via freebeacon: China’s Communist Party is intensifying covert influence operations in the United States that include funding Washington think tanks and coercing Chinese Americans, according to a congressional commission report. The influence operations are conducted by the United Front Work Department, a Central Committee organ that employs tens of thousands of operatives who seek to use … Read more
by Thinker A stronger/less compromised Attorney General would have shut down the anti-Trump investigations months ago. The fake Russia collusion charge was found to be a hoax last year and yet Robert Mueller was allowed to then greatly expand his investigation and now seeks to try and destroy everything Donald Trump has built – including … Read more
via thefreethoughtproject: As the United States continues to pile on an ever-growing list of sanctions on to Russia, the country is fighting back by abandoning the US dollar. Although they have been expressing their desire to break away from the hegemony of the U.S. petrodollar and the global dollar-based payment systems for years, Russia’s deputy foreign minister, Sergei … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79NBevs7H48 This has the smell of George Soros written all over it. Is this just a test-run of the race war he is planning for North America? EM
by stockboardasset Here is some more creepy Orwellian Bullshit from Amazon. Over the past month, an army of Amazon workers was discovered on social media defending their employer after numerous reports surfaced of the terrible working conditions at the company’s fulfillment centers. The Twitter accounts, which were believed by some to be social bots, are paid by Amazon to regain … Read more
via GPC While there are no guarantees in the markets… sometimes you get a significant “tell” from related assets. With that in mind, let’s take a look at some charts comparing various economic growth asset classes vs. the S&P 500. Take a look at Copper vs. the S&P 500: Here are industrial metals vs. the … Read more
SS: Rutherford Institute President John Whitehead warns us about the greatest threat to our freedoms and our way of life: an increasingly militarized government at all levels in the United States. Speech is from the Ron Paul Institute’s 2018 Media & War conference on August 18th in Washington, DC. h/t salvia_d
by Jim Rickards of Daily Reckoning I’ve written for years that Chinese economic development is partly real and partly smoke and mirrors, and that it’s critical for investors to separate one from the other to make any sense out of China and its impact on the world. My longest piece on this topic was Chapter Four of my … Read more
by John Ward We live on a planet where spoken language sets us apart from other species, and the possibilities for perversion of that skill are infinite. That is a dangerous world in which it is the duty of all responsibly intelligent humans to highlight and condemn the counterfeit currency of propaganda in all its forms. … Read more
by TFittonJW IT ALL BEGAN WITH HILLARY CLINTON! The server was her idea, she ignored warnings about BB use, the classified info is on Weiner’s laptop because of Hillary Clinton. Judicial Watch deposed Ms.Abedin and other top Clinton aides in 2016. Here’s the vid from when JW started doing talkies in 2016: Here’s link to … Read more
via Yuan Talks Shanghai Composite closed 0.18 percent higher at 2729, pulled back into gaining territory by the banking sector which outperformed in the afternoon session. Shares of 5G companies, liquor makers, and gas companies led the losses. Shenzhen Component Index and Chinext index lost 0.2 percent and 0.37 percent respectively. Turnover on the Shanghai … Read more
via Moe Zulfiqar, B.Comm. The case for lower oil prices continues to get stronger. If you hold oil-related investments, this might be the time to rethink your stance. There is basic economics at play in the oil market that foretells lower oil prices: demand and supply. You see, over the past few months, oil prices were … Read more
via stockboardasset: Mexico continues to descend into chaos, as a record number of homicide cases were opened last month, the Ministry of Public Security said Tuesday. The ministry states 2,599 homicide cases were opened in July — an average of 84 per day, for a total of 3,017 registered victims. This is the highest monthly toll … Read more
via UPFINA Since the S&P 500 earnings are growing 26.62% and the NFIB small business index is 0.1 away from its record high, you would think everything is perfect. That’s actually not true as we will get to later in this post. First let’s review the reason the S&P 500 is at its record high. As … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUUPjOSVsuc Sessions needs to stop going after foreigners for the laws they break we need to go after the treasonous American politicians that are crooked and corrupt and that have tried to take down this country WW
Imagine where Hillary Clinton would be today if only one-tenth of the amount of scrutiny was applied to her actual crooked activities while acting as Barack Obama’s Secretary of State, compared to the effort put forth by Robert Mueller’s endless witch hunt of President Trump. Most Americans would agree that Hillary would be sitting in … Read more
by Twirltheworld I’ve been debating sharing with this forum our experience in teaching kids how to save. ultimately, I think there are a lot of us here with kids (we’re just too busy to post much), and I certainly love reading posts about people with kids and how they manage their FIRE methods. My hope … Read more
https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1033175811136864257 BREAKING … GUY WITH NO CLUE ABOUT ECONOMICS IN JACKSON HOLE, COVERING OTHER GUYS WITH NO CLUE ABOUT ECONOMICS IN JACKSON HOLE pic.twitter.com/lqwSwIoInj — Hedgeye (@Hedgeye) August 24, 2018
global liquidity is rapidly shrinking — and that is a major problem — usually brings a crisis of some sort pic.twitter.com/tWlnLWEBvB — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) August 25, 2018 "Global liquidity is already below pre-crisis levels, tide will continue to ebb," h/t @IIF pic.twitter.com/jtQCPSCDSj — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) August 25, 2018 ECI Economic Indicator Index suggests world has … Read more
https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1033220222499598336 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1033224552594198528 Swap curve just inverted. Not bullish. pic.twitter.com/1ZmIeeJLzL — Kevin C. Smith, CFA (@crescatkevin) August 24, 2018 $spx pic.twitter.com/4iaXpku32P — Álvaro Oviedo (@alvoviedo) August 24, 2018 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1033194499399409669
https://twitter.com/sentimentrader/status/1033006284734377984 As the rest of the world slows, are the first signs of decreased activity starting to appear in US? After-all, Bullard told us today that economy will slow next yr. pic.twitter.com/ijR1PB3eCA — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) August 25, 2018 Many think eternal central bank intervention will keep driving markets higher. That does not mean prices will … Read more
If you're waiting for a bigger piece of the growing U.S. economic pie, you aren't alone. A colleague's chart looking at the slicing. pic.twitter.com/nQ0wh9qCNs — Dave Wilson's Archive: Chart & Stock of the Day+ (@TheOneDave) August 24, 2018 pic.twitter.com/GNLDJZkER8 — M/1_LP (@MI_Investments) August 24, 2018 Chart: Markets now expect the Fed to cut rates in … Read more
by Charles Hugh-Smith These charts reflect a linear system that is wobbling into the first stages of non-linear destabilization. The widespread presumption is the U.S. is wealthy beyond words, and will remain so as far as the eye can see: wealthy enough to fund trillion-dollar weapons systems, trillion-dollar endless wars, multi-trillion dollar Medicare for all, multi-trillion … Read more
From Birch Gold Group In a firm display of confidence, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas called for the creation of an independent payment system that doesn’t rely on the U.S. dollar. Citing the Financial Times, a Zero Hedge report quoted Maas (emphasis ours): Europe should not allow the US to act over our heads and at our expense. For … Read more
by Martin Armstrong Some people have asked if it was the Obama Administration that used the IRS against its enemies. I am not Republican or Democrat and have stated countless times that I see no difference between them behind the curtain when it comes to maintaining power. Judicial Watch reported on documents it received showing that Republicans, … Read more