Americas

In a story published Wednesday, the New York Times alleged that President Trump revealed to Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte the location of two U.S. nuclear submarines lurking in the waters off the Korean peninsula, ready to counter any acts of aggression by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Here’s what Trump allegedly said, according to a transcript of the call, which was circulated to reporters by the Americas wing of the Philippines embassy. The contents of the document were later confirmed by "a senior White House official." Per NYT:

Submitted by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog,

Why can’t brain dead liberals understand the need for a wall after seeing these statistics?

How can we have an unsecured border with a failed third world state, where murder and drugs are the two biggest imports?

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Mexico was second deadliest country in 2016

Ahead of this week's AAPL earnings, investors were looking forward to more clues what the company with the quarter-trillion cash war chest would do with the funds that are now greater than the GDP of Greece, and aside from the token increase in shareholder distributions, they got little else, which has once again prompted speculation who Apple will acquire once the company decides to shift away from corporate bond holdings (recall that as of this quarter Apple now has more corporate debt on its books than the biggest bond mutual fund) to acquisitions.

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Authored by Peter Schiff via Euro Pacific Capital,