He Turned on Us. If you hire a subcontractor to build a bathroom, and he starts building it in a different dimension that you instructed him to … you aren’t “turning on” the subcontractor if you criticize him or even decide to fire him… you are holding him accountable. He made an agreement with you … Read more
via Brad DeLong CRISIS, RINSE, REPEAT: Key economic data from the periods following the 1929 stock-market crash and the 2007-2008 financial crisis suggest that the current recovery has been unnecessarily anemic. If policymakers refuse to heed the lessons of the New Deal era, then the next crisis is destined to be as prolonged as the last. When … Read more
by stockboardasset While Chicago continues to hemorrhage residents for a third consecutive year, a small community 25-miles outside city limits has unleashed an innovative marketing campaign, using comic strips to lure in city dwelling millennials. In a new comic-strip ad campaign, Homewood, Illinois, promotes itself as a “hip, diverse, urban neighborhood that Millennials can afford,” said CityLab. … Read more
by KneelB4Zod! Just wow: Columbia professor Dr. Jeffrey Sachs on Syria https://youtu.be/v8wrp0A2zIE “They sent in the CIA to overthrow Assad.” “We have made a proxy war in Syria it’s killed 500,000 people, displaced 10 million.”
An entertaining view of US foreign policy. One too many “ignore” perhaps, we don’t seem to ignore many. h/t RB
Spoiler: a lot of the money is being funneled into corrupt people’s pockets. California’s high-speed rail project is facing an audit from the U.S. Department of Transportation as costs continue to climb. The inspector general’s audit, announced Thursday, will examine the Federal Railroad Administration’s oversight of nearly $3.5 billion in federal grant money awarded to … Read more
ANNALS OF LEFTWING AUTOPHAGY: #BoycottStarbucks trends on Twitter after video shows arrest of two black men at Philadelphia location. Amid outrage, Starbucks issued a statement online, writing, “We apologize to the two individuals and our customers and are disappointed this led to an arrest.” During a Facebook Live statement uploaded Saturday afternoon, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWSLwHDd3FY Joshua Caplan for the Gateway Pundit reports, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) told the Fox Business Network Wednesday that he believes House Speaker Paul Ryan’s decision not to seek re-election is closely tied to his underlying presidential ambitions. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: http://thegatewaypundit.com/2018/04/g…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr40a5_70Rc Amanda Prestigiacomo for the Daily Wire reports, On Wednesday morning, social media stars Diamond and Silk reacted to the grilling of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who was specifically asked about deeming the pro-Trump duo’s content “unsafe.” Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.dailywire.com/news/29283/…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqsfVC-T4po Kristinn Taylor for the Gateway Pundit reports, Never-Trump leader Erick Erickson reported Tuesday night via Instagram and Twitter an alleged conversation he had with an unnamed Republican Congressman over his and many of his fellow GOP Congressmen’s hatred of President Donald Trump and their willingness to “take out the President” through impeachment if he … Read more
By Mark Angelides President Trump has signed into law two bills that are hugely contentious not just for the Left/Right divide, but also for Conservatives and Libertarians. The FOSTA and SESTA bills seek to eliminate the options for child sex traffickers having a “safe space” to connect with other deviants, but the bills also have … Read more
by John Rubino Excerpted from Jay Taylor’s Gold & Energy Stocks Newsletter: Gold rocketed to nearly $1,365 on Wednesday in New York, which is well above the $1,350 that Michael Oliver suggests is when technical price watchers will finally start to head into the yellow metal and related investments like gold stocks. But alas the banking … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vipjNfaUzwY ICE EM ALL!!
By Mark Angelides When a politician, or anyone in the public sphere, commits an act that polarizes even those who have been fans and supporters from the beginning, it can well be called a “career defining moment.” Was the bombing of Syria in response to the chemical weapons attack last week Trump’s defining moment? For … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Leverage is why the Fed has been worried about the bubble in CRE. Commercial real estate loans at banks in the US reached a record of $4.3 trillion. This amount is now 11% higher than it had been during the crazy peak of the prior commercial real estate bubble before it … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Carmageddon but not Truckmageddon The GM plant in Lordstown, Ohio, which only builds the Chevy Cruze compact car, already went through layoffs in 2017 when it trimmed its three shifts to two shifts and cut 1,200 workers, due to what GM said at the time was change in consumer preference from … Read more
Pure Evil Accomplices https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svuSJgGZjTw Trump shouldnt fall for this crap. I am starting to get disapointed. If mccain is involved rest assured it stinks Joel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL0fWgfLmCI The only one that is thinking Logically is Macgregor. This doesn’t make sense!! The evidence isn’t there! Another weapon of mass destruction lie! AK
Speaker Ryan follows the lead of Speaker Reed. Meanwhile, a more critical assessment from Mickey Kaus. h/t GR