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n2doc's JournalJose Canseco just asked Donald Trump to name him Fed chair
Former Major League Baseball star Jose Canseco just pitched Donald Trump a game-changing idea for the U.S. economy.
In a tweet to Trump, Canseco suggested that he should assume the mantle of Federal Reserve chair and, in return, stocks would stage a home run, doubling by the end of the Trump's first term. The future of the U.S. central bank under a Trump administration has become a hot-button topic given the president-elect's previous criticism of low interest rates under Chair Janet Yellen.
Canseco also has some choice advice for the investment community, slamming index funds in a rising U.S. rate environment.
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http://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Jose-Canseco-just-asked-Donald-Trump-to-name-him-10791397.php
Climate purge: Trump demands list of Department of Energy climate negotiators
The Trump administration will put a fox in every henhouse, from the Goldman Sachs execs who'll run the treasury to the working conditions repeat offender who'll run the Department of Labor to the public school abolitionist who'll run the Department of Education, but when it comes to climate and energy, the Trump administration is pulling out all the stops.
The EPA will be run by an unabashed climate change denier, while the Department of Energy transition team is being led by Thomas Pyle, a Koch coal lobbyist.
Pyle and his gang have sent the Department of Energy a memo demanding the names of government contractors and employees involved in climate negotiations, clean energy initiatives, portending a political purge of DoE employees who favor an evidence-based approach to climate, rather than a hydrocarbonist ideological approach.
This played out for more than a decade in Canada, under Stephen Harper's Petro-Tory regime, and it was fucking ugly. Canada has the world's dirtiest oil, but its carbon crimes are only a fraction of America's, and the damage that hydrocarbonism could do in America over the next four years is frankly terrifying.
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http://boingboing.net/2016/12/10/climate-purge-trump-demands-l.html
Yep, it is going to be worse than imagined. Stalinesque purges.
People Are Dying Younger Because America Keeps Failing the Bad-Break Test
About a year ago, the husband-and-wife team of Anne Case and Angus Deaton published some alarming numbers: Unlike citizens of just about every other wealthy, advanced country, and most other American subgroups, middle-aged white Americans have not seen reductions in their mortality between 1999 and 2013, and had by many metrics been getting sicker and sicker.
It was a shocking finding that garnered numerous headlines, the sort of thing that just isn’t supposed to happen in a rich, developed country, let alone the richest developed country. And it lent credence to what some public-health researchers and other societal observers had been saying for a while: The United States likes to view itself as a singular force of prosperity and opportunity, but by many public-health metrics — including infant mortality and preventable deaths and a variety of others — it doesn’t look like a top-tier world power.
Yesterday, the National Center for Health Statistics released a report that should further puncture the myth of American superiority when it comes to health outcomes — and which should set alarm bells loudly clanging for anyone worried about how the country treats its most vulnerable residents. The report found that life expectancy in the United States dropped from 78.9 in 2014 to 78.8 in 2015, the first drop in life expectancy since 1993. (For men, the decline was from 76.5 to 76.3; for women, from 81.3 to 81.2.)
“I think we should be very concerned,” Case told Lenny Bernstein of the Washington Post. “This is singular. This doesn’t happen.” When Case and Deaton released their finding, they argued that it was largely attributable to disturbing upticks in various forms of addiction — opioids, most importantly — as well as suicide. The new statistics get more granular, and they suggest the misery is well-dispersed: There were increases in just about every major cause of death between 2014 and 2015, and the death-rate increases centered on whites and black men — they remained flat for Latinos and for black women. People are dying for a lot of reasons, but drugs stand out as a particularly devastating part of the problem: In fact, one key to the racial divide may also come from numbers released yesterday, these from the CDC: For the first time ever, more people died from heroin overdoses than from gun homicides in 2015.
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http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/12/america-is-failing-the-bad-break-test-and-people-are-dying.html
An award-winning photo of a lonely Arctic bear tells a story we cant ignore about the future
National Geographic today announced the winners of their 2016 Nature Photographer of the Year competition. Coming away with an honorable mention in the “Environmental Issues” category is a solemn photo of a polar bear resting on a rocky shore off the Barter Islands in Alaska. The photographer Patty Waymire noted “there is no snow when, at this time of year, there should be.”
“The locals in Kaktovik noted that it’s been an unseasonably warm winter, and that the ice will be late in forming this year” she said. “This will have an impact on the local polar bear population when it comes time to hunt seals for their food in the winter months.”
Sea ice in the Arctic and Antarctica is at record lows. Recent findings by climate scientists found that a portion of sea ice roughly the size of India has melted as worldwide temperatures rise.
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http://qz.com/859367/2016-national-geographic-nature-photo-contest-an-award-winning-photo-of-a-lonely-arctic-bear-tells-a-story-we-cant-ignore-about-the-future-of-our-planet/
Trump picks Goldman Sachs chief for economic adviser: report
Donald Trump has picked Goldman Sachs president Gary Cohn to direct the National Economic Council, NBC News reported Friday morning.
The council helps advise the president on economic policy.
Cohn would be the second Goldman-linked appointment for the president-elect, who already named former Goldman Sachs partner Steven Mnuchin as Treasury secretary.
Trump was a vocal critic of Wall Street banks on the campaign trail and repeatedly called on Hillary Clinton to release the transcripts of the paid speeches she delivered to Goldman Sachs. He also accused former primary rival Sen. Ted Cruz of being “owned” by Goldman Sachs.
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http://thehill.com/policy/finance/309629-trump-picks-goldman-sachs-president-for-national-economic-council-director
Wow, that sure is some change there, don.
CarlyFail to meet with Drumpf on Monday
President-elect Donald Trump will meet with former GOP presidential rival Carly Fiorina on Monday, according to a transition aide.
Spokesman Jason Miller confirmed on a Friday call that the former Hewlett-Packard CEO will talk with the president-elect at Trump Tower in New York. He didn't offer any additional details about their upcoming meeting.
Fiorina frequently clashed with Trump on the campaign trail. Trump drew headlines after criticizing her appearance in a Rolling Stone magazine interview last year, saying "Look at that face! Would anyone vote for that?"
After ending her bid in mid-February, she endorsed Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). Cruz then tapped her to be his running mate if they advanced from the GOP presidential primary, less than a week before he conceded the primary to Trump.
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http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/309635-fiorina-to-meet-with-trump-on-monday
more humiliation coming!
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