@lingerie_addict This will go down as the most intriguing and sad story of 2019. Just horrible at different levels. No more hugs , they solve nothing .
Let me tell you what just got reported, because you will not believe it until you see it laid out.
The Trump administration cut a billion-dollar tungsten deal with Kazakhstan. Tungsten is the metal we need for missile warheads, fighter jets, and computer chips. Trump himself got on the phone to close it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick worked it from the inside, sending letters, leaning on the Kazakh president, lining up as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing.
Within weeks of those negotiations, investors tied to a firm partly owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump took a 20% stake in an entity connected to the very same Kazakhstan project their father was negotiating. Around that same time, Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm run by Lutnick’s own sons, raised $210 million for a partner in the deal and pocketed the fees.
The fathers set the policy. The sons cashed in.
Six days after the Trump sons and their partners moved their money, Lutnick signed the final deal.
The reporting found one or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies working with the government on critical mining deals.
The total federal funding flowing toward those companies tops $8.9 billion.
This is your tax money.
It is supposed to secure our supply chains and protect our troops, not pad the portfolios of the President’s children and the Commerce Secretary’s children.
This is the most corrupt administration in American history. It is not close.
We must keep digging, and keep asking the questions they do not want asked. Republicans in Congress are unwilling to lift a finger. Mike Johnson is running a protection racket.
Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us.
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Keep this issue of printing of books aside, there is a far deeper erosion on overall education system ( teacher , teaching , infrastructure) in the state going on for last 10/15 years. This text book issue a second order impact. Govt paid zero attention to fix this.
@AgustinLebron3 Just building library of open APIs which can connect to internal HR systems would unlock $25B. The number use cases would astonish someone running corporate IT function. I sincerely hope someone is listening.
Progressives have this idea that rich people are somehow taking value out of the system. Maybe, if they consume a lot. But if all they do is produce a lot, then they're adding value, not taking it out.
If anyone is taking value out, it's the people who got rich on bullshit and now pamper themselves with obnoxious $400K/month lifestyles. If there's a problem, it's the coexistence of their extreme consumption alongside extreme poverty, not Elon building rockets.
Joe treating Jeremy this way on national television was a disgrace for cnbc. Joe is a complete fucking idiot, has been for over 20 years! While you may not like Jeremy’s message, you should heed the warning, he’s not “uncertain”.
Remember, enjoying 5x-10x returns is great, if you can avoid a -50% to -70% “reset”, it’s great to ride the rocket into space, but only if you can get back in one piece!