Marco Rubio’s Radical Alignment With The Financial Industry
This article originally appeared with the Roosevelt Institute. Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush have been fighting for months in the GOP primaries to be the candidate representing Wall Street, hedge funds and the financial sector. Headlines like “Bush and Rubio…
Why Piracy Continues Unabated
I n this report, SAMUEL ABULUDE looks at the ongoing war against piracy of creative works referred to as copyright infringement, and how to tackle it at all ends. In the entertainment industry today where film makers do not make…
Over Half of Americans Support FBI Over Apple
Fifty-one percent of Americans believe Apple should unlock the encrypted iPhone of one of the San Bernardino, California, shooters, according to a Pew Research survey published Monday. In the increasingly heated legal battle involving the FBI and the Department of…
Zuckerberg Sides With Apple Over FBI With Backdoor Encryption Policy
Mark Zuckerberg has taken a side in the fight between Apple and the FBI in regards to the on-going issues with the San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook’s phone. “We’re pretty sympathetic with Tim (Cook) and Apple on this one,” Zuckerberg…
White House Is Either Lying About Apple Order Or Doesn’t Understand What A Backdoor Is
During a White House press briefing on Wednesday, Press Secretary Josh Earnest apparently kept brushing aside questions about the order to Apple to remove certain security features that would enable the FBI to brute force the passcode and decrypt the…
Jobs Numbers: Don’t Fall For The Government Fake-Out
Connecting The Dots: Jobs Numbers – Don’t Fall For The Government Fake-Out by Tony Sagami, Mauldin Economics Washington, DC is pretty proud of the employment numbers it has been pumping out. Most recently, the Labor Department reported that the US…
George Soros And 1987: When Your Longs & Shorts BOTH Go Against You
George Soros And 1987: When Your Longs & Shorts BOTH Go Against You I can relate to situations where all my positions went against me…and I’m sure some participants can relate to that as well YTD. So imagine the following…
Hillary Clinton: Bernie Sanders a ‘single-issue’ candidate interested only in fighting Wall Street
As the dust settled after the Nevada caucuses, Sen. Bernard Sanders and former first lady Hillary Clinton each tried to claim victory Sunday – and had in a nasty exchange over who, in fact, carried the Hispanic vote in the…
How Is Saudi Arabia Affecting Russia’s oil?
Quora Questions are part of a partnership between Newsweek and Quora, through which we’ll be posting relevant and interesting answers from Quora contributors throughout the week. Read more about the partnership here. Answer from Richard Muller, Prof Physics, UC Berkeley,…
Matthews Asia: Beginning Of The End – To China Bank Woes
The rise and development of China’s financial system has been different from most other emerging economies. One unique aspect has been the rapid accumulation of bank deposits over the last 10 years. Another more controversial aspect has been the corresponding…