Sunday, September 15, 2024
OMG: Haitian chef tells USA Today the strict policy of Haitian cooking is "Whatever there is to eat at the house, you have to eat it"
Nobody in Haiti today can afford the fancy Haitian dishes this chef describes, so they eat . . . you know.
Don't listen to Trump's lies. Haitian chef explains country's rich culinary tradition.
Something funny going on here: Reuters says 63% of blacks plan to support Harris according to NAACP survey, The Hill says 51% of blacks would vote for her today based on the same survey
Both stories published Friday the 13th.
One in four US Black men under 50 support Trump for president, NAACP poll finds
Most
Black voters, 63%, plan to support Harris, compared with 13% for Trump,
according to the new NAACP survey, which interviewed 1,000 registered
Black voters across the U.S. from Aug. 6 to Aug. 12.
Fifty-one percent of Black voters said they would cast their ballots
for Harris if the election were held today. Only 27 percent said the
same of former President Trump.
Harris has plenty of policies Jonathan, you ridiculous goof, 26 of them, and all to the left of Hillary Clinton
https://web.archive.org/web/20191203230302/https://kamalaharris.org/policies/
Saturday, September 14, 2024
Pope Francis meddles in US election, says choose the lesser evil between Trump and Harris but can't say which is which
It's really amusing how the pope says everyone has to think and decide for themselves about such a weighty matter, but when Luther did it he was excommunicated for it.
Between 1972 and 2008, the percentage NOT voting in US elections averaged 47%.
“Not voting is ugly,” the 87-year-old pontiff said. “It is not good. You must vote.”
“You must choose the lesser evil,” he said. “Who is the lesser evil? That lady, or that gentleman? I don’t know. Everyone, in conscience, (has to) think and do this.”
American Catholics, numbering roughly 52 million nationwide, are often seen as crucial swing voters. In some battleground states, including Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, more than 20% of adults are Catholic. ...
“Whether it is the one who is chasing away migrants, or the one who that kills children,” said the pope. “Both are against life.”
More.
The pope made the remarks on a flight returning to the safety of his walled-off city-state, population 764, after a visit to Singapore.
Friday, September 13, 2024
Yeah, inflation is vanquished and isn't showing up anywhere
Gold skyrockets as stars align for Fed rate cuts
Gold prices powered higher on Friday, beating record levels, as a boost in bullish momentum fuelled by optimism that the U.S. Federal Reserve is on the brink of trimming interest rates was catalysed by fund inflows and a drop in the dollar.
Spot gold was trading at record levels, up 0.7% at $2,576.48 per ounce by 10:10 a.m ET (1410 GMT). U.S. gold futures rallied 1% to $2,605.30.
Updated:
Spot gold was trading at record levels, up 0.9% at $2,582.05 per ounce by 11:58 a.m ET (1558 GMT). U.S. gold futures rallied 1.2% to $2,610.30.
Crypto: The biggest scam of our time
While the number of reported crypto-related crimes accounts for around 10% of financial fraud complaints received by the FBI last year, the losses from those crimes accounts for nearly 50% of the total amount Americans lost to financial schemes.
More.
See also the Internet Crime Complaint Center report here.
I'm breatheless
I'm supposed to pay extra to read the illiterate?
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/13/oracle-breaths-new-life-into-the-ai-trade-here-are-two-related-stock-plays.html
So predictable: Democrats run on punishing the rich with new taxes to pay for more obscene spending, the rich run scared to transfer wealth under current rules to escape them
Under current law, individuals can transfer up to $13.61 million (and couples can send up to $27.22 million) to family members or beneficiaries without owing estate or gift taxes.
The benefit is scheduled to expire at the end of 2025 along with the other individual provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. If it expires, the estate and gift tax exemption will fall by about half. Individuals will only be able to gift about $6 million to $7 million, and that rises to $12 million to $14 million for couples. Any assets transferred above those amounts will be subject to the 40% transfer tax. ...
With Harris and Trump essentially tied in the polls, the odds have increased that the estate tax benefits will expire — either through gridlock or tax hikes. ...
More than $84 trillion is expected to be transferred to younger generations in the coming decades, and the estate tax “cliff” is set to accelerate many of those gifts this year and next. ...
While giving the maximum of $27.22 million may make sense today from a tax perspective, it may not always make sense from a family perspective. ...
For families that plan to take advantage of the estate tax window, however, the time is now. It can take months to draft and file transfers. During a similar tax cliff in 2010, so many families rushed to process gifts and set up trusts that attorneys became overwhelmed and many clients were left stranded. Advisors say today’s gifters face the same risk if they wait until after the election.
More.
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