OTTAWA - Canadian interest rates don't have to match U.S. or global rates, Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem says, but they need to stay within a certain ballpark. Macklem made the comments while testifying before the House of Commons finance committee alongside senior deputy governor Carolyn Rogers on Thursday. “Our interest rates in Canada don't need to be the same as the U.S. rate or global rates. But there is a limit to how far they can diverge,” Macklem said. “We're not close to...
As CBP officers began sifting through hundreds of packages of charcoal, they found 119 that contained a total weight of 782 pounds of methamphetamine narcotics. The post K-9 Border Officers Seize $1 Million of Methamphetamines Stashed in Charcoal Shipment at Southern California Border first appeared on The Foreign Desk | by Lisa Daftari.
CAPITOL HILL, Monrovia – The Joint Committee on Ways, Means, and Finance of the 55th Legislature has uncovered an additional $51.451,000 in revenue for the fiscal year 2024, bringing the total draft budget to $743.859,000. This discovery was made during the scrutiny of the budget as per Liberia’s Public Financial Law. By Gerald C. Koinyeneh []
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Cat Campbell/For The Madera TribuneA bowl of homemade mushroom barley soup is a meal in itself.Sometimes it can be cringe-worthy to realize that one of my favorite foods (mushrooms) is actually a fungus. But then again, one of my favorite cheeses is Gorgonzola, and it gets its flavor and appearance from mold. And I mustn’t fail to include yeast, which helps us bake breads, as all three are types of fungi. So, I guess I am not really very picky.This time of year, I like to walk around my...
There Is Nothing Exceptional About US "Exceptionalism" By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities On Friday, after the jobs report, we heard a lot of chatter about “Goldilocks.” While we wrote NFP – Great for Markets, we caveated that with – for now. Normally we would agree that there is a “transition” period from “everything is great,” to “everything is bad.” While I’m not saying that everything is bad, I do wonder if we can have more of a “gap” than a transition, largely due to the...
🔊 In this episode, Don and John pay tribute to the moms (and dads and grandparents) who shared their hard-won gardening experience with us.
The Pentagon said these types of flights are not considered a threat
The internet spreads out like a virus. As it becomes ubiquitous, so are its influences. The same slang is shared in all fifty states through the influence of social media, the same arguments are repeated online by people in disparate corners of faraway states, and gradually, the same manner of dress is adopted almost universally. The internet is a force of widespread cultural homogenization much in the same way that the spread of the English language via the British Empire was, only the internet...
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is moving toward reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug. So what does that mean?
China & The US: What Matters That's Overlooked Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Parsing geopolitics is fun but our attention is better directed to the limits and second-order effects of legacy systems in each of the rival states. Geopolitics, like any conflict, is dramatic: rivals jostle for hegemony on a 3-D chessboard, war threatens, etc. The focus of this drama is on the leaders' calculations and the pieces being moved around the board in the complex battle...