Police State

Cops really do protect rich and famous celebrities like at the Oscars so the recipients can advocate gun control for common people they don't protect.

Ford's autocop exposes the aggression of the state and how it steals.

Politics

If you ever wondered if the sudden antagonism towards AI is honest, Hillary Clinton lets us know it's all political.

Tax and Spend

Global warming frauds claim satellites are their entitlement.

Only 20 House Republicans vote against $4 trillion budget. Only Rand Paul voted against it in the Senate.

Bad Republicans.

Tax cuts without spending cuts won't grow the economy.

IRS data mines social media to identify whom to audit.

Welfare makes us less civilized.

Hawaii considers universal basic income out of fear of robots.

Tax Foundation ranking of state business tax climates.

Regulation

New York demands pet sitters pay for licenses.

Airbags kill, but government forced car makers to use them anyway.

Musk again calls to regulate AI.

Police State

Free AI that has defeated 350,000 parking tickets is now available in all 50 states.

Media

Putin calls out Megyn Kelly and the US media for it's Russia-gate fake news.

"Now, given that our NSA and CIA seemingly intercept everything Russians say to Americans, why is our fabled FBI, having investigated for a year, unable to give us a definitive yes or no?"

They don't want the story to die.

NBC butchered Putin's responses to Kelly.

Awesome, politically incorrect analysis of feminism includes Wonder Woman.

The media is owned by billionaires.

CNN's ratings collapse.

Robots to write local news stories. This should help the DDN since it's stories and editing stink.

War

Robo-soldiers to outnumber human troops.

Trump sends 4,000 more soldiers to Afghanistan.

Economy

Robots could take millions of retail jobs, but don't count on it.

David Stockman warns political upheaval may trigger the crash.

"I have no idea how this will play out, but as a youthful witness to history back in 1973-1974 I observed Tricky Dick’s demise in daily slow motion. But the most memorable part of the saga was how incredibly invincible Nixon seemed in early 1973.Current Prices on popular forms of Gold BullionNixon started his second term, in fact, with a massive electoral landslide, strong public opinion polls and a completely functioning government and cabinet.
Even more importantly, he was still basking in the afterglow of his smashing 1972 foreign policy successes in negotiating detente and the anti-ballistic missile (ABM) treaty with Brezhnev and then the historic opening to China on his Beijing trip.
So I’ll take the unders from anyone who gives the Donald even the 19 months that Nixon survived.
After all, Trump lost the popular vote, is loathed by official Washington, barely has a functioning cabinet and is a whirling dervish of disorder, indiscipline and unpredictability."

True.

"To use a storm metaphor, I have never been in the eye of a hurricane. But I do reside only a few blocks from Wall Street. And I can feel the financial barometric pressure plummeting by the hour.In fact, others than the five FAANG stocks (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Goggle), the market has been silently collapsing since March 1st.
That’s right. During the last 70 days, the FAANGS have gained $260 billion in value, while the other 495 companies in the S&P 500 have lost an identical amount. And on that utterly unmistakable pattern history is absolutely clear."

The bust is happening now.

War

Military building robot super-snipers.

Health Care

The appendix is valuable to the immune system.

AI better than doctors at assessing heart attack risk.

Reguation

Automation as a response to minimum wage laws is not a good thing.

Misc

Nobody understands how AIs do things. More.

Economy

Supposedly each robot will eliminate six jobs.

Economy

GE CEO says robots won't steal jobs. What's missing from this discussion is the creation of wealth. More.

Tech giants claim they won't sell your browsing history in the same way they said you could have unlimited data. The government has it all.

Economy

Elon Musk warns there could be no stopping AI. Musk announces product to link people with AI. More.

Economy

More American jobs likely to be taken over by robots than in other countries.

Robots to take 10 million British jobs.

American farmers forced to hack their tractors with Ukrainian code.

Bill Gates is still the world's richest man.

Police State

Who's liable for decisions made by AI and robots.

Tax and Spend

Gill Gates fortune is threatened by robots, so he wants a robot tax.

Economy

Microsoft nearing $1 trillion valuation, mostly thanks to android patents.

"Microsoft is generating $2 billion per year in revenue from Android patent royalties, says Nomura analyst Rick Sherlund in a new note on the company.
He estimates that the Android revenue has a 95% margin, so it's pretty much all profit. 
This money, says Sherlund, helps Microsoft hide the fact that its mobile and Xbox groups are burning serious cash. "

Thank the government.

Apple hits record high.

Alan Greenspan suddenly remembers gold is money.

Economic globalization versus political globalization.

Testosterone blamed for bubbles.

Another woman's retailers goes bankrupt.

"BCBG is just one of many retailers to announce store closures in 2017. The Limited shut down all brick-and-mortar locations, including local stores, and also filed for bankruptcy. Macy’s, Sears, Kmart and Ann Taylor will also cut select locations."

Nine retailers closing stores nationwide, but the economy is fine.

The bubble will soon pop despite Trump's reforms.

Big data will not enable a centrally planned economy.

GDP and ZIRP prove the economy is still bad contrary to the hype.


Skepticism of AI concerns voiced by plutocrats.
We need robots to take jobs.

Home ownership rate in 2016 lowest since 1965.

Technology can't prevent recessions because they are caused by misallocation of resources due to low interest rates and artificial credit.

Fractional reserve banking would be limited in a free market.

Bonds containing risky mortgages receive AAA rating as they did in 2007-2008.

There are no Christmas presents in broken Venezuela.

Ten fundamental laws of economics.

Inflation is about the money supply, not prices. Price inflation is a product of monetary inflation.

The correct definition of money is important.

Misc

AI is the culmination of thousands of years of progress by humans to overcome their physical limitations.