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Quit Your Job for a Better One? Not if You Live in Idaho
Post Date: 2017-07-16 10:45:24 by BTP Holdings
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Quit Your Job for a Better One? Not if You Live in Idaho The New York Times By CONOR DOUGHERTY 8 hrs ago Boise and its surrounding suburbs grew to prominence thanks to homegrown businesses like the semiconductor giant Micron Technology. Next Slide 1/5 SLIDES © Joe Jaszewski for The New York Times Boise and its surrounding suburbs grew to prominence thanks to homegrown businesses like the semiconductor giant Micron Technology. BOISE, Idaho — Idaho achieved a notable distinction last year: It became one of the hardest places in America for someone to quit a job for a better one. The state did this by making it easier for companies to enforce noncompete agreements, ...
Russia's Largest Bank Makes First Transaction on Shanghai Gold Exchange as Moscow, Beijing Prepare for Trade in Gold
Post Date: 2017-07-16 05:14:50 by Tatarewicz
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RI... Russia's largest, state-owned bank Sberbank announced on Thursday its Swiss subsidiary had begun trading physical gold on the Shanghai Gold Exchange. Reuters reports: Sberbank was granted international membership of the Shanghai exchange in September last year and in July completed a pilot transaction with 200 kg of gold kilobars sold to local financial institutions, the bank said. Sberbank plans to expand its presence on the Chinese precious metals market and anticipates total delivery of 5-6 tonnes of gold to China in the remaining months of 2017. Gold bars will be delivered directly to the official importers in China as well as through the exchange, Sberbank said. ...
EXCLUSIVE: Doubt Surfaces About ‘Suicide’ Claim of Clinton Investigator
Post Date: 2017-07-15 17:00:47 by Ada
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A Wall Street analyst who spoke to Peter Smith the day before he reportedly committed suicide told the Daily Caller News Foundation there were no indications the Chicago businessman and anti-Clinton political investigator was about to take his life. “He may have been a fantastic actor but I certainly didn’t leave that phone call saying, ‘oh shit, the guy’s at the end of his rope,’” Charles Ortel, a Wall Street investment banker and market analyst, told The Daily Caller News Foundation’s (TheDCNF) Investigative Group. “This does not seem like a settled story. It made perfect sense to me he might have died of natural causes, but little chance he ...
HNA to purchase controlling stake in Rio airport
Post Date: 2017-07-14 07:38:38 by Tatarewicz
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(People's Daily Online) China’s HNA Infrastructure on July 13 announced that it purchased a controlling stake of 51 percent of the stock of Brazil’s second busiest airport in Rio de Janeiro at 108 million yuan. The purchase was made between HNA Infrastructure and Brazilian engineering group Odebrecht, which controlled 51 percent of the stock in Rio de Janeiro Aeroportos S.A. (RJA). The remaining 49 percent stake is controlled by Singapore Changi Airport Group. The Chinese company also plans to invest 2.16 billion RMB to pay for the airport’s licensing rights. This marks the latest purchase by HNA Group after it acquired a 82.5 percent stake in the Frankfurt-Hahn ...
Reuters warns of the waning power of the petrodollar
Post Date: 2017-07-14 06:59:32 by Tatarewicz
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RI... We often get teased for warning on a semi-regular basis that the US Dollar isn't the pillar of strength that it's presented to be. Well, Reuters published a fun little column today about how the Saudis are running up a huge deficit—and won't be able to obediently gobble up US Treasuries like they usually do. What does this mean? As Reuters puts it, we are witnessing the "waning power of the petrodollar": When the Federal Reserve begins reducing its holdings of U.S. Treasuries as expected later this year, some of the most consistent buyers of U.S. bonds over the last 15 years may be less than willing to fill the breach. Before the financial crisis, the ...
Geopolitics Could Send Oil Back to $120 in No Time
Post Date: 2017-07-13 06:36:37 by Tatarewicz
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RI... Political instability threatens production in a number of major producers. A perfect storm that took out Venezuela, Nigeria and Libya would send shock waves across the energy market The latest rally in oil prices ran up against a wall yet again, and the same fears about oversupply have not receded in the slightest. The expectation from most oil analysts is that there is very little room on the upside for oil prices and that we will have to wait until 2018 at the earliest before the market gets closer to “balance.” But the one major wildcard for oil prices is geopolitics, which, however unlikely given the degree of supply overhang that still exists, could send prices up. ...
