Government Crackdowns In China And India Threaten To Absolutely Crush The Cryptocurrency Bubble

by Michael Snyder Taxation and regulation are weapons, and governments often use these weapons to target things that they do not like.  Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple and Litecoin threaten to shatter the existing paradigm of financial control that the elite have carefully crafted, and that is making government officials all over the planet very … Read more

Proof That Central Bank Fiat Currency Is Dying

Banks are preparing for the worst, Deutsche bank is now going to layoff 10,000 workers and this number might go even higher. Other banks will follow. New home sales decline as interest rates increase. The dollar has been losing value since the central bank has come into existence, this is how their system is designed. … Read more

Yields Look Overextended and Ready for Mean Reversion

by Frank Holmes, CEO, U.S. Global Investors The 10-year Treasury yield has been the topic of conversation lately among fixed-income investors. Earlier this month, the T-note closed above 3 percent for the first time since July 2011, prompting some market watchers to call time on the three-decade Treasury bull market. (Bond prices fall as yields … Read more

Deutsche Bank Says It’s Firing 10% Of Its Global Workers (A Month After Firing 10% Of U.S. Workers)

from Zero Hedge Well that escalated fast: one month after Bloomberg reported that Deutsche Bank would cut 1,000 jobs in the US, roughly 10% of its total US labor force, as part of new CEO Christian Sewing’s restructuring process, the WSJ this morning writes that executives at the biggest German lender have “zeroed in” on plans to eliminate … Read more

HERE WE GO AGAIN: BREAKING – US-Led Coalition Hits Syrian Army Base – Reports…hit several Syrian army positions

US-Led Coalition Hits Syrian Army Base – Reports According to the SANA News Agency, US-led Coalition Air Forces struck several positions of the Syrian army in the eastern Syrian desert. According to Reuters and AFP, the strikes allegedly took place near an energy installation located near the Iraqi border, about 100 km (60 miles) west … Read more

ACLU Demands Amazon Stop Selling ‘Affordable Mass Surveillance’ To Law Enforcement

by stockboardasset Amazon has been marketing its facial recognition platform, called Rekognition, a deep learning-based image and video analysis, to law enforcement agencies in Oregon and Orlando, according to recent documents acquired by American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern California. The ACLU alleges that Amazon is marching society towards a dystopian future in which corporations and governments … Read more

The Judge just opened a huge can of worms for Twitter

Robert Barnes: Technically, Trump blocks nobody; Twitter performs the blocking function based on its app. If Trump cannot block people w/o violating First Amendment, how can Twitter block people w/o violating First Amendment? Therefore, Twitter cannot block people. How do you like that, Jack?   Robert Barnes: That is what my suit against Twitter pending … Read more

IF HALF THE EFFORT CURRENTLY PUT INTO COMING UP WITH CUTE ACRONYMS WERE PUT INTO COMING UP WITH GOOD POLICIES INSTEAD, WE MIGHT BE IN MUCH BETTER SHAPE

The House Committee on the Judiciary recently approved the proposed “Formerly Incarcerated Reenter Society Transformed Safely Transitioning Every Person Act”  “FIRST STEP Act.”  I’d really like to wring the neck of the folks who come up with these acronyms, but … well … if I did I’d end up in prison, so I guess I … Read more

Don’t Let the Government Bankrupt You Too

By Rodney Johnson I’ve spent the last few weeks diving deeper into the pension mess in the U.S. while researching for the June issue of Boom & Bust, due out to subscribers this week. And I’ve come to a conclusion. We’re in deep trouble. Some things are obvious. Puerto Rico, which I didn’t write about because it’s on display for the world to see, will NOT … Read more

Seconds After Haspel Sworn in Sarah Sanders REVEALS the ONE Thing Democrats Want to Keep Hidden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXrm_3exe1o Jack Davis for the Western Journal reports, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders on Monday celebrated the confirmation of Gina Haspel to lead the CIA with a reminder of how much Democrats who claim to be the chief advocates for women have tried to block their ascent since President Donald Trump took office. Read … Read more