The lump sum-or-annuity decision can be a complicated one, and the decision that’s right for one person may not be best for another. …read more
Source: Should I take pension as lump sum or lifetime payments?
By Tyler Durden
GQ’s Drew Magary has just published his list of “Least Influential People of 2016” and apparently he’s still troubled by Trump’s victory as the entire list is dedicated to the “boobs, liars, and hapless idiots” who “added their own little secret ingredient to the hearty gumbo of American vapidity that gave us President Trump.”
First, even though Magary admits that he “hates” adding her to the list, you know since she won the popular vote despite all the Russian hacking, he laments that “when you lose an election to Donald Trump, you belong on this list. How do you fuck that up??” But, after blaming Russia, at least Magary admits that Hillary is somewhat responsible for her own loss, asking “would it have killed you to visit Wisconsin, Hillary?”
Of course, the entire “Bush Family” was added to the list for their inability to stop Trump during the Republican Primary.
Anthony Weiner, the “breathtaking, unbelievable idiot,” appeared first on the list for being so “destructively horny.”
Matt Lauer took heat as one of the “useless talking bobbleheads who smoothed the way for Donald Trump to take over both the White House and 80 percent of all TV channels” after he apparently let Trump “skate” through his Town Hall “like the captain of a high school football team cheating on a Home Ec exam.” But perhaps the funniest part of the Lauer commentary is Magary’s suggestion that NBC intentionally helped Trump win, you know because of the obvious conservative bias of the mainstream media.
Even God was called out for allowing a Trump victory…”We’re not gonna make it if You just stay up there in the clouds playing backgammon all day and what not. We need help.”
Meanwhile, Trump was apparently on Magary’s list back in 2013…what is that saying about “He who laughs last?”.
Dying @GQMagazine just named me to a list. Too bad GQ is no longer relevant—won’t be around long!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 2, 2013
Source: Hillary Clinton, Entire Bush Family On GQ’s List Of Least Influential People Of 2016
By Tyler Durden
Following the latest TIC report, which showed China dumping over $40 billion in Treasuries in October, bringing its total to the lowest since 2010, and at $1.116 trillion sending China below Japan only for the second time in the list of top US creditors, questions emerged about China’s strategy on US debt holdings.
Today, it was this question that was addressed by an official at China’s State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE), who calmed nerves and told US reporters at a briefing that while China will make “tactical adjustments” on its US debt holdings, Beijing’s long-term investment view on US debt has not changed. US told reporters at a briefing, adding that U.S. Treasuries are China’s long-term strategic investment targets.
When asked if China is strategically cutting its US treasury, he replied “Absolutely not” adding that it is difficult to forecast value of U.S. dollar and U.S. Treasuries. He also said that there is no barrier for foreign companies to transfer investment returns out of China as long as they comply with relevant rules.
Of course, whould Trump push aggressively for trade concessions, especially following the appointment of Peter Navarro, and demand a decline in Chinese exports to the US, ostensibly by imposing tarriffs, it is likely that China’s tactical adjustments will acceleration the recent one-way liquidation trendline.
Shifting from bonds to the other topic du jour, namely China’s reserve outflows, the official said China would step up enforcement of existing policies to ensure forex market stability, and that forex reserve fluctuating around a certain level will be the norm.
However, in a rather surprising admission he said that it is uncertain if China’s forex reserves will increase or drop, and said guidance is needed on China’s outbound M&A deals.
Finally, he said that SAFE would cooperate with customs, tax authorities and police to crack down underground banks and fake trade, stating that it’s good timing to push ahead reforms on inflows, such as allowing foreign investors to access bond market.
Source: China Says Will Make "Tactical Adjustments" On US Debt
Andrew Puzder, Trump’s pick for Labor secretary, has spoken out against some of Trump’s economic ideas in the past. …read more
Source: Trump’s Labor secretary doesn’t like Trumponomics
The game has been downloaded more than 40 million times since its release, but few people are paying for it. …read more
Source: Super Mario Run soars, but Nintendo stock still falling
By Tyler Durden
Authored by Geert Wilders, originally posted at The Gatestone Institute,
The German authorities are dangerously underestimating the threat of Islam… They have betrayed their own citizens.
Let no-one tell you that only the perpetrators of these crimes are to blame. The politicians, who welcomed Islam into their country, are guilty as well. And it is not just Frau Merkel in Germany, it is the entire political elite in Western Europe.
Out of political-correctness, they have deliberately turned a blind eye to Islam. They have refused to inform themselves about its true nature. They refuse to acknowledge that is all in the Koran: the permission to kill Jews and Christians (Surah 9:29), to terrorize non-Muslims (8:12), to rape young girls (65:4), to enslave people for sex (4:3), to lie about one's true goals (3:54), and the command to make war on the infidels (9:123) and subjugate the entire world to Allah (9:33).
