Headlines in the News February 19, 2016

Why OPEC Production Freeze Could Pave The Way For Actual Cuts
“Ultimate Banking” Monopoly Edition Goes Completely Cashless
Why Negative Interest Rates Will Fail
Percent of Total Wealth Owned in the United States: Bottom 40% Control -0.9% Meaning Close to Half the County Has a Negative Net Worth
Health Insurers Going Broke, Thanks to Obamacare
Civic Federation: Illinois Needs $9.4B in New Taxes by 2019 to Survive
Puerto Rico Government Has “Substantial Doubt” about It’s Solvency
Hungary Central Bank Stockpiles Guns, Bullets: Cites Terror Risk
Rome Looks to the ECB to Resolve Its Banking Crisis
How to Prepare for a Recession
Cliven Bundy and sons Ammon and Ryan have been indicted for Nevada standoff in 2014
South Florida Jewish Community Concerned Over Bizarre Encounters
rakish-looking “FBI” armbands
U.S. stationing tanks and artillery in classified Norwegian caves
Vizio’s smart TVs are snitches, lawsuit alleges
search for a steamboat
State Supreme Court Rules That Cops Do Not Need Warrants To Enter Homes And Forcibly Seize Evidence
Brazil
Missing Radioactive Material in Iraq Prompts Nationwide Search, ISIS Fears
Cushing Is Denying Storage Requests: Some Troubling Data From Genscape And Goldman
The Us Economy Has Not Recovered and Will Not Recover
Gig Economy Attracts Many Workers, Few Full-Time Jobs
Hospital pays $17K malware ranson
Negative Interest Rateâ€"-Catalyst For The Next Crisis
Gas Drops to 99 Cents in Texas
House flipping: Deja vu all over again
SunEdison Cutting Jobs, Closing Plants
Fed's next move much more likely a rate hike than a cut - survey
Hedge fund Citadel cut some staff at stock unit as losses grew
Wal-Mart earnings disappoint, sales forecast cut
Is Deutsche Bank the Next Lehman?
The Recession Isn’t a Few Months Away… It’s Already Started
Helicopter Money Gathers Momentum
Kmart's Comeback Plan: Selling Bankrupt Companies' Stuff
Uber loses $1 billion a year competing in China
Mortgage Delinquencies are Down; Debt is Up
European Disunion: EU negotiates UK on #Brexit
Disney World painters laid off amid other reports of cost controls
The Economy is Failing All Over The World
USDollar/USDX Index
DJIA
Sheriff Blocks Feds From Harassing Raw Milk Farmer: “Stem the Tide of Federal Overreach”
Warning: You May Be Next: 400,000 People Just Had Their Pensions Cut By 50%: “Going to Happen To The Rest Of Pensions in the United States”
This Is The Collapse: Discount Grocery Store Serving Poor Cleaned Out: “Bargain-Hungry Shoppers Emptied the Shelves”
Rich Tech Guy Wants ‘Riff Raff’ Off the Streets: “I Shouldn’t Have to See Despair of Homeless”