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Submitted by Jeffrey Anderson WeeklyStandard.com, Three years ago, on the eve of Obamacare’s implementation, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected that President Obama’s centerpiece legislation would result in an average of 201 million people having private health insurance in any given month of 2016. Now that 2016 is here, the CBO says that just 177 […]Read More

The Amish pay tons of taxes, most of the same ones you pay… Self-employed Amish do not pay Social Security tax. Those employed by non- Amish employers do pay Social Security tax. The Amish do pay real estate, state and federal income taxes, county taxes, sales tax, etc. The Amish do not collect Social Security […]

Submitted by Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.org, I am “not isolationist, but I am ‘America First,’” Donald Trump told The New York times last weekend. “I like the expression.” Of NATO, where the U.S. underwrites three-fourths of the cost of defending Europe, Trump calls this arrangement “unfair, economically, to us,” and adds, “We will not be […]Read More

We will be the first to admit that in the current centrally-planned world, where nothing but the words and deeds of central bankers matter, fundamentals, seasonals, technicals and charts are a laughable anachronism from days gone by when the market – as traded by humans and not vacuum tubes with laser beams – could drop […]

Submitted by Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk via Bawerk.net, Another month, another flight to Hamad international airport for 17th April after initial agreement to hold ‘upstream horses’ in February 2016. While it’s no doubt great fun getting back into the OPEC ‘masters of the oil universe’ routine, second time round, the stakes are rapidly rising in Doha […]Read More

Bwuahahahaha…. [embedded content] Another day in the “markets… Silver & Gold the big winners post-Yellen – oops! As we have said before – there is one simple rule… [embedded content] The “Market” Explained… The machines ran the stops… On the day it was Small Caps that won yuuge – as investors panic-bought the worst of […]Read More

Palihapitiya’s firm, Social Capital, has backed numerous tech companies with valuations in the billions, such as Slack, Box, and SurveyMonkey. But that doesn’t mean that he is bullish on unicorn culture. Here, Palihapitiya speaks about Mark Zuckerberg’s secret sauce, which start-ups are going to make it, and the saga between Apple and the F.B.I., among other topics. […]Read More

Following last week’s major surge in crude inventories, API reported a 2.6mm build (against expectations of a 3.1mm build) – 7th week in a row – which briefly jumped crude prices higher. A 319k draw at Cushing combined with draws in Gasoline (6th week in a row) and Distillates left oil pushing back to late-day […]

The “short energy” trade worked great for a while and then, as we first warned in late January, just as everyone jumped onboard leading to record WTI (and oil and gas equity) shorts, it very suddenly stopped working in early February when oil proceeded to soar by 50% in the month ahead, leading to the […]

Q: The queue for fuel is still persistent because I was on queue for 5 hours to get N5, 000 fuel before I was able to refuel. A:  You got fuel eventually. That is what matters at the end of the day. There is hope. Q: We have seen too many queues at filling stations […]

The Nigerian Army said on Tuesday that it overcame a Boko Haram ambush in Borno State on Monday, killed several suspected terrorists in different operations and rescued at least 36 people. Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman, the Acting Director Public Relations for the Nigerian Army, said in a statement that the incident occured at Bolungu village along Banki […]

The Nigerian Army said on Tuesday it had recorded tremendous success in the past one in the fight against cattle rustling, armed banditry and other crimes in the country’s northwest under Operation SHARAN DAJI. The operations are aimed at completely eradicating the menace of cattle rustling, armed banditry and other criminalities in the north west geo-political […]