have plummeted more than 31% over the first six months of this year, and sellers are trying to make up for the drop in sales by slashing prices to meet buying … Read more

FITTON:WHAT IS HAPPENING AT DOJ? Judicial Watch just uncovered more classified Clinton emails. DOJ is out to lunch on Hillary Clinton national security crimes. Anyone else would have been both arrested and prosecuted by now!

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by TFittonJW Why is Judicial Watch carrying all the load on Clinton corruption? Background: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-uncovers-six-more-clinton-emails-containing-classified-material-on-her-unsecure-non-state-gov-email-system/  

Inside America’s Meddling Machine: The US Funded Group that Interferes in Elections Around the Globe

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In this Grayzone special, Max Blumenthal attends a Capitol Hill gathering of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and explores the group’s destabilizing global campaign to meddle in other countries’ affairs. The report covers the NED’s interference in foreign elections in Russia and Mongolia, its participation in coup attempts from Haiti to Venezuela to Nicaragua, … Read more

Banks policing who candidates may or may not receive donations from is not a road we want to go down.

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YOU MAY NOT BE INTERESTED IN THE GLEICHSCHALTUNG, BUT THE GLEICHSCHALTUNG IS INTERESTED IN YOU: Wells Fargo Closes Florida Politician’s Account Due To Marijuana Donations. It’s well known that many banks are reluctant to open accounts for marijuana businesses out of fear of running afoul of the U.S’s government’s continued criminalization of the drug. But one … Read more

OF COURSE IT IS, THE DEMOCRATS HAVE GONE BATSH*T CRAZY

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Study: U.S. political climate frightening for teens.  Donald Trump‘s America might be harming the mental health of teens, especially minorities, a new study suggests. Fear of discrimination became more common among Los Angeles-area teenagers between the 2016 election and the months following Trump’s presidential inauguration in 2017, researchers found. Trump’s proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall, his … Read more

Government’s Own Report Shows Tax Dollars Spent in Afghanistan Have Boosted Opium Production

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via thefreethoughtproject: As the longest war in United States history approaches yet another anniversary, the U.S. is being forced to admit that after pouring billions of dollars into “counternarcotics efforts” in Afghanistan, the result has been an overwhelming increase in opium production. The recent report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) reveals that U.S. … Read more