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Socialism and communism are responsible for scarcity, starvation, brutality, and the murder of tens of millions of people over the past 100 years. College students increasingly embrace socialism because they don't have a clue what it is.

• The question on most financial analysts’ minds this weekend: is Trump’s trade war with China triggering an economic downturn, thus increasing odds that the US economy will fall into recession?

Stocks fell rapidly on Wall Street at closing on Friday after Trump responded to China’s tariff threat against American imports – pushing the market to its fourth-straight week of losses.

Markopolos' report indicates that GE is locked into $38-billion in future expenses that it has not disclosed, which is over 40% of the company’s market capitalization. The company says the report itself is fraud because it was designed to plunge the price of GE stock so insiders could buy cheap and sell high later.

She said that offering less than $100 billion is an insult. She claims that the wealth gap between blacks and whites is a "great injustice that has never been dealt with."

Saikat Chakrabarti, the mastermind behind AOC’s campaign and Green New Deal, resigned as her chief of staff at the same time as coming under federal investigation. Two PACs are being probed, Brand New Congress and Justice Democrats, both set up to support Marxist candidates.

The school plans to appeal the judgement, and raised doubts it could pay the sizable judgement three years from now, as it has $190-million of existing debt.

Last month, a ship owned by JP Morgan's asset management unit was seized with almost 20 tons of cocaine that has a street value of $1.3 billion. Six crew members from Serbia and Samoa were arrested.

Harris' bill would loosen credit standards with the goal of creating more home loans, which is similar to the subprime loan policy that tanked the US economy in 2008.

Attackers are going after both companies and cities by exploiting vulnerabilities via malicious email attachments and demanding payments for decryption keys. In early June, Baltimore rejected a $76,000 ransom, and the damage will instead cost the city about $18 million in IT costs and lost revenue.