I collect all the relevant information about Douglas Leff, presently the chief of the San Juan FBI branch, whom I suspect to have very close ties with the KGB or its equivalents, with Mossad, and very importantly, with the new Mob, the Russian-Jewish-Israeli "Red" Mafia. You may read the details about this, and the reasoning behind it, in my blogs and websites.
Anyone, who knows anything significant about Douglas Leff, (which might not be his real name), good or bad, positive or negative - everything will be evaluated objectively, please send any information you would like to share with me, by tweet (@mikenov), or comments, or email, or regular mail to Brooklyn, NY. Your input will be greatly appreciated.
Alternatively, if you so wish, you may send the copies, or share your information with Mr. Barr of the DOJ, and/or with Mr. Wray of the FBI; eventually it will come to them, anyway; so practically, it will be the same thing.
Me zinkz, it iz very important to learn the truth, whatever it is, and to uncover whatever had been covered. Sunlight is the best and the most natural disinfectant.
"Budem posmotret"; any objections, Mr. Leff?
If my impressions are in error, and if this error can be convincingly proven, (which might be the long and the laborious process), these impressions will be reviewed and revised. So far I do not see any reasons to change these impressions.
Thank you,
Sincerely and respectfully, to all my readers,
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Puerto Rico: Summer 2019: results and perspectives Rafael Bernabe and Manuel Rodríguez*
These two weeks of mobilization provided a great purifying blast against the widespread idea that “nothing can be done” faced with a reality that was considered unalterable. They have expanded our sense of reality. They have shown that what was previously considered impossible is possible.
Since 2016, we have indicated that the country was debating between two mixed sentiments: on the one hand, the feeling that its political, social and economic reality required great changes; on the other, the feeling of helplessness of many, the feeling that nothing could be done, that nothing could be changed. Hence the hope among many that someone, whoever, would make the necessary changes. Hence the initial faith of some people that the Financial Oversight and Management Board would fix things or teach the “politicians” a lesson. And we argued that the only Board, the only supervisory force we needed was the people itself. The defenders, whether open or devious, of the existing reality responded: those are empty phrases. And we see: the country has mobilized as never against a vile and corrupt governor. And it has brought about his resignation.
Do not underestimate the scope of this moment, in which we have had the joy and privilege of participating: for the first time in their history the inhabitants of this island have removed their governor from below, from the street, through intense and incessant mobilization.
From Trump to the Management Board, from the bondholders to the Puerto Rican business class (who until yesterday saw Rosselló as a useful representative), from the Nuevo Día newspaper to the PPD, they are now trying to take advantage and kidnap the people’s victory against Rosselló. [2] They do this by calling for “normality” and “tranquillity”, diverting attention to secondary reforms (such as creating a vice governor), denouncing the politicization of “protest” and in other ways. That is why we must carefully reflect on what has happened and on the tasks that lie ahead for those of us who aspire to deepen democracy, social justice and decolonization.
Unexpected explosion?
Some people talk about an unexpected social explosion. Certainly, nobody could predict what was going to happen in July 2019. To begin with, nobody or almost nobody knew about the existence of the infamous chat, which, together with the arrest of Julia Keleher, detonated the days of July 2019 in Puerto Rico. However, different movements and people have long pointed out the presence of the flammable material that was waiting for a spark to ignite it.
Since 2012 we have argued that Puerto Rico is going through an economic crisis, a true depression, analogous to that of the 1930s. And we argued that this depression caused the division and collapse of the dominant parties of that time (Liberal, Union-Republican and Socialist) and a crisis of legitimacy of the institutions of the colonial state. And we pointed out that sooner or later the current crisis would have the same results. The victory of the PNP with just 42% of the votes and divisions in both dominant parties were already indications that this process was advancing. Now, suddenly, the total discrediting of those two parties has been revealed.
