Editors’ Picks – Page 57

7. 1. 2020 No Responses

Finland’s New Prime Minister Wants Four Day Work Week, Six-Hour Shifts

Social Democrat Sanna Marin became the youngest prime minister in the country’s history, having received her powers only in December of last year, a month after her 34th birthday. Soon after her appointment, Sanna Marin proposed changes for the workforce...

7. 1. 2020 No Responses

FAA confirms new potentially catastrophic issue with Boeing 737 MAX wiring

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and plane manufacturer Boeing have confirmed a full review is underway into a wiring issue that could cause a ‘potentially catastrophic’ short circuiting on 737 MAX 8 aircraft. It comes as the aircraft t...

6. 1. 2020 No Responses

US war veterans are returning to Vietnam ‘for a better life’

Mother of all ironies – US veterans are returning to Vietnam ‘for a better life’. It sounds almost unbelievable, but a number of US citizens are deciding to cash out of the elusive ‘American dream’ as they settle down in...

5. 1. 2020 No Responses

Iraqi parliament has just voted to kick out US troops

Iraqi parliament has voted to have foreign troops removed from the country, heeding to a call from its caretaker prime minister. The move comes after US assassination of a top Iranian general and a commander of Iraqi militia. Speaking at...

3. 1. 2020 No Responses

General Soleimani assassinated at Trump’s order

Major General Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the second-in-command of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), have been assassinated in US airstrikes in ...

2. 1. 2020 No Responses

Airbus Deliveries Soar To Record High As Boeing’s Fades

A new report from Reuters specifies how Airbus locked in a record number of aircraft deliveries in Dec. to exceed full-year delivery targets while outshining troubled Boeing in becoming the world’s top planemaker. By midnight on New Year’s Eve, A...

30. 12. 2019 No Responses

What would real house prices look like in a world without bubbles?

The Great Recession was not caused by a the bursting of a housing bubble, because there was no bubble. It was caused by tight money supply. Unaffordable housing is the macroeconomic story of our time. It is interesting that housing...

28. 12. 2019 No Responses

Invisible Quantum Weirdness Enables Heat Energy to Travel Through Complete Vacuum

In a surprising new study, University of California, Berkeley, researchers show that heat energy can travel through a complete vacuum thanks to invisible quantum fluctuations. To conduct the challenging experiment, the team engineered extremely thin silicon ni...

25. 12. 2019 No Responses

The Child That Christmas Forgot: How Would Jesus Fare In The Modern Police State Environment?

The Christmas story of a baby born in a manger is a familiar one. The Roman Empire, a police state in its own right, had ordered that a census be conducted. Joseph and his pregnant wife Mary traveled to the little...

23. 12. 2019 No Responses

Boeing fires CEO Dennis Muilenburg after disastrous year

Boeing fires top boss and Aviation Week & Space Technology’s Person of The Year Dennis Muilenburg over failure to deal with 737 MAX crisis. US planemaker Boeing has replaced its CEO Dennis Muilenburg after the company faced a series of...

23. 12. 2019 No Responses

Secretary of The Treasury Steven Mnuchin Why $1.5 Trillion Cash Have Disappeared

Maybe as some kind of Christmas gifts $1.5 Trillion In $100 Bills Have Disappeared from circulation. Last week we reported that something strange was going on at the same time that central banks are injecting $100 billion each month in electronic money to.....

23. 12. 2019 No Responses

African countries walk away from Paris-backed Franc

Macron blasts colonialism: Grave mistake & fault of France. Emmanuel Macron delved into his country’s imperial past, saying France’s territorial conquests were a mistake that should be fixed – including by welcoming African countries reforming the c...

21. 12. 2019 No Responses

Chevron’s $11 Billion Impairment

From Chevron’s press release: “As a result of Chevron’s disciplined approach to capital allocation and a downward revision in its longer-term commodity price outlook, the company will reduce funding to various gas-related opportunities including Appa...

20. 12. 2019 No Responses

ICC to investigate Israel’s war crimes against genuine Semitic people

The International Criminal Court (ICC) says it will launch a full investigation into war crimes in the Palestinian territories, a move welcomed by the Palestinian government. In a statement on Friday, ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda expressed her satisfaction wi...

19. 12. 2019 No Responses

Goldman Sachs To Admit Guilt, Pay $2 Billion Fine In 1MDB Scandal Settlement

Goldman To Admit Guilt, Pay $2BN Fine And Hire Independent Monitor In Historic 1MDB Settlement. Two weeks ago, Bloomberg reported that Goldman Sachs and the Department of Justice were finally nearing a deal in the federal probe of the Vampire Squid’s...

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