Month: May 2018

“THAT BELONGS IN THE GOSSIP SECTION OF TABLOIDS!” SARAH SANDERS DESTROYS REPORTER

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toTy0Vwx_bQ   “THAT BELONGS IN THE GOSSIP SECTION OF TABLOIDS!” SARAH SANDERS DESTROYS REPORTER Today Sarah Huckabee Sanders held nothing back when it came to representing President Trump as his press secretary sarah huckabee sanders gives daily white house press conference and white house press briefing depending on the schedule president donald trump has this … Read more

Despite 1/4 of the workforce qualifying for Public Service Loan Forgiveness, only 139 people have made substantial progress in completing the required payments

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by SpyPirates Just read this article that chronicles one of the first people in the U.S. to have his student loan debt forgiven under the program. The amount of diligence he undertook to ensure he was on the right plan, was making the right type of payments, and that all his payments were being kept … Read more

What Young People Need to Know About Credit

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by visualcapitalist Do you consider yourself to be a trustworthy individual? While it may be true that your family and friends would be willing to vouch for you, the reality is that the rest of the world has no idea of your level of trustworthiness. As a result, banks, car dealers, mobile phone companies, and other … Read more

As Malls Melt Down, Industrial Properties Heat Up

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter This is the brick & mortar part of e-commerce. Commercial real estate prices peaked in August 2017 at 27% above the crazy peak of the prior bubble, according to the Green Street Commercial Property Price Index (CPPI). By April this year, the index was down 1.4% from the peak and by … Read more

The people claiming the most concern with Russian machinations have contributed the most to the damage.

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I AGREE, BUT I’M NOT OPTIMISTIC: Because we don’t live in a healthy polity. Plus: And the people claiming the most concern with Russian machinations have contributed the most to the damage. Related: How the Russian collusion myth was hatched by Team Hillary immediately after her loss. It’s all in Shattered, a book everyone supposedly read. h/t GR

Fed’s QE Unwind Accelerates Sharply

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter These are getting to be serious amounts. The QE Unwind is ramping up toward cruising speed. The Fed’s balance sheetfor the week ending May 2, released this afternoon, shows a total drop of $104 billion since the beginning of the QE Unwind in October – to the lowest level since June 11, 2014. … Read more

Toronto’s Splendid Housing Bubble Turns to Bust

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Market freezes up at the top. Average price of detached house plunges C$175,000 in 12 months. Home sales in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), Canada’s largest housing market, and among the most inflated in the world, plunged 32% in April, compared to a year ago, to 7,792 homes, according to the … Read more

Asylum-Seeking New Zealand Journalist Suzie Dawson Is Critically Ill In Moscow

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by Disobedient Media Suzie Dawson, asylum-seeking journalist and current President of the Internet Party of New Zealand, is critically ill in Moscow. Dawson is seeking asylum in Russia after being targeted by New Zealand intelligence agencies as a result of her activism in the Occupy movement and against the TPP, among other causes. Prior to becoming … Read more

Meet the 4 companies that control the 147 companies that control nearly everything

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by SuperCharged2000 The real power to control the world lies with four companies: McGraw-Hill — which owns Standard & Poor’s Northwestern Mutual — which owns Russell Investments, the index arm of which runs the benchmark Russell 1,000 and Russell 3,000 CME Group — which owns 90% of Dow Jones Indexes Barclay’s — which took over Lehman Brothers and its … Read more

If things like this didn’t happen everytime Hillary was “investigated” alot of us would be less suspicious. But the fact is, things like this “always happen” when Hillary is investigated.

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New FOIA docs show that FBI lost chain of custody for five weeks of Hillary Clinton's server. Say they lost the chain entirely and created a new one. https://t.co/enxNv8h9sl pic.twitter.com/pKPWxQYKeL — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) May 5, 2018 Seriously tho folks…whenever I hear someone say “Well, they investigated Hillary and found nothing”, I always think about all … Read more

Youtube now has government funding warnings underneath videos. They word it differently depending on the country.

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Youtube now has disclosures underneath videos produced by government-funded outlets. The photo has screenshots of the warning from different countries. Some countries have it worded differently where it doesn’t sound as harsh: [network] is a publicly funded [country] broadcaster Examples: CBC, BBC, NPR, PBS For other countries it says: [network] is funded in whole or in part by the … Read more

Corporate debt could be the culprit for next crisis

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by COMPUTER1313 https://www.economist.com/news/business-and-finance/21741377-corporate-debt-could-be-culprit-where-will-next-crisis-occur One sign that the credit quality of the market has been deteriorating is that, globally, the median bond’s rating has dropped steadily since 1980, from A- to BBB-. The corporate-bond market is divided into investment grade (debt with a high credit rating) and speculative, or “junk”, bonds below that level. The dividing line … Read more