Month: May 2019
Whistleblower Exposes Details Of Obama’s “The Hammer” Super-Secret & Illegal DOMESTIC Surveillance Program
The spotlight of this Briefing focuses on the COVER UP by the Deep State of their ILLEGAL surveillance of President Trump & MILLIONS of Americans .Additional information available at https://davejanda.com Referenced Articles: https://theamericanreport.org https://theamericanreport.org/2019/05… https://theamericanreport.org/2019/05… via theamericanreport: Remember, do not kill a mockingbird. When a whistleblower is singing for America’s protection, we embrace and celebrate him. … Read more
Best Buy CEO warns tariffs will raise gadget prices
‘Tariffs at 25 percent will result in price increases and will be felt by US consumers’ Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly has warned that consumers are likely to be hit by price increases as a result of (Trump’s + 25%) tariffs… “The impact of tariffs at 25 percent will result in price increases and will … Read more
Without Gold The Wealthy Will Be Wiped Out
by Egon von Greyerz The massive explosion of wealth in the world could be a sign of general prosperity but that is certainly very far from the truth. The printed money and credit expansion has only benefited a very small minority. The gap between the rich and the poor is getting ever wider but it … Read more
5 Interesting Flat Facts – And What You Need to Know About Insurance
Flats currently make up a significant percentage of all the homes in the UK. In fact, official figures from the government show that at least 12.5% of all homes and residences are flats. This is an interesting piece of information, especially when you consider the fact that predictions have it that in the next 30 … Read more
AI-Powered Startup Distributed Raises More Funding
Using AI in every part of business seems to be the future, and Distributed is making giant leaps towards it. By using Distributed’s platform called Elastic Team, companies can much more efficiently operate and maintain their business. Simply by providing a short explanation on what they want to achieve, the machine learning assisted platform will … Read more
This Is How The Patriots Have Full Control Over The Economy & China
The housing market is imploding, the [CB] will need another jolt of stimulus to keep it going. The [CB] economy has been declining at an accelerated speed since the financial crisis, manipulation made it look great. Farmers will be getting aid from the government. China pegs its currency to the Fed debt note, this is … Read more
Fast action now can solve the immigration crisis
by Fabius Maximus Summary: America is on the brink of radical changes resulting from decades of almost open borders. Only fast and effective policy action can prevent irreversible and ugly results. We successfully handled a similar situation in the past, and can do so again. ID 40796151 © Rawpixelimages | Dreamstime. The challenge The Census 2010 … Read more
It’s Not Nothin’! May PMIs Turn Butt Ugly
“Growth of business activity slowed sharply in May as trade war worries and increased uncertainty dealt a further blow to order book growth and business confidence. “A decline in the headline ‘flash’ PMI to its lowest for three years pushes the survey data down to a level historically consistent with GDP growing at an annualized rate … Read more
Andrew Napolitano: President Trump Is Continuing the Long Trend of Expanding Presidential Power
via Ron Paul Institute: President Donald Trump is participating in a “disturbing trend,” dating back to the Woodrow Wilson presidency, of United States presidents acting to expand presidential power beyond what is prescribed in the US Constitution, declares Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst Andrew Napolitano in a new episode of his Fox News video editorial series … Read more
Japan Conglomerate Recruit announces COTI as its second major blockchain investment
Japanese investment firm Recruit recently announced a $250,000 investment into blockchain startup COTI. The investment was made through Recruit’s RSP Blockchain Tech Fund, which was created to focus on promising business models and projects based on blockchain technology. The investment will enable COTI to move further into Asian, and specifically Japanese, markets with its payment … Read more
Stocks And Bonds Are Both Sending The Exact Same Message As Wall Street Braces For A Very Uncertain Future
by Michael Snyder Slowly but surely, Wall Street is starting to understand that the good times are over. For months, most investors were absolutely convinced that the U.S. and China would be able to work out a trade deal because the alternative would simply be too painful for both sides. But now trade talks are completely … Read more
There Is An Increasing Amount Of Buzz That China Could Invoke The Rare Earth “Nuclear Option” In The Trade War
by Michael Snyder If China wants to cause a massive amount of pain for the U.S. economy in this trade war, they certainly have the firepower to do so. Today, China accounts for more than 80 percent of the world’s rare earth element production, and approximately 80 percent of the rare earth elements that are … Read more
SITUATION CRITICAL… The Entire Yield Curve Is Inverting: Gregory Mannarino
TradersChoice.net, Released on 5/23/19 Gregory Mannarino started his financial career working for the securities and trading arm of the now defunct Bear Stearns before the dot-com bubble. He is an active trader of the capital markets and has published several books pertaining to finance, global economics, and equity trading; His most recent book is titled Ultimate … Read more
THE GLOBAL CRISIS: Clues from Japan’s Central Bank on The Global Crisis
ITM Trading, Released on 5/22/19 Many people think that the current fiat money regime can go on forever and point to Japan as a prime example. Afterall, their economy collapsed in the early 1990’s after decades of rapid economic growth. In 1992 the BOJ began a never ending series of “extraordinary policy” as they experimented … Read more
Slowest growth in orders since Oct 2009. Cleanest dirty shirt gets dirtier.
