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The Black Racer must continue claiming souls. |
I predict Shazam will storm the Fourth World. Literally! |
Lex is now the supreme ruler of the fire-pitted planet. How will he fare against a resurrected Darkseid? He now has the raw power to bring his most hated enemy to his knees. |
It’s high time that the Crime Syndicate come around. We’ve all been waiting long enough to see a resolution to their rematch with the destroyer of their world. Plus, Superwoman is expecting!! What importance will her offspring have in the grander scheme? |
Francis Manapul was sorely missed by yours truly. Granted, this is his second stint with this title but there was such a long wait! He had his hands in all six one-shots providing covers and writing JLDW: SUPERMAN and JLDW: LEX LUTHOR. He is a master penman at both ends of the spectrum!! There is less splash in his tec... |
The full-page spreads are key divisions in the story: Barda’s take-charge arrival, the imminent return of the League’s opposite number, and the hardline approach from the God of Strength. The two-page spread has the players strategically placed. The varying degree of panels are at a dizzying pace. This is war after all... |
Mr. Manapul has the distinction of handling the colours. Kalibak is a mountainous menace and is as dark as his adopted father. I especially love the fading of the faces. Kalibak has taken Darkseid’s demise extremely hard. Even an overgrown oaf like him has feelings. The incompletion of Steve’s face as he’s about to loc... |
The story is far from over. There’s plenty of room for rock’em sock’em action. The connections between the characters are what I appreciate the most from this entry. It’s a given that everything will culminate in the landmark issue #50. By then, the storyline itself will have been ten parts excluding the prologue, the ... |
Act Three caps the modern epic. I give this book 8.5 out of 10 PINGs. |
The brand held a dinner in Dallas to mark the installation as well as the upcoming opening of its enlarged store. |
DOWN IN DALLAS: Coach wined and dined 50 Dallas fashion and art elites, influencers and philanthropists Thursday at The Joule Hotel. The teaser for the new, expanded store, opening June 30 at NorthPark Center, was also a celebration of the brand’s commission of work by Dallas artist Arthur Peña. It was the first such c... |
Guests included Lynn McBee, Jane Aldridge, Michelle Nussbaumer, Maxine Trowbridge, Brooke and Blake Davenport, Chandra and Daniel Blaylock, Jenny Kirtland, Bradley Agather Means and Peña. A number of them were dressed by the brand. |
The new store will be 25 percent bigger than the one it replaces and features a new craftsmanship bar for in-house monogramming and other services. Beginning this fall, it will be one of three Coach stores in the U.S. that offer made-to-order Rogue handbags. The others are the Fifth Avenue flagship and a South Coast Pl... |
With the possible exception of his daughter's businesses and perhaps others he and the TrumpKushner syndicate have invested in. They should continue to prosper. But that's all he cares about. American consumers? When has Trump ever cared one iota about them? |
Does anyone know if he's released his tax info? |
The US and others would be shut out if they don't do anything now. The aim of China's government's "Made in China 2025" initiative is make the country self-sufficient and globally dominant in the most strategic industries. That entails stealing foreign technology, transferring to local companies then kicking out the fo... |
OMG listen to yourself. Have you seen the latest economic numbers? The way China is taking advantage of the US it can only get better. |
Have you seen the latest economic numbers? |
Reminds me of early 2008, except that almost no one realized the economy was about to collapse. |
It doesn't remind me of 2008 at all. Back then a globalist elitist was in the White House, who told us free trade was a "win-win" proposition. |
Where's the subprime lenders? Where's the toxic securities? |
Donald J. Trump continues to be the biggest threat to U.S. national security and world order. |
Where's the subprime lenders? Where's the toxic securities? subprime auto loans delinquency rates are higher than before the GFC, there are ove $1 trillion of auto loans in the US. |
One can only hope China starts to target trump enterprises at home with 1000% tarifs. I have no idea why they aren’t to be fair. |
The bully will only understand a kick in the nads. |
The aim of China's government's "Made in China 2025" initiative is make the country self-sufficient and globally dominant in the most strategic industries. |
So, it is wrong to become self-sufficient and globally dominant in strategic industries? |
So you are saying.... To be a dominant players in strategic industries is only the rights of USA and it's tributary states of Europe and Japan? |
That entails stealing foreign technology, transferring to local companies then kicking out the foreigners when they're no longer needed. Look it up. |
