The United States is sending more than twice as much solid waste into its landfills as previously thought, a new study finds. Researchers found that people threw away 289 million tons of municipal solid waste in 2012, a figure that is more than double the 135 million tons that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) calculated for that same year. The new estimate also exceeds by 4 percent the World Bank’s
With global markets still tumbling, the Godfather of newsletter writers, 91-year-old Richard Russell, warned people to stay completely out of the stock market while the Fed manipulation continues.
Harvard University’s endowment posted a 5.8 percent return in fiscal year 2015 to hit a record $37.6 billion, the elite school’s in-house fund management company said. The returns for the 12 months ended June 30 were driven by outsized profits in stocks, venture capital investments in technology and biotech, and real estate holdings, Harvard Management Company said in a letter to alumni published on its website on Tuesday. “We have
DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) – U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday she would release a plan in the next few days for a clean energy agreement among the United States, Canada and Mexico. “I will also be putting out in the next few days a broad approach to how I would work to have a North American compact about clean energy,” Clinton told the Des Moines Register
[Marketwired] – NOVAGOLD RESOURCES INC. will release its third quarter financial results after market close October 6th, 2015. The conference call and webcast, to discuss these results, will take place October 7th, 2015 …
After last week’s ongoing and ridiculous soap opera with the Fed, one of the greats in the business sent King World News a fantastic piece warning that this is a bear market and the “buy the dip” crowd is headed for disaster, plus a bonus Q&A that includes questions on Ray Dalio and the end of the long-term debt cycle.
[Reuters] – Newmont Mining Corp’s Indonesian copper export permit, which expired on Tuesday, will not be renewed as the U.S. miner has failed to meet government stipulations for developing a domestic smelter, government officials said. Newmont, Indonesia’s second-largest copper miner, has to renew the permit every six months following an agreement with the government a year ago to develop local mineral processing facilities. “Newmont proposed an export permit extension and
Venezuela said Tuesday it is conducting military exercises in the eastern part of the country, a move neighboring Guyana denounced as an “extraordinary escalation” of an ongoing border dispute. Guyana’s President David Granger said his cabinet was meeting with military and police chiefs to craft a response to Venezuela’s movement of naval vessels and ground forces in the area. Venezuela has been pressing claims to Guyana’s Essequibo region, which encompasses