Not only that: the unprecedented mobilization on the street has surpassed the existing institutional arrangements. It is not a revolution, but there is no doubt that it has been a revolutionary action: to get Rosselló out no one waited until 2020, nor for an impeachment process, nor for any legal or institutional mechanism. The people, on the street, took matters into their hands and brought about Rosselló’s resignation. For those of us who think that people should one day create new institutional arrangements from below, this is an extraordinary precedent, which we have to value and treasure.
Spontaneity or fruit of seeds of consciousness?
The days of July 2019 in Puerto Rico were not a spontaneous explosion. Thinking they were can lead to future mistakes that we should avoid. What happened was prepared by tens and hundreds of conscious initiatives, near and far, often seen at the time as useless, but now bearing their fruit. The work of the Center for Investigative Journalism, for example, has nothing spontaneous about it: it is a work consciously undertaken by a small group which has suddenly acquired a national and international impact. Other cases could be mentioned. For example: the speed with which broad sectors set up pickets outside Fortaleza, the home of the Governor or the Capitol, the seat of the Parliament, the march and the rally as ways of protesting, the call for strikes as a way to structure the resistance, cannot be explained without the country’s long education about these forms of resistance and protest, thanks to the past struggles of students, workers, and women as well as environmental struggles and those around Vieques, among others. [3].
Similarly, we must not forget that the success of the biggest mobilizations (those of July 15 in San Juan and July 22 in Hato Rey, for example) is due, on the one hand, to the very visible call by well-known artists –Resident, iLe, Bad Bunny and Ricky Martin, to mention the foremost – with deep roots in the country, and also to the almost invisible but crucial organizational and logistical contribution of the workers’ organizations, which over the decades have acquired the experience and skills to develop these types of activity.
Consider the sweeping rejection of sexist violence and homophobia that followed the publication of the infamous chat of the governor and his friends. The seed for that explosion was consciously sown by the Colectiva Feminista en Construcción and other feminist organizations and the LGBTTIQ community, through dozens of activities and initiatives in the past. We could also talk about the many experiences of community self-organization before, during and after hurricane Maria; as well as the commemorations that sought to express the pain and indignation for the dead like the initiative of the shoes in front of the Capitol.
The same can be said of the left. It can be argued that this uprising took place outside of “political lines” and political organizations or the left. The reality is that almost all forms of struggle and resistance, including the most popular slogans and demands made (on the debt, the Board, privatization, the continuity of the struggle) are not new: they are the ones that the left has popularized in Puerto Rico. We are not interested in stressing this as such. But we are concerned that it will be ignored or denied, especially if denial is used to try to limit the transformative political impact of the movement, an issue we will return to later.
Anyway, what happened in July 2019 is unprecedented. But nobody should think that it renders obsolete or refutes the “old” forms of struggle or all the old forms of organization: they are the result of those efforts of many decades, which we must now update, expand and modernize, but not despise in an erroneous cult of “spontaneity”.
Importance and limit of minorities
But while the days of July 2019 cannot be attributed to a sudden spontaneous explosion of the people, they also offer lessons to minority groups that have long been resisting in the street and which hundreds of thousands have joined this summer. It has been shown that the key to victory lies in the massive incorporation of the people into the struggle: from hundreds to thousands (from July 10 to 14 in Fortaleza), to 20 or 30,000 (on July 15 at the Capitol and in Fortress), to about 400,000 (July 17 from the Totem Capitol), to about one million (July 22 in Hato Rey). Thus, the resistance grew.
And it is not just what happened in San Juan: as the days progressed, large and small activities were added in Ponce, Mayagüez, Dorado, Aguadilla, Lares, Guaynabo, among other towns. The route to victory is not the “radicalization” of the action of the militant minority “because pickets and marches do not achieve anything”, as it is sometimes posed: the key is to make each activity ensure that the next one is still wider and bigger than the previous one.
We are not pacifists
We know that the state will attack the struggles of the people in a violent and criminal way: this has also been proven. To say, as some people do, that this has been a peaceful struggle is to idealize things. People have exhibited great patience. But the state has been anything but peaceful: arbitrary arrests, illegal searches, gas, macanas and rubber and metal bullets attest to it. [4] We recognize the importance of self-defence and an adequate response to these aggressions. The July sessions show that these actions, such as those of the (mostly) young people who faced the riot police, when they occur in the context of a struggle that has achieved great support, acquire a high degree of legitimacy as a form of struggle and resistance.
