by Thinker Bloomberg) — Nicolas Maduro’s embattled Venezuelan regime, desperate to hold onto the dwindling cash pile it has abroad, was stymied in its bid to pull $1.2 billion worth of gold out of the Bank of England, according to …
Nicolas Maduro’s embattled Venezuelan regime, desperate to hold onto the dwindling cash pile it has abroad, was stymied in its bid to pull $1.2 billion worth of gold out of the Bank of England, according to people familiar with the …
Shanty-town redevelopment is important as this is a key part of domestic demand which is directly controlled by the government….. The PBOC prints money, lends it to the China Development Bank, the world’s biggest policy bank, via the Pledged Supplementary …
As Democrats in Congress refuse to secure the US southern border, the cost of illegal immigration continues to mount. The United States spends over $268 billion dollars a year supporting illegal aliens. That money covers expenses such as healthcare, education, …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Here’s how a soon-to-be bankrupt company that’ll default on all its debts can still borrow $5.5 billion. PG&E, the largest gas and electric utility in California, announced on January 14 that the holding company, PG&E Corporation, …
by Thinker It was a free for all during the second term of the Obama/Clinton administration, after the Joe Arpaio case to expose Obama was closed. The theft of billions continued and everyone was enjoying the fat bank accounts and …
via Zerohedge: Earlier this month, when we reported that in the latest warning about China’s housing sector, the Communist Party’s People’s Daily warned that China’s regional economies need to reduce their reliance on the property market for growth and instead …
#BREAKING: Defense department officials say the Pentagon is prepared to give $3 billion to fund construction of the President's southern border wall, if he were to declare a national emergency. #OANN — Jenn Franco (@jennfranconews) January 10, 2019 Senate Judiciary …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Normally, this would be ironic: The Fed doesn’t need to borrow; it creates money when it needs some. So it wouldn’t pay interest. But these are not normal times. The Fed reported its preliminary results this morning for …
via Bloomberg: “Russia is making a strategic shift in its reserves towards holding fewer dollars and more assets in other currencies,” said Benn Steil, director of international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. The data reveal …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK2EptzK5Dw DOD ended FY-15 with $93.8 billion in prior-year unobligated balances https://insidedefense.com/daily-news/…
If you want to know how damage immigration is doing to the USA Just look at the farm bill, 80% of this bill goes to food stamps! This is the outlay in 2014 and its even higher in 2018 what’s …
by Playaguy Ever wonder why the cancer industry is always a decade away from a cure? Why billions are spent in research and donations and nothing changes? Cancer is nearly a $200 billion/year industry in the US alone. It …
via forbes: According to the Cryptocurrency Anti-Money Laundering Reportfrom Ciphertrace some $927 million had been stolen from cryptocurrency exchanges in the first three quarters of 2018 alone. That total will almost certainly have hit, if not smashed straight through, the $1 billion …
Every democrat voted for it and agreed to it. Sen. Lindsey Graham: "The wall has become a metaphor for border security" pic.twitter.com/vXrmJpUV52 — CBS News (@CBSNews) December 30, 2018 h/t Jake
Via the Raconteur Report $116B per year. That’s how much money we set on fire annually to pay for illegal aliens in this country. Enough to build, arm, crew, and deploy 6 new supercarrier task forces every year, forever. (Hint: That would have doubled …
by zenmasterzen3 Could the 38 Billion given to Israel by the US be used to feed, cloth and shelter America’s 500,000 homeless? 38 * 1000 * 106 / (500000) = 76,000 So yeah that’s enough for food and shelter and probably …
by Thinker Who will get caught up in the scam and corruption in the crypto currency. It’s never good to put all your eggs in one basket. Variety always works and goes further. Stop giant AI vaporize dollars! Wake-up! https://youtu.be/XuG6BXSTvEg …
Also, remittances total about $650 billion to Latin America from the U.S. since 2000, ~1/3 to Mexico, which grease the palms of corrupt government employees. And the drug money in the U.S. of about $110 billion yearly. And approximately …
by Daisy Luther (Dec. 26, 2018) The preliminary numbers are in and it appears that Americans exceeded last year’s shopping frenzy with an even more extravagant one this year. Mastercard says that spending was up 5.1%over last Christmas, which brings us to …
From Bloomberg: The richest people on Earth lost $511 billion this year after record first-half gains were obliterated by a succession of bruising market selloffs. Global trade tensions and worries about a U.S. recession dragged markets lower at year-end, leaving the …
The government is jerking off in the corner over a $5 billion dollar check for Trump when Obama got an $831 Billion Dollar check from the stimulus program and did little more than replace the light bulbs at the L.A. …
https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/nation-now/house-approves-5-billion-in-border-wall-funding-to-avoid-government-shutdown-forcing-another-senate-vote/465-0de1d612-14df-4116-b7e7-6451b3e62de2 WASHINGTON – A deeply divided House voted on Thursday to add $5 billion in border wall funding to a short-term spending bill, yielding to President Donald Trump’s demand for the money but casting further doubts upon the fate of …
via commondreams: After being kept in the dark about New York’s $3 billion deal with Amazon, allowing the trillion-dollar corporation to build its new headquarters—complete with helicopter landing pad for CEO Jeff Bezos—in the Queens neighborhood of Long Island City, concerned New York …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isKXY4EEEnQ Don’t forget Penalties, Interest, Donors, Corporations, Governments etc. AC
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) – Louisville Slugger, the iconic American baseball bat brand dating to the 19th century, could soon be owned by a Chinese company. Amer Sports, the Finnish company that bought Louisville Slugger in 2015, has agreed to a $5.2 …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter The Federal Reserve shed $54 billion in assets over the five weekly balance sheet periods that encompass the calendar month of November. This reduced the assets on its balance sheet to $4,086 billion, the lowest since …
via CNBC: The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite index fell nearly 4 percent. The losses extend pain periods for Apple and Facebook. Amazon and Netflix are each up more than 40 percent year-to-date and getting caught in the rout. Tech stocks are back …
USA has $21 trillion in national debt, and 1 million homeless Americans, many sleeping in cardboard boxes. Yet, the US government is giving $38 billion in US tax dollars to Israel. Israel is a rich country, and they should pay …
via visualcapitalist: It’s easy to be envious of the leaders of Fortune 500 companies. They get paid millions of dollars, and they have the power to make transformative decisions for some of the most beloved companies in the corporate world. Despite …