Showing posts with label credit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label credit. Show all posts

Monday, June 24, 2019

Sanders: Trump taking credit for easing tensions he helped create - The Hill

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) knocked President Trump's actions on Iran this week in an interview airing Sunday, accusing the president of pushing the U.S. to the brink of war and then taking credit for easing tensions.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/449875-sanders-trump-taking-credit-for-easing-tensions-he-helped-create

Thursday, June 6, 2019

The shadow banks are back with another big bad credit bubble - The Washington Post

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell gave a speech a couple of weeks back that showed that financial regulators have learned many lessons from the 2008 financial crisis, but not the most important one, namely: If regulators wait to act until they can say with certainty that a credit bubble is about to burst, they’ve waited too long.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/the-shadow-banks-are-back-with-another-big-bad-credit-bubble/2019/05/31/a05184de-817a-11e9-95a9-e2c830afe24f_story.html



Thursday, October 25, 2018

Trump's 'Greatest Idea' for a 2014 Law - FactCheck.org

In his midterm campaign rallies, President Donald Trump has repeatedly made the preposterous claim that he came up with "the greatest idea" for "veterans choice" — a program that was launched in 2014 during the Obama administration. He also claimed it took "44 years" to get the legislation passed. In fact, nothing he said about the program's origin is true.
https://www.factcheck.org/2018/10/trumps-greatest-idea-for-a-2014-law/

Thursday, August 30, 2018

I exchanged an crusty old iPhone for $75 in store credit at Apple — and it only took 30 minutes - Business Insider

Earlier this year, Apple debuted a new website that will let you check the value of your old Apple products. Apple will give you store credit for working devices, or simply recycle them if they can't be resold. Here's how it works. ....
https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-giveback-review-2018-8

Saturday, March 31, 2018

Tuesday, March 6, 2018

It turns out Donald Trump and John Kelly lied about getting UCLA basketball players out of China

LiAngelo Ball, Cody Riley, and Jalen Hill were arrested for shoplifting, in China, during a UCLA basketball team trip back in the second week of November 2017. A little over a week later they were on their way home. Donald Trump made a big to-do about how he was personally involved in this bit of diplomacy....
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/3/5/1746680/-It-turns-out-that-Donald-Trump-and-John-Kelly-lied-about-getting-UCLA-kids-out-of-China

Sunday, January 28, 2018

Trump takes credit for the good economy. Here's what economists say - YouTube

Unemployment is down, the GDP is growing at over 3 percent, the stock market hits record highs nearly every day and President Trump says it's a function of his policies. Does he deserve the credit? Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzq5tdOG5HI

Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Bergen: It wasn't Trump but this general's elite soldiers who defeated ISIS -- CNN

Two months ago President Trump was quick to take credit for the looming defeat of ISIS when Raqqa fell to US-backed forces. But the credit belongs with the storied "Golden Division" of Iraq's Counter-Terrorism Service, led by Lt. General Abdul-Wahab al-Saadi, writes Peter Bergen. ...
http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/15/opinions/it-wasnt-trump-but-this-generals-elite-soldiers-who-defeated-isis-bergen/index.html

Monday, August 14, 2017

No, Donald Trump Hasn't Created A Million Jobs -- RedState

One of the most aggravating claims from the Obama administration is the claim that they were creating jobs every time a jobs report came out. Conservatives would rightly object, saying the government doesn't actually create jobs. At best, government creates the conditions for jobs to be created or destroyed. ...
http://www.redstate.com/joesquire/2017/08/05/no-donald-trump-hasnt-created-million-jobs/

Monday, August 7, 2017

Why Trump’s 1 million jobs added isn’t impressive -- ThinkProgress.org

President Trump can finally say his administration has added 1 million jobs, thanks to a jobs report released by the Department of Labor on Friday. But while Trump and his surrogates were quick to present this as a huge accomplishment, it is less than meets the eye. ....
https://thinkprogress.org/why-trumps-1-million-jobs-added-isnt-impressive/

Saturday, August 5, 2017

How the Stock Market Will Cripple Donald Trump -- Vanity Fair

Rather than continually take credit for the so-called "Trump Bump," the president should be thanking Barack Obama and the Federal Reserve. But, in the end, the market is likely to be part of his ultimate undoing. ...
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/08/how-the-stock-market-will-cripple-donald-trump







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