That is why it is necessary to prepare this form of resistance, but never in place of or as a substitute for, much less to the detriment of, the task of convincing increasingly broad sectors to join the struggle and mobilization. We saw, for example, calls on the internet that people who were not prepared to face the riot police did not go to San Juan. Not everyone can respond in that way. But they are also part of the fight. The other option is to aspire to the struggle of the militant minority against the state. This leads to isolation and defeat. But let us not be misunderstood: the response against the riot police was correct and had broad support. We just have to try to get the best lessons from what happened.
The ruling class regroups
The July days have left the ruling classes in panic. Their two parties are more discredited than ever. Much of the press has been exposed as a mouthpiece of those parties. Now comes the campaign to save the existing order. This cannot be done by attacking the mobilization directly. They have to withdraw and make concessions. The demobilization strategy will have several elements.
First it will be recognized that the struggle was justified. It will be recognized that reforms are needed. But everything will be limited to suggesting that adjustments must be made to the political system, to the electoral provisions and so on. We will hear ad nauseam of a “crisis of representation”. That is, what is intended is to divorce the fall of the Rosselló government from the other fundamental problems that affect the country: the economic crisis, the debt crisis, the policies of the Board, the colonial condition. The problem will be reduced to the corruption and incompetence of Rosselló and this will be separated from the social class that Rosselló represents. Attention will be diverted to talk of creating a post of deputy governor or similar changes, which will not affect anything essential.
The truth is that most of those who have participated in the mobilizations against Rosselló were motivated by the revelations of corruption and the infamous chat. This revealed to them the real face of the ruling classes: their contempt for the people, their machismo, their racism. It was an invaluable weapon that Rosselló has given us to fight against a class that is inevitably hypocritical: that tries to present itself as a friend, committed to the people, while living to exploit and devalue it.
But most of the participants in the protests still do not make the connection between Rosselló and his friends in the “chat” and their attacks on working people with employment reform, charter schools, austerity policies, cuts to pensions and the University of Puerto Rico. The ruling class, from the PNP and the PPD, to Nuevo Día and Manuel Cidre, do not want them to make that connection. It is our task to have an increasingly large number do so. We have to remember a slogan in the July mobilizations: “Ricky resign and take the Board with you”. We have to relay the fight against Rosselló as much as possible to the resistance to the Board and its policies.
Until now we were told that nothing could be done against the Board: now we know that it can be. Many times, we raised the need to mobilize against the Board and the press told us: the Board and Congress do not care what we do in Puerto Rico. Protest is useless. Now we see the potential strength of the people when activated.
The mobilizations in Puerto Rico have had an impact around the world. They have raised sympathy throughout the planet, including the United States. With that strength we can defeat the Board and the bondholders, we can obtain the reparations to which we are entitled from Congress and we can also achieve decolonization. But for this we cannot allow attention to be diverted to mere secondary reforms.
The people need a program and organization
The struggle we have been through had an important but simple objective: to achieve the resignation of the governor. That was enough for mobilization and as an immediate end. Now that Rosselló is leaving, the campaign against his possible substitute Wanda Vázquez is on track. It is good that this is the case, although the mobilization may not be as big as the one generated in the fight against Rosselló (hopefully we are wrong in this). But as we indicated above: such activities are important, although their fruits are not seen immediately.
However, it soon becomes clear that it is not enough to reject Rosselló or Vázquez or the successor who ends up entering Fortaleza. The movement needs a program. That is, a set of proposals on economic development, tax policy, incentive policy, on public services and privatization and on many other issues.
To start with: a citizens’ debt audit; a moratorium on any payment of the debt and agreement on it until that audit is completed; an adequate contribution by Congress for the economic reconstruction of Puerto Rico; the restoration of employment rights eliminated by the Rosselló government; a progressive tax reform; the recovery of a greater part of the profits that are now fleeing the country; democratic government reform and zero privatization of essential services; revocation of PROMESA and the neoliberal, anti-democratic and colonial Financial Oversight and Management Board, among other measures; convening of a constitutional assembly to resolve the colonial problem at once.
