via telegraph.co.uk: Short sellers have circled Apple on the eve of the tech giant’s highly-anticipated iPhone launch, with the tech giant becoming America’s most bet-against company. Short interest in the company has surpassed bets against Amazon and Tesla in dollar terms …
Amazon crosses the mark five weeks after Apple reached $1 trillion in early August. Analysts cite the company’s ever-diversifying portfolio as a value driver. Amazon market cap hit $1 trillion on Tuesday, becoming the second publicly traded U.S. company to reach …
by stockboardasset Pittsburgh’s last remaining daily newspaper, the 232-year-old Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, notified readers that it is discontinuing publication of its Tuesday and Saturday newspapers as it prepares for a digital transition, said The Hill. The Post-Gazette had announced plans in June to …
by Chris Black I know what you’re thinking: there’s a subway in LA? Joke aside, for our younger readers, Total Recall is science fiction movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. The movie is based on a dystopian short-story (“We Can Remember It …
by Charles Hugh-Smith When the Soviet regime exiled Sakharov in 1980, everybody assumed the USSR was permanent and impregnable to collapse. There are many ironies in the RussiaGate drama, but none greater than this: The U.S. becomes more like the …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3RCC2fMpwc Maxine Waters claims she is sent by God to get Trump impeached. Democrats revealed their hypocrisy when Obama used the IRS to persecute churches that support traditional values.
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Jeff Bezos Becomes the Richest Man in Modern History, Topping $150 Billion Jeff Bezos holds largest individual fortune since at least ’82 Gates trails Bezos by $55 billion Bloomberg wealth ranking Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ net worth tops $150B as …
The Whitney Is Not an Art Museum. The Whitney, as it’s called, is not all bad. It has some nice Hopper, Lichtenstein, and lesser-known artists such as Henry Koerner. The long-exposure photography was excellent too. Unfortunately my pleasant memories of …
by Martin Armstrong I have never been a fan of John McCain and see him as a hypocrite, which is my personal opinion. Now Judicial Watch has gotten hold of IRS documents that show McCain’s staff also advised the IRS to engage …
by Chris Black If you were following international news closely, you’ve probably already learned that the Islamic Wahhabist radical regime that is currently ruling Saudi “Barbaria” just allowed half of their citizenry to drive cars. As the clueless left-wing Islam …
The PE firm as global landlord. By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. Private equity firm Blackstone, the undisputed king of property funds, continues to bet big on global real estate. In the last week it raised $9.4 billion for Asian …
by Brandon Smith There has been a longstanding narrative in economic circles that no matter what crisis occurs the U.S. dollar is essentially invincible. I have never been one to buy into this assumption. Reason 1: Because I remember distinctly just …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-2axl87J0w Chinese President Xi Jinping awarded the Order of Friendship of the People’s Republic of China to Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing on Friday. Putin is the first foreign leader to be awarded with the Order.
https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1003300421975400454 Markets dont care until they care. That’s why it’s called “panic” Look at the close behaviour:What if DEUTSCHE BANK becomes LEHMAN BROTHERS…. and kind of defaults? pic.twitter.com/H33MLDCcBN — Antonio Iruzubieta (@airuzubieta) June 4, 2018 MERKEL and DRAGHI will meet …
by Geoffrey Grider According to the South China Morning Post walking through the front door at the Jiujiang Road branch, users are met by a friendly looking humanoid that answers questions using voice recognition. Using the branch is certainly surreal. First time …
China seems ramped up to pursue facial recognition technology everywhere in China. Is this going to be the same for the U.S. in the near future? Important look on a future with big brother. By 2020, China will have completed …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter On Sunday, storied gun maker Remington Outdoor Co. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, buckling under its debts. Its intention to file for bankruptcy has been known at least since February, but sources told The Wall Street Journalthat …
BRAVE NEW MIDDLE KINGDOM: China’s New Frontiers in Dystopian Tech. “Facial-recognition technologies are proliferating, from airports to bathrooms.” Don’t even think about jaywalking in Jinan, the capital of Shandong province. Last year, traffic-management authorities there started using facial recognition to crack down. …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOD-nI1cJV8 Amber Athey for the Daily Caller reports, NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch went toe-to-toe with the anti-gun activists at a CNN town hall this week. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/21/dan…
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by DCG Someone finally doing something to protect their own citizens. From Daily Mail: A German leisure centre has become the first in the country to ban all migrants after a schoolgirl was sexually assaulted in a public swimming pool by Syrian teenagers. Three Syrian boys were …
By Robert Carbery Las Vegas has suffered in the wake of the deadly shooting from the Mandalay Bay. In the eight weeks before a gunman (or gunmen) killed 58 innocent people and injured 546 more, air bookings to Vegas …
by Ruby Henley Photo taken from: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/apos-explosion-apos-tube-train-074454339.html As an unaccompanied minor refugee he was allowed entry into the UK, and found a home with a foster family in Sunbury on Thames. They were well-meaning and had fostered many refugees before …
By Michael Snyder Meteorologists have been shocked at how rapidly Hurricane Irma has been strengthening, and they are already warning that if it hits the United States as a high level category 5 storm the devastation would be absolutely unprecedented. …