Janet Yellen: False Prophet of Prosperity
Post Date: 2017-07-12 07:56:43 by Ada
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Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen recently predicted that, thanks to the regulations implemented after the 2008 market meltdown, America would not experience another economic crisis “in our lifetimes.” Yellen’s statement should send shivers down our spines, as there are few more reliable signals of an impending recession, or worse, than when so-called “experts” proclaim that we are in an era of unending prosperity. For instance, in the years leading up to the 2008 market meltdown, then-Fed Chair Ben Bernanke repeatedly denied the existence of a housing bubble. In February 2007, Bernanke not only denied that “sluggishness” in the housing market would ...
Paul Craig Roberts Warns Of "Ever More Official Lies" From The US Government
Post Date: 2017-07-12 07:49:03 by Ada
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The false reality constructed for Americans parallels perfectly the false reality constructed by Big Brother in George Orwells’ dystopian novel 1984. Consider the constant morphing of “the Muslim threat” from al-Qaeda to the Taliban, to al-Nusra, to ISIS to ISIL, to Daesh with a jump to Russia. All of a sudden 16 years of Middle East wars against “terrorists” and “dictators” have become a matter of standing up to Russia, the country most threatened by Muslim terrorism, and the country most capable of wiping the United States and its vassal empire off of the face of the earth. Domestically, Americans are assured that, thanks to the Federal ...
Intl. firms negotiate $200 billion of oil deals in Iran
Post Date: 2017-07-12 07:49:01 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... Asian and European companies are negotiating participation in Iran’s oil and gas development projects which need $200 billion worth of investment, according to Minister of Petroleum Bijan Zangeneh. Iran looks to absorb 65% to 70% of this sum from abroad, the minister told Iran’s Parliament where he was Tuesday to answer questions about a $5 billion gas deal signed with French giant Total earlier this month. Deputy Minister of Petroleum for International Affairs Amir Hosssein Zamaninia said the deal with Total has set the ball rolling for the conclusion of more contracts with international companies. “I can assure you this isn't the last one. We'll see ...
Italy, Iran sign $1.3 billion high-speed rail deal
Post Date: 2017-07-12 07:28:09 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... Iran’s state railway company and its Italian counterpart have signed a deal worth 1.2 billion euros ($1.3 billion) to build a high-speed rail line between Iranian cities of Arak and Qom. Renato Mazzoncini, CEO of Ferrovie dello Stato (FS), and head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Railways Saeed Mohammadzadeh oversaw the signing of the agreement in Tehran on Tuesday for the first stretch of a high-speed rail line which FS plans to build in Iran. The other link is to be built between Tehran and Hamadan, with the overall deal worth 5 billion euros which Ferrovie initially signed under a framework agreement when former Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi visited Tehran with a ...
‘One banana, two bananas’: Amazon’s latest market disruptor is free fruit
Post Date: 2017-07-12 05:36:07 by Tatarewicz
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RT... Is Amazon becoming a ‘Banana Republic’? Its Community Banana Stand staffed by “banistas” and “bananagers” offers the fruit for free to anyone in the community. The internet retailer expanded the gimmick to the nation’s capital to celebrate its Prime Day. Since Amazon began its banana stand in 2015, the online giant has distributed 1.7 million of the tropical fruit, but local retailers are split on the move and watching a dip in their sales. Just a buncha bananas hangin' out with the Amazon cohort of @GirlsWhoCode at the #CommunityBananaStand in Seattle! pic.twitter.com/G6S3YRh2e1 — Inside Amazon (@InsideAmazon) August 8, 2016 The banana ...
America's Networking Economy- C2C
Post Date: 2017-07-11 07:20:13 by Tatarewicz
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C2C-AM... In the first half, financial expert Catherine Austin Fitts joined George in the studio to discuss the American economy, as well as how to manage your money and investments in order to have a healthy financial future. Rising interest rates in the US will hurt sovereign governments around the world that have borrowed tremendous amounts of money, but it will provide some relief to insurance companies and pension funds, she said. The Feds, she revealed, keep printing money, which debases the currency, and pushes up the price of assets such as property, and this ends up hurting the middle class. Another reason she cited for the squeeze on the middle class is that government spending ...