We need an assembly of movements that allow us to take on this program (or something similar) and promote it through constant mobilization. It must be a simple and flexible structure. A place of meeting and discussion. It should boost demands that have overwhelming support, and everyone should continue taking the initiatives they deem appropriate. In the fight against the privatization of Telefónica, the Comité Amplio de Organizaciones Sociales y Sindicales (CAOSS) made up of workers’, student, women’s, religious, environmental and political organizations, among others, worked for one year (August 1997 to August 1998). It is a model that we can adapt to the current situation. But it should be clear: activity now should not be subordinated or waiting upon the birth of such a structure. However, at some point, a coordinating body will be necessary.
The participation of artists has played a central role in this process. This must be recognized. However, we cannot permanently depend on this ability to appeal. Nor can we claim it replaces what only organization and the development of a program can supply. Nor can any supreme leader replace this. This must be stressed: despite the presence of celebrities, this movement has had no identifiable leaders. It has really been a collective movement. We have the opportunity to continue developing it with collective structures and with collective leaders.
Political representation
But this movement also needs political representation. And this is one of the thorniest problems we have to tackle bluntly. There is a position that states that the fight against Rosselló should not be “politicized”. That rejects the presence of organizations, flags, parties and political organizations in the fight. Which states that only Puerto Rico flags and perhaps other national flags should be brought to activities, but not political flags. Which objects to the protest activities endorsing the registration of a movement for the 2020 elections.
We fully understand the emancipatory and progressive sense that underlies this position: the rejection of the traditional “politicians”, of the usual “parties”, of the dirty politics to which we are accustomed. We share that feeling of rejection. But precisely because we want to end the control of those corrupt parties, we reject censorship and the prohibition of political expression in protest activities.
We reject it because we reject censorship wherever it comes from. Because we do not confuse unity with uniformity or unanimity. Because we think that unity occurs in diversity. Because we think that everyone should have the freedom to participate with the national, union or political flag with which they identify: that of Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republican, the rainbow, that of feminism, the red of the working class, the black of anarchism, and also that of their party if they wish.
And we reject censorship because it hinders the growth, organization and registration of new options and has the real effect of helping to perpetuate the control of existing parties. If we do not register something new, what options will the people have in 2020? The PNP and the PPD. As usual. Is that what we want? Of course not. Then we must stop celebrating unity above colours and without parties: that is what those who now govern want to hear. They know perfectly well that as long as we do not organize politically they will continue to govern; they will continue to monopolize politics. We do not only want to protest; we want to govern. And for that we need political organization.
The authors of this text are participating in one of these registration efforts. Perhaps the reader does not agree with this project. That is legitimate. This is not the place to debate it. But in that case, you have to create other political projects. What we cannot do is turn our backs on that task. It is not enough to get rid of Rosselló. Without building our political alternative, we stay halfway, under the government of the Board and the same employer class. The July days have begun a new era in the history of the country. Let’s take advantage of the possibilities it offers us.
* Rafael Bernabe and Manuel Rodríguez Banchs are activists in the Movimiento Victoria Ciudadana
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A scandal-tarred governor resigns after huge protests. His handpicked successor is installed without the legislature’s full support. When that’s ruled unconstitutional, the office passes to the justice secretary, next in line but previously the target of an ethics investigation, who says she doesn’t want the job.
And so it goes in Puerto Rico, whose government has been all but paralyzed since a voluminous leak last month of chat messages between Gov. Ricardo Rossello and his advisers that reeked of corruption and contempt for their own constituents. With unrest still simmering, Justice Secretary Wanda Vazquez has reluctantly agreed to assume the governorship until elections next year - even as party insiders engage in machinations for her to step down.
