"Stop Hiring Humans" Billboards Are Appearing In US Cities...

US Africa Command said in a press release on Thursday that its forces launched an airstrike in southern Somalia on April 15, the same day the US-backed Somali government announced major attacks against al-Shabaab that it said involved airstrikes supported by “international partners.” As usual, AFRICOM offered barely any details on the strike, saying only […]

The Last Word On Kernen Vs. Grantham Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance Last week, CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin and Joe Kernen interviewed legendary value investor Jeremy Grantham, and for about six minutes the conversation turned into one of the better moments I’ve seen on financial television in a long time. Grantham, the 86-year-old co-founder of GMO, whose case for the market being overvalued I highlighted last week, built one of the world’s most respected institutional asset management firms. Over the course of his career, he became famous for identifying some of the largest...

This Is The Income Needed To Be 'Happy' Around The World In most countries, the average worker still earns less than the income researchers associate with peak reported well-being. Research on income and well-being has identified a “satiation point,” an income level beyond which additional earnings no longer improve reported happiness. But how close does the average worker come to reaching that threshold? An analysis from Remitly calculated the price of happiness in economies around the world and compared it with average local wages. This graphic, via Visual Capitalist's Niccolo Conte, ranks the 50 countries...