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LAKEWOOD RANCH, Fla. — The lawyer for Brian Laundrie’s family told The Post on Tuesday that the fugitive flew home to Florida on Aug. 17 — a bombshell claim that throws a wrench in the timeline of the Gabby Petito case. Laundrie family lawyer Steven Bertolino said Brian returned home for supplies and then flew back to Salt Lake City, Utah, on Aug. 23 to rejoin Petito. Brian’s brief sojourn home would have come after the couple’s now-infamous fight in Utah that involved cops and before her body was found in a national forest last month. “Brian flew home to...

Bias can be detected by what the media report and choose not to report. When it comes to Pope Francis, bias by omission is the most common ideological practice. Earlier this month, the pope met with an alleged Chilean victim of priestly sexual abuse, Juan Carlos Cruz; he is a homosexual. According to Cruz, the pope said to him, “It doesn't matter [whether you are a homosexual]. God made you like this. God loves you like this.” The Vatican refuses to comment on whether this is an accurate account. Last week, the pope met with the Italian Bishops' Conference. When...

Media was set ablaze Thursday after President Trump reportedly responded to the ‘gang of 6’ immigration proposal with some fiery language. “Never said anything derogatory about Haitians other than Haiti is, obviously, a very poor and troubled country. Never said “take them out.” Made up by Dems. I have a wonderful relationship with Haitians. Probably should record future meetings – unfortunately, no trust!” Tweeted Trump.

The Fed’s Operation Twist was intended to lower long-term interest rates while raising short-term interest rates. But notice that it has worked exactly the opposite. Notice that the yield curve has actually increased in slope over time at the critical Twist dates. With Industrial Production increasing by 1.1% in November (Sandy recovery efforts), it is possible that The Fed will take its foot off the accelerator. On the other hand, capacity utilization has not reached 80% since the Great Recession ended in June 2009. The Fed likes to keep their foot on the accelerator until capacity utilization exceeds 80%, THEN...

The Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee will meet on July 31 and August 1. What will they do? The broader economic indicators for the U.S. are either slowing down or not improving. Real GDP growth was revealed to be a paltry 1.50% for Q2 2012 following 2.0% for Q1 2012 and 4.0% for Q4 2011. U6 unemployment (Total unemployed, plus all marginally attached workers plus total employed part time for economic reasons) remains at near 15%. Since June 2010, more Americans have gone on disability than have dropped off of unemployment rolls by 237,000. And an additional 4.9 million Americans...

Today, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke peeked around the corner and sang “Let’s Twist Again Like We Did Last Summer. Oh, let’s Twist again, Twisting time is here.” Not really of course. But The Fed did announced that they are extending Operation Twist until the end of the year. And Twist will be increased to $267 billion. No MBS stimulus either, so Agency MBS slumped today. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond President Jeffrey Lacker voted against the committee’s action on Wednesday because he “opposed continuation of the maturity extension program,” according to the statement. Lacker has dissented at all four FOMC...

As always, Goldman Corzined anyone who listened to its call that an epic QE is coming. Fed did the worst possible outcome for risk- merely extended Twist, just as the credit market predicted it would 3 weeks ago: FED SAYS IT IS PREPARED TO TAKE FURTHER ACTION `AS APPROPRIATE FED TWIST EXTENSION TO SWAP $267 BLN OF TREASURIES BY END 2012 FED TO SELL OR REDEEM `EQUAL AMOUNT' DEBT DUE 3 YEARS OR LESS FED TO BUY TREASURIES DUE IN 6 TO 30 YEARS AT `CURRENT PACE' FED SAYS EMPLOYMENT GROWTH `HAS SLOWED' FED SAYS INFLATION HAS DECLINED, REFLECTING OIL...

Less than 10 days after the Federal Reserve announced a reprise of the “Operation Twist“ strategy it first used half a century ago, mortgage rates are at all-time lows. Operation Twist is the Fed’s plan to squeeze the long end of the yield curve by buying long-term Treasurys instead of short-term ones — in other words, increasing demand and lowering the rates for long-term borrowing.

Stocks are tumbling harder now, despite a slightly more generous than expected Fed announcement. Was it the fact that the Fed was delayed by a copier jam? Was it the three dissents? Maybe. Or maybe it’s this striking downgrade of the economic outlook: In this statement, the Fed said: “Moreover, there are significant downside risks to the economic outlook, including strains in global financial markets.” In its prior statement, the Fed said simply: “Downside risks to the economic outlook have increased.” The Dow is down 130 points to 11277. The S&P is down about 16 points. The Nasdaq is down 6 points.

