In person, it could feel at times today like the bottom is falling out of Donald Trump’s campaign. Here’s what happened: At a Pennsylvania rally, Trump said he “shouldn’t have left” the White House and mused about journalists catching strays — no, quite literally, stray ...
Assistant FBI Director Chris Swecker said the booming mortgage market, fueled by low interest rates and soaring home values, has attracted unscrupulous professionals and criminal groups whose fraudulent activities could cause multibillion-dollar losses to financial institutions. “It has the potential to ...
What did the markets hear? “Great news, interest rates aren’t going up as fast as we worried!”Meanwhile, slower rate hikes mean inflation will stay higher for longer.Do we hear about that from the “reporters” at CNN?Nope – all we hear is, “Good news from Chair Powell today, ...
So when China's currency the yuan was devalued(贬值)against the Us dollar for three straight days in mid-August,the world felt the effects. As CNN put it: "If China sneezes(打喷嚏), the world catches a cold." Why does it matter so much? The exchange rate is the t...
This is Breaking The Dollar, the podcast that dismantles some of the biggest misconceptions about money. Presented by Gainesville Coins Hello and welcome back to Breaking The Dollar. I'm your host, Everett Millman. We're doing something a little bit different for today's episode. There was ...
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We were the first person to market really making this case. So we were really excited. Unfortunately, it’s largely falling on deaf ears. It’s striking to me that no one is talking about this. Former investment banker@CaroljsRothargues that government bureaucrats used the COVID pandemic to...
It’s positively tropical in Chicago today: Here’s the temperature in Fahrenheit, which is -17° C. With the wind, the temperature equivalent is -24° F, or -31° C. The flight out of Chicago have largely been canceled or delayed, but what do I care? I ain’t going nowhere. ...
Life is too short to use cheap 1-ply toilet paper. You’ll have to go through more of the low-quality stuff they sell at the dollar store. If you do stumble across a nice name brand there, do the math on price per unit. The dollar store has Charmin Essentials for $1.25 a roll....
As of today, the few polls I know of that correctly predicted the 2016 election are also predicting a Trump win in 2020. Rasmussen, one of the the most accurate pollsters that predicted 2016 election result, is today showing 52% of Americans approve of Trump as president, a number that ...