The Dow shed just over 620 points as markets closed on Friday, sinking more than 2 percent, while the NASDAQ and S&P 500 saw similar losses, declining 2.7 percent and 1.9 percent, respectively. All three benchmarks dropped by more than 3 percent since Monday, seeing their worst week in three …
Read More »Robinhood imposes ONE share buy limit on DOZENS OF STOCKS amid GameStop scrutiny
Robinhood users angrily took to Twitter to display screenshots indicating the app was blocking them from buying more than a single stock of some companies. The trading lockdown on Friday wasn’t limited to GameStop ($GME) – users were posting similar shots of failed efforts to trade other stocks of companies …
Read More »‘Who cares?’ Cuomo insists it doesn’t matter where 4,000 hidden nursing home deaths took place
“Who cares?” Cuomo whined during a press conference on Friday. “Died in a hospital, died in a nursing home. They died!” he lamented, making sure to remind the press that he’d lost his own father – five years ago – as if that would deflect some of the criticism. Cuomo even …
Read More »Biden scores domestic political points off Russia, but does NOTHING to prevent a crisis
This article was originally published by Energy Intelligence under the headline Biden-Putin: Facing the Real Risks, and appears on RT with that outlet’s permission. Unlike his immediate predecessors, Biden has not made a “reset” of US-Russia relations a foreign policy priority. However, Russia’s status as a nuclear-armed superpower is forcing the Biden …
Read More »‘It stinks of corruption’: Texas AG calls out Robinhood, Discord, Citadel and others over GameStop stock throttling
“Wall Street corporations cannot limit public access to the free market, nor should they censor discussion surrounding it, particularly for their own benefit,”Paxton said in a statement on Friday. “This apparent coordination between hedge funds, trading platforms, and web servers to shut down threats to their market dominance is shockingly …
Read More »The GameStop gamble is a disaster. You don’t fix a broken system by playing by its rules
How does one spot a market mania? Joe Biden’s Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen spent almost two decades working at the US Federal Reserve. Her failed policies created the most significant wealth-inequality gap ever, while simultaneously inflating the most grotesque asset bubbles in the stock, bond, property and credit markets in …
Read More »No one’s above the law? FBI lawyer who altered evidence to enable spying on Trump gets PROBATION instead of jail
Clinesmith worked at the FBI General Counsel’s Office (GCO) and was assigned to Crossfire Hurricane, the probe of Trump’s alleged ties with Russia during the 2016 election. In that capacity, he altered an email from the CIA that described Page as a source for the spy agency, to say he …
Read More »‘I’m still that curious Brooklyn kid and I’m proud of what I did with my life’ – Larry King in never-before-aired interview on RT
The interview was taped over a year ago, when King sat down with his personal friend Sanchez to share some anecdotes about his life and thoughts about his distinguished career, which made him one of the most recognized people in the media industry. The New York City-born icon said that, …
Read More »‘I’m satisfied’: 18yo Russian genius scores sensational win over world chess champ Carlsen – then says he could have played better
The 18-year-old beat the world’s best chess player in style, inflicting a crushing defeat on the famed Norwegian in the Netherlands to end his impressive winning streak of 125 games. Esipenko needed just eight rounds to crush the reigning World Chess Champion in 17 moves, recording Carlsen’s first loss since 2017. …
Read More »A done deal: Following agreement with Biden, law extending New START nuclear treaty with US for 5 years signed into law by Putin
Friday evening’s move comes just two days after the Russian parliament unanimously agreed to prolong the pact that was about to expire on February 5. Earlier this week, Putin and Biden agreed to trigger the five-year extension clause following a lengthy phone call. This launched the paperwork needed to save …
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