Have you any proof of what you just described above or is it just another wild assumption based on your western mainstream media's brainwashed mind? |
yes with all the welfare handouts under the President back then no wonder it collapsed. This time, unemployment down, welfare down, illegal aliens out, and most importantly, consumer confidence up. |
Rachel Maddow already got his 2005 returns and found he paid a higher tax rate than Obama or Bernie. Hee hee! |
Go for it President Trump, up the ante to 500 billion, China has much more to lose compared to the US. When China starts closing factories and America starts rebuilding it's lost factories- China will fold. It is only then, that they will they stop dumping- and settle for fair trade. |
No doubt other countries, with unfair trade practices such as Japan, are quaking in their boots as to what is going to happen next. |
Trump is determined for China stop dumping, insisting on fair trade. It is amazing the steps that have to be taken to get fair trade. |
With America's 800 billion annual trade deficit, it is time for a fair playing field. This should not be difficult for anyone to understand. |
When China starts closing factories and America starts rebuilding it's lost factories- China will fold. |
Yea, America will build those lost factories overnight and start to pollute her "first world" cities with smile on her face. |
Also, I'm pretty sure the owners of those "lost factories" will employ your White kids and grandkids with average salary of $5 a day.... MAGA. |
When China starts closing factories and America starts rebuilding it's lost factories- China will fold. rebuilding lost factories LOL thats a good one, theres probably 10 asian countries other than China that can manufacture the same products with a considerably cheaper workforce, cant tarriff everybody who want to imp... |
Only incompetent management would keep all their manufacturing in the US. |
I'm pretty sure the owners of those "lost factories" will employ your White kids and grandkids with average salary of $5 a day theyve already got 10 million Mexcians that happily do that...oops hold on ....hold the line....hold the wall...hold my beer. ah whatever hold make you feel good. |
-President George W. Bush was in office when the 2008 bubble burst occurred. |
-It had nothing to do with government handouts and more to do with deregulation leading to risky. |
-Illegal Aliens probably are a greater benefit to the economy than harm. It's cheaper labor (good for industry) leading towards cheaper prices (good for consumers) and their lack of documentation means they don't require any insurance/benefits. Probably the only negative of undocumented people is they can't be taxed. |
-It's more commonly accepted that the current economy is a result of President Obama's late first term and second term policies and this is a continuation of the trends that those policies initiated. Trump had very little to do with the current economy. It's more likely his reversal on a lot of those policies will lead... |
We have a trade deficit because we import, we import because American consumers prefer to buy lower cost products, lower cost products are made overseas where the cost of living is lower. We don't manufacture here because the cost of production is to expensive in the US, we design a product and then build the overseas.... |
".....yes with all the welfare handouts under the President back then no wonder it collapsed. " |
George Bush, a committed free-trader, anti-tariffi conservative, "business-friendly" globalist, had been in office for 7.5 years when the global economy melted down. |
"Welfare" had nothing to do with it. In fact, ramped-up govt spending was a big reason the US recovered so quickly. |
Yet not all of the trade surplus stays in China. A lot of the profit in China is made by US firms operating in China. |
With America's 800 billion annual trade deficit, it is time for a fair playing field. |
There are some that miss the point, as to what America wants- fair trade and that is all. |
With fair trade, let the chips fall where they may. |
Why is it so difficult, for some to understand- fair trade? |
With America being the top economy in the world, you're correct. We need to redistribute America's wealth back to the rest of the world, and stopped being robbed by America. |
Much of China's large annual trade surplus is building a large navy and air force. China is on the march, occupying territory in the East China Sea and no one stands in their way . . . and they know it. |
Remember the nation of Tibet. |
"will employ your White kids" |
Would it not be better to say, "Will employee your kids." |
Much of China's large annual trade surplus is building a large navy and air force lol China soesnt even come close to the $600billion the US spend on its military each year. |
> tariffs**** are just basically taxes, subsidies are basically huge tax breaks and free welfare. when the US removes all those unfair trading advantages then well talk fair-trade, why do people always cherry-pick facts when it suits them. |
