Understanding service dogs

I did not know this, will pay more attention now.

A woman’s story about a service dog approaching her without its owner has gone viral and started an important conversation. TODAY’s Carson Daly reports from the Orange Room about what you should do if a guide dog or service animal approaches you without its owner.  Here is a direct video link.

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Manic stock market may find its bear market excuse in trade wars

Why are stocks selling off? Massive over-valuation, complacency, years of reckless financial gimmicks by corporations, and the fact that no price expansion cycle can last forever.  The more prices have been juiced up the harder the contraction that follows.  President Trump foolishly took undue credit for the market rally from his election into January, he will now try to distance himself from the bear market.  Good luck.  Classic stuff.

Jim Mellon, Chairman of the Burnbrae Group, talks international trade and the impact of a possible trade war.Here is a direct video link.

Jim Mellon talks the possibility of a trade war from CNBC.

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Heavily indebted Chicago looks to increase productivity with transport innovation

After a couple of decades wasting scarce resources on non-productive consumption and financial gimmicks, future progress depends on increasing productivity (doing more with less spending) by lowering day to day friction costs in the most critical areas like energy, transportation, housing, food production and environmental harm.

Chicago has the right idea this week in embracing a new electric, high-speed train service promising to cut transport costs while halving travel times and reducing air pollution, carbon emissions and congestion throughout the metropolitan area.

Chicago, slammed by rating agencies for its fiscal woes, President Donald Trump for its violence and even its own governor for the school system’s debts, is getting a boost from visionary Elon Musk.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Musk, the billionaire chief executive officer of electric carmaker Tesla Inc., Thursday officially unveiled the plans for a high-speed train service that will make the approximately 15-mile (24-kilometer) trip from downtown Chicago to O’Hare International Airport in 12 minutes, a fraction of the current commute…He’s bearing the cost,” Emanuel told reporters. “We get the upside with no financial risk at all.”  See:  Hounded by woes, Chicago sees Musk’s train as win for the economy.

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