Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,

Wall Street is counting its winnings from seven years of easy money.

 

The results represent a clear victory for Wall Street over Main Street, according to the team of Michael Hartnett, BofA’s chief investment strategist.

 

A vast region of space in the distant universe is spinning in the same direction, stretching the laws of physics beyond their current limits. Astronomers at the University of Cape Town and University of the Western Cape have used deep radio imaging survey to capture radio waves emitted from jets of galaxies over a large volume of space in the distant universe.

Written by David Haggith - The Great Recession Blog

Just about every major banker and finance minister in the world is meeting in Washington, D.C., this week, following two rushed, secretive meetings of the Federal Reserve and another instantaneous and rare meeting between the Fed Chair and the president of the United States. These and other emergency bank meetings around the world cause one to wonder what is going down. Let’s start with a bullet list of the week’s big-bank events:

On April 6, 2015 just as the market was topping out, Jim Cramer wrote a column laying out what he called were "49 Stocks to Buy Right Now" which he qualified as "stocks that are clearly marked as winners no matter what, because they are domestic and because they do well precisely in this kind of environment."

The gap in life expectancy between the rich and poor Americans has been widening since the start of the century, according to new research. The study published by JAMA, found that the wealthiest men, outlive the poorest by nearly fifteen years Press TV reports: The average lifespans of men and women in the United States in the top 5 percent income group went up by over two years between 2001 and 2014, researchers found. But at the bottom 5 percent income bracket, life expectancy almost stagnated, the report discovered.