A population gullible enough to levy major taxation on oil companies gets those costs passed through the oil companies back to the population in higher fuel and crude related product costs. It's a horrible tax that will affect the poor and middle ...

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This too shall pass.

Here’s what history says about Hurricane Irma and the stock market

"A survey of over 12,000 peer-reviewed climate science papers by our citizen science team at Skeptical Science has found a 97% consensus in the peer-reviewed literature stating a position on the issue that humans are causing global warming." source: ...

Hurricane Irma strengthens to a Category 5 storm as it approaches northeast Caribbean on path...

url Science ISN'T a democracy. It only takes ONE repeatable experiment to prove that EVERYBODY else was WRONG. It does NOT matter how many people thought the earth was flat, it only took one person sailing west and arriving back at the same place ...

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Trump just switched parties. A few beatings from the left and he's in submission.

Trump, Schumer agree to pursue plan to repeal the debt ceiling

It begins. We're back to a September 29th deadline.

Powerful House Republican group opposes Trump debt ceiling deal

American ignorance, that's an oblique thread to this conversation. Obliquity - my word for the day.

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Gold fell to 1337 then bounced back up. Debt CR agreement between Pelosi, Ryan, Schumer, Mnuchin, McConnell, and Pence is probably NOT the last word. Amendments, riders, meddling and usual DC shenanigans will probably cloud this up until Sept 29. At ...

Goldman Sachs: North Korea tensions aren't pushing up gold prices — Trump is

Trump met with congressional leadership at 11 am eastern time. CNBC says they had the story three hours ago. But Trump had just walked into the meeting so I don't know exactly what CNBC had. Forex Factory picked it up at 12:58 eastern. TheHill.com ...

Trump, Congress agree on Harvey aid, debt limit, CR thru Dec.15

Obliquity (change in axial tilt) url As the axial tilt increases, the seasonal contrast increases so that winters are colder and summers are warmer in both hemispheres. Today, the Earth's axis is tilted 23.5 degrees from the plane of its orbit ...

Hurricane Irma strengthens to a Category 5 storm as it approaches northeast Caribbean on path...

It's cow burps. It's magma currents below the mantle getting ready for a magnetic reversal. It's the 12,000 year polar axis wobble. It's CO2. CO2 is one of FOUR possible explanations. Methane (cow burps) is actually 23 times more of a greenhouse gas ...

Hurricane Irma strengthens to a Category 5 storm as it approaches northeast Caribbean on path...

Well, Jong-un got Trump to say he'll release America's best military technology to South Korea and Japan. And actually, now that I think about it, I doubt Congress will support that. Since the USA has squandered our economic lead in the world in the ...

I am allowing Japan & South Korea to buy a substantially increased amount of highly...

It used to be the only reason for keeping any of the DC politicians around was because of the good they might do. Now the only reason is because of the debts they owe. Gold is up because the debt ceiling brinkmanship negotiations are upon us. I ...

Goldman Sachs: North Korea tensions aren't pushing up gold prices — Trump is

Oh, it's a military secret, wrapped in an enigma. Okay. So how did the MIC get Kim Jong-un to behave like a jackass and threaten Guam? Is Jong-un a bit player in the MIC or is all this MIC disinformation like the Gulf of Tonkin torpedo trails? I am ...

I am allowing Japan & South Korea to buy a substantially increased amount of highly...

China gave their first generation nukes to Pakistan. What did that get them? A nuclear armed India. So, that was Chinese stupidity. China gave their second generation nukes to North Korea. What did that get them? An irate USA, Japan, and South Korea ...

I am allowing Japan & South Korea to buy a substantially increased amount of highly...

Checkmate China. Your little proxy war just got crushed. Keep it up and he'll make the same offer to Taiwan.

I am allowing Japan & South Korea to buy a substantially increased amount of highly...

156k. MS warned of downside risk. bravo

August Payrolls Preview: Prepare For Disappointment

The American middle class gets to pay taxes on their taxes.

US Tax Reform and the Fed

I wandered a little off topic, but I did so to explain WHY I thought Ryan wanted to imprison an 85 year old Sheriff who is no longer in office. Personally, I think it's vengeful. And apparently according to one judge, being an illegal immigrant ...

Trump was wrong to pardon controversial sheriff, Ryan says

I'm less concerned with Canada and Mexico paying their fair share of road taxes because a portion of those road maintenance costs are included in fuel taxes. It does bother me that Mexicans and Canadians are being railroaded by US multinational ...

Trump was wrong to pardon controversial sheriff, Ryan says