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A Very Pernicious Partnership: Keynesian Money Printers And Wall Street Gamblers
Post Date: 2015-02-08 11:19:19 by nativist nationalist
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No sooner was the January jobs report released than the Wall Street Journal posted a succinct headline: “Hiring, Wages Pick Up as Job Market Nears Full Health”. Whether the job market is actually as red hot as the BLS’ headline numbers is a debatable topic, but it is absolutely clear that the “emergency” the Fed cited 73 months ago when its pegged the money market rate a zero has long since vanished. Indeed, by the standards of all prior history, ZIRP was a death bed remedy. Prior to December 2008, the Fed had never, ever pegged the funds rate at zero—not even during the Great Depression. So if the US economy did generate new jobs at the 4 million annual rate ...
He’ll Rot For Pot: 55 Years For Weed (Koch bros fight)
Post Date: 2015-02-08 00:24:27 by Hondo68
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via FacebookA father of two was sentenced to 55 years in jail for selling pot. The Koch brothers want to help set him free and make him the face of their new campaign for criminal justice reform. Weldon Angelos could have hijacked a plane and spent less time in jail. But due to mandatory sentencing laws, the father of two was sentenced to 55 years in jail for selling pot – a term so long even the judge who gave it to him protested its injustice.A group backed by the Koch brothers agrees, and is now fighting to get him out of prison.Angelos is an extreme case: even though the crime was considered non-violent, Angelos carried a firearm during a series of marijuana sales to a Salt Lake ...
Putin Helped Fund Sierra Club and Center for American Progress
Post Date: 2015-02-06 19:14:02 by CZ82
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Putin Helped Fund Sierra Club and Center for American Progress January 27, 2015 by Daniel Greenfield Looks like the environmental movement should come with a “Made in Moscow” label. And considering that the Center for American Progress is the group with the single biggest policy influence on Obama and is now on board with Ready for Hillary, Russian money going into it should be worrying as Free Beacon’s Lachlan Markay reports. A shadowy Bermudan company that has funneled tens of millions of dollars to anti-fracking environmentalist groups in the United States is run by executives with deep ties to Russian oil interests and offshore money laundering schemes involving ...
Chick-fil-A Back in Crosshairs
Post Date: 2015-02-04 18:52:26 by CZ82
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Chick-fil-A Back in Crosshairs February 03, 2015 BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: So it was just yesterday, just yesterday that I endeavored to explain to McDonald's and all interested parties why their sales are down, and why they had to let go their CEO. If you were here yesterday, I'm sure that it was something you'd never considered: The politics of it. You figured, "Eh, McDonald's isn't as popular anymore as it used to be. It just happens. You know, people like things and they get tired of it, and move on." McDonald's was attacked by militant vegans, militant vegetarians. As I stated yesterday, the problem for people like McDonald's is don't believe ...
OPEC sees oil prices exploding to $200 a barrel
Post Date: 2015-02-04 09:45:48 by Willie Green
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Right now the oil market is totally focused on finding a bottom for oil prices. However, according to OPEC's Secretary-General Abdulla al-Badri we've already hit bottom. Not only that, but he sees a real possibility that oil prices could explode higher to upwards of $200 per barrel in the future. He's far from the only one that sees a return of triple-digit oil prices.Finding a bottomAccording to the Secretary-General, speaking in London on Jan. 26, the oil market doesn't need to look for oil prices to bottom as the market has already bottomed. Instead, he offered quite bullish comments by saying, "Now the prices are around $45-$55, and I think maybe they [have] reached ...
10 Super Bowl Ads That Everyone Will Be Talking About
Post Date: 2015-02-01 06:27:20 by Otter
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10 Super Bowl Ads That Everyone Will Be Talking About It's almost show time. When the Super Bowl kicks off on Sunday, 40-plus advertisers will be hoping to win over the more than 110 million viewers tuning in. After paying $4.5 million for a 30-second spot, advertisers are hoping to have the ad everyone will be talking about Monday morning. >>Read More Trending Stories Here are 10 Super Bowl ads to watch out for: BUDWEISER "LOST DOG" Brewer Anheuser-Busch's 60-second ad shows a Labrador puppy chasing after the iconic Budweiser Clydesdales that are being moved to a new stable. The tune, "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)," performed by Sleeping performs in ...
