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Tonight's offering showcases another vocalist that my
Mother would gladly have dumped my father for.
By way of #MadMen this is #BobbyDarin with #NightMusic.
I wish you #Godspeed and a very #goodnight

Apple is king no more...

NASA released this image showing a spectacular jet emanating from a supermassive black hole in the center of the Pictor A galaxy, located nearly 500 million light-years from Earth. Material falling onto the black hole is driving an enormous beam, or jet, of particles traveling at nearly the speed of light into intergalactic space.

https://rxscience.org/astronomers-discover-a-supermassive-black-hole-capturing-x-rays/

The kid got the new Oregon Trail handheld for Xmas. I somehow missed this game as a kid. It took about an hour but on my first try I successfully navigated my carpenter and his family - with no deaths - to the Willamette Valley in Oregon. So I still haven't experienced the infamous death by dysentery.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/circuitbreaker/2018/3/24/17155538/the-oregon-trail-handheld-portable-game-review

There was a point in early 2018 when big #Americancompanies couldn’t stop talking about the #Trump #taxcuts. Flush with the projected savings from a $1.5tn law, they promised to raise wages, hand out bonuses to workers and invest in big projects. They scored headlines, along with applause from President Trump. The fawning faded quickly. The handouts to workers amounted to a relatively small share of the roughly $200bn in federal income taxes that corporations avoided thanks to the cuts.

Wages across the economy ticked up, but not by nearly as much as some #Republicans had promised when they voted for the law. Capital investment surged at the start of the year, but the rate of growth fell sharply in Q3. While the long-term effects remain to be seen, the evidence so far does not suggest the sustained investment and productivity growth boosts that Republicans and supply-side economists predicted. Many economists, including those at the Federal Reserve, are cutting their growth forecasts for 2019, in part because of the waning effect of the tax cuts.


#WorldEconomy #AmericanPolitics #POTUS45 #Politics #AmericanPoliticians #America #GOP #TrumpAdministration #RepublicanParty #AmericanEconomy #EconomicPolicy #Economy
Trump’s Tax Cut One Year Later: What Happened?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/27/us/politics/trump-tax-cuts-jobs-act.html

Facebook claims to be doing all it can to keep its part of the internet clean. But do we really need to be protected from photos of the alluring 30,000-year-old charms of the ‘Venus de Willendorf’? The line has to be set somewhere but surely Facebook has worse than that old gal on its pages…

A small crowd
My photos https://www.paolodalprato.com/galleries

the sun rises over the vineyard

This Year We Realized that All of Our Data was Stolen

Let's find out 8 of the best Animes of 2018

A #US government delegation will travel to Beijing in the week of Jan. 7 to hold trade talks with Chinese officials. Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Jeffrey Gerrish will lead the Trump administration’s team, which will also include Treasury Under Secretary for International Affairs David Malpass. The meeting adds to signs that the world’s two largest economies are making progress in cooling trade tensions.

Beijing announced a third round of tariff cuts, lowering import taxes on more than 700 goods from Jan. 1 as part of its efforts to open up the economy and lower costs for domestic consumers. Chinese and U.S. officials have been in constant contact since the meeting in #Argentina, but #China isn’t exactly clear on the specifics of what the U.S. wants. China wants the U.S. to remove the punitive tariffs that have been imposed and not add new ones, but suspects the U.S. will ask for more before it agrees to do that.


#WorldEconomy #Protectionism #America #Globalisation #GlobalTrade #TradeWars #EconomicRisk #Economy #TradePolicy #InternationalTrade #TradeTariffs #Politics #Geopolitics #InternationalRelations #USA #GlobalTradeWar #EconomicColdWar #AmericanEconomy #ChineseEconomy
US Team Said to Visit China for Trade Talks Early January
https://www.industryweek.com/economy/us-team-said-visit-china-trade-talks-early-january

13 Best Android Apps of 2018

Fill up your phone or tablet with the best Android apps around now with 13 to pick from!

https://todaysintech.com/the-best-android-apps-of-2018/

From neutron stars colliding to our solar system's first visitor, here are most amazing space discoveries to date

https://9to5spot.com/most-amazing-space-discoveries-made-by-humans/

25 Unhealthiest Foods on the Planet

There is a lot of confusion out there about which foods are healthy, and which are not. Here is a list of 20 foods that are generally very unhealthy.

https://www.thehealthypage.com/25-unhealthiest-foods-on-the-planet/

Crude refusal: China shuns U.S. oil despite trade war truce.

"Despite the impasse on U.S. crude purchases, China’s crude imports could top a record 45 million tonnes (10.6 million barrels per day) in December from all regions."

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[ Largest Oil Importer ]

China, the world’s top oil importer, is set to start 2019 buying little or no crude from the United States despite a three-month truce in a trade scrap between the two nations, with relatively high freight costs and political uncertainty choking demand.

[ Largest Oil Producer ]

That muted appetite means the United States, which became the world’s top oil producer this year as its shale output hit record levels, will continue to hold only a sliver of China’s market even as a wave of new refining capacity starts up there.

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[ U.S. Trade Deficit ]

The U.S. trade deficit with Beijing hit a record $43 billion in October as its firms stockpiled inventory from China to avoid higher tariffs that may kick in next year.

“Chinese companies have little incentive to buy U.S. crude due to the wide availability of crude supplies today from Iran and Russia,” said Seng Yick Tee, an analyst at Beijing-based SIA Energy. “Even though the trade tension between China and the U.S. had been defused recently, the executives from the national oil companies hesitate to procure U.S. crude unless they are told to do so.”

[ Tradewar Truce ]

China stopped U.S. oil imports in October and November after the trade war intensified. It resumed some imports in December, but purchased just 1 million barrels, a minute portion of the more than 300 million barrels of total imports. Refineries that used to purchase U.S. oil regularly said they had not resumed buying due to uncertainty over the outlook for trade relations between Washington and Beijing, as well as rising freight costs and poor profit-margins for refining in the region. Costs for shipping U.S. crude to Asia on a supertanker are triple those for Middle eastern oil, data on Refinitiv Eikon showed.

[ Trade Diversity ]

A senior official with a state oil refinery said his plant had stopped buying U.S. oil from October and had not booked any cargoes for delivery in the first quarter. Because of the great policy uncertainty earlier on, plants have actually readjusted back to using alternatives to U.S. oil ... they just widened our supply options. Russia is set to remain the biggest supplier at 7 million tonnes in December, with Saudi Arabia second at 5.7-6.7 million tonnes.

China’s Iranian oil imports are set to rebound in December after two state-owned refiners began using the nation’s waiver from U.S. sanctions on Tehran.

Include these nutrition superstars in your diabetes diet to lower blood sugar, burn fat, reduce inflammation, and gain more health benefits.

https://health-zone.org/16-best-foods-to-control-diabetes/