European GDP Takes a NoseDive
Related: Hidden Inflation Everywhere, From Watered-Down Bourbon To Horse-Meat Chili
Your Tax Dollars at (Non-) Work, Shania Twain Section
At The Gods of the Copybook Headings:
…Yes, I know Shania Twain is huge. But if Jesus had been born in Timmins I doubt the crowds would have been much larger. Say what you will, but at least Bethlehem is warm…
Much of the Canadian economy is littered with white elephants and grossly inefficient public services. The Shania Twain Centre is a small fiasco in the larger disaster that is the modern Canadian state.
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North Korea threatened in January to carry out a “higher-level” test following the Dec. 12 rocket launch. At the time, North Korea’s new leader Kim Jong-Un said his country’s weapons tests were specifically targeting the United States.
The suspicious tremor comes just hours before President Obama is to give the State of the Union address, and it marks the first diplomatic test in the region for new Secretary of State John Kerry.
More – “it’s very possible that the North Koreans are testing for two countries.”
Related: KIND OF AWKWARD TIMING, GIVEN OBAMA’S PLAN FOR BIG NUCLEAR-WEAPONS CUTS
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So not only is the DHS stockpiling decades of war’s worth of ammunition – which means literally centuries of DHS usage – it’s doing so through front companies that come into being to collect the contract checks and presumably disappear once the checks have been written. The real questions here are who owns or controls Evian Group and what is his/their connection to the Democrat party?
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Surprising absolutely no one who can add:
“CBO’s baseline confirms that the nation, despite claims to the contrary, remains on a damaging debt pathway.” They observe that debt will remain over 90 percent of gross domestic product for the period 2013-2023, resulting in a drag on growth equal to 1 percent per year. That translates into a total loss of 11 million jobs for that period. Moreover, by 2023 Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security will comprise about 64 percent of the budget, “crowding out other federal priorities.”
Okay, maybe surprising Democratic voters….
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No, really: Planet Earth Begins Eating Bankrupt City of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (h/t Kevin B)
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Breaking: U.S. GDP contracts 0.1% in fourth quarter. wsj.com
— Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) January 30, 2013
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It Will Take The Fed Seven Years To Deliver 300 Tons Of German Gold
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… in what is the biggest news of the week, and possibly the year, the Bundesbank has broken away from its “all is well” posturing exhibited as recently as three months ago, and in a dramatic reversal of its diplomatic position, has demanded repatriation of some of its NY Fed and all of its Paris-domiciled gold.
h/t Adrian
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
Americans bought enough guns in last two months to outfit the entire Chinese and Indian armies.
Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!
CNN, October 2012 – On Tuesday, [American Airlines] said another flight had experienced loose seats, bringing the total to three flights on two planes in a week.[…] Robert Gless, deputy director of the Air Transport Division of the Transport Workers Union of America, dismissed the notion that the problems with loose seats were linked to labor issues as “without any basis in fact.”
Reuters, January 2013 – Boeing Co (BA) made a revised offer to the union representing its 23,000 engineering employees on Friday. The improved offer came on the same day the U.S. government ordered a review of the firm’s 787 Dreamliner following a string of mechanical and electrical problems.
h/t Melinda Romanoff
“Ever heard of SB3341?”
…Provides that a person who is in the business of purchasing precious metal shall obtain a proof of ownership, create a record of the sale, and verify the identity of the seller. Provides that a person who is in the business of purchasing precious metal shall not pay for the precious metal in cash and shall record the method of payment.
Requires the purchaser to keep a record of the sale for one year or, if the purchase amount is over $500, for 5 years.
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“The sunspot numbers for December were not only startlingly low, they actually plunged to levels not seen since May 2011, at a time when the Sun is supposed to be approaching sunspot maximum and the number of sunspots is supposed to be increasing.”
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The Obama Effect
As Gore was to warming, Obama is to success:
“These companies are choosing to invest in the one country with the most productive workers, the best universities, and the most creative and innovative entrepreneurs in the world, and that is the United States of America,” he said. He went on to recognize the company’s founder, Bruce Cochrane. Cochrane also sat with Michelle Obama during the president’s State of the Union address and participated in a conversation with the president and business leaders about how to create American jobs.
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The benchmark index, maintained by the London-based Baltic Exchange to track the daily freight market prices for dry bulk transport, fell 8.2 percent to 826 following a near 4 percent decline Tuesday. The index has fallen more than 48 percent so far this year.
h/t Adrian
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Why Is Hartford Buying Back $5 Billion of Annuity Contracts They Worked So Hard to Sell?
Retirees who thought buying an annuity was the last investment decision they’d ever have to make are having to go back to the calculators one more time.
The Hartford is the latest annuity carrier to offer the customers it fought hard to capture incentives to take their money and go home.
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