On sort it, in some countries in eastern and southern europe. This type of disposal is still widespread. Romania is ranked among the was worst Member States for waste recycling, a lot of garbage and recycle of material is thrown together before it even arrives at the landfill. This violates the standards of the european union, which has given money to romania for proper Waste Management. This includes the construction of a modern landfill in inclusion of pocket, but a reporter discovered that millions in e u funding has failed to clean up the problem. A romanian landfill site full of unsorted waste financed with money from the european union. This was supposed to be a modern, environmentally friendly waste down to replace the older illegal landfill site near the city of pollution. I forgot that had been an eyesore for decades. The new landfill opened after much delay, but not much seems to have improved. On sorted garbage is still dumped here. Nothing is recycled, harmful practice, fen
Testifies the 2024 tax Filing Season and President Biden 2025 budget request for the agency. During the hearing the commission from the Senate Finance committee and irs efforts in improving Taxpayer Services. [background noises] finest commando come to order. Today, the Committee Meets to discuss irs budget and tax Filing Season was closed yesterday. I want to thank commissioner for being here on a very busy time for everybody at the agency. There are lots of issues to discuss. One that is certainly important to the American People direct file. Anyone who denies the direct file pilot was a huge success,re my guess is you are living in another universe but its open to a fairly small percentage of taxpayers but the reviews i got from its initial users were overwhelmingly positive. It seems like a whole lot of people were very stunned that a federal agency, particularly one as frequently vilified as the irs was able to build a helpful website that works. The tens of thousands of taxpayers
Getting a carryon of this sanguine sentiment coming through from asia overnight, we had some exuberance yesterday after hitting fresh record highs. Our hopes that we could get up three chris is tax reform surprise prechristmas tax but are concerned about a partial Government Shutdown if a deal is not reached by next week. Over all we are seeing a pickup in the markets. One thing we are watching his commodities. We of course have a situation where it has been a extraordinary bull run when it comes to commodities so far this year and a lot of it has in down demand in china continuing to pick up. We are going to be looking into the question of whether that will be coming to an end, ryan, given that we are seeing the Housing Demand pull off in china cool off and china. In north korea, sanguine reaction when it comes to the equities markets in asia. You can see on the chart, we ave had the increasingly repetitive indications that the missiles have gotten more advanced incapability or nuclea
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Welcome. It is surveillance. Im manus cranny. Lets check on the markets. One view we have had dominating through the program is that inflation will recast itself during 2018. The market has the biggest long bets on bonds since 2004. We have got the three month yield here. That is driving the debt ceiling anxiety, shortterm investors demanding more. The bit to cover ratio, the highest stopover rate since 2008, and the lowest bid to cover ratio since january, 2009. But the asian equity markets and European Equity markets, rallying. Taking the cue from the commodity market. Copper is bid. Oil is bid. An overalleing move higher. Oil, we did make it above 60, i assure you. So, we traded post the close up at the highest levels since 201 5. We have the libya outage. Dont forget, we had the u. K. Outage a couple weeks ago and that spoke to market. This time it is libya, 100,000 barrels a day is a good be taken out of the supply chain as libya has an outage. More on that pipeline explosion a li