New York Times
Over Half Of New Yorkers Struggle To Make Ends Meet As "Tale Of Two Cities" Deepens
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/19/2015 21:00 -0500Despite two years of liberal redistribution from Mayor de Blasio, the majority of New Yorkers continue to struggle to make ends meet mirroring his 2013 "tale of two cities" campaign theme. The NYTimes poll finds that only 20% are living comfortably while 51% are just getting by or finding it difficult to manage, and shows even greater disparities in quality of life across the city’s five boroughs.
The House Just Passed A Bill To 'Pause' The Syrian Refugee Program, Obama Will Veto
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/19/2015 14:03 -0500With 53% of Americans opposed to opening the nation’s borders to those fleeing the war-torn Middle Eastern nation, it is perhaps no surprise that The House just voted overwhelmingly to slap stringent - and difficult to implement - new screening procedures on refugees from Syria seeking resettlement. While 47 Democrats defied President Obama's; due to absences, the vote did not quite nullify the threat of veto, without which the bill would effectively suspend the entry of refugees into the US for months or years.
Paris Attack "Mastermind" Killed In Police Raid
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/19/2015 08:04 -0500"Paris prosecutor says Abaaoud was been identified dead at the scene by his fingerprints. His body was found "riddled with impacts."
SEC Goes Unicorn Hunting: Regulator To Scrutinize How Funds Value Tech Startups
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/18/2015 13:06 -0500"...the only thing worse than a market with collapsing valuations is a market with no valuations and no liquidity. If stock in a company is worth what somebody will pay for it, what is the stock of a company worth when there is no place to sell it?"
In Baltimore, Race Is The Deciding Factor In Mortgage Lending
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/17/2015 18:35 -0500"If lenders are not making loans in a community, the opportunities for people to work their way out of poverty is pretty slim. In Baltimore, the prevailing factor behind who gets a mortgage is the racial composition of the neighborhood."
Ted Cruz Prepares Refugee-Rejection Bill, Slams Obama's Plan As "Nothing Short Of Lunacy"
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/17/2015 16:31 -0500"There is no meaningful risk of Christians committing acts of terror. If there were a group of radical Christians pledging to murder anyone who had a different religious view than they, we would have a different national security situation."
Meet The 27-Year Old "Mastermind" Behind The Paris Attacks
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/17/2015 04:01 -0500The Saudis Are Stumbling (And They May Take The Middle-East Down With Them)
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/16/2015 21:30 -0500America’s leading Sunni ally is proving how easily hubris, delusion, and old-fashioned ineptitude can trump even bottomless wealth.
Meet The Family That Just Spent Half Its Annual Income Paying For Obamacare
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/15/2015 23:20 -0500It turns out that Obamacare's "affordable care" is affordable, as long as one doesn't actually have to use it! Here is what happens when one does.
The Manhunt Begins - 8th Assailant Identified, On The Run
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/15/2015 12:57 -05002008 Flashback: The Risk Of Redefining Recession
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/14/2015 15:15 -0500Ignorance about recessions has taken hold because of a simplistic idea that a recession is two successive quarterly declines in GDP or, more broadly, a situation where we see some, but not all, of the typical markers of recession. While the final determination of recession might be delayed by a year of more, our leading indexes have never been this weak outside a recession. If this is indeed a recession, policy makers would be remiss in assuming that this is an economic slowdown rather than a recessionary vicious cycle.
Something Went Wrong On The Way To The Future
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/13/2015 17:50 -0500In very raw terms, if a man wanted to buy a house and a car in 1975 he had to work just under five years to pay for them.
If he wants a house and a car today, he has to work almost 11 years...
The European Union Is Disintegrating: Austria Builds New Fence; Germany, Sweden Resume Border Checks
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/13/2015 13:20 -0500In the latest from Europe's border battles, Austria has responded to Slovenia by building its own version of an anti-migrant fence while Sweden has began checking trains coming from Denmark and removing anyone without the proper papers. Saving Schengen truly is a "race against time."
21 Signs That Americans May Be The Unhappiest People In The World
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/11/2015 20:30 -0500How can we possibly be so miserably unhappy? For a nation that supposedly “has it all”, we sure are depressed. In America today, suicide rates are soaring, antidepressant use is skyrocketing and virtually every new survey that comes out shows that we are deeply dissatisfied about something.
Another Razor Wire Fence Goes Up In European Disunion
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/11/2015 12:15 -0500With winter looming, some European states are warning that a humanitarian crisis may be right around the corner as the proliferation of anti-migrant fences and border controls has slowed refugees on their trek to Germany. Now, hundreds of thousands could end up stranded. Fearing a "catastrophe" on its soil, Slovenia has now built its own razor wire border barrier, a move Croatia calls "a waste of time."




