Thursday, March 6, 2014

Total Household Net Worth Rises About 3.5% In Real Terms Since April 2007 Through The Last Quarter Of 2013

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I used all items CPI of about 13.17% from April 2007 to date, not seasonally adjusted, on April 2007 peak household net worth of $68.82486 t...

Among Other Things Henry Kissinger Reminds Us That The EU Shares Much Of The Blame For The Ukraine Fiasco

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Here in The Washington Post, after which he admonishes the neocons that Ukraine must not become a part of NATO and posits other principles ...

Jeb Bush Still Has A Flip-Flop Problem: "I Used To Be A Conservative"

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Jeb Bush, quoted here in February 2012: "I used to be a conservative and I watch these debates and I'm wondering, I don't thin...

Crimean Regional Parliament Votes Unanimously To Join The Russian Federation

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So reports the BBC here  (you wouldn't know it was unanimous from US news stories): 11:27: To recap: Members of Crimea's regional pa...
Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Giving USA Puts 2012 Charitable Giving At $316 Billion: Still In Depression In Current Dollar Terms

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Reported here . Chart here . Just 32% of the total contributed in 2012 went to religious organizations, less than $102 billion.

Drudge Can't Spell "Evangelist"

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Flashback August 1974, Cover Of Time Magazine: The Coming Ice Age

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The Great Lakes Are 91% Ice Covered, Second Highest Percentage Since The 1979 Record Of 94.7%

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Story here .
Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Is Crimea Payback For Cyprus?

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I haven't heard anyone say this yet, but Russians lost a lot of money when the EU "bailed out" Cyprus by bailing it in. More t...

S&P500 Vaults 14 Points Above The Last High One Day After Crimean Invasion By Russia

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War is the father of everything.

Drudge Is Just A Sensationalist Tabloid, Not In The Grocery Story Aisle But On The Internet

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Everyone who reads the stories Drudge links to can perceive instantly that Drudge's headlines often are purely sensationalist and someti...

Stock Markets Are Casinos Of Sentiment Easily Swayed By Important Global Events Like The Crimean Invasion

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Markets tank less than 1% on Russia's Crimean invasion . . . . . . then they recover all that and then some the day after.
Monday, March 3, 2014

Separated At Birth: Hillary Clinton Looks Strangely Similar To . . .

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The Russian Invasion Of Georgia In 2008 Was A Warning To The West To Stop Expanding NATO Into Russia's Backyard, But We Ignore This Up To The Present Day

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US foreign policy under Bush and Obama has ignored Russia's intentions to reassert its influence and control in regions populated with R...
Sunday, March 2, 2014

Cold Temps Plunge South Into Texas To Start The First Full Week Of March 2014

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The coldest temperature of the winter so far in Grand Rapids, Michigan was -12 degrees F on February 28th, and today Dallas, Texas at 21 deg...
Saturday, March 1, 2014

Sarah Palin Blames Obama Indecision For Russian Invasion Of Ukraine When She Should Be Blaming Bush

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Sarah Palin thinks she's making "I told you so" news, quoted  here  criticizing Obama in October 2008 when it was already clea...
Friday, February 28, 2014

Scholar Who Sniffed Out The Libor Scandal Now Smells Manipulation In $20 Trillion Gold Market

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Bloomberg reports here : Unusual trading patterns around 3 p.m. in London, when the so-called afternoon fix is set on a private conference c...

Bank Failure Friday: Vantage Point Bank, Horsham, Pennsylvania

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Vantage Point Bank, Horsham, Pennsylvania, failed today, the fifth bank failure in 2014, costing the FDIC $8.5 million.

Bank Failure Friday: Millennium Bank, National Association, Sterling, Virginia

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Millennium Bank, National Association, Sterling, Virginia, failed today, the fourth bank failure of 2014, costing the FDIC $7.7 million.

S&P500 New High Today At 1859.45

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