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Stalingrad

Losing Our Fears, in War and Plague

Skip to comments. Losing Our Fears, in War and Plague Townhall.com ^ | May 14, 2020 | Victor Davis Hanson Posted on 05/14/2020 3:47:57 AM PDT by Kaslin Seventy-five years ago this month, Germany surrendered, ending the European theater of World War II. At the war's beginning, no one believed…

bubmagMay 14, 2020

NASDAQ

Futures dip on fears of prolonged economic downturn

(Reuters) - Wall Street surged on Thursday as investors weighed the prospect of economic recovery against bellicose remarks from President Donald Trump regarding U.S.-China trade and a whistleblower’s dire warnings about the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic. While all three major U.S. stock indexes ended the session solidly higher,…

bubmagMay 14, 2020

Palantir

Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to keep Peter Thiel on Facebook’s board was influenced by the self-help book ‘Give and Take’

Senior Facebook executives have said CEO Mark Zuckerberg decided to keep "contrarian" Peter Thiel on the company's board after reading a business book by psychologist Adam Grant. Their comments are reported by BuzzFeed journalist and author Alex Kantrowitz in his book about Facebook, "Always Day One."Thiel is a controversial figure in…

bubmagMay 14, 2020

Belfast

Boris Johnson’s government has admitted it will erect Brexit border control posts for goods crossing the Irish Sea

Boris Johnson's government has admitted that it will erect Brexit border posts with Northern Ireland after the prime minister previously insisted it would never do so.The UK prime minister said before last year's general election that no such posts would ever be created."There's no question of there being checks on…

bubmagMay 14, 2020

Matteo Salvini

Italian politician apologises for ‘neo-terrorist’ jibe at released hostage

A right-wing politician has apologised for calling a young Italian woman who converted to Islam while held hostage in Somalia a “neo-terrorist”. lessandro Pagano of the anti-migrant League party said in a Facebook post that he had intended to criticise the government, not Silvia Romano, with his remarks in the…

bubmagMay 14, 2020

Rijksmuseum

You can now view every exquisite detail of this Rembrandt masterpiece virtually

arts With many galleries closed to the public as the world grapples with the coronavirus crisis, a museum in the Netherlands has found a way to bring a masterpiece straight into people's homes. The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has created a "hyper resolution" i… Read More

bubmagMay 14, 2020

Trickle-Down

The Bailout is Working—for the Rich

More than 20 million people lost their jobs last month, but the S&P 500 is up 30 percent.Mark Lennihan/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones' newsletters.This story was published originally by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for…

bubmagMay 14, 2020

Economic Bubble

Negative Rates Are Not An Option

Negative rates are not an option. That was Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s point as he reiterated the Fed’s position on negative rates. He gave his economic assessment as well. Economic Outlook “Highly Uncertain” In a live economic interview with PIIE, Jerome Powell discussed the Fed’s outlook for the economy and…

bubmagMay 14, 2020

Peace

Coronavirus can still be an opportunity for peace in Afghanistan

The coronavirus pandemic is swiftly rearranging global priorities. The contagion, which has killed more than 288,000 people globally, gave rise to some new rivalries, but it also forced old foes in several parts of the world to pause their conflicts. In March, responding to the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres's…

bubmagMay 14, 2020

Jean-Claude Juncker

What’s next for the EU?

Opinion: 70 years on from the beginnings of what is now known as the European Union, there are many challenging issues on the future agenda The battle to defeat the Covid-19 pandemic has frequently invoked the language of war. In his St Patrick's Day address to the nation, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar referred to Ireland being "in…

bubmagMay 14, 2020

Losing Our Fears, in War and Plague

Futures dip on fears of prolonged economic downturn

Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to keep Peter Thiel on Facebook’s board was influenced by the self-help book ‘Give and Take’

Boris Johnson’s government has admitted it will erect Brexit border control posts for goods crossing the Irish Sea

Italian politician apologises for ‘neo-terrorist’ jibe at released hostage

You can now view every exquisite detail of this Rembrandt masterpiece virtually

The Bailout is Working—for the Rich

Negative Rates Are Not An Option

Coronavirus can still be an opportunity for peace in Afghanistan

What’s next for the EU?

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