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Eternal Trust Number 37 The Financial Times investigates China’s precarious shadow banking system.
View post: Iran Offers to Help (I Say Let Them); Isis Closes In On Iraq’s Largest Refinery; Mobil, BP Evacuate…
Links US in Iraq: Geopolitical Arsonists Seek to Burn Region June 18, 2014 ( Tony Cartalucci – NEO ) – When a fire is raging, firefighters are called – not the arsonist who started it, especially if they return to the scene of the crime dragging a barrel of gasoline behind them.
On Monday, a BLS Real Earnings report showed: Real average hourly earnings for all private employees fell 0.2 percent from April to May. This result stems from a 0.2 percent increase in the average hourly earnings being more than offset by a 0.4 percent increase in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U). For all private employees, real average hourly earnings fell 0.1 percent, seasonally adjusted, from May 2013 to May 2014
Here are some snips from Teytelman’s post Facebook’s Most Popular University . I found it amusing that a Malaysian university took pride in " beating Cambridge " in terms of the number of "likes" and touted it in press and on social media, with ambitious plans to double their total FB likes
The Guardian’s article, " Barack Obama sends troops back to Iraq as Isis insurgency worsens ," in title alone leads the general population to believe the third "Iraq War" has begun.
Three Cheers for Starbucks, But … Earlier today, Starbucks announced a College Achievement Plan in which it will pay for its baristi and other employees to go back and finish their college degrees
Please consider Russia Cuts Gas Supply to Ukraine as Tensions Soar . Russia halted natural gas deliveries to Ukraine on Monday, spurning Ukraine’s offer to pay some of its multibillion-dollar gas debt and demanding upfront payments for future supplies.