Business news from Winter Watch writers and from around the Web.
This post is a sequel to yesterday’s topic: “Coronavirus (nCOv) as a Black Swan Event.” The downside of kakistocratic rule is that shit happens, and usually it is because of their expediency and abject failure […]
The U.S. Air Force recently unveiled its newest recruitment tool, an online video game that lets you carry out targeted killings by drone in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. By Alan Macleod | 31 January […]
Black Swan Event: An unpredictable event that has potentially severe consequences. Characterized by its extreme rarity and its severe impact. Can cause catastrophic damage to an economy and, because they cannot be predicted, can only […]
By Ryan Gallagher | 12 October 2018 THE INTERCEPT — Google CEO Sundar Pichai has refused to answer a list of questions from U.S. lawmakers about the company’s secretive plan for a censored search engine […]
By Tyler Durden | 2 February 2020 ZERO HEDGE — A BuzzFeed senior reporter who accused Zero Hedge of ‘doxing’ a Chinese scientist has reportedly left a disturbing internet footprint rife with pedophilia and rape jokes […]
Not to get all old-timey on you or anything, but do you remember back when the Super Bowl was about football? And at Super Bowl parties, debates focused on the increasingly inflated value of player […]
Russ on Friday participated in another monthly podcast with intrepid stalwart Eric Gajewski of TradCatKnight. If you haven’t tuned in to these podcasts, you’re missing something. These are all short in length (approx. 40 minutes […]
Prime Minister Imran Khan declared the emergency to protect crops and help farmers. The Pakistani government said it was the worst locust infestation in more than two decades. DEUTSCHE WELLE — Pakistan’s government declared a national […]
Jessica Mann described how she thought Weinstein was “physically deformed or intersex” when she saw him naked, claiming he does not have testicles and his male sex organ looks like a vagina By Lucy Domachowski […]
PM rescinds immunity ahead of Knesset vote By Yonah Jeremy Bob and Gil Hoffman | 28 January 2020 JERUSALEM POST — On Tuesday, Benjamin Netanyahu became the first sitting prime minister in Israel’s history to be […]
By Morgan Philips | 27 January 2020 FOX NEWS — The head of San Francisco Public Works, which is in charge of cleaning up the city’s feces-filled streets, has been arrested by the FBI on […]
‘In the previous epidemics, which turned out to be duds — West Nile, SARS, bird flu, Swine Flu, MERS, Zika, Ebola — there were people claiming the virus had been diabolically weaponized, it was spreading […]
The 91-year-old has written a lengthy letter of apology to the local media By Andrew Buncombe | 24 June 2016 THE INDEPENDENT — During the years Joseph Hirt visited his local schools, he would talk to the […]
By Paul Kersey | 24 January 2020 THE UNZ REVIEW — Corporate America declares War on White America. No reason to sugarcoat what’s happening. Diversity. Inclusivity. Equity. Or as Steve Sailer puts it, “D.I.E. whitey, die.”[Goldman […]
Lamine N’Diaye is being reassigned to a leadership role at FCI Fort Dix The low-security ‘Club Fed’ prison is in Burlington County, New Jersey N’Diaye was warden at MCC Manhattan when Epstein died in his […]
Regularly updated. Wuhan is a city of 11 million in Central China and is said to be the origin of a new strain of coronavirus that is spreading globally. The mayor of Wuhan on Tuesday […]
18 January 2020 PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS — The first thing to understand is that it is not a trade deal. It is Trump backing off his tariffs when he discovered that the tarrifs fall on US […]
Thomas Bowers, who worked above Trump’s personal banker, was 55 By Ian Spiegelman | 27 November 2019 LOS ANGELES MAGAZINE — A former Deutsche Bank executive who reportedly signed off on some of the institution’s unorthodox […]
By A.J. Naddaff | 22 January 2020 ASSOCIATED PRESS — Before picking up cash from a downtown bank in Lebanon’s capital, Mey Al Sayegh mentally braces herself for what would have been a routine trip before […]
‘There are only two sexes, identified by an XX or XY chromosome’ By Alex Griswold | 20 January 2020 THE WASHINGTON FREE BEACON — A Denver Post columnist says he was fired after disputing the idea that there are […]
By Jessie Yeung | 19 January 2020 CNN — If you’ve heard of the term “MSG,” you might have also heard of its common — but inaccurate — connotations. For years, monosodium glutamate, a food […]
By Molly Boigon | 17 January 2020 FORWARD — A Jewish college in Michigan enrolled thousands of fictitious and actual Israeli students in a fake study abroad program as part of a scheme to pocket federal […]
By David Chazan | 18 January 2020 YAHOO (THE TELEGRAPH) — Emmanuel Macron’s Friday night theatre outing came to a disagreeable end when police had to rescue the president and his wife from dozens of protesters […]
If you followed the bouncing ball at all during the 2008-2011 financial crisis, I hope you had the opportunity to hear former FDIC member (2006-2010) Elizabeth Warren lay bare the systematic banking fraud, Wall Street […]
By Sophia Narwitz | 16 January 2020 RUSSIA TODAY — The normalization of Orwellian practices at higher education establishments continues apace, with the UK’s University of Sheffield hiring a team of student eavesdroppers who will catch […]
On a personal level, the complete looting of Spanish pensions by the Crime Syndicate bothers and saddens me a lot. Of all the people I have known in Europe, Spaniards are among the nicest and […]
Presenter Gellare Jabbari apologised to Iranians ‘for the 13 years I told you lies’ By Patrick Wintour | 13 January 2020 THE GUARDIAN — At least two presenters working for the Iranian state broadcaster IRIB have […]
Through its main investors, SoftBank and Lockheed Martin, Cybereason not only has ties to the Trump administration but has its software running on some of the U.S. government’s most classified and secretive networks. By Whitney […]
Banks’ demand for longer-term liquidity increases in latest repo operation By Michael S. Derby | 14 January 2020 THE WALL STREET JOURNAL — Big banks’ demand for longer-term Federal Reserve liquidity flared up again on Tuesday, […]
Copyright © 2026 | MH Magazine WordPress Theme by MH Themes