Balance of Trade

If we are in debt , it is because of the Dollar being strong Weaken the Dollar on purpose and watch what happens The blood that Jesus shed for me, Way back on Calvary, It shall NEVER lose its power

Tariff if....if and only if

Lifted from Financial Times The UK will seek to shield the car industry from post-Brexit tariffs, with pledges to Nissan likely to be extended to other carmakers with plants in Britain. FT (£)

PARADOXICAL POUND

LIFTED FROM WSJ- SEE REFS Manufacturing Grows, Services Slow Updated October 10 2016 6:40 am BST British manufacturers enjoyed a bounce in the three months after the Brexit vote thanks in part to the weakening pound, but growth in the country’s powerhouse service sector slowed markedly, a survey of over 7,000 businesses showed. The survey by the British Chambers of Commerce, a lobbying group, adds to a mixed picture of the world’s fifth-biggest economy as the Conservative Party prepares to chart the UK’s departure from the European Union. • The balance of manufacturers reporting that export sales grew in the July-September period rose to +17, from +9 in the second quarter.. • The balance of services firms reporting improved domestic sales fell to +9, from +24 the previous quarter. • The balance is an index reflecting the percentage of firms reporting an improvement against those experiencing a decline. While the post-Brexit bounce saw manufacturers increase new hires slightly, new employment in the service sector slowed. Compared with the previous quarter, companies across the two sectors also expect to take on fewer staff next year. Read the full story at WSJ.com city@wsj.com

Through it all , they have learned to trust in TAXES

from WSJ Energy section Is Apple representative of US Big Biz tax loopholes? $14,500,000,000 The first major investigation to stem from a 2014 EU-wide tax inquiry by the European Commission focuses on Engie, the French energy giant formerly known as GDF Suez, write Laurence Norman and Inti Landauro. The commission, which has recently gained headlines for ordering Ireland to collect $14.5 billion in taxes from Apple, is looking into tax rulings Luxembourg made in 2008 around deals with GDF Suez group that could have resulted in big tax savings. I just read the next article over. How do you demand taxes from a company and then turn around and try to buy their bonds? I do not get it!

A little bird and a flying one told me this

Lifted from the net. Via WSJ US tech giant Apple and German auto maker Daimler are among a host of non-British companies whose debt is eligible for the Bank of England’s corporate-bond-buying programme, the central bank has said. The BOE published a list of around 300 securities it can buy in a £10 billion programme scheduled to begin Sept. 27 and run for 18 months. The list is made up of bonds issued by more than 100 companies, many of which have significant operations in the UK but are headquartered overseas. Other non-British names on the BOE’s shopping list include US biotechnology firm Amgen, French utility Électricité de France and Danish energy firm Dong Energy. The inclusion of non-British names underscores the unusual lengths some central banks are going to in an effort to stimulate sluggish economies. The UK has long been a magnet for foreign investment, and the BOE said the principle criterion for inclusion is that the issuer makes “a material contribution to the UK economy.” The issuer’s debt must also be high-quality investment grade and denominated in sterling. Plenty of British firms make the cut, including newspaper publisher Daily Mail & General Trust, whose flagship title The Daily Mail supported the UK’s exit from the European Union in a referendum in June. Bonds from oil giant BP and drug makers GlaxoSmithKline and AstraZeneca are also included. Financial firms are excluded.

NO SPEAKA DA ENGLISH ON NOVELAS

An open message to Televisa This is not a problem with Spanish market share alone. All things that can be watched on rabbit ears for free on 100+ stations will be. An alternative is to look at the novelas as a means to learn Spanish for A little birdie told me. I am the birdie. Which one?

ALL of AMERICA and subtitle them. It can be sponsored by radio stations. If you use this idea I am expecting a 30% royalty check per month. You do not need to go to Miami to film. If you do use the profits for independent production on the major channels From the WSJ TELENOVELA PROBLEMA: As Univision gears up to go public, tension is brewing with Mexican TV company Grupo Televisa, which has supplied the Spanish-language U.S. broadcaster with the “telenovelas” that have driven its viewership for more than two decades. As The Wall Street Journal reports, Univision has pushed Televisa to give its programming a more American feel in order to lure younger and U.S.-born Hispanic viewers. Randy Falco, Univision’s chief executive, has suggested fresher story lines and scenes shot in Miami or Los Angeles. That proposal has fallen flat with Televisa, which gets paid more than $300 million a year by Univision through 2030. Things are getting pretty heated, with Univision Executive Chairman Haim Saban even proposing to cancel the deal or cut the payments in half. Univision’s average prime-time audience has dropped to 2 million this season from 3.7 million viewers five years ago. The company has made courting younger viewers a major focus, a strategy on display most recently with its $135 million acquisition of Gawker Media.

NO SPEAKA DA ENGLISH ON NOVELAS

From the WSJ TELENOVELA PROBLEMA: As Univision gears up to go public, tension is brewing with Mexican TV company Grupo Televisa, which has supplied the Spanish-language U.S. broadcaster with the “telenovelas” that have driven its viewership for more than two decades. As The Wall Street Journal reports, Univision has pushed Televisa to give its programming a more American feel in order to lure younger and U.S.-born Hispanic viewers. Randy Falco, Univision’s chief executive, has suggested fresher story lines and scenes shot in Miami or Los Angeles. That proposal has fallen flat with Televisa, which gets paid more than $300 million a year by Univision through 2030. Things are getting pretty heated, with Univision Executive Chairman Haim Saban even proposing to cancel the deal or cut the payments in half. Univision’s average prime-time audience has dropped to 2 million this season from 3.7 million viewers five years ago. The company has made courting younger viewers a major focus, a strategy on display most recently with its $135 million acquisition of Gawker Media. This loss of revenue issue is not a problem with Spanish market share alone. All things that can be watched on rabbit ears for free on 100+ stations will be An alternative would be to look at the Novelas as a means to learn Spanish for ALL of AMERICA. They can be subtitled. It can be sponsored by radio stations. If you use this idea I am expecting a 30% royalty check per month. You do not need to go to Miami to film. If you do use the profits for independent production on the major channels *