Toyota, Chrysler, Honda vehicles in massive recall for faulty air bags
Post Date: 2015-01-31 15:23:34 by Otter
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CBS/APJanuary 31, 2015, 11:31 AM Toyota, Chrysler, Honda vehicles in massive recall for faulty air bags Last Updated Jan 31, 2015 2:12 PM EST NEW YORK -- More than 2 million Toyota, Chrysler and Honda vehicles are being recalled for a second fix for faulty air bags that may inadvertently inflate while the car is running. The recall includes some Acura MDX, Dodge Viper, Jeep Grand Cherokee, Honda Odyssey, Pontiac Vibe, Toyota Corolla and Toyota Avalon models made from 2002 to 2004. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says all of the vehicles covered in Saturday's announcement had already been under a recall for the faulty air bags, but the carmakers' original ...
Comcast Renames Man ‘Asshole Brown’ After He Tries to Cancel Cable
Post Date: 2015-01-29 11:26:27 by Willie Green
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Comcast probably doesn’t relish being one of those companies that many Americans love to hate. But sometimes, the cable giant makes this way too easy. Consider the case of Ricardo Brown. After Brown’s wife had a disagreement with the cable company recently, Comcast started sending him monthly statements under the name “Asshole Brown.” The disagreement happened when Brown’s wife Lisa tried to cancel her cable. She got referred to one of the company’s dreaded “retention specialists,” who apparently didn’t like being told “no,” as Lisa Brown told the blogger Christopher Elliott, who first reported the story. “I was never rude,” ...
Kentucky counties make unprecedented push for right-to-work laws
Post Date: 2015-01-24 11:43:26 by Gatlin
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Local governments in Kentucky are taking matters into their own hands in a bid to battle union influence and, they say, make their communities more business- friendly. Kentucky is one of the last states in the South that does not have a so-called right-to-work law, which bar unions from forcing workers to pay dues. But surrounding states like Tennessee do -- and counties along Kentucky’s southern border say they're tired of losing jobs to other southern states. So, in an unprecedented step, county leaders are passing their own right-to- work laws, even as the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives in the state capital refuses to consider one. "We are not growing as ...
The sound of your car’s engine might just be a lie
Post Date: 2015-01-24 08:30:28 by Willie Green
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Arguably, one of the best parts about driving a car is putting your foot on the gas and hearing that engine purr ever so sweetly. Well, that rumble may be gone forever — or at least replaced with a shallow, mechanical one. That’s right, if you’ve bought a car within the last few years, chances are you’re not actually hearing your engine growl, but instead a recording of it. The Washington Post broke the secret earlier this week, reporting that the noise coming from under the hood of some of your favorite cars, such as the Ford Mustang or Volkswagen Beetle, is not the actual engine but a synthetic recording of what it’s supposed to sound like. Auto manufacturers ...
Profiting from Cheating
Post Date: 2015-01-22 06:53:28 by Willie Green
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Even In The Tinder Era, Adultery Site Ashley Madison Keeps Making Money Hand Over Fist Noel Biderman will usually lie if a passenger on an airplane asks him what he does for a living. He’ll say he’s a lawyer, which is true. Biderman is also a successful entrepreneur who earns more than $5 million a year, but just uttering his firm’s name is enough to halt the niceties. Biderman is the cofounder and CEO of Ashley Madison, a website that facilitates extramarital romance and sex. “There are times that I have told people, and that’s the end of the conversation.” All the attention and money that dating apps like Tinder are attracting has drawn Biderman into opening ...
The GOP beats up on cripples
Post Date: 2015-01-20 09:57:48 by Willie Green
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Republicans target Social Security disability They say new limits will force Congress to fix the ailing program. Liberals see a ploy to weaken all of Social Security. Like Mrs. O’Leary’s cow, House Republicans kick-started a bigger fire than many imagined with an opening day rules change that revived Social Security as a hot issue for this Congress — and the 2016 presidential elections. The GOP’s immediate target is Social Security’s sprawling disability insurance program, which has grown at a pace far beyond its revenues and will exhaust its trust fund reserves by December 2016, threatening a 19 percent cut in benefits. In the past, Congress has simply shifted ...
