December 12, 2023
We Asked People Who Retired Young: How’s It Going?
A few years ago, I quit my job and was presented with two options: Keep the pension I’d accumulated in…
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Hard hitting global and local news
A few years ago, I quit my job and was presented with two options: Keep the pension I’d accumulated in…
Originally posted here: National Endowment for Democracy is Now Officially “Undesirable” in Russia
Continued here: NSA-French Flap Confirms Euro-Servility
Follow this link: Good News: Investors Cut Gold Holdings to Six-Year Low; Good Timin’
Illinois Politicians’ Brazen #1 Priority: Paying Themselves It’s no secret that politicians in general are a self-serving lot, primarily concerned about doing whatever it takes to get reelected. Taxpayers be damned in the process. As usual, Illinois politicians lead the way in brazen graft on such manners as excerpts from Illinoisans Suffer, Politicians Get Paid by Jeffrey Schwab, attorney for the Illinois Policy Institute shows
Visit site: Factory Orders Down 8th Time in 9 Months; Durable Goods Inventories Highest Since 1992
Mish-modified translation from Libre Mercado … Renting an apartment in Venezuela is impossible mission. Supply is tight and prices exorbitant, quite inaccessible to the vast majority of the population thanks to the 2011 Law Against Eviction and Arbitrary Unemployment.
It appears the eurozone is one step closer to an "accident" today.
Librarians: 64% College Professors: 3.2% I disagree with some of those.
First Quarter GDP -0.7%; GDPNow Second Quarter Forecast +0.8%; Economists Get Zero Accolades; Smoothed Recession Odds First quarter GDP came in at -0.7% pretty much in line with the Bloomberg Consensus estimate of -0.8%. First-quarter GDP was revised down about as expected, to minus 0.7 percent vs expectations for minus 0.8 and compared with an initial reading of plus 0.2 percent. Updated source data made for a bigger negative contribution from net exports as imports spiked 5.6 percent from an initial gain of 1.8 percent.