Gunman Opens Fire On Turkish Journalist ‘Can Dündar’ Outside Court

Turkish opposition journalist Can Dündar narrowly escaped an assassination attempt outside a courthouse in Istanbul where he is on trial accused of revealing state secrets. The shooting happened during a break in the court proceedings where Dundar was awaiting a verdict that could see him imprisoned for life. Dündar, editor-in-chief of the leading opposition daily Cumhuriyet and Gül, the newspaper’s Ankara bureau chief, face life sentences for publishing a story that said Turkey was delivering arms to Islamist rebels in Syria.

Since 2014 The US Has Added 450,000 Waiters And Bartenders, And No Manufacturing Workers

Since 2014 The US Has Added 450,000 Waiters And Bartenders, And No Manufacturing Workers

With Obama yet again on TV, taking credit for the Fed's reflation of the stock market as somehow indicative of an economic "recovery" ("fiction peddlers" not allowed in the crowd), here is another way of showing the unprecedented transformation in the US labor pool: since December 2014, the US has added just under 450,000 waiters and bartenders, and no manufacturing workers.

Behold: "Obama's recovery."

Buy Gold, ‘Get Out Of The Stock Market’ Warns Druckenmiller

Buy Gold, ‘Get Out Of The Stock Market’ Warns Druckenmiller

Buy Gold, ‘Get Out Of The Stock Market’ Warns Druckenmiller

Buy gold and ‘get out of the stock market’, legendary billionaire investor, advised investors at an investment conference in New York this week.

Druckenmiller, who has one of the best long-term track records in money management, said the stock market bull market has “exhausted itself” and that gold “remains our largest currency allocation.”

President Obama Explains What The "Fiction-Peddling" BLS Got Wrong - Live Feed

Grab your popcorn. Having proclaimed his greatest achievement during his presidency as "saving the world from another Great Depression," we wonder what President Obama will have to say today when he discusses the economy. Following the decline in corporate profits, a manufacturing sector in recession, an auto industry which is shuttering production, minimum wage state job losses rising, and an equity market that is unable to make new highs, what cynical, skeptical, "fiction-peddlers" will he blame today's dismal jobs data on?

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