Half global wealth held by the 1%
Post Date: 2015-01-18 20:04:50 by cranky
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The Swiss ski resort of Davos, home to the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum. Billionaires and politicians gathering in Switzerland this week will come under pressure to tackle rising inequality after a study found that – on current trends – by next year, 1% of the world’s population will own more wealth than the other 99%. Ahead of this week’s annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in the ski resort of Davos, the anti-poverty charity Oxfam said it would use its high-profile role at the gathering to demand urgent action to narrow the gap between rich and poor. The charity’s research, published today, shows that the share of the world’s wealth ...
ECONOMIC DEATH SPIRAL: MORE AMERICAN BUSINESSES DYING THAN STARTING
Post Date: 2015-01-16 04:38:14 by out damned spot
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In a stunning Tuesday report, Gallup CEO and Chairman Jim Clifton revealed that “for the first time in 35 years, American business deaths now outnumber business births.” Clifton says for the past six years since 2008, employer business startups have fallen below the business failure rate, spurring what he calls “an underground earthquake” that only stands to worsen as lagging U.S. Census data becomes available. “Let’s get one thing clear: This economy is never truly coming back unless we reverse the birth and death trends of American businesses,” writes Clifton. Indeed, the numbers are striking. Contrary to the oft-cited 26 million businesses in ...
U.S. jobless claims rise to four-month high
Post Date: 2015-01-15 21:48:27 by yukon
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U.S. jobless claims rise to four-month high WASHINGTON Thu Jan 15, 2015 8:56am EST (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits last week increased to the highest level since early September, but the underlying trend continued to point to a strengthening labor market. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits rose by 19,000 to a seasonally adjusted 316,000 for the week ended Jan.10, the Labor Department said on Thursday. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast claims falling to 291,000 last week. The prior week's data was revised to show 3,000 more claims received than previously reported. The four-week moving average of claims, ...
Oil Prices Plunged—Why Haven't Airfares and Some Home Energy Bills?
Post Date: 2015-01-15 13:40:32 by Willie Green
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Low energy prices won't necessarily reduce prices for certain consumers Now that the price of crude oil has sunk to a six-year low, gasoline is much cheaper, but airfares and some home energy bills still seem head-scratchingly high. Why isn't everyone seeing relief? The cost of jet fuel, for example, has fallen a whopping 43 percent on average worldwide from the price a year ago. Don't rush just yet, though, to book that flight to Fiji. Airfares have barely budged, and in places such as the U.S. Northeast and the United Kingdom, home bills for electricity and heat are as high as ever. The stubborn prices are prompting stern words from politicians. "It is curious and ...
New H-1B bill will 'help destroy' U.S. tech workforce
Post Date: 2015-01-14 21:00:49 by Willie Green
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Measure could accelerate offshoring of U.S. jobs, critics argue New legislation being pushed by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) to hike the H-1B visa cap is drawing criticism and warnings that it will lead to an increase in offshoring of tech jobs. IEEE-USA said the legislation, introduced by a bipartisan group of lawmakers on Tuesday, will "help destroy" the U.S. tech workforce with guest workers. Other critics, including Ron Hira, a professor of public policy at Howard University and a leading researcher on the issue, said the bill gives the tech industry "a huge increase in the supply of lower-cost foreign guest workers so they can undercut and replace American workers." ...
Obama backs wider access to fast Internet
Post Date: 2015-01-14 20:44:36 by Willie Green
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CEDAR FALLS, Iowa — Wading into a states’ rights dispute over Internet access, President Obama called Wednesday for the repeal of laws that prevent communities from creating their own broadband networks. Obama, for the second time in three months, cast himself as an antagonist to large cable and telephone companies that provide the bulk of the nation’s Internet service. Obama said faster speeds would create jobs and allow local businesses to compete in the global economy. “Today high-speed broadband is not a luxury, it’s a necessity,” Obama said from a storage area at Cedar Falls Utilities, with shelves full of coiled wire and other equipment. Obama is ...
Indiana’s Toll Road Goes Bankrupt
Post Date: 2014-10-24 09:43:19 by nativist nationalist
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In 2006, the ITR Commission Co. purchased the right to operate a toll road in Indiana for 75 years for the cost of $3.8 billion. That investment that hasn’t worked out as planned, as ITR filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on September 21. They now have $6 billion in debt they are seeking to restructure. The reason for ITR’s financial distress is simple: there isn’t as much traffic as they predicted. In fact, traffic is falling short of projections all over the country, an indication both of shifting social patterns and of the engineering profession’s institutionalized propensity to overestimate. With relatively fixed costs for maintenance, repairs, and ...