remember the nations of Iraq, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Syria. |
A Reuters report that oil giant BP is set to pay more than US$10 billion for BHP’s US onshore oil and gas assets has led market analysts to start pondering what BHP might do with this somewhat unexpected “pot of gold”. |
The onshore shale assets in the Eagle Ford, Permian, Haynesville and Fayetteville basins were acquired by BHP at the height of the oil boom in 2011. Largely written off in 2016, they are now being sold primarily in response to pressure from activist shareholder Elliott & Associates. In plans tagged “Value Unlock Plan f... |
According to Elliott, BHP was not the right custodian of the US onshore assets, as there were no real operational synergies or risk diversification, and BHP didn’t have the cultural mindset or nimbleness to operate in shale oil where rigs are quickly commissioned and often drill for less than two years. |
BHP hasn’t confirmed the sale to BP. Its last update to the market said that the process was tracking to plan, with bids due by the end of June and the “potential” for a deal announced by the end of calendar 2018. It also hadn’t ruled out a demerger or IPO of the business. |
In the resources business, timing is everything, and BHP seems set to benefit from some “luck” in the sale process. A steady rise in the oil price to US$74 a barrel, President Trump’s corporate tax cut and some successful well trials are helping to lift interest in the sale and raise expectations about the proceeds. So... |
BHP has three broad options for the funds - capital expenditure on new projects or buying assets, to pay down debt, or return the funds to the shareholders. |
Under Andrew Mackenzie’s reign as CEO, BHP has been very disciplined with capital expenditure, particularly when it comes to new projects. It currently has four major projects underway with a combined capital expenditure of US$7.5bn over the life of the projects. There are two petroleum/LNG projects (Mad Dog Phase 2 in... |
Future growth options include offshore oil in the Gulf of Mexico with Atlantis, copper at Olympic Dam in SA, metallurgical coal at Wards Well in the Bowen Basin in Queensland, copper at Resolution in Arizona and after almost a decade, possibly the production of potash at Jansen. BHP says that “any investment decisions ... |
According to Mackenzie, BHP’s return on capital employed (ROCE) which was just 10% in FY17, is forecast to rise to around 14% in FY18 and the company is targeting 20% by FY22. |
BHP has also been working hard to drive cost efficiencies, for example, lowering the production cost of iron ore to US$13 per tonne, and is targeting further productivity gains of US$2bn by end FY19. Debt has been reduced, down to US$15.4bn as at 31 December, with BHP now targeting ongoing net debt in a range of US$10–... |
Unless BHP has a major change in strategy, this means that a fair chunk of the proceeds from selling the US onshore oil assets will be earmarked for shareholder returns. This will most likely translate into an on-market buyback of shares in the UK listed entity (to reduce the discount with the Australian listed entity)... |
The latter will allow BHP to distribute excess franking credits to Australian shareholders and will prove to be very popular with shareholders, assuming that they can get it done before a Bill Shorten ALP Government changes the rules. |
Do the brokers see any value in BHP? |
In a commodity up cycle, the major brokers are supportive of BHP with 7 buy recommendations and 1 neutral recommendation (no sell recommendations). That said, they don’t see a lot of upside with a consensus target price $34.48, just 2.1% higher than last night’s closing price. |
Individual broker recommendations and target prices (source: FN Arena) are set out below. Because resource company profits are highly dependent on commodity prices, broker forecasts should be treated with an extra degree of caution because a key input is the broker’s forecast for commodity prices. |
Commodity prices are still in uptrend and if you are long BHP, I think you stick around for the ride. With BHP maintaining a high degree of discipline over its capital expenditure and balance sheet, shareholders will be rewarded with higher dividends and capital returns. |
Can share investors seeking exposure to resources find better value elsewhere? Probably. If you place faith in the broker forecasts, the same analysts see 11.4% upside potential with Rio and 24.4% upside potential for Fortescue. The latter is much higher risk, given that it is virtually a pure play iron ore miner. |
But the sale of the US onshore oil assets should allow BHP to further reward investors, and while it is probably too late to buy, there is no reason to bail out yet. Hold. |
Jeb Bush's education advocacy organization is being criticized by In the Public Interest, a group that says the former Florida governor's Foundation for Excellence in Education is easing private-sector access to government officials. |
