CORRUPTIFORNIA: Diane Feinstein’s Husband Wins Near Billion Dollar CA High-Speed Railway Contract; Praying this has nothing to do with CA fires

by NotStarvingActress https://twitter.com/JodyICEMANJames CA has been talking about high-speed railway since forever. Issue is it’s not going to be profitable. Update: questions have been raised as to whether or not Richard Blum still owns a substantial or any interest in Tutor …

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IT ISN’T BRIBERY WHEN THE RIGHT PEOPLE DO IT: Amazon is getting more than $2 billion for NYC and Virginia expansions.

via arstechnica: Over the last year, Amazon has dangled in front of cities the possibility that they could host the company’s “second headquarters”—a massive $5 billion facility that would provide 50,000 white-collar jobs. On Tuesday, Amazon confirmed what had been widely reported: nobody would be …

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The Fed’s QE Unwind Hits $321 Billion

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter The “up to” exacts its pound of flesh. Over the four-week period from October 3 through October 31, the Federal Reserve shed $35 billion in assets, according to the Fed’s weekly balance sheet released Thursday afternoon. This brought …

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Netflix plans $2 billion bond offering

Netflix Inc. NFLX, -0.94% said Monday it plans to raise $2 billion through the offering of U.S. dollar- and euro-denominated bonds to qualified institutional buyers. The streaming video service said the interest rate and maturity of the bonds will be determined later, after …

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Tesla ($TSLA) has around $1 billion in debt coming due over the next six months and right now it doesn’t have the cash

Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/wall-street-wonders-how-tesla-will-pay-off-over-1b-in-debt-coming-due-2018-10 Money is tight and Tesla has some bills coming due: In November the company needs to shell out $230 million for a convertible bond payment. And by the end of the year, it needs to have an additional $920 …

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The Fed’s QE Unwind Reaches $285 Billion

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter The “up to” begins to matter for the first time. The Fed released its weekly balance sheet Thursday afternoon. Over the four-week period from September 6 through October 3, total assets on the Fed’s balance sheet dropped by …

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General Electric Fires John Flannery as CEO, takes $23 billion non-cash charge for Power business problems and withdraws guidance. Lawrence Culp takes Over as Chairman and CEO

General Electric abruptly removes John Flannery as chairman and CEO and installs former Danaher CEO Lawrence Culp as his successor. The board had grown frustrated with the slow pace of change under Flannery, sources familiar with the issue say. GE …

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