There Is a Savings Crisis in America

via CNBC: Policy experts, economists, business people and teachers are debating the extent to which personal finance education can turn around the fact that so many Americans are one emergency away from financial disaster. At the same time, the ways …

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Forget Bribery. The Real Scam Is Pretending That Degrees Have Value – There’s a reason that powerful parents scrambled to get their kids into the Ivy League rather than a rigorous, practical school like Caltech or MIT

None of the parents involved in the recent college admissions bribery scandal tried to get their kids into Caltech or MIT, the sort of universities where students are generally expected to acquire skills relevant to a productive career. As it …

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THERE SHE GOES AGAIN: Ocasio-Cortez, at SXSW, blasts FDR, Reagan and capitalism, says political moderates are ‘meh.’

Watch the latest video at foxnews.com via foxnews: U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slammed political moderates at the South by Southwest Conference & Festivals in Austin, Texas, calling their views “misplaced” as she defended her progressive politics in a room full of supporters. “Moderate is not …

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There Seems To Be A Pattern Here…

by BadTRAFFIC Venezuela stopped accepting American Dollars to trade oil in. https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-09-14/oil-rich-venezuela-stops-accepting-dollars Source for Saddam: http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,998512,00.html Foreign Exchange: Saddam Turns His Back on Greenbacks Europe’s dream of promoting the euro as a competitor to the U.S. dollar may get a boost …

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There’s a reason Trumps’ approval is rising; his opponents don’t look like an organized foe but rather a bunch of infighting warlords

Ilhan Omars’ Remarks Deepening the Democratic Party Schism at the Worst Possible Time http://archive.is/0SONl House Democrats erupted in fury Wednesday, challenging leaders over indirectly sanctioning freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar for alleged anti-Semitic remarks amid an outcry over party inaction to …

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