Archive for September 18th, 2013

AP.org Sep 18, 2013 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is telling federal agencies to prepare for a possible government shutdown. The Office of Management and Budget sent a letter to agency heads this week ordering them to make contingency plans if Congress does not reach a deal to fund the government after Sept.... »

Investmentwatchblog.com September 18th, 2013 This morning, the S&P 500 Index e-mini futures (ES-U3) are trading higher by just 0.50 points to 1705.50 per contract. Most institutional traders and investors are eagerly awaiting the FOMC announcement. Later today, the Federal Reserve is expected to start tapering its QE-3 program. QE-3 is a program where the... »

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard SMH.com.au September 17, 2013 The Swiss-based ‘bank of central banks’ says a hunt for yield is luring investors en masse into high-risk instruments, “a phenomenon reminiscent of exuberance prior to the global financial crisis”. This is happening just as the US Federal Reserve prepares to wind down stimulus and starts to drain... »

By Bernice Napach Finance.Yahoo.com Tue, Sep 17, 2013 At last count, more than 350 economists, 38 female House Democrats and about 17 Senators have signed letters to President Obama urging him to nominate Fed Vice Chair Janet Yellen as the next Chairman of the Fed. She emerged as the frontrunner for the job now... »

BETH PINSKER, REUTERS BusinessInsider.com SEP. 18, 2013 NEW YORK (Reuters) – Walgreen Co is moving 120,000 employees to a private health insurance exchange from coverage provided directly from carriers, the company will announce Friday. The pharmacy chain will join 17 other large employers on the Aon Hewitt Corporate Health Exchange as part of a... »

Investmentwatchblog.com September 18th, 2013 by leap2020 GEAB N°77 is available! Finance, the economy, politics and the world situation at the end of 2013: 3 sparks and a powder keg The 2013 summer sun, far from having brought the lull for which some hoped, has continued to heat finance, the economy, and especially global geopolitics... »

Recombinomics.com September 18, 2013 The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health (KSA-MoH) released 45 MERS-CoV sequences, including full sequences from 13 cases. The Bisha_1_2012 sequence was from the same patient (60M) as the EMC/12 sequence, but each sequence represented easily distinguished sub-clades indicating the patient was infected by two or more MERS coronaviruses.... »

Recombinomics.com September 18, 2013 The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health (KSA-MoH) has released 45 sequences (accession numbers KF600612-KF600656) from MERS cases in 2012 and 2013 (see list here), which includes 13 full sequences (each of more than 30,000 BP). The sequences reveal dramatic examples of recombination lead to rapid MERS evolution and... »

by: J. D. Heyes NaturalNews.com Wednesday, September 18, 2013 The closer we get to the “official” roll-out of Obamacare, the more we are finding out, in the words of Nancy Pelosi, what’s in the law. Some of the worst predictions about it have already come true. Premiums for millions of Americans will not go... »

By Michael Snyder TheEconomicCollapseBlog.com September 18th, 2013 Are you ready for Janet Yellen? Wall Street wants her, the mainstream media wants her and it appears that her confirmation would be a slam dunk. She would be the first woman ever to chair the Federal Reserve, and her philosophy is that a little bit of... »