    LifeStraw Personal Water Filter - $19.95 Retail Price: $29.95 You Save: $10.00 from: Eartheasy.com   | zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / 04/25/2013 11:24 The uncomfortable effects of government actions are being felt everywhere. Obamacare concerns are, anecdotally, delaying hiring, causing firms to change benefits for the people, and increasing taxes on the great majority. On the other hand, in the context of the “sequester”, which is merely a slowdown [...] wealthwire.com / by Brianna Panzica / Tuesday, March 26th, 2013 An inability to avoid the sequester has called the government to think long and hard about how to reduce spending in a number of areas. One of these is defense spending. Of course, wars are expensive to get into, but leaving a war-scene certainly [...] endoftheamericandream.com / By Michael Snyder / March 24th, 2013 Is there anyone better at wasting money then the U.S. government? Despite the sequester and all of the talk about “deep cutbacks”, the federal government continues to waste money in some of the most outrageous ways imaginable. For example, does the U.S. government really [...] dailyreckoning.com.au / By Nick Hubble / March 12th, 2013 The Daily Reckoning team is back in the office after spending Labour Day doing something other than labour. The markets went quiet again last week after the sudden jump in volatility surprised everyone in the weeks before. For a while, the Euro crisis featured in [...] endoftheamericandream.com / By Michael Snyder / March 10th, 2013 Why does it seem like Barack Obama has been doing everything that he can to sabotage our border security and promote more illegal immigration? The number one responsibility of the president of the United States is to defend our nation, and yet Obama stubbornly refuses [...] brucekrasting.com / By Bruce Krasting / March 9, 2013 So the White House is closing its doors to the public today. Budget cuts related to the sequester are the blame. The WH tours are closed after a decision by the Secret Service that it could not afford to maintain security. The savings [...] market-ticker.org / By Karl Denninger / March 6, 2013, 12:28 What do you call intentionally screwing the American public? I call it grounds for impeachment, because it is. In the internal email, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service official Charles Brown said he asked if he could try to spread [...] marctomarket.com / By Marc Chandler / March 6, 2013 In separate pieces we have sketched three views that are outside the consensus. We thought it would be helpful to pull them together into one note. 1. Resilience of the US economy: Many fear that the end of the payroll savings tax holiday and the [...] zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / 03/05/2013 20:44 In the face of Janet Napolitano’s terrifying claims that major airports were already seeing lines “150 to 200 percent as long as we would normally expect” as a result of the budget-crushing sequestration cuts that went into force on Friday, The Telegraph reports that, [...] dailyreckoning.com.au / By Bill Bonner / March 5th, 2013 The sequester has struck. The politicians came upon the can they had kicked down the road in 2011. Rather than kick it again, Congress decided to ignore it. And nobody really gave a damn. The Dow rose 35 points on Friday, the first day of [...] dailyreckoning.com.au / By Eric J. Fry / March 5th, 2013 Let’s play a little game of ‘True/Not true’. We ask the question and you answer, ‘True’ or, ‘Not true.’ 1) Two police officers in Colorado lost their jobs and face felony charges for shooting an elk. 2) Two police in Washington State lost their jobs [...] cnsnews.com / By Terence P. Jeffrey / March 4, 2013 During the month of February–as President Barack Obama was warning Americans they would see dramatic effects in their lives if “sequestration” of some planned federal spending kicked in–the federal government’s debt climbed by $253.5 billion. That one-month increase in the debt was nearly six times [...] dailyreckoning.com / By Eric Fry / 03/04/13 Let’s play a little game of “True/Not true.” We ask the question and you answer, “True” or, “Not true.” 1) Two police officers in Colorado lost their jobs and face felony charges for shooting an elk. 2) Two police in Washington State lost their jobs and face felony [...] dailyreckoning.com.au / By Bill Bonner / March 4, 2013 America missed an asteroid. It dodged a depression. It sidestepped the Mayans’ ‘end of the world’ curse. But the ‘sequester’ strikes Planet America. The Dow was heading for an all-time high based on two rationales. First, housing seems to be in a real recovery. Here in [...] testosteronepit.com / By Wolf Richter / March 3, 2013, 1:45PM Now that the “sequester” is in effect, horrid budget cuts will befall the US economy and tear it to smithereens. It would be the end of the world as we know it. 750,000 people would suddenly lose their jobs, planes would stop [...] jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com / By Jesse / March 1, 2013 CFTC Chairman Gensler noted on financial television that the sequester will make the enforcement efforts of his agency in policing the markets harder, and it will be more difficult to ‘stop the bad guys on Wall Street.’ Isn’t he the one that just went [...] zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden / 03/01/2013 15:37 -0500 Today is the day when, if one listens to Obama whose idea it was in the first place, an unprecedented $85 billion spending cuts will be sequestered, unleashing famine, pestilence, the apocalypse and grizzly bears (as all park rangers will be dead from [...] wealthwire.com / by Brianna Panzica / Friday, March 1st, 2013 It’s sequester day. That means at midnight tonight, $85 billion in budget cuts will go into effect. It’s the kind of daunting scenario we all hoped to avoid with the fiscal cliff. But at least tax hikes aren’t figured in. It’s also very reminiscent [...] tfmetalsreport.com / By Turd Ferguson / Friday, March 1, 2013 at 10:24 am Time to discuss this “sequester” nonsense. What a two-bit, vaudeville charade U.S. politics have become. Let me see if I’ve got this straight… The U.S. breaches the “” back in August of 2011. The dollar nosedives and Standard&Poor’s downgrades the country’s [...] truthingold.blogspot.com / By Dave In Denver / February 28, 2013 In 2012, the total interest expense on the U.S. Government Treasury debt was $360 billion. For the first 4 months of fiscal year 2013, it’s $151 billion. The Government spent a total of $3.5 trillion in FY 2012. Interest expense on Treasury debt was [...] globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com / By Mike “Mish” Shedlock / Thursday, February 28, 2013 5:59 PM President Obama is playing the media like a fiddle (more accurately like the fools they are). Countless mainstream media articles talk about the devastation that is sure to follow if the sequester cuts take place. Obama has even hyped this us [...] lewrockwell.com / By Andrew P. Napolitano / February 28, 2013 In an effort to remove the hot-potato issue of excessive government spending from the 2012 presidential campaign, and calling the bluff of congressional Republicans who always seem to favor domestic spending cuts but increased military spending, President Obama suggested the concept of [...] jsmineset.com / Jim Sinclair / February 28, 2013 Dear CIGAs, You wants dates? Ok. The bet on the short of gold side is that the Sequester takes place. I have felt that the gold market’s longest period of reaction possible would end on my birthday, March 27th. That puts it directly in place of this [...] jsmineset.com / By Jim Sinclair / February 27, 2013, at 8:13 pm Dear CIGAs, You wants dates? Ok. The bet on the short of gold side is that the Sequester takes place. I have felt that the gold market’s longest period of reaction possible would end on my birthday, March 27th. That puts it [...] theeconomiccollapseblog.com / By Michael / February 27th, 2013 If we can’t even cut federal spending by 2.4 percent without much of the country throwing an absolute hissy fit, then what hope does America have? All of this whining and crying about the sequester is absolutely disgraceful. The truth is that even if the sequester [...] dailyreckoning.com.au / By Bill Bonner /February 27th, 2013 Let’s turn our eyes to a gaudy show: today’s financial hurly-burly. The Dow fell 216 points Monday. Why? We don’t know. Are investors concerned that the Fed will turn off the money machine? Are they troubled by the ‘sequester‘, which would further squeeze government spending? (This [...] market-ticker.org / By Karl Denninger / February 27, 2013 It doesn’t happen every day, but once in a while you see two things happen in the same Congressional committee session. The first was that Ben Bernanke admitted that the Ticker I wrote a number of days ago on the driver of our [...] investmentwatchblog.com / February 26th, 2013 $275 billion worth of economic drag is already in the pipeline for 2013 without even Obamaquester President Obama has been so busy proactively blaming Republicans for the allegedly dire consequences of the March 1 sequester that he has failed to notice something far more damaging to the American economy. The [...] zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / February 25, 2013, 15:20 Behold the sheer austerity-inducing horror and pure, mortal terror of the, dum dum dum, SEKWESTER!!! Do not pass go and proceed straight to Armageddon. h/t @Not_jim_cramer Zero Hedge zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / 02/22/2013 08:25 The sequester was supposed to be such a bad outcome that it would force a compromise. The across-the-board cuts were so rigid and hurt so many favored programs, BofAML notes, the “Super Committee” was almost certain to come up with a more flexible alternative. And yet, [...] |
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