This is the week that the steady drip, drip, drip of details about Hillary Clinton’s server turned into a waterfall. This is the week that we finally learned why Mrs. Clinton used a private communications setup, and what it hid. This is the week, in short, that we found out that the infamous server was designed to hide that Mrs. Clinton for three years served as the U.S. Secretary of the Clinton Foundation.
In March this column argued that while Mrs. Clinton’s mishandling of classified information was important, it missed the bigger point. The Democratic nominee obviously didn’t set up her server with the express purpose of exposing national secrets—that was incidental. She set up the server to keep secret the details of the Clintons’ private life—a life built around an elaborate and sweeping money-raising and self-promoting entity known as the Clinton Foundation.
Had Secretary Clinton kept the foundation at arm’s length while in office—as obvious ethical standards would have dictated—there would never have been any need for a private server, or even private email. The vast majority of her electronic communications would have related to her job at the State Department, with maybe that occasional yoga schedule. And those Freedom of Information Act officers would have had little difficulty—when later going through a state.gov email—screening out the clearly “personal” before making her records public. This is how it works for everybody else.
Mrs. Clinton’s problem—as we now know from this week’s release of emails from Huma Abedin’s private Clinton-server account—was that there was no divide between public and private. Mrs. Clinton’s State Department and her family foundation were one seamless entity—employing the same people, comparing schedules, mixing foundation donors with State supplicants. This is why she maintained a secret server, and why she deleted 15,000 emails that should have been turned over to the government.
Most of the focus on this week’s Abedin emails has centered on the disturbing examples of Clinton Foundation executive Doug Band negotiating State favors for foundation donors. But equally instructive in the 725 pages released by Judicial Watch is the frequency and banality of most of the email interaction. Mr. Band asks if Hillary’s doing this conference, or having that meeting, and when she’s going to Brazil. Ms. Abedin responds that she’s working on it, or will get this or that answer. These aren’t the emails of mere casual acquaintances; they don’t even bother with salutations or signoffs. These are the emails of two people engaged in the same purpose—serving the State-Clinton Foundation nexus.
The other undernoted but important revelation is that the media has been looking in the wrong place. The focus is on Mrs. Clinton’s missing emails, and no doubt those 15,000 FBI-recovered texts contain nuggets. Then again, Mrs. Clinton was a busy woman, and most of the details of her daily State/foundation life would have been handled by trusted aides. This is why they, too, had private email. Top marks to Judicial Watch for pursuing Ms. Abedin’s file from the start. A new urgency needs to go into seeing similar emails of former Clinton Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills.
Mostly, we learned this week that Mrs. Clinton’s foundation issue goes far beyond the “appearance” of a conflict of interest. This is straight-up pay to play. When Mr. Band sends an email demanding a Hillary meeting with the crown prince of Bahrain and notes that he’s a “good friend of ours,” what Mr. Band means is that the crown prince had contributed millions to a Clinton Global Initiative scholarship program, and therefore has bought face time. It doesn’t get more clear-cut, folks.
That’s highlighted by the Associated Press’s extraordinary finding this week that of the 154 outside people Mrs. Clinton met with in the first years of her tenure, more than half were Clinton Foundation donors. Clinton apologists, like Vox’s Matthew Yglesias, are claiming that statistic is overblown, because the 154 doesn’t include thousands of meetings held with foreign diplomats and U.S. officials.
Nice try. As the nation’s top diplomat, Mrs. Clinton was obliged to meet with diplomats and officials—not with others. Only a blessed few outsiders scored meetings with the harried secretary of state and, surprise, most of the blessed were Clinton Foundation donors.
Mrs. Clinton’s only whisper of grace is that it remains (as it always does in potential cases of corruption) hard to connect the dots. There are “quids” (foundation donations) and “quos” (Bahrain arms deals) all over the place, but no precise evidence of “pros.” Count on the Clinton menagerie to dwell in that sliver of a refuge.
But does it even matter? What we discovered this week is that one of the nation’s top officials created a private server that housed proof that she continued a secret, ongoing entwinement with her family foundation—despite ethics agreements—and that she destroyed public records. If that alone doesn’t disqualify her for the presidency, it’s hard to know what would.
In a WSJ survey, no former members of the White House Council of Economic Advisers—spanning eight presidents—openly support Mr. Trump
The Wall Street Journal this month reached out to all 45 surviving former members of the White House Council of Economic Advisers under the past eight presidents, going back to Richard Nixon, to get their views on this year’s presidential election.
