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For the first time ever, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed two lawsuits over sexual orientation discrimination. Both suits are brought under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which does not explicitly prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Rather, the suits rely on the EEOC’s relatively new interpretation that Title […]

According to a survey of more than 200 lawyers, approximately 29 percent of lawyers responded that they would simply work more in order to make up financial holes in their retirement plans. In other words, their retirement plan was to not retire. Based on the results of the survey, one could probably infer that lawyer’s responses […]

A Federal High Court in Abuja has remanded former Chief of Defence Staff in Nigeria, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, in Kuje Prison after pleading not guilty to an 11 counts of money laundering. At Monday’s proceeding Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had urged the court to remand the former Chief of Defence Staff, […]

Barely 24 hours after Nigeria lost its Minister of State for Labour, James Ocholi, his son and wife in a ghastly motor accident, another accident has occurred involving the Deputy Governor of Yobe State, Abubakar Ali. However, unlike Ocholi, Ali is said to have survived even though his current state of health is of major […]

The Lagos State House of Assembly has warned Ministries, Departments and Agencies of the State to ensure total compliance with queries in the report of the Auditor-General. The House said it would ensure the enforcement of the law that requires strict compliance with the Auditor-General’s report as it begins an audit compliance exercise of the […]

Back in November 2013, when few had an idea just how massive China’s debt bubble truly was, we explained “How In Five Short Years, China Humiliated The World’s Central Banks” and said the following: In order to offset the lack of loan creation by commercial banks, the “Big 4” central banks – Fed, ECB, BOJ […]Read More

Against expectations of a $17 billion surge, US consumer credit grew at just $10.5 billion – the weakest and biggest miss since March 2013. The biggest driver of this disappointment was an actual contraction in revolving credit (down $1.1 billion) for the first time since Feb 2015. On an percentage basis, given December’s massive downward […]

Two weeks ago, JPM’s Marko Kolanovic put out a very interesting observation, according to which further gains in the S&P500 are capped to the upside due to one very popular reason: the US Dollar. What he said, in a nutshell, is that while a weaker dollar is beneficial for energy (clearly) and multinational stocks, it […]

Submitted by Ron Paul, via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity, The Republican presidential debates have become so heated and filled with insults, it almost seems we are watching a pro wrestling match. There is no civility, and I wonder whether the candidates are about to come to blows. But despite what appears […]

One week ago we showed the disturbing degree to which the latest (and greatest) housing bubble among China’s Tier 1 has gripped the broader public, when we reported that local speculators are waiting in line for days to flip homes.  Visually, it looks as follows – the bubble is entirely in the Tier 1 cities; […]

On Sunday we asked Europeans the following as it relates to Donald Trump: “Idiot, Clown, or Hero?” It’s not that those are the only three ways to describe the GOP frontrunner (we’re sure we could come up with any number of other colorful adjectives both flattering and not), but they do a decent job of […]Read More

Submitted by Ingrid Carlqvist via The Gatestone Institute, Young male asylum seekers have turned Sweden’s public swimming pools into ordeals of rape and sexual assault. Swedish politicians seem convinced that some education on “equality” will change the ways of men, who, since childhood, have been taught that it is the responsibility of women not to […]