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… can make your kids weird and fucked up.” Epstein’s position in this private allotment of a decent fraction of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product is not as philanthropist but as a higher sort of banker or guru or brain—a rich whisperer—making him, in addition to rich himself, a...

Marshall’s pupil Keynes was thoroughly a marginalist, as are economists in general today and as am I. One of the features of his General Theory of 1936 was a kind of double-entry accounting for national product. Product was output and equivalently income. Output meant the sum of...

… client, are at issue. Recently, the Criminal Division concluded a very limited review of this matter at the request of U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta. Critically, however, this review deliberately excluded many important aspects of this case. Just this past Friday, on May 16, 2008, w...

In the non-Closer To Truth world.... Did CNN Intl this morning on Trump’s China-oil-N.Korea-cheating tweet “Caught RED HANDED...” [pun deliberate? ] My favorite fun lines (there are so many) in Trump's NYTimes spontaneous interview. 2) “TI like very much President Xi. He treat...

14 COMMENTS Special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation may face a serious legal obstacle: It is tainted by antecedent political bias. The June 14 report from Michael Horowitz, the Justice Department’s inspector general, unearthed a pattern of anti-Trump bias by high-ranking...

Though no one claimed responsibility, there was no shortage of suspects. During and since the civil war, Gemayel had at various times been at odds with a whole array of enemies or rivals: Muslim militias, the PLO, other Maronite factions and, of course, the Syrians. But I think f...

The Special Counsel's office, nearly leak-proof since its inception more than a year ago, can appear to be operating in some parallel universe unmoved by the every-day political turmoil. But in the course of conversations I've had researching a new book on President Trump and the...

Table of Contents Summary of Salient Facts and Conclusions General Information Identification of Subject Sale History Pending Transactions Purpose of the Appraisal Basis of Value Definition of Property Rights Appraised Definition of Going-Concern Premise Intended Use and...

4.2.12 WC: 191694 Conclusion: The Second Six Million The sad reality is that the inversion of the human rights agenda, especially at the U.N., has needlessly cost many innocent lives. Since the time the world promised “never again” at the end of World War II and built a structu...

…on cost for purchases, as well as the amount of net proceeds from sales. Filing Requirements. Limited Pariners who are U.S. Persons will be required to fite an IRS Form 8865 with the Partner's U.S. Federal Income tax return for the taxable year in which the Limited Partner purch...

…limitations obtained to accomplish the dominant purpose of the legislation. Republic Aviation Corporation v. NLRB, 324 U.S. 793, 798 (1945) (citation omitted). Accordingly, since its creation, the Board in interpreting Section 8(a)(1) has found numerous actions as to which “Sect...

In addition to the numerous anti-Trump messages uncovered by the inspector general, there is a strong circumstantial case—including personnel, timing, methods and the absence of evidence—that Crossfire was initiated for political, not national-security, purposes. It was initiat...

…l efforts that appear, under the totality of the circumstances, to be motivated by corruption, bias or entrapment. In U.S. v. Russell (1973), the justices observed: “We may someday be presented with a situation in which the conduct of law enforcement agents is so outrageous tha...

UMB Financial Corp, Wells Fargo, Zions. BofA Merrill Lynch Research Personnel (including the analyst(s) responsible for this report) receive compensation based upon, among other factors, the overall profitability of Bank of America Corporation, including profits derived from inv...

…ations. All this well- before Trump has even been sworn-in. Once in office, Ronald Reagan be- gan the tradition of new U.S. presidents making Canada the first foreign presi- dential visit. George W. Bush notably broke from this tradition, making his first stop Mexico, a country...