Doug Casey on the Illinois Debt Crisis
Post Date: 2017-07-04 16:07:58 by Ada
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Justin’s note: Illinois is dead broke. Every month, it spends $600 million more than it collects in taxes. The state is now $15 billion in debt. There’s no telling how much worse its financial situation will become, either. After all, Illinois hasn’t had a budget in two years. If it can’t put one together by tomorrow, Standard & Poor’s will cut its credit rating to “junk.” It would become the first state ever with this distinction. This would have serious implications for the 13 million people living in Illinois. It could trigger a nationwide debt crisis. Doug Casey and I discuss why in the interview below. Justin Spittler: Doug, what do you make ...
Once Only Blacks Were Enslaved, Now We All Are
Post Date: 2017-07-03 18:35:28 by Ada
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The 4th of July is upon us. We will hear all sorts of patriotic BS about how wonderful we are and how thankful we are to our brave military which defends our liberty. Not a word will be said about the destruction by the Bush and Obama regimes of the US Constitution, which once protected our liberty far better than any military action. Not a word will be said about Washington’s 16 years of purely gratuitous war in the Middle East and North Africa that has destroyed in whole or part seven countries, sending millions of war refugees to overrun the Western World and change the quality of life for Western peoples. Not a word will be said about Washington’s ongoing insane ...
Iranian gas boosts Iraq in Saudi oil market war
Post Date: 2017-07-02 00:39:34 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... Iran started its gas exports to Iraq on June 21, 2017 after years of delay. Iran’s exports of gas to Iraq which began last month are set to free up more oil for exports by the Arab country, clipping Saudi Arabia's wings further in its bid to retain markets. Iraq along with Saudi Arabia jumped on the occasion from the West’s unprecedented sanctions on the Islamic Republic in 2011 to ramp up their oil production in the absence of the Islamic Republic. Iran’s long-delayed gas exports to Baghdad started on June 21 at around 7 million cubic meters per day, which will finally rise to 35 million. According to the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC), exports of gas ...
The world is in debt to the Jew parasite for 217 trillion dollars
Post Date: 2017-06-30 00:13:33 by Tatarewicz
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PMF... The borrower is the servant of the lender, and through the mechanism of government debt virtually the entire planet has become the servants of the global money changers. Politicians love to borrow money, but over time government debt slowly but surely impoverishes a nation. As the elite get governments around the globe in increasing amounts of debt, those governments must raise taxes in order to keep servicing those debts. In the end, it is all about taking money from us and transferring it into government pockets, and then taking money from government pockets and transferring it into the hands of the elite. It is a game that has been going on for generations, and it is time for ...
Swiss agribusiness giant Syngenta unveils ambitious plan after ChemChina takeover
Post Date: 2017-06-28 08:40:38 by Tatarewicz
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Ren Jianxin (C), chairman of ChemChina and chairman of the board of directors of Syngenta, Chen Hongbo (1st L), Chief Strategy Officer of ChemChina, Robert Lu (2nd L), vice-president of ChemChin, Michel Demare (2nd R), vice-chairman and lead independent director of Syngenta, and Erik Fyrwald, CEO of Syngenta, shake hands after a press conference at the Syngenta headquarters in Basel, Switzerland, June 27, 2017. World's agribusiness giant Syngenta and its new owner ChemChina unveiled new ambitions Tuesday, eyeing a place of top three in global seeds business by further expansion in emerging markets, especially China. (Xinhua/Xu Jinquan) BASEL, Switzerland, June 27 (Xinhua) -- ...
Keith Neumeyer: Silver/Gold Manipulation Ending Soon.
Post Date: 2017-06-26 17:48:11 by BTP Holdings
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Communist Enclaves California and Hawaii Are Two Worst States To Make A Living In
Post Date: 2017-06-26 07:46:36 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Hawaii named 'worst state to make a living' ... againHONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) -At least we're consistent: For a seventh straight year, Hawaii has been named the worst state to make a living thanks to its astronomical cost of living.The ranking, put together annually by MoneyRates.com, says while Hawaii has the 10th-highest median wage nationwide, that's not enough to make up for living expenses that are two-thirds higher than in the rest of the nation. The high cost of living is compounded by one of the highest state tax income burdens in the nation.To put together the ranking, MoneyRates considered median salary, state tax rates, cost of living and unemployment ...
