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SAM207 USAF C-40B on final approach for Bragg after a MacDill AFB depart
Mexican remittances reach record $4.15 bln in March
Remittances to Mexico hit $4.15 billion in March, the highest level on record and an increase of 2.6% from the same month last year, Mexican central bank data on Monday showed.
The vast bulk of remittances to Mexico are sent from the United States, whose economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic is gathering pace, aided by stimulus measures. The cash from abroad has been a major support to the economy under President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who has so far failed to deliver on pledges to ramp up anemic growth. Remittances reached $4.04 billion in March last year, which was the first and only occasion before March 2021 when they had exceeded $4 billion in a single month.
Mexico received record remittances in 2020. It is currently on track to surpass that in 2021, with the sum up 13% during the first quarter from the same period last year.
https://www.reuters.com/article/mexico-economy-remittances/mexican-remittances-reach-record-4-15-bln-in-march-idUSL1N2MQ15Y
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BOXER40 USAF C-40C heading for Guatemala City from JBA
SAM356 USAF G5 continues se after rounding Cuba from it's MacDill AFB depart
Can't find anything about Kneepads trip other than "supposed to happen in June"
doesn't 'splain Billy's plane there d'oh
April 27th
The AC doesn't necessarily have to fly over the Audit site as it's picking up signals and ya don't gotta be right over it to do that.
Mebby it's bullshit but as mentioned above Billy's known to be personal AC was dere too.
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82-8000 USAF 747 departed Newport News Int'l for Norfolk Int'l Airport
Can't take Marine One??
Wut a waste....
It's 30 miles......
kek
Gold (and Silver) Is Laughing At Powell
Recently, my colleague, Egon von Greyerz, and I had some unabashed yet blunt fun calling out the staggering levels of open hypocrisy and policy desperation unleashed by former Fed Chairman, Alan Greenspan.
Poor Alan was an easy target of what I described as the “patient zero” of the reckless interest rate suppression and unbridled monetary expansion policies of the Fed which have always led to equally reckless boom and bust cycles in markets and economies. But let us be fair to comical Fed Chairmen like Greenspan, as he is not alone in making a mockery of his post at the Eccles Building. With the exception of Paul Volker and William Martin, the sad truth is that nearly every person who has sat in that lead Chair of a private bank masquerading as a “Federal” reserve has made the bank, and themselves, a public embarrassment.
For the most part, over-hyped Fed Chairs know how to run up debt levels and create lots of money to appear “accommodative” to markets in the short term and then blame “animal spirits” on the disasters which always follow longer term. In fact, if I had to come up with the most honest and historically-confirmed job description for a Fed Chairman, I would post the following job-post on LinkedIn: “Seeking D.C.-based expert fluent in double-speak, comfortable with unsustainable debt expansion and handy with a money printer. Ivy League credentials a plus.” As for double-speak, Mr. Powell is now seeking to outshine ol’ Mr. Greenspan’s art of spin with stunning elan.
At a recent economics club in Washington, Powell was both shameless and brilliant in his ability to spew fantasy with the skill of a circus promotor yet maintain the straight face of a circuit judge. Specifically, Powell tried to downplay the U.S. debt elephant in the room by admitting to its horrific size yet promising a miracle policy shift sometime down the road…
That is, he was unable to deny what he described as the “unsustainable path” of current U.S. debt levels growing “meaningfully faster than economic growth,” but was quick to comfort anyone gullible enough to believe him that for now “there is no question of our ability to service our debt for the foreseeable future.” Ahhhh. Such calming words, such confidence, such market-placating guidance. But now, let’s translate Powell’s Fed-speak into real-speak and get a deeper look into the mind of a first-rate spin-seller. When Powell says “there is no question of our ability to service our debt for the foreseeable future,” he is actually telling a kind of partial truth. Congratulations Jerome. Yes, so long as the Fed decides to print trillions more fiat dollars and artificially cap yields and interest rates, the Fed can indeed “service” it’s nearly $30T in public debt for the “foreseeable future,” as the cost of that debt is forced to the basement of history.
