Senator Dianne Feinstein, who employed a Chinese spy for two decades, is suddenly an expert on firearms – particularly which ones American plebs shouldn't be able to own based on their use and effectiveness in home defense scenarios. In a June 14 op-ed in TIME that she co-authored with Sen. They have only Read more…
David Jolly, who insensitively warned that the language used by Kashuv was 'similar to that used by a school shooter,' according to the Hill. They are given greater equity. It is important for Harvard to say, 'Not in our community.'” It's important to remember that these comments were reportedly made Read more…
It would become the defining issue of his presidency, as the Iraq War became the defining issue of George W. If the Revolutionary Guard, which answers to the ayatollah, did attach explosives to the hull of the tankers, it was most likely to send a direct message: If our exports Read more…
Just hours after the announcement, and release of a white paper, of its new cyrpocurrency, called Libra, the US government has decided its time to intervene – likely for the good of us all. Patrick McHenry, senior Republican on the House Financial Services Committee, wrote a letter Tuesday to committee Read more…
Oil spiked almost $3 intraday (biggest jump in 5 months), surging higher after trading with a $51 handle all the way up to above $54 after OPEC and its allies moved closer to agreeing on a meeting date to extend supply cuts and Mario Draghi raised hope for even more Read more…
And so the aid was widely criticized, even by the International Red Cross, as politicized. One Popular Will representative was hospitalized and his assistant found dead after overdosing while taking drugs with prostitutes, although Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) claims they were poisoned.b FyreFest walked so Richard Branson's aid concert could Read more…
This “break back” by Draghi towards policy-easing and QE set-off a further escalation into what Nomura's Charlie McElligott called the Global Bond/Duration rally which has then fed into Risk-Asset outperformance, which then got further wind when Trump tweeted that he and China's Xi held a phone call, and the two Read more…
US equities surged in the pre-open on the Draghi and Trump-Xi comments. Bond yields were extremely volatile. The Dollar spiked as Draghi's comments drove the euro lower but by the close the dollar ended dovishly lower as Trump-Xi headlines hit. Yuan spiked on the Trump-Xi call, hitting Read more…
Economists had expected a reading of positive 10, according to a survey by Econoday. Our analysis shows downside risk to ISM new orders (25% y/y), S&P earnings revisions breadth (6-13%) and the S&P 500 y/y (8%) if historical links hold. And if a trade war with China wasn't enough, now Read more…
That's according to an article in the Washington Post. The Post tracked how dozens of marketing companies may be using your personal information that it gets from apps to send out to other companies. At 11:43 p.m., a company called Amplitude learned my phone number, email and exact location. At Read more…