Trump Refuses To Sign Landmark Housing Bill In Protest Over Stalled Elections Legislation

We've Optimized Fragility, Failure, Denial, And... Rage Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, What happens when optimization is itself the point of failure? In today's zeitgeist, everything must be optimized or we'll fail: our time, productivity, fitness, diet, supplements, career, income, wealth--everything must be constantly optimized lest we fall behind or fail. The grand irony is optimization generates fragility which generates failure which generates denial which eventually generates rage. We've optimized global supply chains for efficiency and cost, rendering them exquisitely vulnerable to disruption and collapse. We've optimized the global economy for "growth"...

The US Justice Department on Wednesday unsealed an indictment for 94-year-old Raul Castro, Cuba’s former president and brother of long-time leader Fidel Castro, a move clearly aimed at providing a pretext for the US to attack the island nation. The indictment is related to the 1996 shoot-down of two planes belonging to the Brothers to […]

Jesse Livermore: Old Lessons For Today's Markets Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, In 1891, at 14 years old, with nothing but the clothes on his back, Jesse Livermore left his family and headed to Boston. He quickly found a job posting stock quotes at a Paine Webber brokerage office. Livermore spent his lunch hours trading in “bucket shops,” loosely regulated offices where ordinary people bet on stock prices without owning the underlying stock. His lunchtime trading activities earned him a $1,000 profit in his first year, and by the time he...