All the turmoil has distracted from the island’s efforts to recover from what ranks as the biggest U.S. municipal bankruptcy on record, a devastating hurricane that took almost 3,000 lives, and a more than decade-long recession. Since 2006, some 600,000 Puerto Ricans have decamped for the mainland. Nearly half of the 3.2 million who remain live in poverty. An oversight board appointed by Congress now controls the island’s finances, but it’s burdened by a debt-servicing load about four times greater than that of the average U.S. state, and disputes with the legislature and the governor have repeatedly delayed much-needed financial and governance reforms.
Given these constraints, one immediate source of hope for Puerto Ricans should be the federal government. Yet President Donald Trump has been more vindictive than forthcoming. He has repeatedly, and falsely, asserted that the island has received more than $90 billion in hurricane-recovery aid and wanted to use it to pay off bondholders. In reality, about $42.5 billion has been allocated and only about $13.6 billion has been paid out. Now Trump’s administration wants to place new restrictions on funds that have already been promised.
Unfortunately, more red tape threatens to retard the relief effort. Almost two years after Hurricane Maria hit, Puerto Rico still needs to repair roads, flood control systems, schools, hospitals and nearly 30,000 homes that still have blue tarps for roofs, especially with hurricane season looming. Washington should instead encourage the creation of an independent board to monitor recovery efforts and guard against waste and corruption. If administered locally and run with prudence, such a body would have a lot of benefits. It could tap the energy and knowledge of local organizations in way that federal bureaucrats can’t, for instance, while also channeling aid to better-run municipalities that know what needs to be done on the ground.
In the longer term, there’s a lot more that the federal government can do to remedy Puerto Rico’s persistent disadvantages. It should reduce disparities in Medicaid funding to ensure the island’s citizens get sufficient health care, for example. To spur employment and reduce poverty, it could extend the earned-income tax credit to Puerto Rico and allow some flexibility on minimum-wage laws. Providing a waiver of the Jones Act, a century-old statute that makes seaborne commerce between Puerto Rico and the continental U.S. indefensibly expensive, should be a no-brainer.
By staging some of the largest protests ever seen in the commonwealth, Puerto Ricans have signaled their disgust with corruption and their hunger for change. Ultimately, they must decide the island’s future political status - a key step toward ensuring greater accountability. In the meantime, as they recover from disaster, they deserve the full measure of respect and support from their government in Washington.
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico’s new governor says her administration will be evaluating all government contracts as anger still simmers across the U.S. territory after corruption and mismanagement of public funds led to the recent ouster of the island’s former leader.
In one of her first moves as governor, Wanda Vázquez announced late Sunday that she was suspending a pending $450,000 contract that is part of the program to rebuild and strengthen the island’s power grid, which was destroyed by Hurricane Maria nearly two years ago.
“There is no room in this administration for unreasonable expenses,” said Vázquez, who on Wednesday became Puerto Rico’s third governor in a week following popular protests that resulted in political turmoil.
Puerto Rico’s Electric Power Authority, which is more than $9 billion in debt, had been expected to sign the contract with Stantec, a consulting firm based in Canada. Vázquez did not explain why she was suspending the deal, saying only that transparency is a priority for her administration.
However, a power company spokesman emailed a statement to The Associated Press saying that PREPA executive director José Ortiz planned to meet with Vázquez on Monday to explain why it was important to sign the contract. Ortiz said the contract has to be submitted before Oct. 6 so the U.S. territory can obtain federal hurricane recovery funds.
A Stantec official based in Puerto Rico did not respond to a request for comment.
It is unclear whether Vázquez’s move will delay efforts to rebuild and bolster the power grid, which remains fragile and is prone to outages that have exasperated many of the island’s 3.2 million people. Power company spokesman Jorge Burgos said that he had no further details and that more information would be released after Monday’s meeting.
Puerto Rico’s power company has awarded several multimillion-dollar contracts since the Category 4 storm hit on Sept. 20, 2017, and many of those deals have come under intense scrutiny, with some being cancelled. Currently, Mammoth Energy Services’ subsidiary Cobra Acquisitions, which has some $1.8 billion in contracts with the power company, is facing a federal investigation.
