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We’re going to be getting some hot takes on this one in the news cycle: Biracial rapper pulls out of festival after learning white people charged $10 more than people of color

Honestly, I see what the organizers were trying to do, but the execution was poor at best.

 

Ubu's golden guts!

 

look for America to launch a harshly worded tweet in response


Iran Says It Has Surpassed Critical Nuclear Enrichment Level in 2015 Deal

 

but hey, the stock market

China Trade War Still Hurts Soybeans

“There’s so much posturing and gamesmanship going on,” Leeds says.

“Longer term, I am extremely concerned and have been since it started, about the impact on trade,” Leeds says.

 

"For much of the past decade, Donald Trump and other Republicans ripped the Federal Reserve for keeping interest rates too low, a policy they said risked blowing up giant asset bubbles and artificially boosted the economy under then-president Barack Obama.

Now Trump and his top internal and external advisers are blasting the Fed for raising interest rates and demanding the central bank pump cash into the system to boost the economy as the 2020 election approaches.

...........While running for president in September 2016, he said of the Fed: “[W]hat they are doing is, I believe, it’s a false market. Money is essentially free.” He said then Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen “should be ashamed of herself.” In November 2015, Trump said low rates were creating a bubble and that “Janet Yellen should have raised the rates.”

Now hiring for a Trump-branded Fed: GOP flip-floppers on rates

 

ditto, but the stock market, etc., ad inf.

The Trump Tariff Twist That's Cost U.S. Steel $5.5 Billion

 

sad Trump loans trombone

Deutsche Bank to cut 18,000 jobs, exit equities sales by 2022

 

Yes, from a total dollar perspective, Joe Six-Pack's $150,000 gain in his 401(k) dwarfs Uncle Moneybags' $150,000,000 gain.

But don't think for a minute that Joe Six-Pack has not taken notice of that $150,000 gain. And that it doesn't mean something to him.

 

It's different for them!

 

what's the Hannity/Limbaugh jiu-jitsu here on how Ubu shot himself in the pants?

stay tuned

DEVELOPING: Iran Surpasses Uranium Enrichment Levels Set by the 2015 Nuclear Deal | Sean Hannity

 

Trumpists have attacked more sports figures than athlete's foot.