Submitted by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com,
Wow…things are certainly happening faster than I expected. As January kicked off the new year, I posted my outlook for 2016 in which I discussed why, despite views of Goldman Sachs and many others, interest rates were going lower rather than higher.
Donald Trump is no fan of illegal immigrants.
The problem, Trump reckons, is that Mexico “isn’t sending their best people.” “They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.” the bellicose billionaire famously remarked last summer when his bid for The White House was still largely regarded as a sideshow.
“Some, I assume, are good people,” he added, apparently realizing that what he just said might be rather inflammatory.
In his final state-of-the-union address, President Obama famously accused anyone who dares to question the strength of the US economic "recovery" of "peddling fiction."
Shortly thereafter, we learned that the US economy grew at a paltry 0.69% in Q4. Below estimates.
Submitted by Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.org,
The morning of the New Hampshire primary, Donald Trump, being interviewed on “Morning Joe,” said that he would welcome his “friend” Michael Bloomberg into the presidential race.
Which is probably the understatement of 2016.
The three-term mayor of New York and media mogul whose fortune is estimated at $39 billion, making him one of the richest men on earth, told the Financial Times on Monday he is considering a run.
In the annals of comic writing, fewer debuts are seemingly as auspicious as that of Eve Tushnet’s novel Amends. One might have to even go back into ancient history, to Evelyn Waugh’s Welsh-bashing days of Decline and Fall to find something roughly comparable. A typical Eve Tushnet sentence sparkles like gem cut to break the skin when held, while her dialogue washes down like a dry martini laced with ipecac. Tushnet also has a talent for making one feel inadequate about one’s own ability to craft decent similes. So let’s just say that Eve Tushnet is funny, and bitterly so.