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In high stakes poker the best players are always the ones with the icy veins and glazed eyes.  Try as you might, you can’t figure out whether they got a Royal Flush or a pair of twos.  They’ve master the poker face – the art of being unreadable.  This does

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I’m sure that most of you got up this morning thinking “I wish there was more to worry about!” I mean sometimes North Korea, the opioid epidemic, economic uncertainty, political chaos and new diseases aew just not enough, right. Well, I got your back on this one.  Scientists have just

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published Apr 17th 2017, 5:53 pm, by Garfield Reynolds (Bloomberg) —Asian equity futures indicated most regional bourses would gain after U.S. stocks rose the most in six weeks. The yen weakened against most peers as geopolitical threats eased and a fresh set of American economic data damped the odds for a

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published Mar 21st 2017, 9:36 pm, by Yuki Hagiwara (Bloomberg) — North Korea may have conducted a missile test on Wednesday morning, Japan’s Kyodo News reported, in what would be the latest provocation from Kim Jong Un’s regime. Intelligence suggests that the launch in the eastern part of North Korea

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published Sep 1st 2016, 5:00 pm, by The Editors (Bloomberg View) — Barack Obama and Xi Jinping have obvious disagreements over how to handle North Korea’s illicit weapons program. China is angry about U.S. plans to deploy advanced missile defenses in South Korea to counter the threat, while Obama faces

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published May 23rd 2016, 5:00 pm, by Sam Kim (Bloomberg) — Kim Jong Un is looking to one of North Korea’s more experienced technocrats — who once narrowly escaped being purged — to revive the economy in the face of punishing international sanctions. Kim this month named prime minister Pak

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Well, Kim Jong Un and regime are at it again.  The North Korean dictator seems to relish in following his father’s tendency to issue idle threats at the United States.  This one came as state official website a nuclear scientist named Cho Hyong Il bragged on the country’s powerful new weapon.  “Our

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