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Date Sent: 2018-04-16
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Tuesday, April 17, 2018 |
Bitcoin Bounce Continues, Shiller Says Cryptos "Could Be With Us Forever"
"You Can't Be Safe In The Stock Market" Stockman Slams America's... -- A Pro Trump Libertarian's assessment of the President -- Few Reporting Bitcoin Holdings on Taxes: Credit Karma -- No Joke: Judge Who Forced Cohen To ID Hannity Performed Soros Wedding -- Scientists Say EU's "Robot Bill Of Rights" Would Violate The Rights Of Humans -- This Is How The US Postal Service Loses So Much Money -- Caught in a Lie, US & Allies Bomb Syria the Night Before International Inspectors Arrive -- GOP commits $250 million to keep control of the House -- What Do We Really Know About Syria? Next To Nothing -- IMF warns of 'dark clouds looming' as economic optimism ENDS -- John Boehner explains why he changed his mind on marijuana -- Expect More Pain, Much More Pain -- Krieger Fears Friday's Missile Strikes "Mark The Official Start Of World War 3" -- You Can't Argue against Socialism's 100 Percent Record of Failure -- See Rare Look At Tesla Solar Roof In The Wild, Plus Exclusive Interview -- The Zuckerberg Hearings Prove Government Shouldn't Regulate Facebook -- Social Justice: When Good Becomes Evil? -- Stocks Surge As Yield Curve Crumbles To Fresh 11-Year Flats -- SpaceX Rocket Launching NASA's Looking for Life -- Gene APOE4 causes Alzheimers disease in humans and a fix has been created -- Putin Warns Of Global "Chaos" If West Hits Syria Again -- Becoming Transhuman: The Complicated Future of Robot and Advanced Sapient Rights -- VIX Speculators Have Never Been 'Longer' -- Bank of America's Cost-Cutting Drive Pushes Profit to Record -- Storms unleash tornadoes in U.S. east, record snow in Midwest -- Reader "Worried about Inflation, Deflation, Stocks, Bonds, Gold, Everything" -- Improved quantum error correction could enable universal quantum computing -- Promising cancer drug aces human clinical trials -- Trump Accuses Russia, China Of Currency Devaluation: "Not Acceptable" --
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin Bounce Continues, Shiller Says Cryptos "Could Be With Us Forever"
04-16-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, By Tyler Durden
Following Tim Draper's excited "$250k by 2022" forecast, Bitcoin (and the rest of the crypto space) have extended last week's gains as tax-driven selling pressure appears to have abated and Bob Shiller says Bitcoin 'bubble' "could be with us forever.
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News Link • Stock Market
"You Can't Be Safe In The Stock Market" Stockman Slams America's...
04-16-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, USAWatchdog.com
"You Can't Be Safe In The Stock Market" Stockman Slams America's "Bad Money System"
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News Link • Bitcoin
Few Reporting Bitcoin Holdings on Taxes: Credit Karma
04-16-2018
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https://www.investopedia.com, Nathan Reiff
Credit Karma Tax, the tax prep branch of the popular credit score site, said April 13 that fewer than 100 of the 250,000 most recent tax filers through the service have reported cryptocurrency transactions.
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Scientists Say EU's "Robot Bill Of Rights" Would Violate The Rights Of Humans
04-16-2018
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zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
The decision by an influential EU Parliamentary Committee to approve what's been described by critics and proponents alike as a robot "bill of rights" back in January has ignited a fierce backlash ...
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
This Is How The US Postal Service Loses So Much Money
04-16-2018
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zerohedge.com by Justin Murray
Lately, when he isn't trying to blame China on America's competitiveness woes, President Donald Trump has become obsessed with the online retailer Amazon.
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News Link • United States
Caught in a Lie, US & Allies Bomb Syria the Night Before International Inspectors Arrive
04-16-2018
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https://www.lewrockwell.com, Eva Bartlett
The US, Britain and France trampled international law to launch missiles against Syria, claiming to have "evidence" of the government's use of chemical weapons.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
GOP commits $250 million to keep control of the House
04-16-2018
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http://www.foxnews.com, Associated Press
The Republican National Committee has committed $250 million to a midterm election strategy that has one goal above all else: Preserve the party's House majority for the rest of President Donald Trump's first term.
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News Link • Syria
What Do We Really Know About Syria? Next To Nothing
04-16-2018
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zerohedge.com by Charles Hugh Smith
Anyone accepting "facts" or narratives from any interested party is being played.
