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Summary Paternity Suit Raises Doubts About DNA Tests Paternity Testing Reviews for LabCorp (can it be trusted or not?) Labcorp competitors Is Quest Diagnostics better than LabCorp? Global Intel Hub — 7/9/2021 Managua, Nicaragua – Washington hairdresser Andre Chreky gladly agreed to a DNA test when a former employee hit him with a paternity suit. The […]
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Being 2 for 2 in losses this week (The US Election and Time’s “world’s most powerful person), it appears President Obama has fallen back on his regulatory army to take the fight to Vladimir Putin. As WSJ reports, U.S. prosecutors have launched a money-laundering investigation of billionaire Gennady Timchenko – a member of Putin’s inner […]
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Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, Police confiscating Americans’ hard earned cash, as well as a wide variety of other valuables, without an arrest or conviction is a disturbing and growing practice throughput these United States. Since cops get to keep the seized funds and use the money on pretty much anything they want, the practice is […]
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Things are rapidly shifting from bad to worse for PIMCO. In a triple whammy this morning, Bloomberg reports the Total Return Fund ETF (managed previously by Bill Gross) has suffered $446 million outflows (or over 12.5% of assets) so far; Morningstar downgrades the fund from ‘gold’ to ‘bronze’ citing “uncertainty regarding outflows and the reshuffling […]
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In an inscrutable move that has alarmed state treasurers, the Federal Reserve, along with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, just changed the liquidity requirements for the nation’s largest banks. Municipal bonds, long considered safe liquid investments, have been eliminated from the list of high-quality liquid collateral […]
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GIH: The SEC is dealing with a new generation of digital ‘boiler rooms’ – email lists & forums that present misleading information to lure investors. “AwesomePennyStocks” was apparently one of the largest such newsletters, promoting otherwise worthless companies many times dumping their own shares as the price rise. Sadly, many clients don’t bother to do […]
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GIH: Scary revelations coming from the EU, regarding ‘bail-in’ strategies funded by savers. How this ‘confiscation’ of assets is to be structured and sold to the public (if they have a choice) remains to be seen. But even having such a discussion should make anyone with any assets in Europe worry. Cyprus was a ‘test […]
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What has happened to our institutions? The trend of the modern institutionalization of our system began in the late 19th century, but didn’t gain worldwide support until the early 20th century. It reached its peak after World War 2, when the feeling was that global institutions could stave off further bloody conflicts. Without WW2, establishing […]
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When the IMF suggests increases in tax rates potentially as high as 71%, we should listen. The IMF has been at the forefront of global financial political agendas such as the one world currency (SDRs), default of the USD from the Gold standard (thus creating Forex market), and the backing of international ‘death’ loans as […]
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Finally, the Volcker rule is being implemented, after 3 years of debate and modifications. Although it’s not as originally proposed, today is the first day the rule is being enforced. It’s questionable though, how much this rule will actually impact the markets. Banks are now not doing proprietary trading, but other entities will. What this […]
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