U.S. government posts $182 billion surplus in April
Reuters | The U.S. government had a $182 billion budget surplus in April, confounding market expectations for a deficit, according to Treasury Department data released on Wednesday.
Reuters | The U.S. government had a $182 billion budget surplus in April, confounding market expectations for a deficit, according to Treasury Department data released on Wednesday.
Zero Hedge | The sharp decline has wiped out savings and made buying imported goods all but impossible.
Mac Slavo | The explosion of housing costs is one of the greatest economic crises in the developed world.
Zero Hedge | The China anxiety isn’t spilling over to the other major markets.
RT | The price of bitcoin has reached a new record against the US dollar, extending a recent rally that has doubled the market value of all virtual currencies since the beginning of 2017.
American Mirror | If the organizers of the Global Food Innovation Summit paid Barack Obama a reported $3,000,000 to talk about himself, then they definitely got their money’s worth.
Washington Examiner | Al Gore wants to reverse modernity and save the world from itself through an elimination of its fossil-fuel-based energy system.
Zero Hedge | We’ve noted several times in recent months that, despite the ‘economic recovery’, a record number of young ‘adults’ are moving back home with mom and dad after college and staying there well into their 30’s.
Breitbart | Despite the left’s attempt to deny it, some anti-Trump protesters are indeed paid to show up.
Zero Hedge | Two words – “priced in.”
Information Liberation | Jean-Marie Le Pen says his daughter’s promise to ditch the euro and the EU undermined her candidacy.
Michael Snyder | “The S&P 500 is going to drop by hundreds and hundreds of points sometime over the next few months as we drift into this unexpected crisis.”
CNBC | Job creation in April bounced back from a disappointing March.
Zero Hedge | The main effect of House passage is to delay the consideration of tax legislation, which looks even more likely than before to be delayed until 2018.
ATR | The American Health Care Act (HR 1628) passed by the House today reduces taxes on the American people by over $1 trillion.