A sharply divided Federal Reserve is expected to take modest steps Wednesday to bolster stagnant growth and hiring amid European debt woes. The efforts likely won't have a dramatic impact, analysts say. But inflation concerns may preclude stronger medicine, and in any case prior doses of shock-and-awe easing didn't result in a self-sustaining, robust recovery.

Goldman: The US Economy Described In 5 Lines Joe Weisenthal Sep. 5, 2011, 6:37 AM From Goldman's Andrew Tilton, the state of the economy right now. ----- 1. The US economy has not fallen off a cliff, despite the “confidence shock” precipitated by the debt ceiling impasse, the downgrade of the US sovereign rating, and the financial market turmoil of recent weeks. 2. The August employment report was weak but not recessionary. The payroll survey was very disappointing, with no job growth, a drop in weekly hours, and a decline in hourly earnings. But the household survey posted a decent...

OPERATION TWIST – QE3 STYLE 2 September 2011 by Cullen Roche The Operation Twist rumors are picking up momentum. In several interviews this morning on Bloomberg both Jan Hatzius of Goldman Sachs and David Rosenberg of Gluskin Sheff mentioned the likelihood of an Operation Twist type QE3 coming perhaps as early as September (thanks to Ed Harrison at CW). “Best guess for the form of action would be a sort of Operation Twist that is basically like QE – it’s purchases of long-term securities that are financed by the sale of short-term securities.” If you’re not familiar with Operation Twist,...

Perhaps we have watched too many televised trials and seen famous, high-priced lawyers make mountains of evidence “disappear” to get their clients acquitted. Perhaps we have watched too many politicians posturing for the media, while accomplishing nothing even remotely useful. Perhaps we have watched too much TV and seen mousse-haired “talking heads” shamelessly slanting the news, while omitting inconvenient facts. We may have gotten the impression that the truth is something we can fabricate to suit ourselves.

This is great ~~ nostalgia and lots of smiles, but the 60's were sure times of change and disruption. Take Me Back to the Sixties

The summer I turned 6 years old, some of the neighborhood boys started bullying me. Back then, I owned a pair of cabbage patch kid roller-skates and my favorite activity was skating around the block singing nursery rhymes at the top of my lungs. One day, a few boys in the 8-10 range thought it would be pretty humorous to push me around and watch me flail. I tried to run from them, but I couldn’t skate faster than they could run. They taunted me for a while and then knocked me down. Angry, humiliated, and with two freshly skinned...

Some may call it exploiting racial tensions. CBS calls it darn good television. Jeff Probst popped in on The Early Show Wednesday morning, confirming the reports that the 20 castaways for Survivor: Cook Islands will be grouped by race, with competitors divided into four tribes consisting of whites, blacks, Asians and Hispanics. Apparently, "separate but equal" holds only the warmest of connotations for Mark Burnett. Like a good host, Probst had nothing but praise for the producers' controversial brainchild, calling the exercise in segregation a valuable social experiment, rather than a stunt to dig up some controversy--and raise ratings. "The...

The definition of an American icon has changed over the last fifty years. For Valentines Day country singer icon Willie Nelson debuted his groundbreaking “gay cowboy song” on the “anti-family” Howard Sterns satellite radio program. Nelson also sang in the recent gay movie “Brokeback Mountain”. This 71-year-old braided balladeer’s new “gay” music holds the promise of further polluting America’s airwaves. Likewise, Sony’s new recording label called “Music With a Twist” features artists who practice homosexuality. The label is connected to MTV’s gay TV network. At one time country music meant mom, home and apple pie. Men were men and “the...

MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (Dec. 20, 2005) -- With the holiday season right around the corner, the chaplains of 2nd Marine Division took an ordinary training event, hiking, and turned it into a prayer walk to pray for those servicemembers who are away from their families this year. The six-mile hike is a Fleet Marine Force (FMF) qualification for all naval officers to receive the FMF war-fighting device worn on their uniforms. But this year, the 2nd Marine Division Chaplain, Cmdr. Gary Carr, turned the training into a way for the chaplains of the division and all other...

New twist on out-of-Africa theory Judy Skatssoon ABC Science Online Wednesday, 14 July 2004 Homo erectus, the species thought to be the first to leave Africa for Eurasia in the out-of-Africa model of human origin (Image: Science) Early humans made love, not war, according to new DNA analysis presented at a genetics conference that gives a new twist on the out-of-Africa hypothesis of human origins. U.S. researcher Professor Alan Templeton of Washington University, St Louis, debunks the prevailing version of the out-of-Africa hypothesis, which says early humans migrated from Africa and wiped out Eurasian populations. Instead, they bred, he told...