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When Your Boss Steals Your Ideas(s) At Work And What You Can Do About It (#GotBitcoin?)
Nothing frustrates employees more than a manager taking undue credit—here’s how to navigate one of the trickiest elements of office politics. You share an idea with your boss, only to see him present it in a meeting as his own. Or you slave through the night on a presentation, and…
Chinese Scientist Claims World’s First Genetically Modified Babies
A Chinese scientist claims to have produced the world’s first genetically modified babies, stirring alarm among doctors who warn such experiments using nascent DNA-editing technology pose too many health and ethical risks. Chinese Scientist Claims World’s First Genetically Modified Babies Scientific community expresses alarm, warning that experiments using nascent DNA-editing…
Poll: Should We or Shouldn’t We Use Private Fire Departments
Private Firefighters Date Back To The 1790’S Kim Kardashian went on Instragram to thank firefighters for saving her Hidden Hills estate and told Ellen DeGeneres in an interview that she hired a private crew to protect her property. When the Woolsey fire swept into the exclusive neighborhood of Bell Canyon,…
California’s Privileged Use Private Fire Departments To Save Their Homes (#GotBitcoin?)
When the Woolsey fire swept into the exclusive neighborhood of Bell Canyon, resident Yen Hsieh grabbed her late music teacher’s 200-year-old cello, some belongings and her son’s betta fish Sparky and fled, not sure whether her home would be destroyed. More than 30 homes in the gated Ventura County community…
A Warming Climate Brings New Crops To Frigid Zones (#GotBitcoin?)
Longer growing seasons help lead northern farmers to plow up forests for crops such as corn that were once hard to grow in chilly territories. The farm belt is marching northward. Upper Alberta is bitter cold much of the year, and remote. Not much grows other than the spruce and…
A New Kind of Lender Secretly Tracks Your Car To Make Sure You Pay Up (#GotBitcoin?)
China’s online peer-to-peer lending industry sprouts a business built around auto ownership. In China, a new type of internet loan comes with a catch: lenders can track your car’s whereabouts and can seize it if you fail to make payments. The country’s large online peer-to-peer lending industry, which matches investors…
Borrowers Are Tapping Their Homes for Cash, Even As Rates Rise (#GotBitcoin?)
The trend is a sign of an economy that has sharply pushed up home prices but left paychecks growing much more slowly. Rising mortgage rates are crushing much of the refinancing market. But Americans are still using refis to pull cash out of their homes. More than 80% of borrowers…
The U.S. Housing Boom Is Coming To An End, Starting In Dallas (#GotBitcoin?)
Empty Lots And Newly Built Homes In The Edgestone At Legacy Development In Frisco, Texas Home prices zoomed higher in recent years, and mortgage rates are climbing. Buyers are queasy. A half-hour drive straight north from downtown Dallas sits one of the fastest-growing counties in the country. Cotton fields have…
Investors Run Out of Options As Bitcoin, Stocks, Bonds, Oil Cave To Recession Fears (#GotBitcoin?)
The failure of so many investment strategies is viewed by some as a warning of what could come following years of above-average returns. Stocks, bonds and commodities from copper to crude oil to burlap are staging a rare simultaneous retreat, putting global markets on track for one of their worst…
Crystals: The Missing Link Between Mysticism and Technology
I WANT TO THE BEST OF MY ABILITY TO REPLACE MYSTICISM WITH KNOWLEDGE. Marcel Joseph Vogel (1917 - 1991) was a research scientist for IBM’s San Jose facility for 27 years. He received numerous patents for his inventions during this time. Among these was the magnetic coating for the 24”…
Poll: We Should Get Rid of The Federal Reserve And Central Banks Because:
The Creature From Jekyll Island This Video Explains Why The U.S. Financial System is Corrupt and How It Came To Be That Way “Let Me Issue And Control A Nation’s Money And I Care Not Who Writes The Laws.” Mayer Amschel Rothschild, “If The American People Ever Allow Private Banks…
‘I Can Be the Bank’: Individual Investors Buy Busted Mortgages (#GotBitcoin?)
A decade after the housing crisis, new risk takers invest in nonperforming loans—often written off by banks—and push the borrowers to start paying on them again. Sándor Lau, once a filmmaker, found his calling on YouTube when he came across instructional videos about how to buy seemingly worthless home loans.…