Mueller Grasps At Straws As Flynn Deal Disproves Election Collusion
This whole charade with former National Security Advisor Mike Flynn reeks of desperation and makes clear that Mueller's team has an empty hand...To summarize the plea agreement from the FBI Special...
View ArticleAttendance At Baltimore City Schools Crashes To 13 Year Low Just As Juvenile...
Project Baltimore, an investigative reporting series conducted by a local Fox affiliate in Baltimore City, has sifted through over a decade of high school records and discovered that attendance at city...
View Article"It's Very Common": Baltimore Teacher Admits To Passing Students That Never...
Teaching can be a thankless job. Talk to almost any educator in the public school system and you're bound to get a earful about grueling hours, disrespectful kids, infuriating bureaucracy and minimal...
View Article'Chapter 22' Bankruptcy Filings Increasingly 'En Vogue' For Struggling Retail...
In 2009, U.S. Shipping Partners LP accomplished what we believe was a completely unprecedented feat when they managed to confirm a bankruptcy plan of reorganization in the Southern District of New York...
View ArticleGlobal Market Rout Spreads: VIX Marches Higher As China Stocks, Currency Plunge
The global rout resulting from tensions over the North Korean nuclear standoff continued on Friday as world stocks tumbled for the fourth day, on course for their worst week since November following a...
View ArticleJohn McCain Kills Obamacare Repeal With Single Decisive Vote
In the end it was not meant to be: Senate Republicans failed, by a single vote, to pass a month-long effort to pass Republican healthcare legislation culminating with a vote on a "skinny" bill to...
View ArticleWhy The Next Recession Will Morph Into A Decades Long Depressionary Event......
Authored by Chris Hamilton via Econimica blog,Economists spend inordinate time gauging the business cycle that they believe drives the US economy. However, the real engine running in the background...
View ArticleWould Congress Authorize Bankruptcy For Illinois And Other States? Yes,...
Authored by Mark Glennon via WirePoints.com,All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -Arthur...
View ArticlePresident Trump Fires FBI Director James Comey
Update 1: AG Jeff Sessions sent the following statement to all FBI employees tonight:The President of the United States has exercised his lawful authority to remove James B. Comey, Jr., as the Director...
View ArticleIs Bankruptcy For Illinois The Answer?
Authored by Mark Glennon via WirePoints.com,Could a formal bankruptcy proceeding for the State of Illinois be the answer to it’s fiscal crisis? If you think that’s out of the question, as many do,...
View ArticleEU Celebrates 60th Birthday As European Leaders Scramble To Hold "Fraying"...
Today in Rome, the EU celebrates its 60th anniversary. Leaders hailed the visionary "war generation" of leaders from old foes France and Germany who signed the Treaty of Rome in the same room on March...
View ArticleStockman On Thursday's Defining Moment: Defeat Obamacare Lite Or Be Buried By...
Authored by David Stockman via Contra Corner blog,Thursday's vote on Speaker Ryan's wrong-headed plan to repeal and replace Obamacare involves far more than keeping faith with a crucial campaign pledge...
View ArticleGlobal Stocks Rise, S&P Futs Flat As Dollar Rebounds Ahead Of Critical Week...
European bourses advance and Asian share rose led by a surge in Hong Kong stocks which rose the most in three months as Japan hit 15 month highs. U.S. futures are little changed along while the dollar...
View ArticleStarbucks Announces Plans To Hire 10,000 Refugees
With a relentless barrage of corporate executives taking veiled, and not so veiled, shots at Trump's immigration policies, moments ago Starbuck's outgoing CEO Howard Schultz went one better, and in a...
View ArticleGerman Press: "That Was No Presidential Speech; That Was A Declaration Of War"
Following yesterday's openly confrontational, deliberately protectionist presidential address by president Trump, which in various circles has been dubbed the "American carnage" speech for obvious...
View Article"Depressed" Millennials Are Convinced The Trump Economy Is Going To Implode
When asked about the economic outlook for America, millennials were the only generation to predict 2017 would be worse than 2016. As Bloomberg reports, the feeling of impending doom wasn't exclusively...
View ArticleFT Endorses Hillary Clinton: "Trump Has Demonstrated Contempt Towards...
While we doubt that Donald Trump will be especially distraught upon reading that the Japanese-owned, British-domiciled Financial Times has come out in support of Hillary Clinton, by endorsing the...
View ArticleWest On Edge As Erdogan Meets With Putin: "Turkey's Relations With The US Are...
The bad blood between Turkey and Russia over the November downing of a Russian fighter jet over Turkey is all but forgotten as Turkish president Recep Tayip Ergodan is to meet with “his friend”...
View ArticleFrom Monica To Loretta - The Clintons Corrupt Absolutely
Authored by Michael Goodwin, originaly posted at The New York Post,She can’t help herself. Even yesterday, with the political world fixated on her meeting with FBI agents, Hillary Clinton had her flack...
View ArticleAfter Brexit: The System Cannot Hold
Submitted by Raul Ilargi Meijer via The Automatic Earth blog,Well, they did it. A majority of Britons made clear they’re so fed up with David Cameron and everything he says or does, including promoting...
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