Will the US-China Trade Deal Disappoint?

By Harry Dent The markets continued to creep up on Friday morning, anticipating the finalization of the U.S.-China trade deal and the end to the trade war. But what we really need here, to get a final confirmation of my Dark Window scenario, is a correction. Based on how the markets have behaved since late December, this current rise … Read more

COMMUNIST chinese national’s son recruited as HARVARD Fencer bought coach’s home at $400K OVER LIST!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6890713/Chinese-national-son-recruited-Harvard-fencer-bought-coachs-home-400k-list.html College scandal hits Harvard as it is revealed Chinese national whose son was recruited as a fencer bought coach’s home at $400k over listing, donated $100K to his charity and flew 15 NCAA athletes to Asia Jie ‘Jack’ Zhao enriched Harvard fencing coach Peter Brand and his charity to the tune of $500,000 in … Read more

U.S. Hits Venezuela With New Sanctions And More Still On Table

By Julianne Geiger Vice President Mike Pence announced that the United States will add 34 PDVSA owned or operated vessels to the sanctions list on Friday, according to Reuters. The announcement came during the Vice President’s Friday Venezuela-focused speech at Rice University’s Baker Institute of Public Policy in Houston—an invitation-only event. The sanctions not only target the … Read more

German Economy Turning Down Hard into 2020

by Martin Armstrong The German economy is what holds up Europe. The data on the industrial sector in Germany is out and it has disappointed everyone once again with production dropping 0.8% month-on-month in January 2019. January’s contraction was driven by a steep drop in capital goods output and a fall in intermediate goods production. … Read more

Global Warming Hits London

by Martin Armstrong It actually snowed in London this past April. Heavy snow caused sheer chaos across much of the UK.  The snow and hail even hit London where it rarely ever snows. I remember there was a dusting of snow one day back in 1985, and the city came to a halt. There was no snow removal … Read more

Facebook Got Caught Phishing for Friends

“The company cannot be left to its own devices, and existing enforcement authorities haven’t done enough.” By Bennett Cyphers and Jason Kelley, Electronic Frontier Foundation: Once again, Facebook is in the news for bad security practices, dark design patterns, and secretly reappropriating sensitive data meant for “authentication” to its own ends. Incredibly, this time, the company managed to accomplish all … Read more

Costco to stop selling Monsanto Roundup weedkiller after $80 million awarded in cancer case

Monsanto was just ordered to pay $80 million to a man who said he developed cancer as a result of using the company’s weedkiller Roundup. Roundup contains the chemical glyphosate, which the World Health Organization described in 2015 as a “probable carcinogen.” Costco will reportedly stop selling Roundup, and a petition is currently calling on … Read more

MUST SEE!! An URGENT MESSAGE for ALL Trump Supporters!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulY8SbbVJRw The power and pervasiveness of cognitive dissonance combined with the willingness of most to submit to a perceived “authority” they think is mildly sympathetic to their plight and needs cannot be understated. Stanley Milgram discovered that some who see others as “authority figures” will do anything for that “authority” up to and including murdering … Read more

Used-Car Market Profits from Carmageddon

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Many Americans are priced out of the new-car market. At wholesale auctions, used-vehicle prices rose 4.0% in March from March last year, according to Manheim, the largest auto-auction company in North America, which runs about 8 million vehicles through its auctions a year. In the chart of the Manheim Used Vehicle Value … Read more

Tick, Tick, Talk, 2019 Recession Coming

by David Haggith The 2018 stock market crash is now a fait accompli, having taken a polar bear plunge that put ice in the veins of the Fed and electrified their collective spine with such a deep chill they ran like a fat walrus from the bear market to halt their long-nurtured plans of economic tightening. With that event … Read more

The Buying Power of the U.S. Dollar Is Shrinking

Your incredibly shrinking dollar. The purchasing power of your dollar has dropped 94% since inception. In other words, prices are going up. That’s not good news for people who buy stuff. Remember, a lot of people think that inflation is what happens to prices. It’s not. Inflation is what happens to money. That’s where the … Read more

TIME FOR THE DEEP STATE CRIMINAL INDICTMENTS

Devin Nunes has laid it all out for the American people: The REAL story of the attempted coup against President Donald Trump and the REAL story of collusion. The only thing left now is criminal referrals and then indictments of the deep state co-conspirators. The Russian collusion hoax meets unbelievable end https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op…      

Visualizing Africa’s Free Trade Ambitions

by visualcapitalist A united African continent working towards common goals would be a major force on the global economic stage. To this end, nations in the region have been working towards an ambitious plan to create the world’s largest trade area. The Gambia recently became the latest country to ratify the African Continental Free Trade Area … Read more

40 Facts That Prove That America’s Moral Collapse Is Spinning Wildly Out Of Control

by Michael Snyder  According to a brand new survey that was just conducted by the Pew Research Center, 77 percent of all Americans are either “very worried” or “fairly worried” about America’s moral health.  Of course the truth is that we should all be deeply concerned, because we can see evidence of the cancerous moral decay that … Read more

Why Dollar Dominance Drops to Lowest Mark Since 2013

From Birch Gold Group According to the IMF, the U.S. dollar is known as the “Global Reserve Currency”. There are a number of reasons for this, but mainly because it’s backed by the U.S. economy. That economy is fraught with uncertainty at the moment. But that isn’t the only issue plaguing the U.S. dollar’s dominance in the global markets. … Read more