Monday, August 17, 2026

#korea #DonaldTrump #kimJongUn - US strategy 'falling apart': Trump scales down South Korean support in favour of DPRK 'relationship': The Trump Report

17 August 2026

Donald Trump's order to reduce military cooperation with South Korea has left his security strategy in tatters as his 'good relationship' with Kim Jong Un will embolden US adversaries and push away allies warns Prof. Robert Kelly on Frontline.

Goldbug: #investing #singapore #bloomberg - Why Singapore S...

Goldbug: #investing #singapore #bloomberg - Why Singapore S...: 17 August 2026 Singapore equities are among the world's best performers as strong economic growth, resilient bank earnings and a stronge...

#uk #homes #realestate - "Empty Homes"— Homes Cost £19,000 But NOBODY Wants Them: Wonderful Britain and Deserted UK

3 August 2026

£19,000 buys a full three-bedroom house in Britain right now — not a shed, not a caravan, an actual home with a front door and a postcode. England alone sits on over 750,000 empty properties, and 300,000 of them have stood vacant for six months or more, the worst figure since 2011. We ranked ten real towns from cheapest to most surprising, each with one honest number and one honest catch. In this video, we explore: → Why a three-bed terrace in Boston, Lincolnshire costs a third of the county average — and has for years

→ A Victorian promenade town in North Wales where homes near the beach sell under £120,000, sea air included

→ Four of Britain's five cheapest towns clustered on one stretch of Ayrshire coast, all in the same rock-bottom band

→ Scotland's most affordable town, where Burns wrote "Sweet Afton" and prices never recovered from pit closures

→ Burnley — officially the cheapest local authority in England at £129K, with Pennine-edge winters to match

→ A house on Cameron Road, Hartlepool that sold for £25,000 in September 2026, and auction guide prices as low as £15,000

→ Rhondda Valley, where 5,654 men once worked a single pit complex — now Wales's most affordable place to buy a home

→ Britain's cheapest postcode, PA15 in Greenock, averaging £56,823 on the Clyde where empire ships were built

→ Campbeltown, once "Whiskyopolis" with 37 distilleries, now Britain's cheapest coastal town at £103K → And at number one: the town officially rated most affordable in all of Britain — with a £325 monthly mortgage and 175,000 heritage visitors a year