Among 17 Republican appointees who responded to Journal inquiries, none said they supported Mr. Trump. Six said they did not support Mr. Trump and 11 declined to say either way. An additional six did not respond to repeated messages. Among the 21 Democrats who responded to the Journal, 14 said they supported Mrs. Clinton, none said they opposed her and seven declined to say either way. One Democratic appointee didn’t respond to messages.
For anyone seeking to explain one of the most unpredictable political seasons in modern history, with the rise of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, a prime suspect is public dismay in institutions guiding the economy and government. The Fed in particular is a case study in how the conventional wisdom of the late 1990s on a wide range of economic issues, including trade, technology and central banking, has since slowly unraveled.
Once admired globally for their command of the economic system, central bankers now are blamed by the left and right for bailouts during the financial crisis and for failing to foresee and manage forces suffocating the global economy in its aftermath.
Growth in overall health-care spending is slowing, but middle-class families’ share of the tab is getting larger, squeezing households already feeling stretched financially.
Overall, health-care spending across the economy reached 18.2% of gross domestic product as of June, up from 13.3% in 2000, according to Altarum Institute, a health research group.
The Kaiser Family Foundation, a health-care research nonprofit, found deductibles for individual workers have soared in the past five years, rising 67% since 2010 without adjusting for inflation, roughly seven times earnings growth over the same period. A separate Kaiser analysis of tens of millions of insurance claims found patient cost-sharing rose by 77% between 2004 and 2014, driven by a 256% huaren.us in deductible payments.
In addition, price increases for prescription drugs have been accelerating. The average price of brand-name drugs rose 16.2% in 2015, and is up 98.2% since 2011, according to drug-benefits manager Express Scripts Holding Co.
马丁路德金的侄女支持 TRUMP，说叔叔金博士是共和党 Dr. Alveda King支持TRUMP MLK's Niece Endorses Trump: "It sounds very promising, the plan that Trump is presenting for the urban communities." https://twitter.com/_makada_/status/769296710866657281 她还说，马丁路德金博士是共和党
===Blacks across America are awakening to the understanding that only Donald Trump will break the wrist of the hand that strangles black American's in their urban, democrat-controlled ghetto.
BOOM! This is YUUUUUUGE! The Democrat Plantation has now OFFICIALLY lost control over its Generational (since 1965) Electoral Slaves...DEUS VULT!
‘Black Men for Bernie’ Founder to End Democrat ‘Political Slavery’ of Minority Voters… by Campaigning for Trump [url=http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/08/26/black-men-for-bernie-founder...... ScottishFold 发表于 8/27/2016 12:25:20 AM
‘Black Men for Bernie’ Founder to End Democrat ‘Political Slavery’ of Minority Voters… by Campaigning for Trump http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/08/26/black-men-for-bernie-founder-end-democrat-political-slavery-of-minorities/ ===Blacks across America are awakening to the understanding that only Donald Trump will break the wrist of the hand that strangles black American's in their urban, democrat-controlled ghetto. BOOM! This is YUUUUUUGE! The Democrat Plantation has now OFFICIALLY lost control over its Generational (since 1965) Electoral Slaves...DEUS VULT!
Facebook has fired its Trending News team, responsible for curating the social media network’s “Trending News” list, after Breitbart Tech began to reveal their progressive biases last month. The team is set to be replaced by a team of engineers managing an algorithm.
Breitbart News has arrived. The opinion and news site, once a curiosity of the fringe right wing, is now an increasingly powerful voice, and virtual rallying spot, for millions of disaffected conservatives who propelled Donald J. Trump to the Republican nomination for president. ==Hillary promoted Breitbart News this week and helped the traffic. Have to love that! Trump!!!!
