The private, nonprofit Campaign Legal Center (CLC) has filed legal complaints prompted by a recent Wall Street Journal report that thousands of appointees at 50 federal agencies held stock in companies that were affected by their policy decisions.
Category: 29 November 2022
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INVESTORS SCALE BACK ON BUYING HOMES: WHAT TO EXPECT
Private equity funds poured billions of dollars into the housing market since the COVID era began, buying up tens of thousands of single-family homes in a trend we documented in articles such as “Rents Soar as Investors Buy Properties and Raise Rates” (14 Sep 2021) and “Homes Sales Up as Money Gang Gobbles Up Houses” (23 Nov 2021).
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HOME SALES UP 7.5 PERCENT IN OCTOBER
The number of new U.S. homes sold in October was 7.5 percent greater than in September, the U.S. commerce department reported, reversing an 11-percent slide the month before.
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INVESTORS WARY OF STOCK MARKETS’ FUTURE
European and U.S. stock markets have bounced back from their late September lows, with the Standard & Poor’s 500 index reclaiming about 13 percent.
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BIDEN’S COVID CZAR CLAIMS HE KNOWS WHAT GOD WANTS
Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House’s COVID-19 response coordinator, called on Americans to get vaxxed up before visiting family and friends before the Thanksgiving holiday.
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GERMANY’S MERKEL MAKES IT CLEAR: MINSK AGREEMENT VIOLATED
Angela Merkel, the former German chancellor, said in an extensive interview that the Russian invasion of Ukraine did not surprise her because the Minsk agreements had been “eroded.”
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RUSSIA POUNDS KHERSON FOLLOWING UKRAINIAN FORCES ADVANCEMENT
Ukrainians have celebrated the recent retreat of Russian forces from Kherson. And last week we noted that Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky declared that the victory marked the “beginning of the end of the war” with Russia.
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NETANYAHU’S COALITION MAKES DEAL WITH CONVICTED RACIST TO STAMP DOWN PALESTINIANS
Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party signed a coalition agreement with the country’s Jewish Power party that was widely seen as a death blow to any chance of peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
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ILLEGALLY IN SYRIA, U.S. CONDEMNS ROCKET ATTACK ON ITS SYRIAN BASE
U.S. Central Command condemned a recent rocket attack on a U.S. base in Syria as Turkey carries out bombing campaigns targeting Kurdish-controlled towns in retaliation to a terror bombing earlier this month in Istanbul that killed six, including children.
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AS UKRAINE WAR RAGES, REFUGEE CRISIS IN EUROPE WORSENS
Long before the Ukraine War began on 24 February, European countries were dealing with an influx of asylum-seekers as economies in Middle Eastern and African countries faltered and civil unrest, government corruption, crime and violence escalated. Now, with the war in Ukraine raging, millions are fleeing their homeland for safe haven nations.