Entertainment

USDJPY 110.00 hit... now what?

Not only is there real world conflict to worry about, it turns out there are an increasing amount of conflicts to worry about in Legoland as well.

According to a study by New Zealand's University of Canterbury, violence in LEGO products has increased significantly as the company looks to boost sales.

During the study, researchers used a database for LEGO parts known as BrickLink, and as RT reports "40% of the catalog images were perceived as containing some kind of violence."

By EconMatters

The US sure is concerned about further BOJ intervention, the real question is why now? What is really going on behind the scenes? We delve into some of the possibilities that we think are at play here behind the scenes at the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSTf-8BEPX8

Lord of the Rings star Elijah Wood has claimed that Hollywood is immersed in a child sexual abuse scandal bigger than the Jimmy Savile scandal that rocked Britain recently.  The former child actor claims that pedophiles are protected by the elite in Hollywood, and that abuse is still rife in the entertainment industry to this very day. Telegraph.co.uk reports: In an interview with the Sunday Times, Wood said he had been protected from abuse as he was growing up, but that other child actors had been regularly “preyed upon” at parties by industry figures.

The novels of dark fantasist Tim Powers often flow out of weird, grim moments in real history: the strange encounter of a fox and an English spy; the long lit matches burning in a bloodthirsty pirate’s beard. Powers’s latest book, Medusa’s Web, got its start when Powers encountered one of these disturbing little bits of trivia: Rudolph Valentino received Last Rites twice. Why? To answer that question, Powers spins a tale of family secrets and Hollywood ghosts–and an otherworldly, addictive substance, a kind of weaponized nostalgia.