A powerful lobby group claiming to represent over 31% of American voters has organised rallies in Washington this week to formally ask Congress to recognise non-obese people as a minority group in America. 40,000 people gathered in Washington, 20,000 in Los Angeles and 15,000 in New York to voice their support of the Alliance to Make US Healthiest organisation in granting rights for non-overweight Americans.
Shares of Lithium companies have surged after Tesla boosted its outlook for electric vehicles powered by batteries that use the element, sending the Solactive Global Lithium Index up by about a third since the middle of February.
Fox News pundit Charles Krauthammer really doesn’t get it:
Charles Krauthammer comments on Donald Trump’s apathy toward North Carolina’s new LGBT laws on transgender people using restrooms. Krauthammer is puzzled by the need for the law and asked, “do we really have an epidemic of transgenders being evil in bathrooms?”
Krauthammer said the law is a “solution in search of an issue” and said transgenders using public bathrooms has become a problem “precisely because Republicans in North Carolina decided it was a problem.”
In an interview posted on Swiss Finanz und Wirthschaft, Jeff Gundlach unleashes his deep ir, and in traditional style, offloads on both the Fed and all central banks, sayng that "negative interest rates are the dumbest idea ever", adding that the Fed has given up both trying to normalize interest rates as well as trying to actually stimulate the economy:
Presidential candidate George H.W. Bush famously described his competitor Ronald Reagan’s economic policies as “voodoo economics.” Well, Pete Spiliakos makes a case that the chronic Reaganomics of the GOP amounts to zombie economics, because even though dead, the ideology keeps staggering on.