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The Silent Epidemic
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NEW YORK – December 13, 2018 Gun deaths in US have spiked to their highest level in 20 years. After some of the worst mass shootings in history, American gun laws are more flexible than ever. The ability to access, buy, and now, print guns is easy, even for criminals. No wonder that the rate of gun deaths in the US has spiked to its highest point in more than 20 years, with almost 40,000 people killed in shootings in 2017, according to new figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The credit for the success is largely owed to a steady rise in suicides...
Fed Decides to Replace Key Rate
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NEW YORK – December 12, 2018 The debate to replace the Federal Reserve’s key interest rate has begun, Bloomberg reports. Spurred by declining volumes and the dominance of a few participants in the market for Fed funds, the central bank has started discussing potential alternative policy benchmarks as it seeks firmer control over the nation’s short-term interest rates. While the deliberations have been largely overshadowed in recent weeks by speculation over a shift in the Fed’s tightening trajectory and the fate of its $4.1 trillion balance sheet, where they lead could...
Frightening Prison Statistics
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NEW YORK – December 7, 2018 American prisons are four times larger than in 1980 and the US continues to incarcerate more people than any other country in the world. Nearly half of all American adults have an immediate family member who has experienced incarceration, according to a study published on Thursday that spotlights the extent of mass imprisonment in the US. The population of the US is less than 5% of the world's population. However, the US accounts for a quarter of all prisoners on Earth. The US ranks first in the world in terms of the number of citizens jaile...
Trump's Team Takes Daughter of Chinese Billionaire “Hostage”
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NEW YORK – December 7, 2018 The arrest of Meng Wanzhou, Deputy General Director and at the same time financial Director of Huawei Corporation, caused joy and ecstasy within the American political and media elite. If to believe the CNN sources, part of the Trump administration believes that this arrest can be used as a "lever of pressure" on Beijing in negotiations on trade issues, which means that the US leadership has finally moved to a means of solving international issues that is more typical of terrorist organizations than self-respecting civilized states. Someone ma...
The Euphoria Didn’t Even Last Two Days: US Stock Exchange Gripped by Financial Panic
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NEW YORK – December 5, 2018 At the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, the President Trump and Chinese President XI Jinping agreed to suspend the trade war for ninety days. However, the positive mood in the market did not last long. It took only 2 days for the US stock indices to fall by more than 3%. In particular, the high-tech Nasdaq lost 3.8%, the Dow Jones just over 3%, and the S&P 500 broad market index collapsed by 3.25%. The vast majority of shares were in the red zone, and the leaders of the decline were high-tech giants. Amazon collapsed by almost 6%, Apple by 4.5...
Barely Hidden Threats. Part 2
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NEW YORK – December 5, 2018 Part I: https://usareally.com/2210-barely-hidden-threats-part-1 The soft policies of the Fed in the past have led to the breeding of "zombie companies" in recent years, as economists used to call organizations that are unprofitable or have income too low to live by without serious borrowing. A study by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS, the international financial organization, and the official forum of Central Banks) states that "the profits of such companies did not cover their debt-servicing costs even at post-crisis ultra-low in...
Barely Hidden Threats. Part 1
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NEW YORK – December 4, 2018 The crisis in the US could erupt faster than expected, as indicated by an increasing number of indirect signs. At the same time, even such positive indicators as abnormally low unemployment actually mask the problems. According to the forecasts of the largest American investment Bank Goldman Sachs, at the beginning of next year the US economy will face the consequences of recent market shocks, which could cost it 0.7% of the GDP. Analysts from Goldman Sachs believe that the fluctuations in the stock market of the last month are nothing more th...
Suicide Epidemic at Its Height: What New York Taxi Drivers Say
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NEW YORK - December 4, 2018 Only three cases of suicide occurred in New York in the last month, with taxi drivers settling their scores with life. Regular taxi drivers don’t have such large salaries, especially given the rise of giants such as Uber and Lyft. As of January 2017, in New York, there were more than 41,000 Uber cars (15,000 more than a year earlier) and 14,000 Lyft (5,000 more than a year earlier). The local Taxi Concord and Yellow Taxi became less popular, and because of this, many drivers began to lose customers and work. As a consequence, there is an a...
U.S. Attorney Agrees to Present Extensive Evidence of Explosive Destruction of World Trade Center on 9/11
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NEW YORK – December 3, 2018 17 years after the 9/11 tragedy in NY when over 2,000 innocent civilians were murdered and hundreds of First Responders also died while selflessly attempting to save others, more than 3,000 architects & engineers are calling for a new investigation into the destruction of all 3 WTC skyscrapers on 9/11. In the aftermath of September 11, 2001, Congress initiated the “Joint Inquiry” and the government eventually also created the 9/11 Commission to investigate and explain what had occurred. Almost immediately, and in the years thereafter, seri...