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Click to enlarge.October 17, 2013Chicago Fed's Evans: Unemp Cld Hit 6% Before FOMC Raises RatesWASHINGTON (MNI) - Chicago Federal Reserve Bank President Charles Evans said Thursday he could "easily envision certain circumstances in which the unemployment rate could go below 6% before we moved the fed funds rate up."As seen in the chart above, I could easily envision circumstances in which the unemployment rate never...

Buyer who bid and bought a violin believed to belong to Wallace Hartley, the band leader that went down with the Titanic wants to remain anonymous.By H. Nelson GoodsonOctober 19, 2013Devizes, Wiltshire, England - On Saturday, a RMS Titanic artifact was auctioned off by Henry Aldridge and Son at the English town of Devizes, Wiltshire, for a record $1.6M (more then 1M pounds). The German-made violin believed to belong...

Click to enlarge.2019 or bust!October 25, 2007Future Bright, But A Ways OffOn the positive side, Moody's Economy.com chief economist Mark Zandi strongly believes that the bottom in new-home sales is hitting now, the fourth quarter of 2007."It's going to be so bad, that it's going to be hard to be even worse in the first quarter of 2008," Zandi said at the National Association of Home Builders 2007 Fall Construction...

Some states will see an increase in insurance premium costs under ObamaCare by 100 percent or more. The huge leaps are mostly among those 27 years of age to 49 years of age. Expect more states to be added to the 50 percent to 100 percent-plus category as the program kicks in.The bottom line: you get to pay more, receive less and get your medical records unattached to all privacy rights. See the chart below. States with...

Several suspects wanted for the Compcell armed robbery.By H. Nelson GoodsonOctober 19, 2013Milwaukee, WI - Police are looking for two African-American male suspects who walked into the Compcell business at 3430 W. National Ave. around 2:00 p.m. on Thursday and robbed the place at gun point. Police say, two men entered the store with hoods on to conceal their identities. The first man walked to a locked employee door...

Jared David Avila and Oscar De La RosaAvila charged with misdemeanor assault for sucker punching La Mafia lead singer Oscar De La Rosa.By H. Nelson GoodsonOctober 19, 2013Houston, Texas - Jared David Avila, 22, of Rosenberg has been charged with one misdemeanor count for assault with bodily injury for sucker punching Oscar De La Rosa on May 13 outside a Houston suburban Montrose gay night club called the Blur at 710...

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Bakersfield office ICE agents allegedly arrested undocumented immigrants at the Kern County courthouses who were attempting to pay fines, at court hearings or getting married. By H. Nelson GoodsonOctober 18, 2013Bakersfield, CA - On Thursday, the ACLU of California and the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project sent a letter to John Sandweg, the Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) accusing the...

by: Les CarpenterRational Nation USALiberty -vs- TyrannyAs America continues its struggle to figure out just how to marry capitalism and the ever present social concerns of a modern advanced society I personally just sit back and chuckle. The recent national melodrama, driven by the continuing debate over politically opposing views on the ACA (ObamaCare) as well as how to control the spiraling national debt highlights...

The following chart shows the 6-month moving average of the monthly commercial and industrial loan growth at all commercial banks.Click to enlarge.April 14, 2009FRB: Speech--Bernanke, Four Questions about the Financial CrisisCredit is the lifeblood of market economies...Update:I originally posted that this chart was showing the annual change. It is showing the monthly change. Sorry about that! The conclusions and the...

The controversy surrounding the “Bling Bishop,” Franz-Peter Tebartz van Elst, has become a test case for how Pope Francis intends to handle scandal—not the scandal of sexual impropriety, but the scandal of wealth.We’re used to bishops being summoned to the Vatican to defend their orthodoxy or to be reminded of their vows of obedience.But we’re not used to bishops being summoned to Rome to defend their financial...

Obamacare: A Prescription for disaster October first 2013 will be remembered as the day Obamacare initiated a process to dismantle America’s health system. Earlier this year Americans were hammered with a dozen new taxes to bring this monster to fruition.  With the implementation of insurance exchanges medical services moved into the dark shadows of government bureaucracy. Failure is the most appropriate...

Photo courtesy of Instagram user yogurtsodaPolice removed the protesters from blocking an ICE deportee bus, no arrests were made for Thursday's afternoon two hour stalemate. By H. Nelson GoodsonOctober 18, 2013San Francisco, CA - Police confirmed that an estimated 100 immigrant rights activists and protesters managed to block an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deportee bus from moving and transporting...

I see that smile on your face. I've got one too - it's Friday after all! But I'm also smiling because the lovely Abby from Abby M Interiors is here for Fess Up Friday!Abby is one of the first people I started to follow on Instagram and I've been stalking following her ever since. Girlfriend can put together a glam dining room or a lakeside cabin like no other and I want each and every space she touches. But enough gushing,...

Take action, spread the word and repost: The U.S. Congress lifted the $16.7T debt ceiling after a 16 day government shutdown, now comes La Raza with its power to engage in a historical national massive economic shutdown in response to the U.S. House GOP failure to approve a just immigration reform bill. As Hispanics or Latinos, we have long been ignored by the House GOP, its time to stop shopping and overly spending...

Disagree with Obama?  You're a Racist!A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet****************One of the things I most dreaded about Obama's election the first time, in 2008, was the certain claims of racism that would surely follow in the years ahead every time someone had the temerity to disagree with his position, his philosophy, his ideology, hell, even the color of his tie!   That dread has turned out...

Click to enlarge.Q: What could possibly go wrong long-term?A: This or that?Source Data:St. Louis Fed: Custom Cha...

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by: Les CarpenterRational Nation USALiberty -vs- TyrannyQuestions: Do you trust this man? Do you think this issue is resolved? Is it just me or has the Tea Party left reason for the realm of wishful dreams?Then there is the following from FDL ... "It would seem that Senator Cruz should be in a more sour mood given that his plan to stop Obamacare is set to be thwarted. Things really seem to be going poorly for Cruz as...

Swiss customs caught a man hiding 25 parrot eggs in his underwear, leading them to uncover a smuggling operation of rare bird eggs worth 65,000 Swiss francs ($71,800).Having just arrived from Sao Paulo, the man caught the attention of officials with his awkward gait and was apprehended, Beat Eugster of the Zurich customs office said.“He was wearing very wide trousers, and because he was walking so strangely the agents...