Steve Bannon gone, Trump still United States president
Hell hath no fury like a Bannon scorned. Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian , and Cary Harrison, hosts of The Young Turks, discuss.
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iShares Barclays 20+ Yr Treas.Bond (TLT) Short Interest Down 6.6% in July
As of July 14th, there was short interest totalling 17,392,834 shares, a drop of 6.6% from the June 30th total of 18,626,455 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 8,090,176 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.1 days.
With Tax Reform On The Table, Steve Bannon Is Pushing To Punish The Wealthy
Well, it's certainly not going to affect me, but it's still not a very conservative stance to punish success. At some point, Republicans are going to get tired of unelected people setting policy in this White House, won't they? strategist Steve Bannon is behind the drive to saddle the "very wealthy" with a 44 percent to marginal tax rate.
Sean Spicer Spins Out
Let's take a moment to feel sorry for erstwhile White House press secretary Sean Spicer. Once a pillar of Washington's Republican establishment, a good ol' boy well liked by GOP insiders and the cynical Washington press corps, Spicer seemed perfect for the job he held for six years as RNC communications director.
Here’s everything we know about Trump’s 26-year-old executive assistant
Madeleine Westerhout became a familiar face in late 2016, when she was frequently photographed guiding then president-elect Donald Trump's guests - such as Rick Perry, Mitch McConnell, and Goldman Sach's Gary Cohn - through the lobby of Trump Tower. While some media outlets dubbed her the " elevator girl ," Westerhout was quickly establishing her role within the Trump transition team.
Sam Zell Explains Donald Trump
On a recent Wednesday afternoon, Sam Zell, the iconoclastic Chicago businessman, breezed into his New York City office, on Madison Avenue, fresh from a week of motorcycling through the Tuscan countryside. "It was absolutely spectacular," he said.
Mobile Mini, Inc. (MINI) Cut to “Hold” at Zacks Investment Research
According to Zacks, "Mobile Mini, Inc. provides attractive, accessible temporary storage for a diversified customer, including Wal-Mart, Motorola, Frito Lay, Holiday Inns, Target, numerous municipalities and the Department of Defense. They offer a wide range of products in varying lengths and widths with an assortment of differentiated features such as their patented security systems, multiple doors, electrical wiring and shelving.
Trump’s OCC Chief Will Stay Away From Big Banks to Avoid Conflicts
The new acting chief of one of Washington's major banking regulators has agreed to stay away from issues involving dozens of former legal clients, including 14 banks that the agency oversees, according to his ethics agreement. Keith Noreika, who represented lenders as a private lawyer, plans to recuse himself from matters related to JPMorgan Chase & Co., Bank of America Corp., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Citigroup Inc., firms the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency regulates. Democratic lawmakers had already questioned whether Noreika's close ties to the industry would prevent him from being an impartial watchdog.
New Jersey holds governor primaries under shadow of unpopular Christie
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is barred by state law from running for a third consecutive four-year term this year, but the unpopular former Republican presidential candidate remains a central figure in the campaign to replace him. Voters head to the polls on Tuesday to choose Republican and Democratic nominees to succeed Christie, whose approval ratings have hit historic lows.
Goldman Sachs CEO tweets for the first time, slams Trump’s Paris decision
Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein sent his first-ever tweet on Thursday -- and he used it to criticize President Trump's decision to back out of the Paris climate pact. "Today's decision is a setback for the environment and for the U.S.'s leadership position in the world.
BUFFETT: This is ‘the number one problem with mankind’ (BRK.A,…
Registration will allow you to post comments on ctpost.com and create a ctpost.com Subscriber Portal account for you to manage subscriptions and email preferences. "I'm very pessimistic on weapons of mass destruction generally although I don't think that nuclear probably is quite as likely as either primarily biological and maybe cyber," Buffett said during Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholders' meeting on Saturday.
Buffett: Trump Tax-Cut Plan Won’t Affect Berkshire
U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to cut the corporate tax rate to 15 percent would be a tailwind for profitability at Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc., but won't fundamentally change how its business units operate, Buffett said. "The deferred taxes that are applicable to unrealized gains on securities would all be applicable to us," Buffett said during Berkshire's annual shareholders meeting on Saturday.
Aberdeen’s Hickmore Says ECB Will Change Tone by June
Luke Hickmore, senior investment manager at Aberdeen Asset Management, discusses the ECB's inflation challenge and the EU's Brexit Unity. He speaks on "Bloomberg Daybreak: Europe."
Donald Trump: Ruling Class President
One of the many irritating things about the dominant United States corporate media is the way it repeatedly discovers anew things that are not remotely novel. Take its recent discovery that Donald Trump isn't really the swamp-draining populist working class champion he pretended to be on the campaign trail.
15 Times Trump Was Guilty of Hillary’s Supposed Sins
To simply label the Trump administration as a herd of hypocrites undersells a tremendous capacity to lie without shame. Throughout the campaign, Donald Trump and his surrogates freely leveled a variety of accusations at Hillary Clinton and her team, but often the three fingers pointing back at themselves told the real story.
at the eND of hISTORY…:
In a White House marked by infighting, top economic aide Gary Cohn, a Democrat and former Goldman Sachs banker, is muscling aside some of President Donald Trump's hard-right advisers to push more moderate, business-friendly economic policies. Cohn, 56, did not work on Republican Trump's campaign and only got to know him after the November election, but he has emerged as one of the administration's most powerful players in an ascent that rankles conservatives.
The True Cost of Israel
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee concluded its annual conference late last month, triggering the usual debate in various alternative media outlets. Why does so much U.S. taxpayer money go to a small and not particularly useful client state that has a vibrant European-level economy and is already a regional military colossus? Those who support the cash flow argue that Israel is threatened, most notably by Iran; they claim the assistance, which has been largely but not completely used to buy American-made weapons, is required to maintain a qualitative edge over the country's potential enemies.
Meet Trump’s newest economic adviser
President Trump has finally nominated a chief economist. It's another sign the White House is getting serious about tax reform.
Motorists with defective Takata air bags are still waiting on replacement parts
When Sharon Gross received a recall notice alerting her that the air-bag inflator in her 2012 Toyota Corolla was defective and needed to be replaced, she was more than willing to get it fixed. “I've been stressing since I got the notice in early March,” the 70-year-old Riverside resident said.
Inside the Emerging Trumpian Alt-Right Snuff Novel
All signs suggest we're now in the "President Trump has full confidence in Michael Flynn" phase of Steve Bannon's tenure in the Trump White House. I don't know whether this is some moron genius dialectic on Bannon's part or just Karma.