“‘We are not going to do any violence to the traditional definition of a security that has worked for a long time,’ U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton told CNBC Wednesday.”
“This toxic mix – rising interest rates and record high consumer debt in relationship to disposable income – has now started to bite the most vulnerable consumers once again. And for them, debt service is getting very difficult.”
“While making 100-year loans to an insolvent country with a long history of default is especially insane, it’s important to realize there are a lot of ‘Argentinas’ out there today.”
Unfortunately, the case is a mess, and resolves far less than you may think.
BURLINGTON, Vt. (June 8, 2018) – An attempt to make Vermont’s industrial hemp licensing program federally compliant failed this year, allowing farmers in the state to continue developing a viable hemp industry and nullifying federal prohibition in effect. The comprehensive farm bill (S276) passed by the Senate included provisions modifying the state’s industrial hemp licensing…
“Why wouldn’t the CIA and the Pentagon effect a domestic regime-change operation on November 22, 1963?”
“Hundreds of federal, state, local, and even some campus law enforcement departments across the country have trained in some capacity with the Israeli forces now gunning down Palestinian protesters in droves.”
“A city police officer acting as a security guard didn’t do his job and more than two dozen of his colleagues failed in their duties or violated the civil rights of surviving victims after the 2016 Orlando, Florida, nightclub massacre, according to a new federal lawsuit.”