By Irina Slav The International Monetary Fund dampened optimism about oil prices by forecasting the average for Brent at a little over US$58.24 a barrel next year, down from this year’s projected US$62.31. And things only get worse from there, with the IMF expects oil prices to drop to US$53.6 a barrel by 2023 as global … Read more
We have been receiving your donations, and we want to sincerely thank you. These generous donations will help us pay for our new system. As we told you, it has been more expensive to upgrade than we thought. I hope you guys are pleased with the upgrade. IWB is faster and better than it has … Read more
It is well known in Sweden that the current ambition is to reach and maintain 2% inflation. It seems any other goal is secondary. The Swedish krona just hit its lowest level since the aftermath of the financial crisis in 2009. Ultra-easy monetary policy with a negative policy rate is dragging down the currency. … Read more
“Jeff Bezos released Amazon’s annual Letter to Shareholders on April 18th. Most notably, Amazon disclosed for the first time ever that it has 100M paid Prime members globally. Color us impressed. Some other great tidbits below: Prime Free One Day delivery now in more than 8,000 cities and towns. Prime Now available in more than … Read more
There was a time wherein these kind of conditions would have instantly become subject to strict public oversight and legislative intervention. However, in a modern age designed to legislate for the benefit of private faction, rather than individual citizens, it is no surprise that these practices have become more common place. To me, this is … Read more
-James Comey -Hillary Clinton -Loretta Lynch -Andrew McCabe -Peter Strzok -Lisa Page https://desantis.house.gov/_cache/files/8/0/8002ca75-52fc-4995-b87e-43584da268db/472EBC7D8F55C0F9E830D37CF96376A2.final-criminal-referral.pdf https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/986642714388135937
By John Del Vecchio Earnings season is underway, and the path to quick profits (or losses) is right in front of us. Expectations are high because of tax reform and solid trends in earnings growth. Sales are trending up, and operating profits are on the rebound. Meanwhile, profit margins are high, with Wall Street analysts … Read more
It was item #20 on the city council meeting yesterday. That much I can confirm. If someone with Facebook can go on their city page, they might have posted the minutes of the city council meeting there. http://agenda2009.city-lakeforest.com/SIREPub/mobilemtgviewer.aspx?meetid=1022&doctype=AGENDA California City Votes for Second Time to Exempt Itself From State’s Sanctuary Law https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/item/28770-california-city-votes-for-second-time-to-exempt-itself-from-state-s-sanctuary-law This week, the … Read more
Here you go, ‘pede! I just did a DuckDuckGo on the names beneath the quote above **Spez: here is another article https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ThLM433AscQJ:https://www.publicintegrity.org/2016/10/17/20330/journalists-shower-hillary-clinton-campaign-cash+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk https://web.archive.org/web/20180418123722/https://www.publicintegrity.org/2016/10/17/20330/journalists-shower-hillary-clinton-campaign-cash http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/10/26/report-97-percent-doj-employee-political-donations-went-hillary-clinton/ IT
White House budget director Mick Mulvaney on Wednesday said the White House hopes to send Congress a package of new spending cut proposals in the coming weeks, even as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell appears cool on trying to roll back parts of the recent $1.3 trillion spending bill. Some House Republicans are bullish on putting together a so-called “rescissions” … Read more
https://youtu.be/liQxGN_RS00 His voice get’s a little pitchy around the 3:00 mark. h/t WyatteSmith
The magnificent house price bubble wheezes. By Steve Saretsky, Vancouver, Canada, Vancity Condo Guide: With 2017 mortgage pre-approvals having now expired, the first wave of buyers facing OSFI’s ground breaking mortgage regulations are being put to the test. The regulations, also known as B-20, require all borrowers to pass a stress test at an interest rate … Read more
Josh Sigurdson does another Freedom Minute update, this time on the recent finding of a survey by Credit Karma showing that only 0.04% of Bitcoin users actually reported their gains or losses to the IRS. 100 out of 250,000 filers. This doesn’t come as a surprise to most of us. Of course taxation is theft … Read more
It’s really stunning when one hears of school districts getting in trouble because they discipline disabled students at higher rates than non-disabled students. The problem is that we DEFINE students who are chronically misbehave as “disabled.” So, of course, they get disciplined more often than non-disabled students. How could they not? Teachers have to maintain order in … Read more
Part 1 – Questions about Attorney General Loretta Lynch By LV The following translations of Comey’s statements are offered by a professional skeptic after hearing Ex-FBI Director James Comey’s answers to George Stephanopoulis’s questions that aired on ABC last Sunday evening. You can read a transcript of the interview here: http://abcnews.go.com/Site/transcript-james-comeys-interview-abc-news-chief-anchor/story?id=54488723 The skeptic’s satirical translations appear … Read more
Los Alamitos, California Mayor Troy Edgar Says Several More Cities Ready to Vote Against Gov. Brown’s Sanctuary State Policy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4kXpy_kAI4 Amanda Prestigiacomo for the Daily Wire reports, A new Pearson-published advanced placement (AP) history textbook displaying some overt anti-Trump and anti-conservative bias is just more confirmation that the public school system is becoming increasingly geared towards indoctrinating our children with liberal ideology. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.dailywire.com/news/29479/…
Victorville, California Neighborhood Covered In Tumbleweeds; Many Homes Had Them Piled Up In Front Of Their Houses, Reaching the Second Story [link to http://www.youtube.com (secure)] http://abc7.com/weather/tumbleweeds-inundate-homes-in-high-desert/3357227/ h/t Panda Bears
The Amazon Era: No Profits, No Problem There is a new calculus in corporate boardrooms. Profits are so yesterday. Now it’s all about vision and great storytelling. Blame Amazon.com. The online behemoth cracked the code. Despite posting just a handful of profitable quarters in its two-decade history, it’s the fourth-largest public company at almost $470 billion … Read more