Dan DiMicco's solution for what ails U.S. economy? Manufacturing
Post Date: 2014-10-22 23:46:26 by nativist nationalist
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Forget the idea that the U.S. economy is chugging along in a respectable recovery after the Great Recession, says Dan DiMicco, former CEO of steel manufacturer Nucor Corp. And the 5.9 percent unemployment rate the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported for September? Forget that, too, he says. The real unemployment rate is the 16.1 percent, which includes those working part time but who would rather be working full time. You also have to consider those who have given up looking for work and those who have been fired or have quit since the last counting, DiMicco says. The labor statistics folks call it the U6, which also measures the "marginally attached" who aren't counted in ...
Scary 1929 Market Chart Gains Traction
Post Date: 2014-02-11 17:13:01 by Brian S
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (MarketWatch) — There are eerie parallels between the stock market’s recent behavior and how it behaved right before the 1929 crash. That at least is the conclusion reached by a frightening chart that has been making the rounds on Wall Street. The chart superimposes the market’s recent performance on top of a plot of its gyrations in 1928 and 1929. The picture isn’t pretty. And it’s not as easy as you might think to wriggle out from underneath the bearish significance of this chart. I should know, because I quoted a number of this chart’s skeptics in a column I wrote in early December. Yet the market over the last two months has continued ...
No Mr. Buchanan, Corporate Profits Are NOT The Problem
Post Date: 2014-01-31 22:43:36 by jwpegler
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Yesterday, Pat Buchanan wrote article stating that corporations pursuing profits during the first Bush Administration (1989-1992) was the root cause of the economic woes that middle America is facing today. This is a pitifully shallow analysis. After WWII, half of the world was in ruins and much of the other half descended into communism. The U.S. stood virtually alone as the only real credible economy in world. So, during the 1940's and 1950's, 50% of all manufactured goods in the world came from the U.S., even though we only had about 5% of the world's population. But, the world wasn't standing still. The Germans started to get back into the game in the 1960's, as ...
Gold Declines on Way to Worst Year Since 1981 as Silver Drops
Post Date: 2013-12-30 18:32:18 by Brian S
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Gold fell for the first time in four sessions in New York, set for its biggest annual loss in three decades, as an improving economy cut demand for a protection of wealth. Silver futures also retreated. Bullion slid to $1,186 an ounce on Dec. 19, near this year’s low set in June, before rebounding to a one-week high of $1,218.90 on Dec. 27. Global equities traded near the highest since 2007 before reports this week that may show gains in U.S. housing and manufacturing. “We’re seeing improving economies with little or no inflation,” Frank McGhee, the head dealer at Integrated Brokerage Services in Chicago, said in a telephone interview. “The fear has been stripped ...
'Successful' Auto Bailout Of GM, Chrysler Saved Millions Of Jobs, $284B In Personal Income
Post Date: 2013-12-09 15:49:33 by Brian S
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DETROIT, MI- The U.S. government's $85 billion bailout of General Motors Co. and Chrysler Group LLC was more successful than many first anticipated, according to a new study released today. The Center for Automotive Research study -- called ''The Effect on the U.S. Economy of the Successful Restructuring of General Motors'' --€“ found that the controversial 2008- 2009 bailout, saved 2.6 million jobs in 2009 alone and $284.4 billion in personal income was preserved over 2009-2010. CAR concluded that if the U.S. government had refused to assist GM and Chrysler in their financial crisis of "unprecedented proportions," then the whole U.S. economy would ...
Job-Creation Weakens, But Unemployment Rate Down
Post Date: 2013-10-22 13:56:13 by Brian S
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September saw the U.S. economy add just 148,000 jobs, significantly worse than expected, according to a report delayed more than two weeks by the government shutdown. The unemployment rate unexpectedly fell to 7.2 percent, the lowest since November 2008, as the labor-force participation rate held near 35-year lows, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Private payroll creation stood at just 122,000, with state and local governments adding 28,000 positions and the federal government cutting by 6,000. (Read more: More young peopleare out of school...and out of work) Economists had been expecting 180,000 new positions and a steady jobless rate. "This kind of report adds to the ...
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