In an "Onion-sounding" article in Russian tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda, titled "Trump-Pump-Pump And Our Big Bang", Russian military expert Viktor Baranetz, a retired colonel and former defense ministry spokesman asserted that Russia has asymmetrical responses to the increase in the U.S. military budget.
While many have blamed today's spike in yields for the broader underperformance of the REIT sector, which sent the Bloomberg North American REIT index down 1.4%, its biggest one-day drop since December in a widespread selloff across all property sectors with 194 of the 214 stocks in the index lower today, it's more than just the jump in rates that is slamming the rate-sensitive sector.
FBI Director James Comey warned Americans on Wednesday that privacy in America is completely and utterly dead. Comey told a Boston College conference on cybersecurity that the public need to forget about the notion of “absolute privacy” in this digital age.
Via Duane of FreeMarketShooter.com,
It is pretty accepted knowledge that a number of lower-skilled jobs will disappear in the coming 5-10 years, due to the human element being replaced by autonomous machines.
One of the most at-risk professions is that of Truck Driver, which as 13D Research points out, is one of the no.1 reasons you rarely (if ever) hear President Trump discuss automation in the workplace:
Via Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse blog,
If you didn’t know better, you might be tempted to think that “Space Available” was the hottest new retail chain in the entire country.