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After carrying out bombing drills over the Korean peninsula on Monday following North Korea’s firing of an intermediate-range missile over the Japanese island of Hokkaido, US and South Korean forces are planning to continue their displays of military might early next month, according to a report from Yonhap, the South Korean news agency. However, in a move that is sure to provoke a barrage of threats from North Korea, the US is reportedly sending a nuclear-armed aircraft carrier to the waters off the Korean peninsula, where it will take part in an upcoming round of military drills.

Authored by Soeren Kern via The Gatestone Institute,

It’s been nearly a month since Hurricane Harvey, a storm that some expect to rank among the costliest natural disasters in US history, and still tens of thousands of Texans remain marooned in temporary housing, unable to return to their flood-damaged homes, while thousands more are struggling to secure hotel rooms and other types of temporary housing, according to the Wall Street Journal.

"A day above ground is a day to buy stocks..."

Trannies were weakest on the day as dip-buyers rescued stocks from red after a mid-afternoon slump...ugly close

Authored by Dr. Constantin Gurdgiev via MarketWatch.com,

The stagnation of real incomes from 1999 through today is structural, not cyclical...

Off the top, the figures published by the U.S. Census Bureau on Tuesday are encouraging: