North America

The first face to face meeting between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Trump was seen by many as the most important meeting for Canada in decades. While PM Trudeau is teaming up with so-called 'sexist' Trump to urge policy-makers to remove barriers to increasing competitiveness for women entrepreneurs, as well as tackle issues affecting women in the workforce, we are sure reporters will want to focus on the "epidemic" of refugees crossing into Canada (from US), NAFTA trade tensions, and White House personnel decisions.

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The West Will Become The New ‘Third World’: PricewaterhouseCoopers

Written by Jeff Nielson (CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL)

First World

In today's trifecta of after hours earnings results, all three behemoths representing different key parts of the US economy, stumbled after either missing expectations, or guiding lower.

First, it was Mondelez, which missed on the top and bottom line, reporting Q4 EPS of $0.47 below the $0.49 expected, on disappointing revenue of $6.77BN, below the $6.87BN expected. The company also missed on margin reporting Q4 adj. gross margin 39.0%, below the est. 40.1%. Some other details:

Despite Macy's, Saks, and Zappos still carrying Ivanka Trump's fashion lines, it appears Nordstrom has folded to the liberal intelligentisia's "Grab Your Wallet" protests, demanding a boycott of retailers carrying Trump merchandise, as the department store stated today that it will no longer sell Ivanka Trump's eponymous clothing and accessories.

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As ABC reports, a spokesperson for the retailer, which has nearly 350 stores under various banners across North America, said

The United States is a demographic time bomb, plain and simple.  Over the next 30 years, the U.S. economy will face an unrelenting demographic transition as ~75 million baby boomers exit the highest wage earning years of their life and start to draw down what little retirement savings they've managed to tuck away while wreaking havoc on the public "safety net" ponzi schemes, like Social Security, that will almost certainly be insolvent in a decade.