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Fox Business Senate Majority Leader slammed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for delaying the Senate impeachment trial. end
More Than 9,300 Stores Closed Across US in 2019: Report by JACK PHILLIPS, https://www.theepochtimes.com/ A report found that more than 9,300 stores have closed or are closing across the United States in 2019, including locations operated by Payless, Gymboree, Fred’s, Walgreens, Family Dollar, and many more. – According to a report (pdf) by Coresight Research, which released …
Rickards: World on Knife Edge of Debt Crisis by James Rickards, https://dailyreckoning.com/ Herbert Stein, a prominent economist and adviser to presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, once remarked, “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.” The fact that his remark is obvious makes it no less profound. Simple denial or wishful thinking tends …
Why Western Media Ignore OPCW Scandal by Tyler Durden, https://www.zerohedge.com/ The credibility of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is on the line after a series of devastating leaks from whistleblowers has shown that the UN body distorted an alleged CW incident in Syria in 2018. The distortion by the OPCW of the incident …
Russia Insight Russian President Vladimir Putin holds his annual news conference, attended by Russian and foreign media, at the World Trade Centre in Moscow. Vladimir Putin has criticized the impeachment of Donald Trump, dismissing the charges as “absolutely made up” and saying he expected the US president to survive the US Senate vote. In remarks …
CNBC Television CNBC’s Phil LeBeau reports on Boeing’s bad week. With CNBC’s Brian Sullivan and the Fast Money traders, Tim Seymour, Carter Worth, Steve Grasso and Guy Adami. end
WallStForMainSt Not only is the Fed buying around 90% of new US Treasuries being issued (according to Daniel Amerman’s new article) but the Fed is also apparently bailing out the global dollar shortage and bad derivatives bets in the forward dollar swaps market? #RepoMadness #DollarShortage – The Fed’s official balance sheet is now up $41.561 …
RT #US senators have resorted to #bullying tactics threatening a Swiss company with sanctions that could cripple its business, if it doesn’t stop working on the construction of the #NordStream2 pipeline. end
RT UK MPs have voted to pass PM Boris Johnson’s amended EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill (WAB), which sets the stage for an almost-certain Brexit on January 31 — and prevents any extension of the transition period beyond December 2020. A previous version of the bill said that the post-Brexit transition period could be prolonged by …
