The Hemingway Report

Friday, August 3, 2018

Madonna Reveals She Moved To Portugal To Get Away From Donald Trump

So the used up skank whore is moving to Portugal...God, I'm going to miss her.

Don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out!

This is Marcelo Nuno Duarte Rebelo de Sousa the president of Portugal.

This is the presidential palace where he resides.

Wonder what will happen if she threatens to blow it up?

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In an interview with Vogue Italia, Madonna revealed that she moved to Portugal in order to get out of the US after Donald Trump became President in 2017. Here are highlights:

On leaving the country: “I felt like we needed a change, and I wanted to get out of America for a minute ― as you know, this is not America’s finest hour. Not that leaving America makes anything different or changes anything. I’ve lived in other places; I lived in London for 10 years. I like to put myself in uncomfortable situations and take risks.”

On why she settled for Lisbon: “It was actually between three different cities that had soccer academies. And I thought, let me see if I could live somewhere else for a year and put my four youngest kids in a different environment, as I think it’s also important to expose them to different cultures and live in different places. It was between Turin, Barcelona, and Benfica in Lisbon. I went to all those places and tried to imagine myself living there. Of course, Barcelona is a super fun city, and I like Turin as well, but Turin is not really a city for children. It’s a city for intellectuals; they have incredible museums and beautiful homes, but I didn’t think it would be fun for them. I have to take everyone into account, not just whether it will be a good academy for David. So I went to Lisbon, and it seemed the best all-around choice. The first thing I did when I got there was to go to Sintra, which is a magical forest – there’s a lot of mystical energy there.”

On Portugal: “I believe Portugal is the oldest country in Europe. It’s steeped in history, and the Portuguese empire has made its dent on the world. The architecture is amazing. It’s also the birthplace of slavery, and so there are musical influences which come from Angola and Cape Verde, and also from Spain.

Almost fell off my chair when I read this! She's want's to get away from Trump and then glows over the 'musical influences' of slavery in Portugal? Wonder if she was so empathetic when it came to the removal of Confederate statues here in America?

China Dethroned by Japan as World's Second-Biggest Stock Market

China just lost its ranking as the world’s number two stock market.

Just the opening salvo of a trade war he could never win.

After a Thursday slump, Chinese equities were worth $6.09 trillion, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That compares with $6.17 trillion in Japan. The U.S. has the world’s largest stock market at just over $31 trillion.

China’s stock market overtook Japan’s in late 2014, then soared to an all-time high of more than $10 trillion in June 2015. Chinese equities and the nation’s currency have taken a beating this year amid a trade spat with the U.S., a government-led campaign to cut debt and a slowing economy.

"Losing the ranking to Japan is the damage caused by the trade war," said Banny Lam, head of research at CEB International Investment Corp. in Hong Kong. "The Japan equity gauge is relatively more stable around the current level but China’s market cap has slumped from its peak this year."

The Shanghai Composite Index has lost more than 16 percent in 2018 to be among the world’s worst performers, while the yuan has fallen 5.3 percent against the dollar.

"The market will likely continue to hover at low levels for the next couple of months," said Linus Yip, Hong Kong-based strategist with First Shanghai Securities Ltd. "But there’s still a chance that China’s stock market will recover with total capitalization ascending to the world’s No. 2 place again. After all, the economic fundamentals are still stable and growth momentum will resume after a short-term downturn."

While Japan’s benchmark Topix index has declined 3.9 percent this year, it remains one of the better-performing markets in Asia amid support from the Bank of Japan’s ETF purchases and as most companies continue to report robust earnings growth. Almost 60 percent of firms on the gauge that have already reported in the current earnings season have beat analyst expectations.

The market value calculations include primary listings only, to avoid double-counting. Hong Kong’s equities are valued at $5.1 trillion.

Thursday, August 2, 2018

...And this is coming from the scum of the Earth The Daily Mail

Trump hits 50 percent approval in national poll as he surges past Obama's 2010 numbers and earns MORE support than he won in 2016 election

Donald Trump has achieved a 50 percent approval rating in a poll that proved better than most at predicting his stunning 2016 election victory.

Rasmussen Reports published the number Thursday from its daily tracking poll, marking the first time the president has reached that mark since May 22.

On August 2 of Barack Obama's second year as president, he was polling at 45 percent in the same survey.

President Donald Trump now has the support of half of likely voters, a larger percentage than supported him in his 2016 election

Trump's approval numbers have been hovering in the 40s for months but so were Barack Obama's at this point in his first term

Obama was polling at 45 percent in the Rasmussen survey on this day in 2010, a full five points lower than his successor

Forty-nine percent of likely voters still oppose Trump, and there are far more who 'strongly disapprove' of him than 'strongly approve.'

The president's average approval rating in the month of July was 46 percent.

That roughly matches the 46.1 percent of votes he won in his epic 2016 clash with Democrat Hillary Clinton.

The Rasmussen poll was among the few that came close to accurately predicting that contest's result.

Unlike other polls that ask questions in live telephone interviews, it relies on push-button phone call responses – meaning voters who like Trump's performance in office aren't required to say so out loud to another person.

Some political scientists have called the result 'The Trump Effect,' a phenomenon that explained how social distaste for the president might depress his numbers in polls that use live operators.

Trump has cited Rasmussen's numbers in the past – as long as they are favorable to him.

His Rasmussen numbers have only been in the 50-plus territory on 13 percent of his days in office.

The Real Clear Politics polling average has Trump at 43.5 percent approval, largely because of a Quinnipiac poll that gave him just 38 percent

Obama polled better than 50-50 more than one-quarter of the time he was commander-in-chief.

Thursday's outlying numbers will be seen against a less rosy backdrop for the president. A polling average maintained by Real Clear Politics has Trump at 43.5 percent.

On the opposite end of the spectrum is a Quinnipiac University poll conducted July 18-23, which had him underwater with 38 percent of registered voters approving and 58 percent disapproving.