Margin calls can ruin a portfolio when the bills come due. This from WSJ Wealth Advisor: Loans backed by investment portfolios have become a booming business for Wall Street brokerages. Now the bill is coming due–for both the banks and their clients. Some lenders, including Bank of America Corp., are issuing margin calls to clients after […]
David Ortiz’s 500th Home Run
Congratulations David Ortiz on becoming a member of Major League Baseball’s 500 home run club. From Boston.com: The 39-year-old slugger became the 27th player in MLB history to reach the mark with a pair of home runs in the Red Sox’s 10-4 win over the Rays at Tropicana Field on Saturday evening. After hitting the 499th longball of his career […]
Remembering Willie and Merle
One of the strongest, most engaging country albums of 2015, writes Barry Mazor in the WSJ, comes from two long-time friends, one of whom is 82 and the other 78. “With Jimmie Rodgers-like audacity and sentiment, and Django Reinhardt style invention and swing, Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard have been pursuing similar courses for over […]
Remembering 9/11
Rudy Giuliani writes in The Wall Street Journal: The anniversaries and other reminders of the Islamic extremist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, stir a torrent of thoughts and emotions. But we should try to focus on those most relevant today. A sensitive and appropriate 9/11 museum has now been built. A new tower has emerged […]
French Oppose Taking Migrants
Breitbart London reports that “Around 55 per cent of the French people oppose taking any new migrants, however, and dozens of mayors throughout France have refused to house any migrants in their towns. The mayors of the towns of Roanne and Belfort have said they will only take Christian migrants, incurring the wrath of Prime Minister […]
“Hillary Parties Like It Is 1938”
As Hillary’s poll numbers continue to slip and slide due to uneasiness about her integrity and candor in her State Department email chicanery, the Cato Institute’s Senior Fellow Alan Reynolds looks at Hillary Clinton’s “most memorable economic proposal,” ushered in this summer. Hillary is borrowing a page from Franklin D. Roosevelt, writes Mr. Reynolds in […]
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Hordes of Non-Assimilable Migrants Inundating Europe
Former CIA bin Laden unit chief Michael Scheuer on Europe’s migrant invasion: The migrants will produce further lawlessness, a debilitating level of societal tensions, enormous increases in the expense of social services and public housing, and contribute nothing worth having to the nations of the EU.” The major and nearly only cause of the EU’s […]
VIDEO: ISIS Using Immigration Crisis To Infiltrate Europe?
No Investigation? No Accountability?
In early August, the EPA accidentally released over three million gallons of toxic waste water into one of America’s most scenic river systems—a tributary of the Animas River near Durango, Colorado. The EPA knew for over a year the risk involved in the cleanup, yet not one EPA employee is going to face criminal charges. […]