Economist José Caraballo said he hopes Vázquez’s announcement is the first of more changes to come.
“I hope this isn’t a smoke screen and that there’s a real audit,” he said in a phone interview. “That’s what all these people who have lost trust in the government expect.”
Puerto Rico has been mired in political turmoil, with former Gov. Ricardo Rosselló resigning Aug. 2 following large protests. The island’s Supreme Court then ruled that his replacement was illegally sworn in, which left Vázquez, the justice secretary, next in line to become governor. The U.S. territory also is struggling to emerge from a 13-year recession and trying to restructure some of its more than $70 billion public debt load.
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Questions multiply after Jeffrey Epstein’s death
The death of Jeffrey Epstein, apparently by suicide, over the weekend hasn’t ended the inquiries into accusations that he trafficked underage girls for a network of abusers. Instead, it has prompted many more.
Mr. Epstein may have died because of security lapses. He was left alone in his Manhattan jail cell just 11 days after being taken off suicide watch. Guards were supposed to check on him every 30 minutes, but didn’t. Attorney General William Barr said that the Justice Department would investigate.
The investigation into his alleged crimes will continue. The federal authorities will turn their focus to people who accusers say were his associates in sex trafficking. Documents in a defamation lawsuit against Ghislane Maxwell, who has been accused of being a longtime accomplice of Mr. Epstein’s, were unsealed on Friday, giving new details about the scale of his alleged operation — and named others said to be involved in it.
His opaque finances are a main focus, according to the NYT. Officials at JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank, which did business with Mr. Epstein, are scouring their books for clues. Questions still surround Les Wexner, the financier’s most prominent client, and how Mr. Epstein used Mr. Wexner’s wealth to finance his own fortune.
Expect a fight over Mr. Epstein’s estate, Chris Dolmetsch of Bloomberg reports. Lawyers, who are still struggling to figure out what the financier owned, will also battle over who gets it — and it’s not assured that victims will win out.
Conspiracy theories have arisen about Mr. Epstein’s death. President Trump retweeted a videoimplicating the Clintons, which has made the rounds on far-right websites. (There’s no evidence to support the claim.) That’s a sign of how our information systems are now so easily poisoned, according to Charlie Warzel of the NYT.
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Saudi Aramco will buy 20% of Reliance’s oil business
The Saudi oil giant reported its earnings for the first half of 2019 this morning and announced a huge investment to help broaden its businesses.
• Aramco said that its first-half profit fell 12 percent compared with the same time last year, to $46.9 billion. (For comparison: Apple earned $31.5 billion in the first half.) It’s a sign of how low oil prices have hurt the world’s most profitable company.
• Total revenue fell 3 percent, to $163.9 billion.
• It increased dividend payments to its owner, the Saudi government, by 45 percent, to $46.4 billion.
It also struck a big deal for Reliance’s oil and chemicals business. The transaction, one of the biggest foreign investments in an Indian company, values the division at $75 billion, including debt.
The deal will help Aramco find another use for its oil. It comes months after the Saudi petroleum giant bought a majority stake in an oil chemical business, Sabic, for $69 billion. Amin Nasser, Aramco’s C.E.O., said such deals would help diversify its operations.
It’s unclear how this plays into Aramco’s I.P.O. plans. The company is expected to formally start interviewing potential underwriters for an I.P.O. next month, the NYT reports, citing an unnamed source. The WSJ, citing unnamed people, adds that the oil producer is hoping to stage that offering as soon as next year.
Expect more information when Aramco executives hold the company’s first-ever earnings call at 9 a.m. Eastern.
How Facebook is remaking itself under the gun
In both pre-emptive and defensive ways, the social network is modifying its behavior to fend off antitrust concerns, Mike Isaac of the NYT reports.
The company has demurred from acquisitions. Late last year it halted talks about buying Houseparty, a video-focused social network, over antitrust concerns, according to unnamed sources. “Acquiring another social network after Facebook was already such a dominant player in that market was too risky,” Mr. Isaac writes.
