Salient to Investors: Iceland is 15th in the world in legal gun ownership – 90,000 in a country with just over 300,000 people – yet violent crime is virtually non-existent, with a homicide rate between 1999-2009 never above 1.8 per 100,000 in any year versus between 5.0 and 5.8 in the US,
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Fareed Zakaria said: A recent Pew survey found that only 51 percent of Americans think it’s essential to act on immigration reform this year, versus 70 percent who demand a deficit reduction deal this year, despite the wealth of data that shows that immigration reform will lead
READ MORE... →Salient to Investors: Joseph LaVorgna at Deutsche Bank Securities says the economy is muddling through, while concerns about the collapse of manufacturing are grossly overblown, and we’re in a housing recovery. Britons repaid more mortgage debt than they borrowed in May for the first time in at least 15 years. Manufacturing
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