But what Powell forgets to say, quite cleverly, is that the “foreseeable future” of which he is telegraphing is nothing more than a future of equally foreseeable and grotesquely expanded, and hence, debased U.S. dollars, which is needed to monetize that truly unsustainable debt. Needless to say, such money printing is great news for gold…But Powell’s ability to spin fantasy gets even more pronounced with his next great lie masquerading as policy comfort.
Stated more simply, that “distant future” of “economic growth” in which the Fed “deals” with our debt problem is an open lie, no different than Bernanke’s 2009 promise that QE1 was “temporary” and would end by 2010. If Powell would like, I am happy to send him (or Monsieurs Greenspan and Bernanke) a few high-school text books on basic math, or maybe one or two essays on market history to help him (them) regain both a conscience and facts.
My former Harvard President and one-time Treasury Secretary, Larry Summers, for example, is no less of a master at promoting his image while ignoring his mistakes. Mr. Summers, the god-father of deregulating the otherwise toxic, uber-levered and price-fixing OTC derivatives market, deserves an honorable mention. Under his watch in 1998, that derivatives market went from $95T to $670T despite open warnings from Brooksley Borne at the CFTC. Meanwhile, Summers was openly insulting her while slapping backs with bankers and promising the world not to worry about their master plan to expand this once-safe futures exchange. But less than a decade after telling Congress that he and his banker friends were more than capable of managing OTC derivatives risk, that same market, as well as the S&P (and the Harvard endowment) tanked by greater than 50% in a matter of weeks in 2008.
moar
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/gold-laughing-powell
https://www.kitco.com/charts/livegold.html
https://www.kitco.com/charts/livesilver.html
Myanmar coup latest: Military chopper shot down by Kachin army, group says
Monday, May 3
10:00 p.m. This video posted by Myanmar Now news purports to show a Myanmar military helicopter gunship being shot down in Kachin state on Monday. VIDEO - This morning (May 3), Kachin Independence Army (KIA) shot down Tatmadaw helicopter attacking KIA in Moe Mauk. KIA spokesman Colonel Naw Bu said junta’s forces are continuing to use heavy artillery. Two civilians died.https://t.co/AD4Dbc4h5D#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
— Myanmar Now (@Myanmar_Now_Eng) May 3, 2021
4:00 p.m. On World Press Freedom Day, Western embassies in Myanmar including those of the U.S. and U.K. collectively call for the immediate release of all detained journalists in the country, the establishment of freedom of information and communication, and an end to all internet restrictions. More than 80 journalists have been arrested since the Feb. 1 coup, with the majority still being detained, their statement says. "We will continue to promote and support a free and independent media as an integral dimension of good governance and human development," the embassies say.
3:30 p.m. Armed ethnic group Kachin Independence Army tells local outlet Mizzima Media that the KIA shot down a Myanmar military helicopter in the northern state of Kachin on Monday. Myanmar's military launched airstrikes this morning, and intense fighting has led to casualties on both sides, a KIA spokesperson says.
2:00 p.m. Myanmar's manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index for April, released by IHS Markit, rose to 33.0 in April from 27.5 in March. But it remains far below 50, indicating that managers' confidence continues to be negative. Production continues to decline, as many factories remain closed in key regions. "It's difficult to anticipate when the sector will return to growth, with many key investors suspending operations until the political situation stabilizes," IHS economist Shreeya Patel says. The nationwide protests led workers to return to their hometowns, while transportation difficulties cause delays in deliveries for manufacturers. The 12-month outlook deteriorated in April and was among the weakest in the index's history, the survey says.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Myanmar-Coup/Myanmar-coup-latest-Military-chopper-shot-down-by-Kachin-army-group-says
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Helicopter Shot Down Over Myanmar Village
https://www.voanews.com/episode/helicopter-shot-down-over-myanmar-village-4676856
RCH789T USAF C-17 Globemaster on final approach for Ft. Campbell, KY from MCB Quantico-someone going here soon NOT AF1 Joe or Kneepads
RCH785T USAF C-17 Globemaster on final at Milwaukee Mitchell Airport from JBA depart
Dis "load"-kek for Kneepads tomorrow
Vice President Kamala Harris plans trip to Milwaukee on Tuesday
https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/vice-president-kamala-harris-plans-trip-to-milwaukee-on-tuesday/article_ab91f7bf-9d04-5843-b160-ac10bf4c337f.html
got impatience here next to me
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