9月2日发布的美国8月份非农就业报告将影响美联储的决策。
耶伦的讲话意味着9月可能加息。
美联储二号人物：经济已增强 非农报告将影响加息决定http://wallstreetcn.com/node/259927
周五，美联储二号人物、副主席Stanley Fischer表示，美国经济在走强，美联储最重视的数据都在变好，下面重点关注非农就业报告。耶伦周五讲话表明，年内有最多加息两次的可能性。Fischer讲话后，市场对美联储加息预期升温。
Fischer在接受CNBC采访时表示，美联储在做加息决策时是往前看的，而不是向后看。下一次非农报告至关重要。美国将于9月2日公布8月的非农就业报告。
美联储主席耶伦：最近数月形势令加息可能性增加
http://hk.on.cc/hk/bkn/cnt/finance/20160826/bkn-20160826220748698-0826_00842_001.html
http://wallstreetcn.com/node/259781
The U.S. Department of Clinton
The latest emails show that State and the foundation were one seamless entity.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-u-s-department-of-clinton-1472167746
This is the week that the steady drip, drip, drip of details about Hillary Clinton’s server turned into a waterfall. This is the week that we finally learned why Mrs. Clinton used a private communications setup, and what it hid. This is the week, in short, that we found out that the infamous server was designed to hide that Mrs. Clinton for three years served as the U.S. Secretary of the Clinton Foundation.
In March this column argued that while Mrs. Clinton’s mishandling of classified information was important, it missed the bigger point. The Democratic nominee obviously didn’t set up her server with the express purpose of exposing national secrets—that was incidental. She set up the server to keep secret the details of the Clintons’ private life—a life built around an elaborate and sweeping money-raising and self-promoting entity known as the Clinton Foundation.
Had Secretary Clinton kept the foundation at arm’s length while in office—as obvious ethical standards would have dictated—there would never have been any need for a private server, or even private email. The vast majority of her electronic communications would have related to her job at the State Department, with maybe that occasional yoga schedule. And those Freedom of Information Act officers would have had little difficulty—when later going through a state.gov email—screening out the clearly “personal” before making her records public. This is how it works for everybody else.
Mrs. Clinton’s problem—as we now know from this week’s release of emails from Huma Abedin’s private Clinton-server account—was that there was no divide between public and private. Mrs. Clinton’s State Department and her family foundation were one seamless entity—employing the same people, comparing schedules, mixing foundation donors with State supplicants. This is why she maintained a secret server, and why she deleted 15,000 emails that should have been turned over to the government.
Most of the focus on this week’s Abedin emails has centered on the disturbing examples of Clinton Foundation executive Doug Band negotiating State favors for foundation donors. But equally instructive in the 725 pages released by Judicial Watch is the frequency and banality of most of the email interaction. Mr. Band asks if Hillary’s doing this conference, or having that meeting, and when she’s going to Brazil. Ms. Abedin responds that she’s working on it, or will get this or that answer. These aren’t the emails of mere casual acquaintances; they don’t even bother with salutations or signoffs. These are the emails of two people engaged in the same purpose—serving the State-Clinton Foundation nexus.
The other undernoted but important revelation is that the media has been looking in the wrong place. The focus is on Mrs. Clinton’s missing emails, and no doubt those 15,000 FBI-recovered texts contain nuggets. Then again, Mrs. Clinton was a busy woman, and most of the details of her daily State/foundation life would have been handled by trusted aides. This is why they, too, had private email. Top marks to Judicial Watch for pursuing Ms. Abedin’s file from the start. A new urgency needs to go into seeing similar emails of former Clinton Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills.
Mostly, we learned this week that Mrs. Clinton’s foundation issue goes far beyond the “appearance” of a conflict of interest. This is straight-up pay to play. When Mr. Band sends an email demanding a Hillary meeting with the crown prince of Bahrain and notes that he’s a “good friend of ours,” what Mr. Band means is that the crown prince had contributed millions to a Clinton Global Initiative scholarship program, and therefore has bought face time. It doesn’t get more clear-cut, folks.
That’s highlighted by the Associated Press’s extraordinary finding this week that of the 154 outside people Mrs. Clinton met with in the first years of her tenure, more than half were Clinton Foundation donors. Clinton apologists, like Vox’s Matthew Yglesias, are claiming that statistic is overblown, because the 154 doesn’t include thousands of meetings held with foreign diplomats and U.S. officials.
Nice try. As the nation’s top diplomat, Mrs. Clinton was obliged to meet with diplomats and officials—not with others. Only a blessed few outsiders scored meetings with the harried secretary of state and, surprise, most of the blessed were Clinton Foundation donors.
Mrs. Clinton’s only whisper of grace is that it remains (as it always does in potential cases of corruption) hard to connect the dots. There are “quids” (foundation donations) and “quos” (Bahrain arms deals) all over the place, but no precise evidence of “pros.” Count on the Clinton menagerie to dwell in that sliver of a refuge.