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter These are just the “Flash” Purchasing Managers’ Indices (PMI) which are reported a week before the final PMIs at the end of the month, and they represent just one view, but these are big moves, both, in US manufacturing and US services, big moves in the wrong direction, simultaneously, with both … Read more
RaboBank: “It’s Hard To Keep Up With All The Escalation”
by Michael Every of RaboBank via Zerohedge It’s hard to keep up with all the escalation. Yesterday morning Asian time the worry was that the US was about to turn its fire on Chinese surveillance-camera maker Hikvision, which would obviously have proved damaging to that PLA-linked firm. Yesterday evening the US instead shifted its attention … Read more
Visualizing Internet Suppression Around the World
by visualcapitalist When people think of freedom, they often think it in the physical sense, such as the ability to act and behave in certain ways without fear of punishment, or freedom of movement within one’s country. When a nation chooses to restrict freedom in the physical world, the results are often hard to ignore. … Read more
House Passes Bill Making Big Changes to U.S. Retirement System
by Hashslingingslashar Summary of changes: – repeal the age cap for contributing to individual retirement accounts, currently 70½. – increase the age to start taking required withdrawals from 401(k)s and IRAs to 72 from 70½. – encourage 401(k)-style plans to offer annuities by giving certain employers some protection from future liability if their … Read more
Everyone’s Noticed The Oncoming US/China Cold War
via Ian Welsh: Horowitz calls it a tech cold war, but it is unlikely to stay that way. Cutting Huawei off from all non-open source Google services, including the play store, and not allowing it to buy US components is a huge blow to Huawei. Huawei is ahead in 5G, and American allies have been reluctant … Read more
Home sales fell in April despite a big drop in mortgage rates
A sizable drop in mortgage interest rates didn’t do much to help home sales in April, as high prices and tight supply at the low end of the market continued to sideline buyers. Sales of existing U.S. homes fell 0.4% in April compared with March to a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 5.19 million units, … Read more
China’s Insurmountable Global Weakness: Its Currency
by Charles Hugh-Smith If China wants superpower status, it will have to issue its currency in size and let the global FX market discover its price. Quick history quiz: in all of recorded history, how many superpowers pegged their currency to the currency of a rival superpower? Put another way: how many superpowers have made their … Read more
Global growth slowing down, Asian growth not great, Trade-war ON….
Markets needed it b/c the USD is important (see thread why) & because of this: a) Global growth 📉 (we got EU May flashes today 🤗) b) Asian growth not great, esp investment, which is 📉 & that’s not good news for future growth c) Trade-war ON d) Brexit & EU Elections 😬 — Trinh … Read more
Let’s look at ownership of US gov’ debt.
via @Trinhnomics: Chart is from 2017 but hasn’t changed too much 👇🏻. Foreign is 30% of total & so China is roughly 6% of total ownership of UST. Don’t forget that Americans own most of US debt👇🏻 (private sector stepping up to replace 📉of foreign buyers https://t.co/c3lndWpcs1
I called the hospital to work out a payment plan, got a big discount with no effort.
by jmremote Just posting in case this may help someone else. My son had a procedure last year month and with my high deductible insurance, I owed $3700. While I could have probably paid in full I wanted to work out a payment plan since I know hospitals will work with you interest-free for a … Read more