via Mike Mish Shedlock If you think the economy is improving, you better check your facts and some disturbing trends. Despite the much ballyhooed “strong jobs” economy, things are not what they seem upon closer inspection. For example, Store-Branded Credit Card Delinquencies …
High rainfall totals in Kenya have caused the collapse of the Patel Dam, leading to destruction and loss of life downstream. https://www.nation.co.ke/ At least 41 people died after a dam burst in Nakuru, police said Thursday, as residents described muddy …
https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/999660045704073216 Italy 🇮🇹 Euro liabilities of Financial System 24% of GDP, Debt to GDP 132% with short term maturities above 20% of GDP. Populists think they will exit the euro, print Lira and increase pensions, spending, salaries and export more …
Woman says her Amazon device recorded private conversation, sent it out to random contact A Portland family contacted Amazon to investigate after they say a private conversation in their home was recorded by Amazon’s Alexa — the voice-controlled smart speaker …
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Guest post by lucid-n0nsense Google, Facebook and Amazon have denied using data coming from private conversations, but pay attention to their exact words. They always says they do not use “recordings” (which does not include real-time keyword recognition) or they …
If a private business is run poorly, it will go out of business. If a government organization is run poorly, it will be expanded. The problem with government is the lack of a mechanism for recognizing error. h/t LoneStarRising
by visualcapitalist The 10 Wealthiest Countries The Chart of the Week is a weekly Visual Capitalist feature on Fridays. According to market research company New World Wealth, the world has accumulated $215 trillion in private wealth, a 12% increase over the last year. Incredibly, …
by Ruby Henley Facebook will soon be letting you know what they did with your private data. The most shocking thing you will learn is that your private texts were traded on the platform’s Messenger feature. You will learn that …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD16x7_KijI Cristina Laila for the Gateway Pundit reports, Facebook scans links and pictures people send back and forth to each other on Facebook Messenger in order to ‘prevent abuse’. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: http://thegatewaypundit.com/2018/04/f…
by DCG From Kansas City.com: A Missouri couple decided to turn their entire yard into a flower garden. It turns out, that was against a city ordinance, which says half of residents’ yards must be grass turf. But the wife is …
by WARREN MOSLER Worse than expected, weak, and decelerating: Highlights Construction spending has been soft, inching only 0.1 percent higher in February after posting no change in January but there are definitely signs of strength in the details. The most important …
The lie that the USPS is taking billion dollar losses every year because the business model isn’t sustainable is Bullshit. The reason USPS is in the red every year is because congress forced a pre-pay for their pension which no …
by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: Dear Mr. Armstrong: Many times you were warning about CalPERS. What is your scope on 401k via employers, RothIRA, Simple IRA, and SEP that investing in at Vanguard or Fidelity? Should we continue to contribute? Will these …
Or my “hypocrisy meter” is out of whack? Whatever the case may be, it still astounds me with how much veracity and force people will protect the rights of corporations such as Google and their baby YouTube. These corporations might …
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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter An astounding list of the meltdown: PE firms doomed the retailers. One of the big forces in the brick-and-mortar retail meltdown are private equity firms that acquired retail chains via leveraged buyouts during the LBO boom before …
by stockboardasset Private prisons across the United States are set to reap the financial benefits of changes in the tax code signed by President Donald Trump. Under the new tax law, investments in “real estate investment trusts” (REITs) will see a 25% …
by WARREN MOSLER Highlights Optimism among small business owners is surging, according to the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), whose Small Business Optimism Index rose 3.7 points in November to 107.5, the highest level since November 2004. The monthly jump …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Canadians, fasten your seat-belt. Here are the charts. The Financial Crisis in the US was a consequence of too much debt and too much risk, among numerous other factors, and the whole house of cards came …
by howmuch The average cost of private school tuition has grown at a rate that is higher than inflation over the past 20-years. While there are several cost increases that have led to the rise in private school tuition, administrative employee compensation has been …
Chinese ambassador "private, off the record" set up for meeting with Clinton campaign during run up to US election https://t.co/fLDCvJkrjT pic.twitter.com/2LJtFmbcoY — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) February 19, 2017 The email where they were offered money from some shady foreign source and …
by John Rubino The UK’s Telegraph just published an analysis of global debt that pretty much sums up the coming crisis. Here’s an excerpt with a couple of the more hair-raising charts: Global debt explodes at ‘eye-watering’ pace to hit …
by 9kokonotsu The only organization to gain access to the server was Crowdstrike, no one else. Why is this the case? It is an extremely important question to think about. Ahead of this announcement, the DNC told Buzzfeed on Wednesday …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qENg3q96SA Wow! We now know why it was impossible to investigate Hillary’s private email server http://redstatewatcher.com/article.as… http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/… Clinton private email probe hindered by State Department, Chaffetz says: “We need to understand the gravity of this. There is a reason the …
NO-GO ZONES: Not just for Europe anymore. These people are learning terrorist-type training: Kidnapping, etc. They are coming in from your Southern Border (open). Build a f*cking wall or something. AC