Standard and Poor’s Threaten Illinois With Municipal “Junk Bond” Status – First State Ever Facing “Junk Bond” Status…
Post Date: 2017-06-25 10:52:30 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Standard and Poor’s Threaten Illinois With Municipal “Junk Bond” Status – First State Ever Facing “Junk Bond” Status…The Illinois long-term labor pension liabilities are ridiculous in the extreme. However, things just went from bad to jaw-droppingly, gobsmackingly, unbelievably worse.According to the latest financial media reports, Standard and Poors Global Ratings agency has positioned Illinois bonds to drop below “investment” grade; that would make Illinois the first state in the nation to achieve “junk bond” status. (Via ABC) Illinois is on track to become the first U.S. state to have its credit rating downgraded ...
Putin's Telephone conversation with President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Post Date: 2017-06-25 05:59:15 by Tatarewicz
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June 23, 2017, Krasnodar Territory Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with President of the Turkish Republic Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The President of Russia was on board a pipe-laying ship that is involved in the construction of the Turkish Stream gas pipeline. During the conversation Vladimir Putin noted that Russia and Turkey maintain a higher level of cooperation than other countries, recalling that the agreement on building the Turkish Stream was signed in 2016 and the work on laying the deep-water section of the pipeline is already underway. Mr Putin said the first leg of the pipeline will be ready next year and the second one in late 2019. * * * Excerpts from telephone ...
State of Montana to directly invest in Bitcoin mining operation and Blockchain based data center
Post Date: 2017-06-24 23:42:39 by spirit
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As we wrote in an article earlier this week, both regulation and will be accepted within the U.S. appears to be varied between the states. And on June 10 the state of Montana has introduced a new approach which includes actual taxpayer funding to facilitate investment in a data center which will act as both a Bitcoin mining operation, and as a Blockchain test facility. In the first-ever reported case of a US State funding what looks to be a Bitcoin mining operation, Montana’s Governor recently announced that $416,000 was awarded to a “data center that provides blockchain security services for the bitcoin network.” Governor Steve Bullock recently announced $1,124,030 in ...
Investment potential in self-driving technology.
Post Date: 2017-06-24 01:55:12 by Tatarewicz
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Stock Gumshoe assesses the investment promotion: Jeff Brown over at Bonner and Partners is launching a new newsletter called The Near Future Report, which sounds like it’s the “entry level” letter (currently offered at $75) to go with his pricier Exponential Tech Investor, and the first bait they’re dangling for new subscribers is a fat, juicy promise of a stock that “could do even better than Nvidia.” “By the end of 2017, I expect a government mandate will be passed that requires all American cars have the ability to communicate with each other, using advanced computing power to process that information and avoid accidents – all in a split second. ...
Xi says BRICS cooperation will usher in new "golden decade"
Post Date: 2017-06-20 07:45:21 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, June 19 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping said Monday that BRICS cooperation would be more productive and usher in a new "golden decade." Xi made the remarks when meeting with the heads of delegations from Brazil, Russia, India and South Africa, who are in Beijing to attend the BRICS foreign ministers' meeting. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi chaired the meeting, which also included Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Brazilian Foreign Minister Aloysio Nunes, South African Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Maite Nkoana-Mashabane and India's Minister of State for External Affairs Vijay Kumar Singh. Xi extended congratulations on ...
Democracy Is A Front For Central Bank Rule
Post Date: 2017-06-19 10:13:04 by Ada
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Several years ago when the Federal Reserve had its Fed funds rate at zero to 25 basis points (one-quarter of one percent—0.25%), there was a great deal of talk, somehow presented as urgent, whether the Federal Reserve would raise interest rates. RT asked me if the Fed was going to raise interest rates. I answered that the purpose of low interest rates was to restore the solvency of the balance sheets of the “banks too big to fail” by raising debt prices. The lower the interest rate, the higher the prices of debt instruments. The Fed drives bond prices up by purchasing bonds, and the Fed raises interest rates by selling bonds, or by purchasing fewer of them than ...
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