Analyst and entrepreneur Karl Denninger says the economy is good for some people but not so good for others. ... So, why are big money managers and investors like Ray Dalio and Mark Mobius telling people to buy precious metals?  ..…

So it's kind of step up for Hillary superfan and Verrit com Peter Daou to allege that it's racism that's driving Republican effort to roll back Obamacare. ... Imagine being vacant enough to believe narrative as stupid as this, and to do so publicly https t.co KPu53soO4r — IZA December..…

So common is this tendency to appoint friends and supporters to be attorneys general that, since FDR, many presidents have chosen their campaign manager or their party’s national chairperson to be attorney general of the United States. ..…

Making matters worse, Trump was dining with Xi in Buenos Aires at the very same time that Meng was arrested in Canada. . the average Chinese men and women on the street are so outraged by the US-directed arrest of Meng, they unabashedly speak to foreigners about going to war with the United States. ..…

Rogin and Rezaian's botched campaign helps explain why Western and the special interests underwriting them have invested so much in eliminating competition and regaining the monopoly they once enjoyed during the era of print and broadcast media.. ..…

Ukraine is free to use it and has been doing so without incident since 2014. ... Ordinary people are not making so much money that they can afford to shell out more for energy, particularly when there is no need to do so. ..…

Roberts and the rest of the justices, like everyone else except Dems and the media, may be so sick of Obamacare that they just decide let it die... ..…

GREG WILPERT: So the court ruled that the city needs to pay twelve thousand dollars in Canadian dollars in punitive damages to your organization, BDS Quebec, in addition to the cost of the posters that they removed. ... Well, obviously, that ruffled some feathers, despite the fact that we had done..…

Said one 'customer, in tent outside their A&E 'I'm planning to have diaphragmatic hernia sometime in 2021, so it made sense to start camping now. ..…

So I’m At 275 Bergen Street Handling My Business Or Whatever & There Wasn’t Any More Chairs For This Lady To Sit Down So She Sat In The Corner On The Floor. ... She was there to get a child care credit so that she could take a cleaning job. ..…

Rough sleepers and people begging for money are routinely ignored and treated with disdain, police are instructed to move beggars on and so erase images of social hardship from the gentrified streets – it’s bad for the cities image – and hostile architecture makes even rough sleeping difficult...…

So Democrats piled up 11,113,364 votes for U.S. Senate California, with zero votes for anyone else... ..…

Even so, she won. Not a convincing win – 117 MPs voting against her is a sizable block – but enough for the time being. ... In truth, the Labour leadership has little incentive to generate an election before Brexit is settled – which is presumably one reason why it hasn’t tried so..…

You can search high and low for any Republican concern that Rex Tillerson, the former Secretary of State and CEO of Exxon, said recently: “So often the president would say, ‘Here’s what I want to do, and here’s how I want to do it’ and I would have to say to him, ‘Mr. ..…

So far there is no end in sight for the Venezuelan crisis. President Nicolás Maduro blames the US financial sanctions and an “economic war” led by political opponents for his country's death. . , Latin America, Venezuela. . . . ..…

It's not just that there is language, it's also that there is so much of it that it seeps through to the public. ..…

Overall, it is clear that the government failed to do certain things despite having the authority to do so. ... It also can’t be federal due to the existing structure of the country so we had real difficulties. ..…

So, right on cue, the government’s response to the statement betrayed the very state of denial of which it stood accused.  ... In doing so, they conveniently ignore the growing numbers in relative poverty, including a rise of 500,000 children in the last five years, as analysed by a..…

So many precious lives stolen, a community torn by loss, would have been painful enough. ... It’s easy to see how this synchs perfectly with Trump’s so-called “populism.” ..…

Modern weapons have become so destructive that war is no longer an acceptable method for resolving international disputes. ... The need to do so results from the terrible dangers of modern weapons and from global economic interdependence. ..…

North-South Korea agreements so far have greatly reduced military tensions along the demilitarized zone and at sea, paving the way for renewal of a South Korean-funded industrial zone and resort complex just across the DMZ in the North. ..…

Some of the grooms try to say that the reason for so many child marriages is the economy that the need for money is what drives these parents to arrange marriages for their children to men. ..…

While Trump administration did not agree with the plaintiffs that the law meant ACA was unconstitutional, that the provisions of the law guaranteeing that people with preexisting health conditions could purchase coverage at the same price as everyone else were so linked to the penalty that they..…

Most of us can’t take to the bush and create a life off the grid so we must adapt. ... We need a broader, more positive approach to media literacy than has been taken so far. ..…