But does it even matter? What we discovered this week is that one of the nation’s top officials created a private server that housed proof that she continued a secret, ongoing entwinement with her family foundation—despite ethics agreements—and that she destroyed public records. If that alone doesn’t disqualify her for the presidency, it’s hard to know what would.
http://wallstreetcn.com/node/259759
http://news.ltn.com.tw/news/world/breakingnews/1807450
http://news.ltn.com.tw/news/world/breakingnews/1807328
大批捷克民众涌上布拉格街头，抗议没克尔的来访以及她的难民政策。
http://news.ltn.com.tw/news/world/breakingnews/1806935
多伦多怪客持十字弓攻击 3人遭射死！
http://news.ltn.com.tw/news/world/breakingnews/1806915
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/08/26/exclusive-rick-scott-ohio-poll-shows-tie-but-trumps-20-point-lead-over-clinton-with-independents-proves-voters-want-outsider/
http://www.dw.com/zh/8%E6%88%90%E5%BE%B7%E5%9B%BD%E4%BA%BA%E5%8F%8D%E5%AF%B9%E8%92%99%E9%9D%A2%E7%BD%A9%E8%A2%8D/a-19504594
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2016/08/25/economists-whove-advised-presidents-are-no-fans-of-donald-trump/
In a WSJ survey, no former members of the White House Council of Economic Advisers—spanning eight presidents—openly support Mr. Trump
The Wall Street Journal this month reached out to all 45 surviving former members of the White House Council of Economic Advisers under the past eight presidents, going back to Richard Nixon, to get their views on this year’s presidential election.
Among 17 Republican appointees who responded to Journal inquiries, none said they supported Mr. Trump. Six said they did not support Mr. Trump and 11 declined to say either way. An additional six did not respond to repeated messages. Among the 21 Democrats who responded to the Journal, 14 said they supported Mrs. Clinton, none said they opposed her and seven declined to say either way. One Democratic appointee didn’t respond to messages.
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/08/26/kayla-mueller-proof-life-video-surfaces-terrifying/
这个没什么用，目前的货币政策和经济政策已经被证明是失败的了。
The Great Unraveling Years of Fed Missteps Fueled Disillusion With the Economy and Washington
http://www.wsj.com/articles/years-of-fed-missteps-fueled-disillusion-with-the-economy-and-washington-1472136026
Once-revered central bank failed to foresee the crisis and has struggled in its aftermath, fostering the rise of populism and distrust of institutions
For anyone seeking to explain one of the most unpredictable political seasons in modern history, with the rise of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, a prime suspect is public dismay in institutions guiding the economy and government. The Fed in particular is a case study in how the conventional wisdom of the late 1990s on a wide range of economic issues, including trade, technology and central banking, has since slowly unraveled.
Once admired globally for their command of the economic system, central bankers now are blamed by the left and right for bailouts during the financial crisis and for failing to foresee and manage forces suffocating the global economy in its aftermath.
http://wallstreetcn.com/node/259837
泰勒不仅仅与当时的美联储主席熟稔，他还连续担任过1974-1977年福特政府和1977-1981年卡特政府的高级经济学家，以及1989-1993年老布什政府的总统经济顾问和2001-2005年小布什第一任期期间财政部负责国际事务的副部长。其经济思想的重要结晶之一：泰勒法则对于美国货币政策乃至全球货币政策都有过深远影响。
泰勒本人曾对于泰勒规则做过通俗易懂的解释：
泰勒法则中有三个变量：通胀率、GDP增长率和利率。如果通胀率上升1%，那利率应相应升高1.5%。如果GDP增长低于其潜在增长率1%，需要降息0.5%。
虽然泰勒法则是在1993年正式提出的，且美联储并没有公开表明会遵循泰勒法则制定政策。但从泰勒一系列的政府“任职”以及在沃尔克和格林斯潘时代实施的美联储政策来看，泰勒思想对美国政策制定者的影响早已有之。而且，泰勒早在七八十年代就研究过：怎样的货币政策可以最有效地降低通胀和经济周期所带来的社会成本。1993年在《Carnegie-Rochester公共政策会议丛书》中成型的泰勒法则仅是过去实践经验的总结而已。
泰勒曾经提出，2000年开始积累的美国房产泡沫，很大程度上是因为美联储没有遵循泰勒法则行事造成的。
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-25/billionaire-wang-urges-china-to-help-bring-shoppers-back-home
你连这都不懂，还是装傻？
希拉里发表过种族歧视言论，她年轻时还支持恢复奴隶制的获选人
这件事我是这么看的，美国人其实对TRUMP还是很好奇的，TRUMP的任何东西很多人都会去看看，NPR这么搞其实就是在给BREITBART NEWS打广告。之前媒体那么BASH TRUMP也是给TRUMP做免费广告。BREITBART NEWS 很厉害的，对左媒那套东西都有研究过。NPR的听众总有一部分会去看看BREITBART的，这个就是好事。
中国水灾致猪肉供应锐减 英国烟肉价格飊升
http://hk.on.cc/int/bkn/cnt/news/20160826/bknint-20160826111236150-0826_17011_001.html
