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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told an audience of Wall Street managers that they could thank him for financial deregulation.
"You should all thank me for your bank stocks doing better," Mnuchin said at the Milken Institute Global Conference held at the Beverly Hilton, drawing laughs.
Who should "we" thank for this?
While emoting sympathy for Kim Jong Un's situation, President Trump told Reuters, during a lengthy interview ahead of his 100th day in office, that he'd "love to solve things diplomatically," but warned that "there is a chance that we could end up having a major, major conflict with North Korea."
Putting a somewhat human face on the North Korean leader, President Trump had an interesting response when asked by Reuters if he considered North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to be rational...
The US Is Now The Ultimate Police State
The US is without any doubt now the worst police state, not only in reality exceeding Gestapo Nazi Germany, but exceeding the human imagination of George Orwell and other authors of dystopias.
And this utterly corrupt criminal police state gets away with pretending to be the “defender of democracy and freedom.” The insouciant American population has no clue.
Freedom of speech is dead in America as are all other freedoms.
https://sputniknews.com/military/201704271053085139-us-detains-journalist-free-speech/
Amazon and Alphabet are surging after hours after big beats but Microsoft is fading (missed on revenues and capex) and Starbucks is sliding on a disappointing same store sales comp.
Alphabet Big Beat
Major decoupling from 2017 expectation still
Amazon Big Beat:
There was some snickering two days ago when it emerged that as his first paid speech appearance, former president Barack Obama who - at least on paper was a determined crusader against the big banks - will receive $400,000 for roughly an hour of his time from, well, a bank or rather Cantor Fitzgerald.