24.05.20 News

Unpacking Ray Dalio’s Alarmist Prediction Of Civil War

Unpacking Ray Dalio’s Alarmist Prediction Of Civil War Authored by Stephen Soukup via American Greatness, The other day, Ray Dalio, the billionaire investor and founder of Bridgewater Associates, told The Financial Times that he sees the risk of a second American civil war as “growing” and places the odds of such a war at “35-40 percent.” According to FT, […]

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Comparing New And Current US Tariffs On Chinese Imports

Comparing New And Current US Tariffs On Chinese Imports This week, the U.S. introduced a new series of tariff increases on Chinese imports, amounting to over $18 billion worth of goods. In the announcement, President Biden said they are aiming to “counter China’s unfair trade practices” by targeting specific sectors where the U.S. is boosting […]

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Morgan Stanley On Japan In Rome

Morgan Stanley On Japan In Rome By Seth Carpenter, Managing Director and Chief Global Economist at Morgan Stanley, and Matthew Hornbach, Global Head of Macro Strategy at Morgan Stanley Japan in Rome Last month at our annual Fixed Income CIO conference, one of the liveliest sessions was on Japan’s reflation. The BoJ ending negative rates and […]

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Visualizing America’s Average Retirement Savings, By Age

Visualizing America’s Average Retirement Savings, By Age Painting a concerning picture, the median retirement savings for Americans stands at a mere $87,000, a figure far lower than what is needed for a comfortable nest egg. This savings gap—the amount people have actually saved versus what they believe is needed for retirement—is significantly rising. In fact, a […]

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Is America Losing?

Is America Losing? Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via VonGreyerz.gold, Below, we soberly assess the lessons of history and math against the current realities of a debt-defined America to ask and answer a painful yet critical question: Is America losing? The End of History and the Last Man In 1992, while I was still an undergrad […]

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A Former Ukrainian MP Blew The Whistle On Burisma’s Connections To Terrorism

A Former Ukrainian MP Blew The Whistle On Burisma’s Connections To Terrorism Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Former Ukrainian MP Andrey Derkach, who’s reviled by the Biden Administration for sharing dirt about Hunter Biden’s Burisma corruption scandal with Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani ahead of the 2020 elections, just gave a very important interview […]

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Where It’s Most & Least Common To Be LGBT+

Where It’s Most & Least Common To Be LGBT+ According to a survey of adults from 43 countries, around 7% of adults identify as LGBT+, Statista reports. Broken down by country, The United States, Philippines and Israel had the highest percentage – around 11% each. In close second were Thailand and Canada at around 10% […]

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‘Poster Boy’ Migrant Imprisoned After Beating And Raping His Own Mother

‘Poster Boy’ Migrant Imprisoned After Beating And Raping His Own Mother Authored by Steve Watson via modernity.news, A Congolese man who was previously held up as an example of successful migrant integration has been jailed for only nine years in Germany for raping his own mother and beating her almost to death. The German outlet […]

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Baltimore Bridge Collapse Container Ship Will Be Refloated And Removed At High Tide 

Baltimore Bridge Collapse Container Ship Will Be Refloated And Removed At High Tide  Baltimore officials announced that the “refloat and transit” of the container ship that toppled the Francis Scott Key Bridge nearly two months ago will begin around 0500 ET on Monday.  This is video of what the #KeyBridgeCollapse site looks like today. You can see the progress—but there’s still a […]

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The EU Is Spending Billions On Hydrogen-Ready, But Where’s The Hydrogen?

The EU Is Spending Billions On Hydrogen-Ready, But Where’s The Hydrogen? Authored by Mike Shedlock via mishtalk.com, I’m all in favor of hydrogen-powered plants to produce electricity if only we had cheap hydrogen. But we don’t and likely won’t. A Bad Bet on Hydrogen Hype Bloomberg cautions Europe’s Spending Billions on Green Hydrogen. It’s a […]