Watching the European collapse over the past 6 years has been mostly an exercise in futility, during which unelected bureaucrats throw everything at an unsolvable problem just to maintain the "dream" a little longer, punctuated with moments of sheer, delightful absurdity. This was one of those moments.
Despite bookies' odds at 66% that The Democratic Party will win The White House in November, economic models predict a Republican victory (with or without Trump).
As The Hill reports, Republicans are expected to win the White House under two economic models that have accurately forecast presidential elections for decades. A third model run by Moody’s Analytics predicts Democrats will win the White House, in part because of President Obama’s rising approval rating.
Donald Trump continued to streamroll over all conventional narratives when during a massive 96-minute interview with the Washington Post on Thursday which was released today, in which he talked candidly about his aggressive style of campaigning and offered new details about what he would do as president, he said that economic conditions are so perilous that the country is headed for a "very massive recession" and that "it’s a terrible time right now" to invest in the stock market, which, the traditionally cheerful WaPo said embraces "a distinctly gloomy view of the economy
A Colombian hacktivist named Andrés Sepúlveda has revealed to the U.S. media how easy it is to rig the presidential elections, after having hacked political rivals to engineer results in elections across nine Latin American countries. Sepúlveda is currently serving a 10-year prison sentence after being caught hacking Colombia’s 2014 presidential race. Engadget.com reports: Perhaps the most ostentatious allegation he makes is that he was paid to ensure Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party’s (PRI) candidate, Peña Nieto, won the country’s election in 2012.