https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSYRHhlIW2c Ratings for Fox News have flattened over the past year and CNN and MSNBC have seen their ratings plummet 26 percent and 14 percent, respectively. Rick Sanchez explains what establishment media missed in its near-exclusive emphasis on its years-long “Russiagate” narrative. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFseDjkOruA&t=1s RT America’s John Huddy joins Rick Sanchez to report on the collapse … Read more
By John Mauldin The US, Europe, and most of the developed world on are the road to Japanification. The rest of us will begin to look like Japan with its astronomical deficits and ultra-dovish monetary policy. We will see financial repression, ever increasing deficits, slower growth, etc. This is not the end of the world. … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFseDjkOruA RT America’s John Huddy joins Rick Sanchez to report on the collapse of the FCC’s “Fairness Doctrine” and the concentration of news media in fewer and fewer hands. The result has been a decay of journalistic standards, politicization of the news, and the ascent of agenda-driven programming.
Is Canada now a joke for international investors?
by Michael Snyder After taking an honest look at the facts, I don’t know how anyone can possibly claim that the U.S. economy is “booming”. I really don’t. We hear this sort of rhetoric from the mainstream media all the time, but it doesn’t make any sense. As I discussed yesterday, nobody should be using the … Read more
by Michael Snyder The healthcare system in the United States is deeply broken, and it is causing massive financial pain for millions of American families. Previously, I have published articles where I talked about how medical bills are the primary factor in two-thirds of all personal bankruptcies in the United States, and that Americans had to … Read more
by Charles Hugh-Smith Now look at the middle quintiles–the middle class: their income has gone nowhere in the past decade. These two charts of average incomes of U.S. households by quintile (bottom 20%, middle 60% (20%+20%+20%) and top 20%) have both good news and bad news. (Charts are from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office — CBO). … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter House prices set post-collapse record in Miami, flatten out in Las Vegas, Phoenix & once red-hot Charlotte, linger below Oct 2018 levels in Washington, DC & Chicago. Cincinnati & Detroit in a show of their own. On one side, there are “The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in America” – the San … Read more
by visualcapitalist Markets are rarely a straight march forward. Even though the end destination is usually a bullish one, markets often take a far more scenic route to get there. Sometimes that means going off the beaten path, and other times it may mean taking a step directly backwards to get reoriented. In investing parlance, the … Read more
Authored by Jeff Charles via Liberty Nation, Americans are more depressed than almost anyone in the world – and we may have the media to thank… Here’s a conundrum for you. Would it be possible for citizens of the strongest, wealthiest, and freest country in the world to have stress levels higher than those of the … Read more
I have been a LEGAL immigrant to many countries. I am a Legal immigrant now. You need a passport and money. You probably will need DNA testing, TB chest x-rays, fingerprints, and police background checks. Even banana republics require most of this stuff. There is no Human right to immigrate. In the country I live … Read more
By Harry Dent The Fed left interest rates unchanged, again. I’m not surprised… But many pundits are wondering if this is Powell kowtowing to The Donald… I can see why they might think that… Do you remember the Alien movie franchise with Sigourney Weaver? Remember how the baby aliens rips through its host’s stomach as it’s born? And … Read more
by Dennis Miller Politicians of all flavors continually remind us social security is in danger of going bankrupt. Now our esteemed leaders want to fix it by increasing benefits. What could possibly go wrong? Newsmax Finance reports on a recent interview with former fed head (Big Al) Alan Greenspan: (my emphasis) “Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan warns … Read more
Via The Babylon Bee WASHINGTON, D.C.—President Trump has come out swinging against Democrats’ accusations that he’s weak on healthcare. Trump has selected a star paper salesman from Scranton, Pennsylvania to choose a good healthcare plan for the nation: Dwight Schrute. Despite a few scandals, including firing a loaded gun in a workplace and intentionally starting … Read more
Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz has his microphone cut off by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler while questioning parliamentary procedure at the close of the hearing. AC
by John Ward Brexit and Huawei are not just “news stories”: they are connected staging posts along a path being followed, variously, by technocrats, intelligence chiefs, surveillance agencies and globalist business. In this, Part 1 of a double OpEd, The Slog analyses the factors that are making their task far too easy. Part 2 – an … Read more
by CG The once revered Poynter Foundation, which stood as a pillar of journalistic integrity has fallen hard, after they issued today a list of untrustworthy or “fake” news sites and included The Daily Signal, which writes straight and factual news of interest to conservatives. (Disclosure: I serve as their outside Media Law adviser). The Daily Signal is … Read more
CVS Health is closing 46 of its stores, saying the locations were “underperforming” as the drugstore chain continues to shift more of its retail presence toward health care services. The move cost CVS about $135 million as a “store rationalization charge” in its first-quarter earnings report. The cuts represent fewer than 1% of the about 9,600 … Read more
The office is the repository of federal government personnel records, including social security numbers and documents known as SF-86s that contain personal information about people who apply for security clearances. Counterintelligence officials for the past two years have reviewed the entire federal records archive, totaling 5 million gigabytes of data, and have begun assessing the … Read more
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Journalist: Biden campaign physically blocking press. A freelance journalist said Wednesday he and several reporters have had negative interactions with Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign staff in recent days. Marcus DiPaola described via Twitter several instances in which he said reporters had been physically blocked from covering the former vice president while the 2020 presidential hopeful is in … Read more
By David Stockman Total residential construction spending dropped 8.4% from a year ago, the sixth month in a row of year-over-year declines, to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $507 billion, according to the Census Bureau this morning. This was down 11% from the peak in April 2018. https://wolfstreet.com/2019/05/01/construction-spending-at-risk-housing-retail-sag/ The party’s over. Despite a reversal … Read more
by Brandon Smith When looking at the health of an economic system it is impossible to gauge growth or stability by only taking two or three indicators into account. The problem is, this is exactly what central banks and governments tend to do. In fact, governments and central banks wildly and deliberately promote certain indicators as … Read more
from Financial Survival Network Financial advisor Dee Carter returns… Forty-four percent of Americans say the political environment in Washington is the biggest threat to the U.S. economy over the next six months, according to a new Bankrate.com report. This is more than three times the amount who cite terrorism or political/economic developments overseas, the next most popular choices … Read more