Trump To Unveil Anduril Deal, Bringing Submarine Parts Factory To Baltimore

China Expands Online Content Controls, Putting More Pressure On Creators Authored by Michael Zhuang via The Epoch Times, China's new rules governing companies that produce and distribute content for social media took effect on Sept. 1, potentially exposing both independent content creators and the accounts they manage to penalties for violations. Men play games on computers in an internet bar in Beijing on Dec. 16, 2015. Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images The regulations require companies providing services such as content planning, production, distribution, marketing, promotion, and talent management to register as service providers. Critics...

FundStrat's Newton: Why Not Replace The FOMC With AI? Short of abolishing the Fed (much preferred), would automating the Fed make more sense than the current system? Should we trust Kevin Warsh, Jerome Powell, and Lisa Cook to read the tea leaves each month and decree rate changes for us commoners?  That was Fundstrat's Mark Newton’s suggestion during last night's ZeroHedge debate on his H2 market outlook. He pointed out the new chair’s plan to eliminate “forward guidance”, a term invented under the previous chair Powell in which the Fed strategically...

Manufacturers Set To Move Production Out Of Canada As US Tariffs Hit Hard The circumstances of US/Canadian trade should be common knowledge by now, but the details often get mired in the swamp of political rhetoric.  When Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney describes the tariff issue as the US "waging war" on Canada, he knows exactly what he's doing.  Carney has turned a simple trade issue over reasonable 10% tariffs into an existential crisis, an invasion, an ethnic cleansing, a last stand against "evil" imperialists.   But getting the Canadian public riled...