by BangHerInBangor I (32m) have just been hired at a company that has a 401k plan, and (just as the title states) they will match up to 4.5% provided I put away at least 6%. I’m trying to decide if …
by Simon Black In 1965, the tiny, fledgling country of Singapore seemed like it was on the verge disaster. It had only just split off from Malaysia due to severe racial tensions between them, and just two years had passed since …
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Reddit’s latest funding round values its users at a lower price than any other social network. The company announced Monday it had raised $300 million in its Series D investment round at a valuation of $3 billion. CNBC previously reported the company’s annual revenue …
via seattletimes: In November, Washington voters spoke overwhelmingly, passing with nearly 60 percent of the vote a sweeping array of new gun regulations. But, it turns out, voters might not have had the last word. In at least 13 mostly …
Kevin Smith, CEO of U.S. hedge fund Crescat Capital, is putting Canadian banks in the same camp as those in China and Australia: worthy of a short. He outlines the key factors and why the global growth slowdown makes this …
by Daisy Luther Life hacks are all over the place at the minute (seriously, they’re everywhere) and some are really good – but often they’re more Martha Stewart than Grizzly Adams. Survival Life Hacks Here are a few life hacks that …
via Reuters: The United States slid four points lower on a global corruption index in 2018, dropping out of the top 20 countries for the first time since 2011, watchdog Transparency International said in a report that cited growing threats to …
A powerful tornado that struck Havana killed three people and left 172 injured, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said early Monday. Diaz-Canel, who toured the darkened streets of Havana in the pre-dawn hours visiting emergency crews, wrote on Twitter that damages …
This is the Navatics Mito: Both units have built-in lighting to overcome the underwater murk, are connected to their remote control via a tether, which, assuming it doesn’t break, will likely come in handy finding the unit if its remote …
BECAUSE GOVERNMENT: One year of legal pot sales and California doesn’t have the bustling industry it expected. Here’s why. As the first year of licensed sales comes to a close, California’s legal market hasn’t performed as state officials and the cannabis …
https://apnews.com/e91d55a6b39542c0896c5f31a0098870 http://news.trust.org/item/20181223015123-uu9eb * Krakatau erupts, triggering underwater landslide * Tsunami washes band members from stage * Disaster strikes 14 years after Boxing Day tsunami kills 226,000 (Updates with high tide warning, details) h/t helenajus
by Michael Snyder President Trump has decided to stand up and fight for funding for the border wall that he has been promising the American people. And that is probably a very good thing for Trump’s political future, because …
The entire DOJ is either corrupted, being blackmailed, or feckless. Maybe so many years of deep state roots sinking into the system have weeded out the “good” or the “white knights” Let’s not forget corrupt AF Obama was President for …
This is already a bear market, stocks are plunging at least 20 percent: Ned Davis Research from CNBC. via CNBC: The wild trading that’s gripped Wall Street may be no ordinary correction. According to Ned Davis Research’s Ed Clissold, a bear …
by John Adams of Adams Economics The real position of the global economy and of the current global debt bubble is currently hiding behind a mask of accounting and legal trickery. During the course of 2017 and 2018, two shocking stories were revealed …
by Charles Hugh-Smith The reality is there is no avenue left for advocacy, grievances or redress in a system dominated by global corporations and self-serving political insiders. What’s striking about the protests in Paris against higher fuel taxes is the …
Here is a year old article which listed “Analysts’ Stocks to Watch in 2018”. The list included, Large Cap, Mid Cap and Small Cap stocks. The list reflected data as of the market close on Dec. 5, 2016. There were …
At least 13 countries have expressed interest in buying a Russian missile system instead of platforms made by American companies, despite the potential for triggering U.S. sanctions, according to people with first-hand knowledge of a U.S. intelligence assessment. One of …
from Zero Hedge At least 13 people, including a sheriff’s deputy and the suspected shooter, have been killed, while multiple others were injured during a shooting at the country western dance hall Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, Calif. The …
Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk, It takes 23.6% of median income to make the monthly payment on the average-priced home. In it’s latest report, the Black Knight Mortgage Monitor confuses affordability with payment stress and fails to make an apples-to-apples comparison …
Donald Trump has been on the cover of TIME magazine over 15 times. The animated history of TIME covers gives a glimpse into Donald Trump’s time before and after becoming President. Plus, they had made him Person of the Yr! …
https://public.tableau.com/views/StatesThatSpendtheMostandLeastonWelfare/WelfareDash?:embed=y&:display_count=yes&:showVizHome=no#2 Sources: (1) U.S. Census Bureau 2016 State and Local Government Data: U.S. Summary & Alabama-Mississippi & Missouri-Wyoming; (2) Governing.com; (3) U.S. Census Bureau population estimates as of July 1, 2017; and (4) U.S. Census Bureau population survey, 2015-18. Tools: …
A train derailed along a touristy coastal railway in north-eastern Taiwan on Sunday (Oct 21), killing at least 18 and injuring some 170 others in the island’s deadliest rail accident in 27 years, Taiwanese authorities and media said. The train, Puyuma Express 6432 with …
Do you think it’s reasonable to pay this much for a home? Right now in Canada, real estate is the LEAST affordable it has ever been. Wages have not kept up anywhere close to the rising expenses Canadians have encountered. …
by Chris Black Here’s the latest on the Kavanaugh never ending saga: https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1045779267827699712 Statement from President @realDonaldTrump: “I’ve ordered the FBI to conduct a supplemental investigation to update Judge Kavanaugh’s file. As the Senate has requested, …
The US has significant military influence in many countries and it uses a lot of money in order to continue the fightings so I thought about sharing this. The US war on terror has cost at least $5 trillion and …
by Geoffrey Grider At least four people, including a mother and her infant, have died in North Carolina as Hurricane Florence slowly moves through the Carolinas, officials said Friday. Two people died in Wilmington after a tree fell on their …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHy0DlcfdoE We need more of this in our country. who else is sending this to their senators and congressmen and city council?
by Alexander Trigaux, Editor, GoldSilver It happens so quietly at first. Tried to find a pay phone lately? Probably not. But on the very rare occasions over the course of my recent adult life that I have been without my cell …