Category: Economy

China's Exploiting The COVID-19 Pandemic To Expand In Asia China’s Exploiting The COVID-19 Pandemic To Expand In Asia Authored by Con Coughlin via The Gatestone Institute, While the rest of the world is preoccupied with tackling the coronavirus pandemic, China is intensifying its efforts to extend its influence in the South China Sea by intimidating …

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Why Didn't The Constitution Stop This? Why Didn't The Constitution Stop This? Authored by Robert Wright via The American Institute for Economic Research, The genius of the U.S. Constitution is that the Framers, especially James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, saw it as a constraint on bad policymaking. Given the number of really bad policies that …

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Swiss Health & Tranquility Law Sparks "Desperate" Snitching To Counter Lockdown-Deniers Swiss Health & Tranquility Law Sparks “Desperate” Snitching To Counter Lockdown-Deniers A post-corona world has given rise to corona-moral shaming is translating into people snooping and snitching on their neighbors who break social distancing rules to police and town authorities. Folks in Switzerland have taken snooping and …

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As Italian Crime Drops By 66.6% During Lockdown, Loan Sharks Focus Lasers As Italian Crime Drops By 66.6% During Lockdown, Loan Sharks Focus Lasers After the Italian government placed the entire country under a coronavirus lockdown, the crime rate dropped by 2/3 (or 66.6%, as Reuters reports) vs. the same month last year, according to …

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Italian Car Sales Plunged 98% In April Italian Car Sales Plunged 98% In April You can’t get much more of a “worse case scenario” in auto sales than watching numbers plunge an astounding 98%. But that’s exactly what has happened with new car sales in Italy, which remains mostly on lockdown, for the first 24 …

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First Negative Oil Prices, Now Sicily Will Pay Tourists To Visit First Negative Oil Prices, Now Sicily Will Pay Tourists To Visit Everything is upside down. First, it was oil long paying “buyers” to take delivery of oil that nobody could store; now it’s popular tourism destinations paying tourists to come visit. It is only …

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Norges Bank Considers Revoking Offer To Incoming Wealth Fund CEO After Left Wing Outrage Campaign Norges Bank Considers Revoking Offer To Incoming Wealth Fund CEO After Left Wing Outrage Campaign The scandal unfolding at Norway’s $1 trillion sovereign wealth fund, one of the largest piles of oil capital in the world, is beginning to look …

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Pandemic Exposes Liberalism's Free Trade, Open Borders Road To National Suicide Pandemic Exposes Liberalism’s Free Trade, Open Borders Road To National Suicide Authored by Martin Sieff via The Strategic Culture Foundation, Open Borders and Free Trade induce national suicide slowly and gradually, without the victims waking up to what is going on until it is …

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How The "West Point Mafia" Runs Washington How The “West Point Mafia” Runs Washington Authored by Danny Sjursen via TomDispatch.com, Every West Point class votes on an official motto. Most are then inscribed on their class rings. Hence, the pejorative West Point label “ring knocker.” (As legend has it, at military meetings a West Pointer “need only knock his …

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COVID-Chaos Triggers Record Losses For Swiss National Bank  COVID-Chaos Triggers Record Losses For Swiss National Bank  In the first quarter of 2020, the hedge fund known as the Swiss National Bank (SNB) suffered its worst quarterly loss in over a century. The central bank posted a record loss of 38.2 billion Swiss francs (or about $39.34 billion) …

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