Archive for the 'Economy' Category
Get Ready for a 4,000-Point Dow Drop [???]
June 10th, 2015Via: MarketWatch: Are there parallels to this current market environment? Yes — 1987. Related: A Derivatives Bomb Exploded Within The Last Two Weeks [Thanks Pookie]
U.S. Ousts Russia as World’s Top Oil, Gas Producer
June 10th, 2015Via: Bloomberg: The U.S. has taken Russia’s crown as the world’s biggest oil and natural-gas producer, illustrating the seismic shifts in the global energy landscape caused by America’s shale fields. U.S. oil production rose to an all-time high last year, gaining 1.6 million barrels a day, according to BP Plc’s Statistical Review of World Energy […]
SpaceX Files with Government to Provide Internet Service from Space
June 9th, 2015This has been only a couple of years away for the past two decades. Via: Washington Post: Elon Musk’s space company has asked the federal government for permission to begin testing on an ambitious project to beam Internet service from space, a significant step forward for an initiative that could create another major competitor to […]
‘Why Didn’t My Doctor Tell Me Chemo Kills?’
June 9th, 2015Via: New Eastern Outlook: In my daily research I came across a report so alarming I put aside planned writing in order to bring this to the attention of those who care about life. It has to do with one of the main treatments for cancer used in modern medicine—chemotherapy. New research has documented that […]
5-Mile Hyperloop Test Track in California
June 8th, 2015Via: Navigant Research: Hyperloop Transportation Technologies Inc. has struck a deal with landowners in central California to build the first hyperloop test track in the world. The track will encompass a 5-mile stretch near the busy Interstate 5 highway between San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Reporter Says Pentagon Agreed to Give Up Docs If He Never Submits Another FOIA Aequest
June 6th, 2015Via: Washington Post: Leopold: The Office of Net Assessment (ONA) is the Pentagon’s in-house think tank. They spend millions and millions of dollars putting together reports — reports that they contract out about perhaps some futuristic warfare, or what the situation in the Middle East is going to look like with regards to oil. I […]
Leaked TISA Documents Reveal Privacy Threat
June 4th, 2015Via: Forbes: Under the draft provisions of the latest trade deal to be leaked by Wikileaks, countries could be barred from trying to control where their citizens’ personal data is held or whether it’s accessible from outside the country. … And the contents of TISA make interesting reading, particularly for anybody concerned about privacy. Under […]
29 Percent of Elderly Americans Have No Retirement Savings
June 4th, 2015Via: CNBC: How bad is America doing when it comes to retirement savings? The Government Accountability Office looked into the question, and its answer is sobering. A new GAO analysis finds that among households with members aged 55 or older, nearly 29 percent have neither retirement savings nor a traditional pension plan.
Two More Finance Firm Employees Dead
June 3rd, 2015They’re starting to go two at a time now. Thomas Hughes: Investment Banker Jumps To His Death In NYC — Sarvshreshth Gupta: Goldman Sachs Analyst Found Dead Hours After Complaining to Father of ‘100 Hour Weeks’
Thousands of Teenage Girls Enduring Debilitating Illnesses After Routine School Cancer Vaccination
June 3rd, 2015Via: Independent: Mrs Ryalls reported Emily’s condition to the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). In the 10 years to April this year the agency received almost 22,000 “spontaneous suspected” adverse drug reaction (ADR) reports in 13 routine immunisation categories including flu, MMR, tetanus, diphtheria and polio, according to a Freedom of Information response […]
