This has been a bad week for anyone hoping for a June hike… or even a 2015 hike. The week started out with Fed governor Lael Brainard introducing a new condition by which the Fed would gauge rate-hike readiness: The…
This has been a bad week for anyone hoping for a June hike… or even a 2015 hike. The week started out with Fed governor Lael Brainard introducing a new condition by which the Fed would gauge rate-hike readiness: The…
‘The Environmental Protection Agency has decreed the natural-gas producing hydraulic fracturing process, otherwise known as “fracking,” has no detrimental effect on ground water, despite documented evidence to the contrary. After years of criticism, the EPA […]
‘How many times have you caught yourself having an 11:11 moment, when you randomly look at the clock and it’s 11:11? How many times has someone said the exact same thing you’re thinking at the […]
”Members of the House and the Senate delivered 2 million petitions to Congress, opposing the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Trade Promotion Authority (TPA). The ranking Democrat of the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs, Sen. Bernie […]
‘Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby wants to block the release of the autopsy report and other “sensitive” documents in the upcoming trial of six police officers accused of Freddie Gray’s death in custody. Mosby told […]
‘Politwoops, the public archive of online statements deleted by US lawmakers, shut down after Twitter denied the source tool access to politicians’ deleted tweets. Twitter said the nonprofit organization behind the site violated the developer […]
‘In a bizarre round of comments today, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu termed international boycotts against Israel as “hypocrisy,” demanding those nations to boycott ISIS-made goods instead. ISIS doesn’t have a functioning economy right now, […]
‘“Britain’s Hardest Grafter,” an upcoming BBC program, targets the poor and shows the depths to which the broadcaster has sunk, social realist filmmaker and activist Ken Loach has warned. The show has been condemned as […]
‘US officials have told Okinawa’s governor that American troops will remain on the Japanese island despite mass protest rallies. The governor, in his turn, had pledged to continue his anti-base campaign. “The United States’ troop […]
‘That good health is insanely unprofitable was highlighted by a staggering statistic in the recent research paper The Concentration of Health Care Spending (via B.C.): Mean annual spending for the bottom half of (the American […]
‘Most of the illegal immigrant criminals Homeland Security officials released from custody last year were discretionary, meaning the department could have kept them in detention but chose instead to let them onto the streets as […]
‘Hillary Clinton’s charity accepted a substantial donation from an anti-gay African church which has likened homosexuals to the Devil, Daily Mail Online can reveal. The 2016 Presidential candidate took money for her sprawling health nonprofit […]