It’s also making internal changes to make a breakup of the company more difficult. “The company has been knitting together the messaging systems of Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp and has reorganized the departments so that Facebook is more clearly in charge,” Mr. Isaac writes. “Executives have also worked on rebranding Instagram and WhatsApp to more prominently associate them with Facebook.”
Facebook pushed back on the idea that it’s trying to head off a potential breakup.
Could U.S. bond yields go negative?
Last week’s slide in the yields of U.S. government bonds has left some people wondering whether negative interest rates — once unimaginable — could become a reality, Sam Goldfarb and Daniel Kruger of the WSJ write.
It has already happened in other parts of the world. In fact, “there is more than $15 trillion in government debt around the world with negative yields,” Mr. Goldfarb and Mr. Kruger write. “That means, essentially, that savers holding these bonds are paying the government to store their money.”
Falling U.S. bond yields suggest that the same thing could happen in America. “If you proposed negative rates 10 years ago, people would have laughed you out of the room,” Mark MacQueen, a bond manager and principal at Sage Advisory Services, told the WSJ. “Today people are getting on board the negative-rate idea very quickly.”
“Yields have been this low during a few other periods in the past decade,” Mr. Goldfarb and Mr. Kruger write. “But many investors are unsure what could revive them this time, absent a change in government policy or unexpected improvement in the economic outlook.”
For now it’s a minority view, with most investors believing that the economic outlook is robust enough to fend off that scenario.
Inside Jack Dorsey’s leadership at Twitter
Twitter continues to face criticism for its slow response to problems ranging from misinformation to hate speech. But according to a new profile of its C.E.O., Jack Dorsey, by Roger Parloff of Yahoo Finance, that’s perhaps unsurprising.
• Mr. Dorsey “almost avoids decision-making,” one former Twitter executive told Mr. Parloff. “He can’t decide anything,” another said.
• “He speaks in riddles,” another former employee said, adding that Mr. Dorsey’s comments could be “like listening to a fortune-cookie talk.”
• “He once said he thought the perfect meeting was one in which he doesn’t have to say a thing,” said a former high-level employee from Square, the other company that Mr. Dorsey leads.
Not everyone thinks that slow pace is a bad thing. “Jack’s at a slower pace where he’s noticing things that the rest of us don’t notice,” Greg Kidd, an early investor in both Twitter and Square, told Mr. Parloff. “That’s extremely valuable to society.”
The El Paso killer’s words mirror those of right-wing media stars
There is a striking degree of overlap between the words of right-wing media personalities (and President Trump) and the language used by the Texas man who has confessed to killing 22 people at a Walmart in El Paso this month, according to an NYT investigation.
An extensive review of popular right-wing media platforms “found hundreds of examples of language, ideas and ideologies that overlapped with the mass killer’s written statement — a shared vocabulary of intolerance that stokes fears centered on immigrants of color.” The TV and radio programs that were studied reach an audience of millions.
Words like “invaders” or “invasion” were rarely used by American outlets before the first groups of Central American migrants received heavy news media coverage in 2018.
But “in the last year, the use of such terms has surged, with references to an immigrant ‘invasion’ appearing on more than 300 Fox News broadcasts. The vast majority of those were spoken by Fox News hosts and guests, but some included clips of Mr. Trump using that language.”
The El Paso gunman claimed to be defending against a “Hispanic invasion of Texas” in a document that he published shortly before the attack.
Can Democrats be tougher than Trump on trade?
President Trump’s escalating economic war with China is making it difficult for Democratic rivals to differentiate themselves on trade policy, Ana Swanson of the NYT writes.
Mr. Trump has stolen the Democrats’ playbook on trade, usurping their argument that China is an economic aggressor bent on undermining American industry, denouncing Nafta and insisting on using tools like tariffs and federal procurement to help U.S. workers. In fact, he’s acting more aggressively than many Democrats would.
That puts Democrats in an awkward spot. “They are trying to figure out how to differentiate themselves from Mr. Trump — without ceding their position as the party that will do the most to defend workers against the downsides of globalization,” Ms. Swanson writes.
