Cost is going to federal government taxes and fees that are imposed upon the consumer. They should turn the witchhunt back around on them. Would they rather an industry that has half empty seats or half empty planes that loses millions of dollars, or would they rather an industry that instead has full planes and is turning a profit that is able to then reinvest money into the economy that provides good middleclass jobs . Because thats what the airlines are doing right now. And the only reason these are so high are because of the federal government taxes that are imposed upon, you know the airlines here and they have to absorb that cost somehow. John is this really going to make the flying experience any better . Is it going to improve our lives any more . No and i dont understand why theyre doing this. Its hard to fathom how wrong the government is in this. Senator blumenthal, who lied about his military record has also come out and said air fares are skyhigh. Hes completely wrong on t
Some good news in australia, the . X up 1 3 of 1 thailand has just come online. Pretty flat. It was growing by 2. 8 in the second quarter, pretty much bang on estimates. I will get to currencies in just a moment. Witness coming through the rest of the asian region. Weaknessdown 1. 5 coming through the rest of the asian region. Malaysia down 1. 5 . The shanghai composite down by 3 4 of 1 . The only sector higher in that market is health care stocks. Most of the weakness is moving in following the gains we saw on the shanghai composite on friday. Lets have a quick look at the malaysian ringgit, tingling its slide against the u. S. Continuing its slide against the u. S. Dollar. Its at the 17year low, levels we havent seen his 1998. Other currencies under pressure seen since 1998. Other currencies under pressure. The socalled troubled five could become the troubled 10. The south korean won is down. The thai baht also falling. Those currencies doing a woozy. Chinas economy could be growing
What do i mean by the Bigger Picture . For starters, think about this for a second the fourth largest city in the u. S. Has been taken off line but for the most part, the state and local authorities seem to have it under control. While harvey has been a real tragedy for the millions caught in its path, the Natural Disaster hasnt been accompanied by any man made catastrophes like during katrina. Trumps visit to texas wasnt a fiasco if anything, it was workmanlike the president has had a real gift for being divisive in recent weeks, but if you only focus on the negatives, you miss the good things. Like the 3 gdp growth, smashing figure by the way. More important, though, the president is acting president ial the fact that we have now a world class Reclamation Project in houston that he can lead. This storm hit a heavy republican state im betting they could get tens of billions quickly to rebuild the moment the flood waters recede its going to be a massive shot in the arm for the nation,
Congratulations is still another best seller. Usually i a month if the soil and a dark corner right your book i actually found a deaver more scholarly with a lot of history and research and the excellent contrast the principles and values that are essentially american with the idea is in those motives of progressive so one of the things that hit me in the first chapter was will be called conservatism is really americanism. What were trying to conserve those values that made the country began free and prosperous i think that is the best place to start what is americanism to you . That is a great point and that is exactly my point of the book. We have a superficial discussion of america lets figure out what americanism is. Populism conservatism so i research and dugin to this and it took me toolkit cicero and aristotle and even some of the contemporaries like adam smith and so forth. What the term americanism means to spend time on the is even though they did not agree with every single
Of princes, ministers, and businessman arrested on the orders of an anticorruption commission. Analyst of senior the Geopolitical Futures what if the crown prince was moving to boldly and to quickly. He is moving too quickly. That level of change in such a short euro of time, the risk of the question is what kind of resistance will be face . So far he has not seen any resistant, and the fact that he went ahead and arrested all these princes and businessmen, that suggests that he is unlikely to face any opposition. Doesnt he Score Positive points if he comes out against the russian as the head of the committee that is looking into case like this and making it clear that nobody is above the law . I am quoting directly from the statement that came from mccain over the weekend. We will fear no one, big or small. Yes. I mean, these are designed to curry favor with the public, a large segment of whom, 2 3 of the countrys population. Its designed for that. But the problem here is that for now