Mr. President, Declare A National Security Emergency

by Wayne Root Mohammed Ali once said, “It ‘aint bragging if you can back it up.” I’m not bragging. I’m proudly reporting facts. The first political commentator in the country to suggest President Trump should bypass Congress and use Executive Action to declare a “National Security Emergency” and grab the funds from other government agencies to … Read more

Is The Junk Bond Sell-Off Over?

by Jesse Colombo In late-November, I warned that plunging oil prices and the bursting of a Fed-driven bubble in the shale energy industry would also cause a bust in high-yield or “junk” bonds (because the shale bubble is financed by high-yield bonds). High-yield bonds continued to plunge into late-December along with crude oil and stocks. Since Christmas, … Read more

Federal Reserve Confesses Sole Responsibility for All Recessions

by David Haggith In a surprisingly candid admission, two former Federal Reserve chairs have stated that the Federal Reserve alone is responsible for creating all recessions in the United States. First, former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke said that Expansions don’t die of old age. They get murdered. MarketWatch To clarify this statement, former Chair Janet Yellen … Read more

Shock Survey: 59 Percent Of Americans Support Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Proposal To Raise The Top Tax Rate To 70%

by Michael Snyder Although she has only been in Congress for less than a month, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is getting more attention than any other member of the U.S. House of Representatives.  She has been setting social media ablaze with her posts about the inner workings of Congress, the mainstream media is constantly gushing about her, and … Read more

Media’s MASSIVE Disinfo Campaign Against Triple Amputee GoFundMe Wall Effort – EXPOSED!

In response to misleading media headlines suggesting that the viral Border Wall GoFundMe campaign launched by triple-amputee veteran Brian Kolfage had been ended and that all the money had been refunded, We Build the Wall Inc. has released data provided by GoFundMe as of 10:30 AM Eastern January 14, 2019. Of the 131,230 responses, 121,900 … Read more

Exposed: Congressional $2 Trillion Dollar Treason – In Your Face

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUlTLfTTKe0 There is wholesale stealing and criminality happening now. Totally out of control. The $269 Trillion missing/stolen/unaccounted for since Sept 10, 2001, $21 Trillion documented by Mark Skidmore, is now being covered up under the fraudulent guise of national security when in reality it is treason, sedition, misprision of felony & much more     … Read more

The “Average Stock” is Facing a Big Test Here!

by Kimble Charting The Value Line Geometric Index tends to give investors a good idea of the health of the overall market. It is an equal-weighted index with a broad swath of stocks that gives investors an idea of how the “average stock” is performing. The Value Line Geometric formed highs in the same area in 1998, 2007, and … Read more

The distance between the S&P and high yield suggests the stock market starts the breakdown today

https://twitter.com/hks55/status/1085598670408552448 https://twitter.com/hks55/status/1085630001624403968 $GS Monthly #Update pic.twitter.com/SuA0fJXMvS — HiddenPivots (@HiddenPivots) January 16, 2019 https://twitter.com/hks55/status/1085565195366354944 The credit cycle looks something like this. We’ve basically been stuck in Phase 3 since 2015, though there was a mini rebellion in energy credit in early-2016. 3/ pic.twitter.com/WQTdXIzEWP — Guy LeBas (@lebas_janney) January 16, 2019

Q4 Mortgage Lending At Big Three Banks Plunges 20-30% Y/Y

via MarketWatch: How low can they go? With earnings from three of the four biggest banks in, one metric stands in sharp relief. Mortgage lending just keeps plunging. In the fourth quarter, mortgage originations at Citi C, +0.31%   were down 23% compared to a year ago. At Wells Fargo WFC, -0.08%  , they were 28% lower, and at JPMorgan Chase JPM, +0.81%  , … Read more

What Can We Learn From A Shutdown?

by Danny Ratliff As we are now in to day 26 of the government shutdown, the 800,000 federal employees and contractors being used as political pawns go without their first paycheck. This whole ordeal, while unfortunate, is a great reminder of what can happen to any of us: missing a paycheck: Luckily many financial institutions … Read more

How progressive: Striking LA teachers turn to social media to shame substitutes

by DCG From NY Post: Some striking Los Angeles teachers are trying to teach picket-line crossers a lesson — by posting their names on social media. “These subs crossed our picket line,” Deanna Cambell posted on Twitter Monday — with a list of substitutes working to keep the second-largest school system in the nation open. Only a third … Read more

Joe Messina – California Goes Further off the Deep End

from Financial Survival Network Joe Messina says that just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, Gaven Newsom is now the governor and he’s planning ever larger giveaways to illegal aliens. Where does he think the money’s going to come from? California is already $127 billion in debt and counting. Liberalism has reached pandemic proportions and … Read more

Clinton Donor BLINDSIDED By Investigator After Dozens Come Forward, Call Ed Buck ‘Serial Predator’

Jim Hoft for the Gateway Pundit reports, Los Angeles journalist and political commentator Jasmyne Cannick joined FOX and Friends on Monday morning to discuss her ongoing investigation of Democrat donor and gay activist Ed Buck. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_73xWz1RaQ Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019…    

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? “Report for America, an initiative of the GroundTruthProject, Google, and others, plans to place 1,000 journalists in local newsrooms over the next five years,”

DNC-MSM house organ Columbia Journalism Reviewreports: Writing in CJR, the project’s co-founders argue that America needs “a dramatically new approach at the local level—grounded less in the traditional commercial model and more on a reawakened spirit of public service among reporters.” Steven Waldman and Charles M. Sennott say that they want to model their initiative on … Read more

“Enough with the endless talks and handshakes. We need to untie the American economy from China.”

ANALYSIS: TRUE. China Is a Dangerous Rival, and America Should Treat It Like One. “Enough with the endless talks and handshakes. We need to untie the American economy from China.” After years of unsuccessful talks and handshake deals with Beijing, the United States should change course and begin cutting some of its economic ties with China. Such … Read more

Israel Exposed: Providing Arms to Syria Rebels

Former Pentagon official Michael Maloof talks with RT America’s Manila Chan about the admission by outgoing Israeli Defense Forces chief that Israel has been supplying weapons to Syrian rebel forces for years, citing threat from Iran. https://youtu.be/NfkWJ_CUVIM   h/t normanbatesmotel    

The Canadian Government effectively bought the media off with taxpayer money in advance of the next election

by Playaguy It’s even worse than many people feared. In their economic update, the Trudeau Liberals have announced a series of measures that add up to a $600 million media bailout. Instead of letting the Canadian People pick and choose which media companies to support freely, the Trudeau Liberals are forcing you to bail out … Read more