“First Coca-Cola, then Pepsi closed their distribution centers amid drug gang extortion demands.”
Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/no-coke-no-pepsi-bottlers-leave-mexican-city-210937975.html
“Desperate oil workers and criminals are stripping the oil company of vital equipment, vehicles, pumps and copper wiring, carrying off whatever they can to make money.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/world/americas/venezuela-oil-economy.html
“Jobs at PDVSA were once coveted for their generous salaries and benefits, including cheap credit for housing. Now, many PDVSA workers can’t feed their families on wages that amount to a handful of U.S. dollars a month.”
“The flattening curve pointed to a deep pessimism among bond investors who see the economy fading away its short-term boost from fiscal stimulus and tax cuts.”
“An inverted yield curve has been a great tool to predict U.S. recessions, with the yield spread between three-month bills and 10-year notes falling below zero before each of the past seven slowdowns. But it doesn’t usually happen immediately. That means a recession could come in late 2019, in 2020, or even later. That probably doesn’t come as a surprise to most investors after one of the longest economic expansions in history.”
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-06-13/fed-decision-an-inverted-yield-curve-is-imminent
“A man who tried to carjack two people was thwarted after the victims both pulled out guns to protect themselves.”
“The policy of criminally prosecuting all who cross the border illegally is creating a new category of residents at these holding centers, young boys and girls who are grappling with the trauma of being unexpectedly separated from their mothers and fathers.”
“Marco Antonio Muñoz, 39, was found on May 13 in his Texas jail cell, ‘in a pool of blood with an item of clothing twisted around his neck.'”
“These are not actions by rogue agents. They are systematic, and they come straight from the top.”
“The system includes mandatory facial-recognition scans at gas stations and Wi-Fi sniffers that secretly collect data from network devices. Over the past two years, the technology has helped authorities round up an estimated hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other Muslims and lock them up in clandestine camps that China calls ‘re-education centers.'”