We will have to de-islamize our societies… But it all begins with politicians with the courage to face and speak the truth.
More and more citizens are aware of that. This is why a political revolution is brewing in Europe. Patriotic parties are rapidly growing everywhere. They are Europe's only hope for a better future.
Yesterday, the Islamic State claimed the Berlin terror attack of Monday evening, in which twelve people were killed with a truck at a Christmas market.
The killer managed to escape. However, in the truck the police found identity papers belonging to Anis A., a Tunisian who came to Germany as an asylum seeker in 2015.
When last year German Chancellor Angela Merkel opened Germany's borders to almost one million refugees and asylum seekers, she invited the Trojan horse of Islam into her country. Among the so-called refugees were many young men of Islamic background, filled with hatred for the West and its civilization. One of them was Anis A.
It took almost a year for the German authorities to reject his asylum request, but meanwhile the man had disappeared. The police are now looking for him as a prime suspect of Monday's attack in Berlin.
The German authorities are dangerously underestimating the threat of Islam. They signs are there for all to see. In October, an Afghan asylum seeker raped and murdered a 19-year old German girl in Freiburg. And a 12-year old Iraqi boy was caught before he could explode a nail bomb at a Christmas market in Ludwigshafen.
Last Summer, an Afghan with an axe attacked train passengers in Heidingsfeld, a Syrian murdered a pregnant woman with a machete in Reutlingen, another Syrian detonated a suicide bomb at a music festival in Ansbach, a Palestinian attempted to decapitate a surgeon in Troisdorf. And who has forgotten last New Year's eve, when migrant sex mobs assaulted hundreds of women in Cologne?
This year, 1,500 police officers will be patrolling the streets in Cologne on New Year's eve. Ten times more than last year. But how many police officers will be …read more
Source: Geert Wilders Warns "Political Revolution Is Brewing In Europe"
Trump taps his friend Carl Icahn to lead effort to rid businesses of government regulation. …read more
Source: Trump taps Icahn for regulations busting post
By Tyler Durden
Submitted by Bob Livingston via PersonalLiberty.com,
Almost everything you think and do is against your best interest and you don’t even realize it. It’s planned that way.
The state seeks absolute control of your mind, body and spirit. Can the state succeed? It has, but only a precious few ever know.
Your mind and your thoughts are not your own. Almost every thought you have channels you toward the state.
By the time a child grows up and goes through the public (non)education system, he or she has no thoughts of his or her own. By the time that person is finished with college, the system has sealed his or her thought processes so that nothing is questioned. The imperative to inquire beyond what comes from the propaganda media and our leaders is gone.
Our minds are so smug in darkness and organized confusion that we are complete automatons. Our ego, our individuality, is completely excised and we are completely transferred into the state organism and group thought. Any deviation from the system by anyone is met with hostility by friends and neighbors.
By this we become locked into a system based only on conventional wisdom. Conventional wisdom is what everybody knows. It is the court history (faux history) we receive in school and through the controlled media, repeated ad nauseum.
Conventional wisdom is based on confusion and disinformation. It has a crowding-out effect in our thought processes that stifles inquiry. In other words, conventional wisdom programs us to reject any information or thought not in harmony with our preconditioning and experience. It is called cognitive dissonance.
The more one is formally educated, the more he/she is locked into the system mindset. (Why do you think there is such a push for everyone to receive a college education whether a person is so inclined or not?)
I myself went through four years of college, worked on a master’s degree, and attended law school. What a pity! It took valuable time and money for me to pay for the brainwash. It took years to get over it. I had to completely erase this education foolishness before I could begin to have half sense. My inquiring attitude and much, much reading helped me escape the programmed maze that entrapped me. The many conflicts and confusion was emotionally and financially costly.
Not even your body is your own.
A brand new baby gets vaccinations before it leaves the hospital and the parents are glad. They don’t question what’s in the vaccines or what they’re for.
There’s even now a push to begin vaccinating babies in the womb. As it is, the state begins to seize an infant’s body the first day of its life. It is being prepared for death the day it is born. Then as many as 50 more vaccinations come before the end of high school. All is done in the name of health and for the good of society. It’s all for profit of the giant pharmaceuticals enforced by the political system. The parents believe that it’s good.
There …read more
Source: How We Become Slaves Of "The System"
Alibaba is back on the U.S. government’s “Notorious Markets” list because of concerns about fake goods, and the Chinese e-commerce giant is suggesting politics might be to blame. …read more
Source: U.S. puts Alibaba back on fake goods blacklist
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