Buffalo_Gal

I'm not sure the Chinese will ever learn to play nice and not spy, but this news came out yesterday: Huawei Braces for Phone Sales Drop of Up to 60 Million Overseas Bloomberg News June 16, 2019, 5:00 PM EDT Updated on June 17, 2019, 4:41 AM EDT * Apple rival could see significant sales plunge amid Trump ban * Founder Ren Zhengfei confirms a 40% hit to overseas phone unit

At least he didn't write "breaking" on this. ? Pretty sure it is well known that the "hack" nonsense came from Crowdstrike and nowhere else. Also fairly well known that the feds never got the DNC server. It was nice to see that in court documents, however. CTH has the report.

Whoa... China has halted a dispute at the World Trade Organization over its claim to be a market economy, a panel of three WTO adjudicators said on Monday, meaning Beijing must accept continued EU and U.S. "anti-dumping" levies on cheap Chinese goods. One trade official close to the case said so much of the ruling had gone against Beijing that it had opted to pull the plug before the result became official. "They lost so much that they didn't even want the world to see the panel's reasoning," the official said. Without a WTO ruling in Beijing's favor, the EU and United States can keep imposing duties on cheap imports from China while disregarding its claim that they are fairly priced. </snip>

If he didn't immediately funnel some of that Iran cash, it is gone and he is SOL.

So where's he gettin' the money? Are those whispers about his continued contacts with leaders of foreign countries (who are not necessarily friends of the US) funding these little jaunts? Inquiring minds want to know! Are the speech payments in lieu of something more? Again, inquiring minds want to know! Entering the white House in 2008 worth $20 and a few cheeseburgers, and now worth $40M? And finally, inquiring minds want to know how that was done. ? Presidential week in Provence: Obamas arrive in south of France on private jet for vacation at $60,000-a-week, 18th century farmhouse - just days after Sasha graduated from high school * Former US president Barack Obama and his family arrived in Avignon, in south of France on Friday * The Obamas are reportedly staying at a luxurious 18th century farmhouse Bathelasse island * The seven-bedroom property called Le Mas des Poiriers, was rented at 55,000 euros for the week </snip>

Yup, WaPo sure is fair and balanced. I've seen some hilarious suggestions for the next Press Secretary, but it is being theorized that Stephanie Grisham, the press secretary and communications director for first lady Melania Trump, has the inside track. 'Cause, you know, she's already inside. ?

Pass. Well, I'd go see the Secret Life of Pets if I had any grandchildren to drag... er, take to see it, but I don't. Nothing else is remotely interesting to me.

If they stop the central Americans daily (I have my doubts it will continue), that will put a big dent in what is coming over now. No more caravans would be a huge improvement.

Let's see if this is a daily occurrence until they stop trying to get to the USA, or a one (or two) time thing. Mexico detains 791 undocumented migrants, National Guard starts to patrol southern border TAPACHULA, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexican officials detained nearly 800 undocumented migrants on Saturday, the government said, in one of the biggest swoops against illegal immigration in recent months, as members of the National Guard began patrolling the southern border. </snip>

LOL It'll be a hot time in Hades when we throw a party! Honestly, hubby is not very simple at all - hence why he is so confusing.

I was gonna say my husband, but that wouldn't be very nice.

"President Obama HAD to know about it."

That "Nazi" sure has those Jews bamboozled.

Happy Father's Day to all the TBD dads!!! ? ?

They could turn on the spigot from Lake Ontario to the St Lawrence Seaway instead of letting the marshes fill naturally to "protect wildlife". ?‍♀️

Follow up on @Hedge's Hong Kong post on the prior page:

Nice thread title edit, @Nanker You are describing it as it really is (was).

This is a "duh" not a "breaking".

Department of Education Investigating Foreign Money Flowing to U.S. Colleges The U.S. Education Department has opened investigations into foreign funding at Georgetown University and Texas A&M University as part of a broader push to monitor international money flowing to American colleges. Both universities are being ordered to disclose years of financial records amid concerns they have not fully reported their foreign gifts and contracts to the federal government, according to letters sent to the schools Thursday and obtained by The Associated Press. </snip>

Ouch, oh and ? ? ?

I want to start with... doesn't matter what is collected as long as Congress doesn't stop the uncontrolled spending. The government can collect a gazillion dollars in tax revenue and you can bet two gazillion gets spent for more deficit spending. ? Possible reasons listed in the article: </snip> One reason, CBO says, could be that companies shifted deductible expenses — like funding for their workers’ pensions — into 2017, when the corporate rate was still 35 percent, because that made those deductions worth more. That would still show up in the government’s data for the 2018 fiscal year, which began in October 2017. The agency doesn’t know the extent to which that might be happening. Other analysts see other possibilities. Companies may be making greater use of so-called expensing, an incentive that allows them to immediately write off the cost of investments rather than having to stagger them over a number of years. Having more stuff to deduct means smaller tax bills. If that’s the case, it could mean receipts will rebound in coming years because companies will not have those write-offs available to them in the future. Another potential explanation: Trump’s tariffs, which could hurt corporate tax revenues in two ways. If a U.S. company that relies on components made in China suddenly sees the cost of those items increase, it will have more to deduct as business expenses. Alternatively, if a company is seeing fewer sales because it is passing along the cost of the tariffs to its customers, it will have fewer profits to tax. “You either reduce business receipts or increase deductible costs, and either of those things reduce corporate taxable income,” said Pomerleau. “It may mean corporate tax liability is lower than we expected not because our projections of the TCJA were wrong, but maybe because we didn’t account for the fact that tariffs were going to lower corporate receipts.” A fourth possible factor: The law isn’t reducing profit shifting by multinational corporations as much as forecasters expected. By cutting the corporate rate, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was supposed to reduce the incentive for companies operating in multiple countries to stockpile profits abroad, out of the reach of the IRS. </snip>

Weird, the Acosta and Klienberg books are the same subject matter...

More please. That's crazy talk!! The department of agriculture research agency being near... agriculture? What kind of (*^*&amp;%^&#036;^#thought that would make sense!?

The comment section of The Hill is something else. The commenters are by turn stupid, ill-informed, infantile, and just plain nasty.