Blocked by Hungary, migrants search for another route to Western Europe http://t.co/XylbZez0gB
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 16, 2015
How Europe is closing its back doors, explained in graphics: http://t.co/N1S8SrKeEE pic.twitter.com/QiAodgZq8r
— New York Times World (@nytimesworld) September 16, 2015
Civil war in Yemen continues.
I will leave it to you all to decipher this battle map of mine. #Yemen VS #Saudi #Qatar #Bahrain #UAE #US and #UK. pic.twitter.com/50pMa6Tt2W
— Abu Hud Al Hadhrami (@BaFana3) September 16, 2015
Of course war continues in Syria.
For those who remain in Syria, daily life is a nightmare http://t.co/LDlokBqmaf pic.twitter.com/F0APOssfY5
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 16, 2015
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It was seven long years ago that Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy.
September 15, 2008: Lehman Brothers Files for Bankruptcy and American Finance… http://t.co/tbmrpmy54A #UniteBlue pic.twitter.com/uBAYnkOUjB
— The Progressive Mind (@Libertea2012) September 16, 2015
The world waits for the Federal Reserve Board meeting to see if they will raise the benchmark for lending interest rates for US banks. For the first time in nine years they may actually do it.
The question is when, not if, the Fed will raise rates. We might find out Thursday. http://t.co/Ds1h0rDlbd
— Marketplace (@Marketplace) September 16, 2015
As example of the far-reaching consequences of austere fiscal policies, in Japan, they are cutting social science expenditures.
So 26 out of 60 Humanities and Social Sciences departments will shut in #Japan: http://t.co/a3wcvBlXO7 beyond STUPID!
— Sunny Singh (@sunnysingh_nw3) September 16, 2015
With longstanding benchmark lending rates at zero, state governments in the US have not been able to keep pace with expenditures. Kansas, due to its own failure to spend money and consequent credit downgrade and their tax cuts for the wealthiest contributors, is now seeing hospital closures in addition to school closures amid further budget cuts.
And so it begins...a Kansas hospital closure. Tip of the iceberg. http://t.co/9IVU64Bfve #ksleg #medicaid expansion
— Susan Concannon (@ConcannonforKS) September 10, 2015
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