现在美国好多人的信息来源都不是主流媒体了，主流媒体不是唯一。
你现在不就已经知道了吗。
http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/08/26/exclusive-breitbartgravis-poll-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-now-neck-and-neck-ending-august/
http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/08/26/ny-mag-hillary-clinton-cash-democrats-congress/
你怎么知道他们看不到，你的脑子真让人着急。我看各种数据MOMENTUM就是在TRUMP这边。现在TRUMP的支持率还在往上冲，辩论之后希拉拉更要完蛋了。
Burden of Health-Care Costs Moves to the Middle Class
Rising out-of-pocket health care costs ‘means less money for other things’
http://www.wsj.com/articles/burden-of-health-care-costs-moves-to-the-middle-class-1472166246
Growth in overall health-care spending is slowing, but middle-class families’ share of the tab is getting larger, squeezing households already feeling stretched financially.
Overall, health-care spending across the economy reached 18.2% of gross domestic product as of June, up from 13.3% in 2000, according to Altarum Institute, a health research group.
The Kaiser Family Foundation, a health-care research nonprofit, found deductibles for individual workers have soared in the past five years, rising 67% since 2010 without adjusting for inflation, roughly seven times earnings growth over the same period. A separate Kaiser analysis of tens of millions of insurance claims found patient cost-sharing rose by 77% between 2004 and 2014, driven by a 256% huaren.us in deductible payments.
In addition, price increases for prescription drugs have been accelerating. The average price of brand-name drugs rose 16.2% in 2015, and is up 98.2% since 2011, according to drug-benefits manager Express Scripts Holding Co.
我提了BREITBART你以为就只有BREIBART吗。。。。。当然还有其它媒体了。而且这个东西在SOCIAL MEDIA上面传的很快的。
Fischer来头不小呀，是伯南克的老师
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/trump-campaign-debuts-the-america-first-app1
Dr. Alveda King支持TRUMP
MLK's Niece Endorses Trump: "It sounds very promising, the plan that Trump is presenting for the urban communities."
https://twitter.com/_makada_/status/769296710866657281
她还说，马丁路德金博士是共和党
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/08/26/black-men-for-bernie-founder-end-democrat-political-slavery-of-minorities/
===Blacks across America are awakening to the understanding that only Donald Trump will break the wrist of the hand that strangles black American's in their urban, democrat-controlled ghetto.
BOOM! This is YUUUUUUGE! The Democrat Plantation has now OFFICIALLY lost control over its Generational (since 1965) Electoral Slaves...DEUS VULT!
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/08/27/entire-facebook-trending-news-team-fired-following-breitbart-coverage/
Facebook has fired its Trending News team, responsible for curating the social media network’s “Trending News” list, after Breitbart Tech began to reveal their progressive biases last month. The team is set to be replaced by a team of engineers managing an algorithm.
http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/08/27/facebook-censors-video-exposing-pbs-cutting-hillarytpp-criticism-jill-stein-interview/
Facebook is censoring a video created by Green candidate Dr. Jill Stein supporter Matt Orfalea that exposes PBS Newshour cutting Stein’s criticism of Hillary Clinton, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), and Obamacare.
Breitbart Rises From Outlier to Potent Voice in Campaign
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/27/business/media/breitbart-news-presidential-race.html?_r=0
Breitbart News has arrived. The opinion and news site, once a curiosity of the fringe right wing, is now an increasingly powerful voice, and virtual rallying spot, for millions of disaffected conservatives who propelled Donald J. Trump to the Republican nomination for president.
==Hillary promoted Breitbart News this week and helped the traffic. Have to love that! Trump!!!!
http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/08/26/top-dem-pollster-trump-can-win-election-one-sane-month/
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/08/27/wikileaks-info-donald-trump/
Polling Bias Against Donald Trump | Bill Mitchell and Stefan Molyneux
呵呵，你懂什么。你就是属于看不清形势的。