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A man rides a bike in front of the Federal Reserve Board building on Constitution Avenue in Washington on March 27, 2019. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) ECONOMIES Bank Branch Closures Hurt Rural America the Most: Report BY TOM OZIMEK November 30, 2019 Updated: Americans in rural parts of the country have been hit hard by bank closures as they…
Dems accuse Trump of asking Ukraine leader to probe Hunter Biden’s business deals but were SILENT over Obama’s use of foreign intelligence to spy on 2016 campaign 09/22/2019 / By JD Heyes You have to admit one thing about Democrats: They have hypocrisy down to a fine art and they are extremely good practitioners. Case in point:…
Fed Loses Control of its Benchmark Interest: Repo Rates through the Roof! by Knave Dave Sun, 09/22/2019 The following article by David Haggith was published on The Great Recession Blog: Well, that didn’t take long! Four days ago, I stated the following in an article titled “Why are Bonds Going for Broke?“: Central banks are losing control, and are…
VIEWPOINTS Epoch Times Statement in Response to NBC Facebook Stories Stephen Gregory PUBLISHER Updated: August 26, 2019 We were surprised to learn from media reports that Facebook has blocked The Epoch Times’ ability to advertise for print subscriptions. This appears to be a response to NBC News’ reporting on us. Despite a vast “dark money” political conspiracy alleged…
Attendees visit a Huawei exhibition stand during the Consumer Electronics Expo in Beijing, China on Aug. 2, 2019. (Fred Dufour/AFP/Getty Images) THINKING ABOUT CHINA Is Huawei Now Spying in the Cloud? Huawei’s ability for gathering intelligence data and intellectual property now extends to its cloud network in Latin America and reaches the US James Gorrie Updated:…
Canopy Growth, world’s largest pot company, lost $1 billion in three months By Max A. Cherney Published: Aug 15, 2019 Stock falls 10% in late trading after elimination of C$1.18 billion in warrants related to Constellation Brands investment leads to earnings miss Bloomberg News/LandovAnalysts surveyed by FactSet had estimated fiscal first-quarter adjusted losses of C$0.38 a share…
Alternate theory emerges: Was Jeffrey Epstein swapped out of his cell to prevent him from being murdered? Monday, August 12, 2019 by: Mike Adams Tags: assassination, bill clinton, conspiracy, Cover-Up, deep state, Jeffrey Epstein, testimony, witness (Natural News) The apparent murder of Jeffrey Epstein is sending shock waves around the world, jolting more people awake to the fact that the deep state is so dangerous that even…
New border wall being constructed by We Build the Wall in the El Paso metropolitan area on May 24, 2019. (Courtesy of We Build the Wall, Inc.) Update: New Mexico Allows Construction of Border Wall on Private Land BY ZACHARY STIEBER May 31, 2019 A New Mexico city issued permits to a company to build a section of…
Kim Hyok Chol, North Korea’s special representative for U.S. affairs, leaves the Government Guesthouse in Hanoi, Vietnam, Feb. 23, 2019. (Reuters/Athit Perawongmetha) North Korea Executed Envoy Over Failed Trump-Kim Summit, South Korean Paper Reports BY MIMI NGUYEN LY May 31, 2019 North Korea has executed Kim Hyok Chol, the special envoy to the United States who led…
IRS Admits It Encourages Illegals To Steal Social Security Numbers For Taxes Robert W. Wood Contributor TaxesI focus on taxes and litigation. This isn’t exactly the kind of story the IRS wants buzzing around at tax time. The IRS and Justice Department normally want ‘scared straight’ stories just before Tax Day. Ideally, when an indictment…