UBS released a new report that looked at a dozen or so cities that are in a housing bubble or that have an overvalued real estate market. The two cities that are in a housing bubble: London and Hong Kong. The cities that are on the cusp of an official bubble are Vancouver, San Francisco, […]
Archives for September 2016
8 million Americans paid $1.7 billion in Obamacare penalties in 2014
Millions of Americans paid nearly $2 billion in penalties in 2014 because they did not have health insurance, says a new report from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). In 2014, 8.1 million Americans paid $1.7 billion to the IRS under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), otherwise colloquially known as Obamacare. This is more than what […]
Why did Hillary Clinton blatantly lie about TPP in first U.S. debate?
The first United States presidential debate is in the history books. It wasn’t really earth shattering as many of us expected it would be. Still, it proved two things: Donald Trump is awful and Hillary Clinton is a lying, deceitful, corrupt politician. What should be generating headlines is the fact that Clinton fibbed several times. […]
Video: A lesson for Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton – a look at the military industrial complex
In his farewell to the American people, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned of the military industrial complex, a special interests group that has influenced politicians and policymakers and has gotten the United States into too many wars since the Second World War. Here is Eisenhower’s speech: “In the councils of government, we must guard against […]
Hillary Clinton wants a 65% death tax – a redistribution of wealth failure
Hillary Clinton wants to raise the death tax, otherwise known as the envy tax, echoing the cries of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. The Democratic nominee has proposed to increase the top estate tax rate to 65 percent on estates valued at $1 billion or more per couple. This is a revised figure from Clinton’s initial […]