Correspondence between former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's K-12 advocacy organization and state education leaders—obtained and publicized by a privatization-watchdog group—has renewed debate over the extent to which the private sector can benefit by gaining access to government officials, and markets, through nonprofit advo... |
The emails between Mr. Bush's Foundation for Excellence in Education and officials in Maine, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, and other states show the group discussing model bills with state officials and promoting specific policy initiatives, such as online education and retaining 3rd graders not reading at grade level. |
The nonprofit group In the Public Interest, which is based in Washington and published the emails last month, is critical of many privatization initiatives. It says it doesn't have a problem with businesses seeking new markets, but contends the foundation is being used as cover for companies seeking public money withou... |
But foundation officials say that it does nothing unethical or improper, that corporations don't tell it what to do, and that the watchdog group's assertions distort and misrepresent the foundation's work. |
In general, concerns about how private companies influence public policy are reasonable to raise, but advocacy groups of all stripes also tend to benefit people in various areas financially, said Frederick M. Hess, the education policy director at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington think tank whose purpose... |
"Advocacy can be characterized this way across a range of issues," said Mr. Hess, who writes an opinion blog for Education Week's website. |
At the heart of In the Public Interest's criticisms of the Tallahassee, Fla.-based foundation is its high-profile affiliate known as Chiefs for Change. That group includes state education superintendents or commissioners from Florida, Louisiana, Maine, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, and Tennessee. |
The stated mission of Chiefs for Change is to advance "bold, visionary education reform" by implementing teacher evaluations based primarily on student achievement, barring social promotion for students who can't demonstrate literacy on a test in 3rd grade, and grading schools on an A-F scale. Its members have drawn th... |
In the Public Interest, however, argues that low-profile, but persistent, beneficiaries of the work between the foundation and state officials are companies seeking to do business with schools. |
In an email to Chiefs for Change members on Feb. 23 last year, for example, the foundation's chief executive officer, Patricia Levesque, touted the "beauty" of SendHub, a mobile messaging service that she said would allow teachers to connect more easily with students and parents. |
In Florida, where Mr. Bush served as governor from 1999 to 2007, In the Public Interest says that the foundation pushed for increased use of the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, or FCAT, which is administered in the state through a contract with Pearson. The giant publishing and testing company, with U.S. headqua... |
In one case, the foundation may have served an indirect role in connecting private industry to a state official. An email dated Oct. 7, 2011, shows Louis Piconi, a senior vice president at Apangea Learning, a distance-learning company now called Think Through Math, inviting Oklahoma state schools Superintendent Janet B... |
Subsequent to Mr. Piconi's email, the Oklahoma education department announced in an Oct. 15, 2012, newsletter to teachers that Think Through Math had partnered with the department to offer its services to all public schools in the state. |
An Oklahoma education department spokeswoman, Sherry Fair, told the Associated Press this month that Think Through Math won its contract through a traditional bidding process. |
More broadly, In the Public Interest alleges that Mr. Bush's group has promoted its private-sector funders at the group's conferences. Funders of the group's 2012 National Summit on Education Reform included Pearson, as well as such supporters as Charter Schools USA, Microsoft, McGraw-Hill Education, and K12 Inc. |
"The chiefs [in Chiefs for Change] are public officials that are an affiliate of a private group that is funded in part by private corporations that stand to benefit if those decisionmakers make certain decisions," said Donald Cohen, In the Public Interest's chairman. "I don't think it's an illegal conflict of interest... |
In the Public Interest receives funding from the Ford, Open Society, In the Public Welfare, and Surdna foundations. It is a project of the Washington-based Partnership for Working Families, which is critical of corporate influence of public policy. |
The accusations from In the Public Interest distort or factually misrepresent the work of Mr. Bush and the Foundation for Excellence in Education, said Ms. Levesque, its chief executive officer. In some instances, she said, the foundation has pushed for policies that its donors don't like. |
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