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News Link • Economy - International
IMF warns of 'dark clouds looming' as economic optimism ENDS
04-16-2018
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https://www.express.co.uk, DAVID DAWKINS
THE GLOBAL economy has peaked and a downturn in 2018 is inevitable according to a new index and the IMF's Christine Lagarde who has warned of an "inexcusable, collective policy failure".
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News Link • Stock Market
Expect More Pain, Much More Pain
04-16-2018
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https://www.themaven.net, Mike Mish Shedlock
If you think you can hide out in ETFs or high growth stocks and weather the downturn, please think again.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Krieger Fears Friday's Missile Strikes "Mark The Official Start Of World War 3"
04-16-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, By Mike Krieger
Sharing links unrelated to the reckless, criminal and unconstitutional act launched by Donald Trump and the U.S. government Friday night feels kinda inappropriate. As such, here are a few short paragraphs on what I think it all means. I'll have mor
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News Link • Philosophy: Socialism
You Can't Argue against Socialism's 100 Percent Record of Failure
04-16-2018
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https://fee.org, by Kristian Niemietz
After more than two dozen failed attempts, Socialism has proven itself to be a disastrous philosophy.
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News Link • Building and Construction Materials
See Rare Look At Tesla Solar Roof In The Wild, Plus Exclusive Interview
04-16-2018
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https://insideevs.com, BY STEVEN LOVEDAY
***Update: Our good friend Alex Guberman had an opportunity to travel to a home with one of the first Tesla Solar roof installations. He gets to check it out firsthand and interview the homeowners. We previously shared another of the first installati
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News Link • Government
The Zuckerberg Hearings Prove Government Shouldn't Regulate Facebook
04-16-2018
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https://fee.org, by David Harsanyi
The answer to the outrage mob isn't for the government to help Facebook entrench its position with some cronyistic regulation.
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News Link • Activism
Social Justice: When Good Becomes Evil?
04-16-2018
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https://fee.org, by Devin Foley
We must ask ourselves how we can live and promote the good without causing even greater damage.
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News Link • Stock Market
Stocks Surge As Yield Curve Crumbles To Fresh 11-Year Flats
04-16-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Stocks exuberantly rallied on the 'hype' that the world is safe again and America's latest intervention is one-and-done... but bonds ain't buying it...
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News Link • Russia
Putin Warns Of Global "Chaos" If West Hits Syria Again
04-16-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Shortly after US Ambassador Nikki Haley revealed that Russia would be slapped with a third round of sanctions on Monday for "enabling the Syrian government's use of chemical weapons in civil war," Russian President Vladimir Putin said that further at
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News Link • Stock Market
VIX Speculators Have Never Been 'Longer'
04-16-2018
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zerohedge.com by Tyler Durden
Shortly after the collapse of the 'short-vol' trade in February, VIX speculators were ripped into an unprecedented long position (i.e. betting on higher vol) and while VIX has fallen from its peak chaos levels, speculators have added to their 'rising
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News Link • Weather News - Links - History
Storms unleash tornadoes in U.S. east, record snow in Midwest
04-16-2018
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https://www.yahoo.com, Rich McKay
Deadly slow-moving storms generated record or near-record snowfall and low temperatures in the U.S. Midwest and tornadoes further east on Sunday, leaving airline travelers stranded and thousands without power.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Reader "Worried about Inflation, Deflation, Stocks, Bonds, Gold, Everything"
04-16-2018
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https://www.themaven.net, Mike Mish Shedlock
A recently retired reader friend is worried about, inflation, deflation, bonds, stocks, banks, and gold.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Improved quantum error correction could enable universal quantum computing
04-16-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
Quantum Circuits long-term goal is to develop, manufacture, and sell the first practical and useful quantum computers based on superconducting devices.
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Promising cancer drug aces human clinical trials
04-16-2018
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https://newatlas.com, Michael Irving
A new cancer drug known as BLU-667 has moved through phase I human trials, and the results are promising.
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News Link • Trump Administration
Trump Accuses Russia, China Of Currency Devaluation: "Not Acceptable"
04-16-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
There is just too much economic confusion in the latest tweet from Trump to even begin to explain it, so we will just point out that moments ago Trump, in this case definitely not under the advice of Larry Kudlow, accused China and Russia of "playing
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