Category: Economy

Joe Biden Lashes Out At Detroit Autoworker In Profanity-Laced Gun Dispute

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☆ Aren’t You Always Reminding Us You’re The Working Man’s Best Friend, Joe?

Former Vice President Joe Biden got into a heated and profanity-laced argument with an autoworker Tuesday while touring a factory in Detroit, after the individual accused the Democratic presidential candidate of trying to take away his Second Amendment rights. “You’re full of shit … I support the Second Amendment,” Biden shot back, stressing he’s not going to take guns away.

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China Factory Activity Dives To Worst On Record As Coronavirus Paralyses Economy

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☆ Chinese Economy Paralysed By Outbreak, Sharp Contraction Seen In Q1

China’s factories were dealt a devastating blow in February as the coronavirus epidemic triggered the sharpest contraction in activity on record, a private survey showed on Monday, with the health crisis paralysing large parts of the economy. The Caixin/Markit Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) tumbled to 40.3 last month, the lowest level since the survey began in 2004, and down sharply from the 51.1 reading in January as well as the 50-mark that separates growth from contraction.

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Bill Introduced to End Lavish Pay of Employees at Elizabeth Warren’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)

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☆ An Unaccountable Progressive Slush Fund Originally Created By Obama

Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) and four Republican colleagues say it’s time to “rein-in” the “lavish” salaries of hundreds of employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). “The CFPB is a dangerously unaccountable agency, and its lavish spending on employee salaries is just one example,” Enzi said March 3 in a statement announcing the bill.

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Federal Watchdog Reports Government Misspent $175 Billion in Fiscal 2019

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☆ Pay Your Taxes Or Else, Citizens…

The federal government recorded some $175 billion in “improper payments” in fiscal year 2019, according to estimates by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

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Natural Gas is Crushing Wind & Solar Power and the Left Isn’t Happy

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☆ The US Has More Than 500 Trillion Cubic Feet Of Known NG Reserves

The U.S. Energy Information Administration just announced some spectacular news that should be banner headlines across the country: The price of natural gas has fallen to its lowest February level in 20 years. The data shows that natural gas prices fell to $1.77 per million British thermal units. In inflation-adjusted terms, the price of gas has plunged by some 80% since its high of $13.60 12 years ago. The price is down 90% since 2005, when prices hit nearly $20. (Quick: Can you think of anything else that now costs one-tenth of what it did 15 years ago?)

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Millions of Chinese Firms Face Collapse If Banks Don’t Act Fast

☆ DOW Premarket Recovery @ +270: Virus Impacting World Economies

With much of China’s economy still idled as authorities try to contain an epidemic that has infected more than 75,000 people, millions of companies across the country are in a race against the clock to stay afloat.

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