Month: February 2019

Smoke Signals From The Memory Hole

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Elizabeth Warren on Meet the Press (3-11-2018) said she “never used [Native American status] for anything.” “The Texas Bar card was very damaging because it’s part of the drip, drip, drip of Warren’s obfuscation as to what she did with her false claim to be Native American. Warren never volunteers information, she only reacts when others have … Read more

Low Rates Leads To Monopoly Capitalism

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by Dave A fascinating post by Wolf Richter, quoting an NBER report/model that found lowering rates too far, for too long, gives an undue advantage to the market leader.  This reduces competition, which in turn reduces productivity, and also ends up concentrating wealth. The rich get richer.  No more competition.  Capitalism turns into crony-monopoly-capitalism.  Big … Read more

Homemade Organic Medicinal Pickled Garlic ( Garlic enhances immune functions and has antibacterial, antifungal and antivirus activities)

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by Amy S.    Biological properties of garlic and garlic-derived organosulfur compounds. Medicinal properties of garlic (Allium sativum) have been widely known and used since ancient times till the present. Garlic enhances immune functions and has antibacterial, antifungal and antivirus activities. It is known to prevent platelet aggregation, and to have hypotensive and cholesterol- and triglyceride-lowering … Read more

Oregon non-profit secures $1.3M tax break (to create 5 jobs) even though under DOJ investigation for previous tax break project

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by DCG Spencer Beebe’s got a nice tax-break deal (or two) in Oregon The non-profit firm Ecotrust was just awarded a tax break of $1.3 million because of their promise to create 5 warehouse jobs in a low income area in a suburb of Portland. The founder of Ecotrust, Spencer Beebe, is a 51-year-old man who doesn’t have a … Read more

Kass: Bull Market Complacency Is Back

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by Doug Kass The Bull Market in complacency has reappeared as the markets (again) disassociate from the real economy. An earnings recession appears increasingly likely (Always) listen to Warren Buffett “I didn’t come this far to only come this far, so we’ve still got further to go.”- Tom Brady “You sure that’s the question you … Read more

California restaurant wants to ban customers who wear MAGA hat

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by Dr. Eowyn J. Kenji Lopez-Alt is the chef-partner of a San Francisco Bay Area restaurant: Wursthall Restaurant & Bierhaus, 310 Baldwin Ave, San Mateo, CA 94401. On Twitter, Lopez-Alt describes himself as: Full-time Dad. Author: The Food Lab. Chef. Feminist. Atheist. On Sunday, January 27, 2019, Lopez-Alt posted a since-deleted tweet saying his restaurant will refuse service to anyone wearing … Read more

Liberals Are Absolutely Stunned As President Trump’s SOTU Speech Gets 76% Approval Rating As He Vows America Will Never Be A Socialist Nation

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by Geoffrey Grider CBS News and CNN released instant polls taken immediately after President Trump’s State of the Union address with both polls finding 76 percent of those who watched approved of the speech. Donald Trump has been president of the most powerful nation on earth for two full years now, and he has been relentlessly … Read more

JOINING UP THE DOTS: the uncomfortable truths behind Venezuela and that Nissan ‘deal’

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by  John Ward The last few days have seen yet more worrying demonstrations of media narratives peddled by the Unelected States, cynically peddled by the suppliant old media, and unthinkingly accepted by social media victims across the Globe. Let’s interrogate two of them for starters. ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ 1. Venezuela   Yes, I too find the Labour Corbynistas’ … Read more

One Of The Interesting Things About Trump’s Speech Last Night Is How It Seemed Calculated To Demolish All The Standard Anti-trump Tropes From The Media And From The Left And To Do So With Compelling Imagery.

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by GR   Consider: Trump’s a Nazi: Praise for Holocaust survivors, and a touching rendition of “Happy Birthday.” (With Trump waving his fingers like a conductor). Trump hates minorities: Brags about record low black, Hispanic, and Asian unemployment — while white-clad Democratic women, overwhelmingly white themselves, sat prune-faced. Trump’s a Russian tool: Withdrawing from the … Read more

5 Key Innovations Driving the Future of Cannabis

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via visualcapitalist: It’s said that necessity is the mother of invention. As cannabis breaks into the mainstream, the complex web of regulations surrounding the plant may well be what compels the industry to think outside the box. Today’s infographic from Valens GroWorks highlights some of the most anticipated areas of technology-based disruption in “cannabiz” – the business behind … Read more

Will Government Shutdown Return As The Trade War Expands?

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From Brandon Smith The mainstream economic community has a notoriously short attention span and a lack of long-term perspective. After the longest government shutdown in American history subsided, the mainstream proclaimed the fight well and over – in other words, nothing to see here, Trump “folded” and all is well. Of course, what they consistently seem … Read more

Oops: Low Interest Rates a “Factor” in Slowdown of Economic & Productivity Growth: NBER

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Powell, Draghi, Kuroda, et al.: Did ya see this NBER study? This is something we have seen since the Financial Crisis all around us: The concentration and consolidation of corporate market power in entire industries, largely via mergers and acquisitions, made possible by abundantly available funding at ultra-low interest rates for … Read more

Millennial cancer rates are spiking

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by prosthetic brain Cancers fueled by obesity are on the rise among young adults in the United States and appearing at increasingly younger ages, according to an analysis released Monday by the American Cancer Society. The study, published in The Lancet Public Health, examined data on 12 obesity-related cancers between 1995 and 2014, as well as … Read more

19 Arrested in France & Italy in Multi-Million Gold Launder Operation

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via europol: On 21 January 2019, some 300 hundred officers from the Gendarmerie Nationale (French Gendarmerie) and the Guardia di Finanza (Italian Finance Corps) targeted suspects across both countries believed to be part of an organised crime group behind a large-scale international money-laundering scheme. The criminal cash flows are estimated at €5 to €7 million per … Read more

This bounce will have to fade soon. Nothing fundamental has changed since December. Every major economy is continuing to slow.

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A lot of tension in the markets, so here's a couple of examples of that. This bounce will have to fade soon. Nothing fundamental has changed since December. Every major economy is continuing to slow.$TYVIX $TLT $VIX $WTIC $SPX pic.twitter.com/xDWmV2tAu1 — Peter Ryan (@Pulpisafiction) February 5, 2019 https://twitter.com/jmanfreddi/status/1093144893940269056 JPM Global PMI New Export Orders are … Read more

Is Germany about to enter recession?

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With German retail sales having fallen by a considerably bigger margin than expected in December, and a cut in 2019 gross domestic product (GDP) estimates, from Germany’s own Economic Ministry, IGTV’s Jeremy Naylor look at the recession potential for the German economy with James Bevan from CCLA. Slump in German Manufacturing Orders Set to Fan … Read more