Mick Mulvaney fired all 25 members of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) advisory board!

This agency didn’t exist until Obama. via seattletimes: The board had played an influential role in advising the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s leadership. But members held a news conference to criticize Mulvaney for, among other things, canceling legally required meetings. WASHINGTON – Mick Mulvaney, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, fired the agency’s 25-member … Read more

Fake News Media Obsessed With Melania’s Surgery, Completely Ignores Hillary Hiding Medical Equipment Under Her Bulky Pantsuit

by Geoffrey Grider FIRST LADY MELANIA TRUMP MADE HER FIRST PUBLIC APPEARANCE IN NEARLY A MONTH ON WEDNESDAY, TAMPING DOWN RUMORS ABOUT HER NOTICEABLE ABSENCE FROM THE PUBLIC EYE AFTER SHE UNDERWENT A KIDNEY PROCEDURE. EDITOR’S NOTE: The fake news media is over the moon obsessed with Melania and her kidney operation. The economy is booming, … Read more

Did Cuomo’s Pardon Of Convicted Felons End Up Permitting Them To Legally Purchase Firearms?

by Duane Norman, Free Market Shooter Facing a serious re-election challenge from “Sex and the City” actress Cynthia Nixon, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo accomplished by executive action what he could not accomplish in the state legislature: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday that he was granting conditional pardons to every parolee in the state — 35,000 — … Read more

Italy’s New Government Goes Full Trump

via thedailybeast: ROME—“Immigrants are criminals!”—“Our interests first”—“What’s wrong with being friends with Russia?” If the rhetoric coming out of Italy’s newly minted government sounds familiar, that’s because it is. Just a day after being sworn in as Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister on Saturday, the far-right League party’s Matteo Salvini vowed to lock up migrants rescued at … Read more

Sebastian Gorka DrG: “What are the Dems going to campaign on in November? Bring back ISIS? Bring back …”

Sebastian Gorka DrG: “What are the Dems going to campaign on in November? Bring back ISIS? Bring back …” Sebastian Gorka DrG Verified account @SebGorka What are the Dems going to campaign on in November? – Bring back ISIS? – Bring back unemployment? – Raise taxes? Seriously. What are the Dems going to campaign on … Read more

The Russell 2000 Is Leading The Stock Market Charge Higher

by Chris Vermeulen of The Technical Traders While the US majors continue to push higher through recent price rotation levels, the IWM (Russell 2000 ETF) is showing investors where strength lies in the markets.  Recently, we issued a research report showing that a massive dynamic shift is beginning to take place in the US market that provides an … Read more

The U.S. Is Hiding Its Real Debt (And It Puts Us In Worse Shape Than Greece)

via silverdoctors: The U.S. national debt is actually twenty times higher than officially reported. Here’s what Laurence Kotlikoff says is really going on… Editor’s Note: Even when the national debt and debt servicing statistics and projections are taken at face value, as Steve St Angelo in this post, we see that when comparing the public debt to the entire … Read more

Europeans Pray for QE to End?

by Martin Armstrong   There is much hope buzzing around in Europe that Draghi is planning on ending Quantitative Easing. This is giving the Euro a bit of a lift in hopes that higher interest rates will stem to drastic capital outflows from Europe that resemble rats fleeing a sinking ship. Back on May 14th, Mario … Read more

2018 Voter Data Reveals DNC Downfall Will Be Over Immigration – New YouGov Poll Most Americans think ‘It’s Making American Life WORSE’

The majority of likely voters in 2018 midterm swing districts across the United States say immigration to the U.S. has made American life worse, a new poll reveals. In the latest CBS News/YouGov Poll, which surveyed likely voters in 2018 midterm battleground districts, Americans by a majority say overall immigration to the country is making … Read more

The true enemies of Europe

Mass-Migration Should Be Accepted By Western Nations, UN SecGen UN member states should prepare for great migratory movements, said UN Secretary General António Guterres on 11th of January 2018 during the presentation of the report on the management of migration processes. And this is not a joke: The UN, led by António Guterres, wants to manage … Read more

Senate Intelligence Committee Under Pending DOJ Investigation for “unauthorized disclosure of information”….

by sundance This is one of those little snippets of information, buried in the swamp and avoided by the media, that seems small and disingenuous unless you know the corrupt record of the Senate Intelligence Committee. According to Wall Street Journalist Byron Tau, the Senate Intel Committee unanimously voted today to release documents to the DOJ “in connection … Read more

BREAKING: Germany is calling for Trump’s US Ambassador in Berlin to be expelled

Quote:He stoked further outrage last weekend with reported comments to far-right website Breitbart of his ambition to “empower other conservatives throughout Europe, other leaders”. Grenell also raised eyebrows with his plan to host a lunch on June 13 for Austria’s arch-conservative Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, described by the US envoy as a “rock star”. The ambassador … Read more

“Why profits don’t matter” – Published in summer 2007 – heard the same in 1999, hearing the same now. People never learn.

https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1004522695860674560 1999 – Why profits don’t matter for IPOs The Wall Street Journal has a heads-up article in Monday’s paper that says the percentage of companies going public this year that aren’t yet profitable is higher than at any time since the dot-com bubble. (The article, here, is available for free.) The paper notes that there are … Read more