by Martin Armstrong In Vancouver, if you have a property that someone else would love to tear down to build a high rise, the government has created a scheme to make you pay taxes as if you were a high-rise. Small businesses pay some amount of tax on the airspace above their businesses, which they … Read more
by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: Chicago real estate- is there any future before 2032 or do we hope for a Detroit situation as the only possibility for prices to rise? Thank you! Bob ANSWER: Real estate will rise marginally but only when we see the shift from public to private. However, that will not be a rally in … Read more
This article was originally published at Zero Hedge For the fifth month in a row, US total cross-border investment was an outflow (-$7.8bn) – the longest streak of outflows since 1982… Additionally, Foreign official institutions (central banks and reserve funds) sold Treasuries for 8th consecutive month, dumping $197BN in that time (they have also sold for 12 of the past … Read more
by Troy The stock market has been trading within a very small range since last week, and volume has been notably low. Today’s headlines: Stock market’s small range Stock market’s low volume High stock:bond ratio The S&P’s long term correlations “A key manufacturing gauge just saw its biggest one month collapse in 18 years” Banks underperforming … Read more
According to new Fox News poll, the number of people who believe Trump "coordinated with the Russian government" has gone *up* since the release of the Mueller Report, even though the Report thoroughly debunked that stupid conspiracy theory. You can thank the garbage media pic.twitter.com/uPOt7gGHCw — Michael Tracey (@mtracey) June 17, 2019 Of course the … Read more
by TheCosmicOrb https://nypost.com/2019/06/17/more-info-out-over-deaths-in-dominican-republic-like-man-foaming-at-mouth/ This NJ man is the 9th death this year. Officials are deflecting, and saying the deaths are isolated incidents. Bullshit. NINE people in 6 months, under the same circumstances? All found in their rooms, with no apparent cause of death. Heart attacks have been suggested, but one couple died together, so … Read more
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/11407830771045253 https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1140787749009711104 h/t NF
via RT: A further 20 children have died from acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) in just 24 hours, bringing the total number of child fatalities said to be caused by lychee fruit in the Bihar state of eastern India to 97. “The government will leave no stone unturned to contain it at the earliest,” said Health Minister … Read more
by Shaun Richards Over the past year there has been something of a sea change for the economy of Germany. After a period of what in these times was strong economic growth the engine of the Euro area has stuttered and coughed. If we look at it in annual terms economic growth went from the … Read more
“…. We propose a novel method to edit talking-head video based on its transcript to produce a realistic output video in which the dialogue of the speaker has been modified, while maintaining a seamless audio-visual flow (i.e. no jump cuts). ….” AC
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The Vietnamese government said they found their tags on dozens of Chines products in an attempt to sidestep the tariffs in the US-China trade war. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/06/china-gets-caught-slapping-fake-made-in-vietnam-tags-on-products-to-avoid-us-tariffs-video/ AC
by WARREN MOSLER Last months spike up that was hailed as a turn around now looks like an aberration: NY Manufacturing Falls The Most on Record The New York Empire State Manufacturing Index plummeted 26.4 points from the previous month to -8.6 in June, missing market expectations of +10. That was the largest monthly decline … Read more
Social media giants have responded to mounting pressure from politicians and activist groups. These social media firms are now refereeing content of the angry, polarizing and downright crazy public space those giants themselves created. These platforms are private entities, so they can officiate pretty much as they please. The trick now is for Facebook, YouTube, … Read more
via dailymail.co.uk: Researchers from UK, U.S. and Australia looked at how internet affects the brain Found that constantly flicking between items online reduces ability to focus Also revealed people memorise less and rely on internet to find out information Spending time on the internet is reducing our ability to focus on one task at a time … Read more
via dailymail.co.uk: Flight attendants shared their mid-air horror stories about feral passengers Crew claim there is a lot happening on board that travellers know nothing about Passengers have been urged to never walk barefoot into the plane bathroom Flight attendants have shared their mid-air horror stories and revealed what you must never do on a plane. While being … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENq99sMfwG4 Jim Hoft from The Gateway Pundit reports, Valerie Jarrett, former Senior Advisor to Barack Obama, joined Neil Cavuto on Coast to Coast on Thursday morning. During her discussion with anti-Trumper Cavuto Jarrett had the complete gall to lecture President Trump on foreign operatives influencing US elections. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019…
Steve Hilton introduces a new segment for ‘The Next Revolution’ with a look at hypocrisy within the democrat party. AC
via WSJ: In the last two years, its directors have opposed proposals to sell stocks in private prisons, gun retailers and companies tied to Turkey because of the potential for lost revenue and skepticism about whether divestment forces social change. One of these directors is now urging the system, also known as Calpers, to end … Read more
Censorship isn’t targeting “extremists” it is being used to eliminate and replace independent content creators. This isn’t about politics, its about keeping control of the narrative. This is the new “static panic”. Except this time it’s not discrimination against music, it’s against independent content creators. To the overlords having your own ideas is now extreme.. … Read more
A problem cannot be solved until the source of the problem is identified. The West Coast of the US has more tan 100,000 homeless and the majority are there because of addiction, often to opioids. via nypost: By latest count, some 109,089 people are sleeping on the streets of major cities in California, Oregon and … Read more
What am I missing here. As opposed to keep POTUS informed of cyber capabilities, it’s better to release said capabilities out to the media? How does allowing Russia to see this benefit national security? h/t lyfeliss
via wtop: In WTOP’s three-part series “City of Secrets,” WTOP National Security Correspondent J.J. Green talks to some of the best in the espionage game to find how spies have infiltrated Washington, D.C. and what can be done to catch them. Every day, in the predawn hours, long before official Washington, D.C. stirs from its slumber, the … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1viaMddODLQ Mary Margaret Obrien from The Daily Caller reports, Former Vice President Joe Biden once took a middle-of-the-road approach to the abortion debate, a video from 2006 reveals. The Democratic 2020 presidential hopeful spoke to Texas Monthly in a 2006 interview later uploaded to YouTube in 2008 about his approach to abortion he said drew … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TL2l5yF3a0M I Love My Freedom reports, Attorney General William Barr has delivered a knock-out blow to Democrats and shut down House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s plan with a new legal opinion. As reported by the Associated Press, the Department of Justice issued a legal opinion finding that Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin was right to withhold President … Read more