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100 Days: Trump’s Greatest Victory So Far – The Economy

100 Days: Trump’s Greatest Victory So Far – The Economy

The finance industry has a term called the 100-Day Moving Average which traders use to evaluate both individual stocks and the market as a whole. What is President’s Trumps 100-Day Moving Average when it comes to the economy? You can base this off emotion and headlines, or, like any trader worth their portfolio, you can base it off of data. When we look at the actual numbers, it is clear that President Trump has enjoyed a tremendously successful first hundred days in office.

100 Days: The Surveillance State and Trump

100 Days: The Surveillance State and Trump

Many people who were aghast at the idea of Hillary “Hack My Emails Please” Clinton in the Oval Office saw Donald Trump as the one who would preserve liberty. Trump himself claimed to value privacy, and took to Twitter to condemn the fact that his own affairs were spied on by the government before the election. But is he really in favor of the constitutional right to privacy, or is he furthering the surveillance state? And how have his actions as President in this first one hundred days lined up with his campaign promises on the privacy front?

Julian Assange: Truth And Consequences

Julian Assange: Truth And Consequences

Depending on who you talk to, he is either a dirty, rotten scoundrel – to borrow the title from a 1988 slapstick comedy — or the patron saint of all things transparent and free. In fact, there seems to be very little middle ground in any discussion of Julian Paul Assange. Sadly, what is happening to Assange is not a comedy. At all.

Trump Administration Takes Pro-Science Position On Genetic Testing

Trump Administration Takes Pro-Science Position On Genetic Testing

Would you like to know if you have increased genetic risk for Parkinson’s disease, diabetes, or Alzheimer’s? How about if you and your spouse each carry a gene variant (GJB2) that increases the likelihood your offspring will be deaf or have hearing loss? Well until last week you couldn’t – not because the technology didn’t exist, but because the Obama administration forbade it by threatening the companies who could do it.