Economy
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IMF Head Foresees the End of Banking and the Triumph of Cryptocurrency | Jeffrey A. Tucker
Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (official portrait 2011) Bitcoin 'puts a question mark on the fractional banking model we know today.' Sept. 30, 2017 (FEE) -- In a ...
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The $ 700 Billion Gorilla in the Room | Philip A. Farruggio
Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Sept. 25, 2017 As a preface to this column, something occurred concerning this writer over 30 years ago. I was taking a long-deserved ...
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On Repairing/Rebuilding 100,000+ Damaged Houses | Charles Hugh Smith
Texas National Guard soldiers arrive in Houston, Texas to aid citizens in heavily flooded areas from the storms of Hurricane Harvey. (Photos by Lt. Zachary West, 100th MPAD) Almost lost in all the ...
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Hurricanes Highlight Failure to Enforce Flood Insurance Rules | Christopher Flavelle
Hurricane Irma over the Virgin Islands at peak intensity on September 6, 2017 as the second most intense Atlantic hurricane on record in terms of sustained winds. MODIS image captured by NASA’s Aqua ...
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The Perversity of the Equifax Data Breach and What We Must Do | Stephen Farrington, MS, PE
Photo: Courtesy my.opera.com. Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)Stephen Farrington, MS, PE -- Founder/Chief Technologist, Transcend Engineering and Technology, LLC Sept. 13, 2017 The credit reporting industry ...
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The Genocide of the Rohingya: Big Oil, Failed Democracy and False Prophets | Ramzy Baroud
Aung San Suu Kyi. By Foreign and Commonwealth Office via Wikimedia CommonsRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Sept. 13, 2017 To a certain extent, Aung San Suu Kyi is a false prophet. Glorified by the ...
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6 reasons why the local cat lady is more radical than the local activist | Mickey Z.
"Crazy cat lady" Eleanor Abernathy from The Simpsons Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Sept. 4, 2017 I know cat ladies. My Mom was the cat lady on every single block she ever lived on. As a kid, my ...
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Winning and Lying | Emanuele Corso
Emanuele Corso -- World News Trust Aug. 13, 2017 I recently read a long essay in the New York Times Sunday magazine about a young lady, Noura Jackson, who spent nine years in jail because of ...
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Harvey Wasn’t Just Bad Weather. It Was Bad City Planning | Peter Coy and Christopher Flavelle
A family in Katy, just west of Houston, floats on an inflatable mattress. PHOTOGRAPHER: PHILIP MONTGOMERY FOR BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK Houston exulted in sprawling, hands-off growth. That’s no way to ...
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Hurricane Wars | Philip A. Farruggio
Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A, Farruggio -- World News Trust Aug. 31, 2017 This writer lived through a major hurricane assault when Mathew trampled through Port Orange, Florida, on Oct. 7th of last ...
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The Dark Side of the Empire | Phiip A. Farruggio
Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Aug. 27, 2017 One of rock's greatest albums is Pink Floyd's 1973 Dark Side of the Moon. This somber, surrealistic album paints a picture of ...
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