Month: August 2016

Apparently China is taking a play from the Trump playbook by banning hotels from accepting guests from five, predominantly Muslim countries, including Pakistan, Syria, Iraq, Turkey and Afghanistan. The ban…

Submitted by Jeffrey Snider via Alhambra Investment Partners, One of the articles referenced in Janet Yellen’s Jackson Hole speech last week was a piece written for the Peterson Institute for…

Have you heard of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai? It’s the tallest skyscraper in the world at 828m (2,717 ft), and it was completed in 2009. The price tag was…

Submitted by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.” ? Herbert Marcuse The FBI is worried: foreign hackers have…

Submitted by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, What would happen if some sort of major national emergency caused a massive transportation disruption that stopped trucks from running? The…

This is Rosemary Njoku. I just met Rosemary at the Facebook Express Wi-Fi stand she runs in Lagos. Express Wi-Fi empowers entrepreneurs to build a business by providing their community…

The Central Bank of Nigeria has announced the issuance of licenses to 11 New Money Transfer Operators (MTO). See below A few weeks ago THE CBN issued a press release…

Mark Zuckerberg quietly came into Lagos and visited the Co Creation hub in Yaba also tagged the Silicon Valley of Nigeria.Zuckerberg, who is on his first trip to sub-Saharan Africa,…

A tall is a small, a grande is a medium, a venti is a large — a trente is too much coffee and a short isn’t worth the bother. These…

Philadelphia’s ban on noncommercial advertising in its airport violates the First Amendment and is an unreasonable use of government power, the Third Circuit ruled recently. That ban came after the…