With Illinois facing a Friday night deadline by which it has to come up with its first fiscal budget in three years or face a downgrade to junk resulting in what a policymaker called a "death spiral", another mini drama is taking place in Connecticut, which is also facing big budget problems as wealthy residents, hedge funds and major corporations flee the state's high taxes and its fiscal future gets murkier by the day.
Across the country, opioids killed more than 33,000 people in 2015, more than any year on record, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
As we have noted numerous times, the epidemic is ravaging populations across racial and socioeconomic lines, according to The Post's Joel Achenbach and Dan Keating. Spurred by overdoses, the death rate for Americans rose 8 percent between 2010 and 2015.
Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com,
Janet Yellen, Federal Reserve Chair, recently stated;
“Will I say there will never, ever be another financial crisis? No, probably that would be going too far. But I do think we’re much safer and I hope that it will not be in our lifetimes and I don’t believe it will.”
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During Wednesday's White House press briefing, Tom Homan - Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Attorney John Huber were brought in to discuss two upcoming pieces of immigration legislation - only to face CNN's anchor-socked White House correspondent, Jim Acosta.
Focus on criminals
Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com,
Yesterday, in response to alleged “progress” on Obamacare I penned Mish’s Rule of Progress.
Today, I am pleased to announce even more amazing budget progress in the state of Illinois.
First, let’s recap progress at the national level.