May 22, 2015
CPI Shows Sharply Rising Medical Costs; Huge Obamacare Hikes Planned
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Another US Foreign Policy Success: Isis Controls Half of Syria after Palmyra Seizure Congratulations are in order for team Bush and team Obama for another stunning US foreign policy success: Isis Controls Half of Syria after Palmyra Seizure . Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) have seized the Syrian city of Palmyra, home to a Unesco world heritage site, putting nearly half of Syrian territory in the jihadi group’s hands and sparking fears that treasured antiquities may be destroyed. Isis announced it had “complete control†of the city on Thursday, and state television said President Bashar al-Assad’s forces had withdrawn from the city, which is known to most Syrians by its Arabic name Tadmur
Economists overestimated existing home sales today, rounding out another impressive day of overoptimism. New home sales came in at a seasonally adjusted 5.04 million annualized rate
Originally posted here: Philly Fed Region "Weak but Stable"; Kansas City Region "Declines More Sharply"
Flash China Manufacturing PMIâ„¢ at 49.1 in May (48.9 in April). Two-month high
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Please consider Robot Master Chef Cooks 2,000 Recipes, Cleans Up, Does the Dishes . A California company, Morley Robotics, has teamed with the UK’s Shadow Robot Company, to develop a smartphone-controlled robot master chef capable of cooking world-class fare just as Chef Watson. The robot was unveiled at a recent event at Hanover Messe Robotic Technology Fair in Germany
More: Another Perspective on Today’s Strong Housing Numbers
Home Builders Optimistic Despite Decline in Traffic; Housing Market Index Declines The National Association of Home Builders’ Housing Market Index once again reveals positive builder sentiment even though new home sales are weak. The HMI is Derived from a monthly survey that NAHB has been conducting for 30 years
Eli Rabett Eli Rabett Eli Rabett is a not quite failed professorial techno-bunny, a chair election from retirement, at a wanna be research university that has a lot to be proud of but has swallowed the Kool-Aid. The students are naive but great and the administrators vary day-to-day between homicidal and delusional