So far, they are divided between two very different approaches:
• “On one side are Democratic lawmakers and presidential candidates who hew more closely to Mr. Trump’s isolationist approach, arguing that trade pacts have sold out workers in favor of corporations.”
• “On the other are those advocating the type of engagement undertaken by previous Democratic administrations, including those of Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, to try to gain more influence over other countries through negotiation and trade.”
More: Mr. Trump said that trade talks with China next month could be canceled. Official figures from China show that it’s hurting from the trade war with the U.S. — and the truth is probably even worse. And how U.S. farmers increasingly need side hustles to offset the impact of the trade war.
Revolving door
Matthew Whitaker, the former acting attorney general, has joined the antivirus software company PC Matic as an of counsel.
Steven Barg, who had been Goldman Sachs’s top shareholder activism banker, has joined the activist hedge fund Elliott Management as its global head of corporate engagement.
Helen Wong, who had been HSBC’s head of Greater China since 2010, is resigning.
Global banks have announced nearly 30,000 layoffs since April.
Uber has frozen hiring for employees who work on software and services in the U.S. and Canada to save money.
The speed read
Deals
• WeWork reportedly plans to publish its I.P.O. prospectus as soon as this week. (Bloomberg)
• CBS and Viacom are said to have agreed on who the directors would be if they combine, and could announce a merger as soon as this week. (Bloomberg)
• How venture capitalists have tried to woo start-ups: lavish dinners, diapers for expecting parents and even customized comic books. (Information)
Politics and policy
• President Trump showed up at the fund-raiser hosted by the real estate mogul Stephen Ross and joked about the backlash that it had spurred. The celebrity chef David Chang was among those who urged Mr. Ross to cancel the event. (Business Insider, NYT)
• The coming trial of Gregory Craig, a former Obama aide, will be a legal test of the government’s crackdown on unregistered foreign agents. (NYT)
• Many labor unions have embraced Medicare-for-all proposals, putting them at odds with moderate Democratic presidential candidates like Joe Biden. (Politico)
• Mr. Trump has reportedly sent Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada several notes, including annotated magazine covers, handwritten with a Sharpie. (Axios)
Brexit
• The consulting firm EY warned that British business travelers could be blocked from traveling around Europe if Britain leaves the E.U. without a deal. (FT)
• The former head of Britain’s civil service warned that the British pound could fall to parity with the U.S. dollar in a no-deal Brexit. (Business Insider)
Tech
• Russian officials opened an antitrust investigation into Apple for restricting and removing parental control apps from its App Store. (NYT)
• The first review of Apple’s credit card is in: It probably won’t be your default payment option, at least for now. (WSJ)
• Huawei has unveiled Harmony OS, its homegrown operating system. But expect to see it first on devices like speakers and watches instead of smartphones. (Axios)
• How California turned on the tech industry. (WSJ)
• A new White House proposal would reportedly order the F.C.C. and F.T.C. to police what it claims is social media censorship. (CNN)
Best of the rest
• Cathay Pacific agreed to bar employees who support or join Hong Kong protests from working on flights to mainland China. (NYT)
• JPMorgan Chase made the unusual choice to forgive customers’ credit card debts as it exits the credit card business in Canada. (NYT)
• Italy’s biggest economic problem? Italy. (NYT)
• “The world’s wealthiest family gets $4 million richer every hour.” (Bloomberg)
• Here’s an effort to dissect the Saudi royal family’s finances. (Bloomberg)
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M.N.: My advice to those, against whom Douglas Leff of Puerto Rico FBI initiated the legal cases, to Ms. Julia Keleher and others: get together and hire a good private detective. Investigate "Douglas Leff" to his bones of bones! He is a liar and a criminal.
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M.N.: My advice to those, against whom Douglas Leff of Puerto Rico FBI initiated the legal cases, to Ms. Julia Keleher and others: get together and hire a good private detective. Investigate "Douglas Leff" to his bones of bones! He is a liar and a criminal.
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