Authored by Paul Driessen via The Mises Institute,
Citing U.S. Department of Energy data, the New York Times recently reported that the solar industry employs far more Americans than wind or coal: 374,000 in solar versus 100,000 in wind and 160,000 in coal mining and coal-fired power generation. Only the natural gas sector employs more people: 398,000 workers in gas production, electricity generation, home heating and petrochemicals.
US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced Tuesday that he had reached “an agreement in principle” with his Mexican counterpart, Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo, on a new trade deal governing the trade of raw and refined sugar between the US and Mexico.
There’s only one problem: The US sugar industry has said it’s unable to support the agreement in its current form, according to Reuters.
Ross said that Mexico met nearly every request by the US sugar industry to fix problems with a 2014 sugar trade agreement.
It's official: there is nothing in this world that Russian hackers can't do.
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In an opportune coincidence, when discussing the Qatar crisis earlier today, we laid out the "official narrative" behind the dramatic fallout in diplomacy between Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
Via The Daily Bell
Banks are supposed to be the epitome of secure. You can put your money in their vaults, and forget about it. Don’t worry everything will be fine. And even if the bank goes under, the federal government insures deposits of up to $250,000.
But that won’t help if the government is the thief. The United States government can freeze your bank accounts for basically no reason, without due process. Then it is up to you to prove your innocence.
Via Disobedient Media
As China's economy has boomed, corporations and individuals with historically close ties to the government have been the major beneficiaries. Sitting flush with massive amounts of cash on hand, power players in the Chinese markets have increasingly sought to branch out and increase their investments in foreign countries. Many of these investments target key industries despite their own government often restricting or forbidding the same kind of foreign investment domestically.