“The company has said the tariffs will add $30 million to $45 million to its expenses for the rest of the year, costs which Harley-Davidson has said it will absorb as it plans to move operations overseas.”
Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-trump-tariff-threats-20180724-story.html
“What mattered then and matters now is that the material uncovered is true.”
Read more: https://original.antiwar.com/justin/2018/07/22/martyrs-to-the-cause-carter-page-and-julian-assange/
“U.S. border officials won’t release the money, deeming it ‘counterfeit.'”
“The most telling thing about the entrapment prosecution is the sentencing memo, which blatantly lays out the feds’ fear and contempt for any attempt to keep a financial transaction private, whether or not anything inherently illegal is happening.”
Read more: https://reason.com/blog/2018/07/17/entrapment-prosecution-of-bitcoin-exchan
“Officials no longer want to publicize what kind of transactions fall under the reporting requirement. They worry that making too much information public will give money launderers a road map to stay off the radar of regulators.”
Read more: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/real-estate-news/article213797269.html
“Are we to believe that the same institution that so recklessly hawks military weaponry to hostile actors is so sincerely concerned with protecting America’s national-defense capabilities that we can trust it to restrict, for reasons of national security, our freedom to trade?”
“The ‘Section 232’ probe was prompted by a petition filed by two U.S. uranium mining companies, Ur-Energy Inc and Energy Fuels Inc, complaining that subsidized foreign competitors have caused them to cut capacity and lay off workers.”
“One out of every 14 children in the U.S. has had a parent imprisoned. Today there are over two million children are growing up in U.S. households in which one or more parents are incarcerated.”
Read more: http://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/396226-children-are-one-of-the-war-on-drugs-casualties
“For fans of the 2002 Tom Cruise film ‘Minority Report,’ this will sound like life catching up with art.”
“Thank the Trump tariffs on imported washing machines, washing machine parts, steel, and aluminum for the largest three-month price increase—16.4% from February to May this year—in the 40-year history of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) series for Major Appliances: Laundry Equipment.”