Fred Dunkley

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Contributor since: 26 Feb 2018

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• U.S. Moves To Bar Iranians From Investor Visas

  Published 26 January 2020 | viewed 3,433 times

  Washington’s move to ban Iranians from U.S. trade and investment visas has generated plenty of headlines, but the move is largely meaningless and should not…

• America’s Obesity Is A Trillion-Dollar Crisis

  Published 28 December 2019 | viewed 2,860 times

  Americans spend almost $300 billion on junk food per year, and then an estimated $190 billion to fight obesity.   According to the new survey, half…

• Is This The Next Netflix?

  Published 19 December 2019 | viewed 4,186 times

  Television as we know it is dead… And it’s being replaced with a new multi-billion-dollar phenomenon. The biggest names in media are already scrambling to…

• Apple, Netflix And Disney Are Battling It Out In The Streaming War

  Published 17 December 2019 | viewed 1,833 times

  URGENT NEWS UPDATE TO ORIGINAL ARTICLE10/12/2019 Media Legend Takes Sides In The Streaming War He's a media legend known for media mega deals. Not only…

• Trade Deal Not Likely Before Christmas 2020

  Published 03 December 2019 | viewed 2,509 times

  So much for that trade war deal for Christmas. It’s not happening, and the DOW has shed nearly 400 points since this morning on that…

• Gamblers Are Betting Big On Trump’s Impeachment

  Published 14 November 2019 | viewed 2,555 times

  “You are fired” was a famous and somewhat trademarked catchphrase of Trump’s as the host of the Apprentice reality show. The firing trend continued once…

• The Crushing Reality Of Poverty In America

  Published 11 November 2019 | viewed 5,487 times

  “When the laws undertake… to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society… have a right to complain of…

• Here We Go Again: Another Giant Telecoms Mega-Merger

  Published 06 November 2019 | viewed 3,996 times

  Data and historical precedents suggest that there’s hardly any benefit at all to a merger of two more telecoms giants, T-Mobile and Sprint. Yet, in…

• The $500 Million Fur Industry Could Come Crumbling Down

  Published 27 October 2019 | viewed 2,727 times

  Fur is everywhere--from clothing, handbags, hats and footwear to a variety of household goods--and despite the long-running anti-fur campaign, sales managed to hit over $530…

• Billionaires At Odds Over Wealth Tax Proposals

  Published 22 October 2019 | viewed 2,523 times

  Billionaire Donald Trump isn’t likely to vote for Presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren, but even if the would-be presidential candidate is threatening a massive wealth…

• The Tangled Web Stretching From Turkey To DC

  Published 17 October 2019 | viewed 2,400 times

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, founded Halkbank in 1933 to provide cheap credit easily to small business owners and large industrial entrepreneurs.…

• Three Stocks To Watch Ahead Of Earnings Season

  Published 14 October 2019 | viewed 3,883 times

  It’s Q3 earnings time, with big banks up first, followed by a couple of tech giants and that streaming beast, Netflix, plus Coca-Cola and United…

• America’s Working Class Are Footing All The Bills

  Published 10 October 2019 | viewed 2,628 times

  Almost a decade ago, Warren Buffett was dismissed by media and public when he said his secretary paid a larger share of her income in taxes than…

• Uber To Offer On Demand Employment

  Published 07 October 2019 | viewed 9,361 times

  Maybe the next job uber takes you to will be one it found for you. Uber offers rides and food delivery, so why not employment,…

• The Billion-Dollar Chinese Business Of Forced Organ Donations

  Published 03 October 2019 | viewed 4,984 times

  Back in 2015, human rights groups had welcomed Beijing’s decision to stop using executed prisoners as a source of unwilling organ donations. But the practice…

• Trump Moves Markets With Anti-Fed Tweets

  Published 24 September 2019 | viewed 3,440 times

  The Fed hiked rates nine times from late 2015 through 2018, but cut them twice in the past few months. That seems to have let…

• Trump Under Fire For Russian Connections

  Published 01 September 2019 | viewed 2,448 times

  It’s no secret that US President Donald Trump isn’t exactly a fan of the country’s intelligence agencies, and the sentiment is mutual. They’re not keeping…

• Should The Central Bank Get Political?

  Published 28 August 2019 | viewed 3,882 times

  As the rules of the game change without consensus and concerns grow that America’s central bank is losing its independence to a president that has…

• American Households Are Absorbing The Costs Of The Trade War

  Published 24 August 2019 | viewed 2,986 times

  Somebody’s keeping score in this trade war, and it’s the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), which now says that this tit-for-tat with China will end up…

• Economists Call For Recession In 2021

  Published 22 August 2019 | viewed 2,589 times

  According to Trump, American consumers are rich. According to an increasing number of economists, the United States is headed for a recession in the next…