Month: June 2019

One Trick Pony: The Fed Is Pushing On A String

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by Lance Roberts Last week, I discussed the Fed’s recent comments suggesting they might be closer to cutting rates and restarting “QE” than not. “In short, the proximity of interest rates to the ELB (Effective Lower Bound) has become the preeminent monetary policy challenge of our time, tainting all manner of issues with ELB risk and imbuing many old … Read more

Lynette Zang: How to Protect Against the US & China Currency War

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ITM Trading, Released on 6/12/19 Links to slides and sources: https://www.itmtrading.com/blog/curre… Looking at the Yuan/USD graph it appears that the relationship between the US Dollar and Chinese Yuan is breaking down in a very pervasive way and is ushering in currency wars through targeted currency devaluation against other currencies. What could go wrong? The elite fear … Read more

If you’ve got a treasured movie, keeping a physical copy on Blu-Ray or DVD might be a wise decision to future-proof yourself against the ever-woke curators of streaming video platforms.

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DISPATCHES FROM THE PATH NOT CHOSEN: Epic Fail — How Blockbuster Could Have Owned Netflix. Flash-forward to March of this year: There’s now only one Blockbuster left on the planet. Much as everyone loves the convenience of streaming sites like Netflix and Amazon Prime,  as Brian Watt wrote at Ricochet last month, “When Some Films Are Banned, Only Outlaws Will … Read more

The Housing Cost Of Liberalism (International Edition)

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Tokyo proves that housing shortages are a political choice. Compared to skyrocketing housing costs in many Western cities, Japan has seen remarkable success in supplying affordable housing – even in cities with lots of economic growth. While average mean rents in London are upwards of £2,000, average rents in Tokyo are about £1,300 – even … Read more

THE TRUTH HURTS:

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via Twitter: RELATED: Rep. Amash stokes talk of campaign against Trump. Good luck with that, if he’s already struggling to win a primary in his own district.     h/t SG

INEZ FELTSCHER STEPMAN: Campus Insanity Is Migrating To Society, And Republicans Had Better Stop It Before It’s Too Late.

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via thefederalist: While the right wrestles with how to deal with big technology companies’ hostility to conservative voices on their platforms, the source of that enmity goes mostly unremarked upon: Google’s highly credentialed workforce has roughly the personal politics of a faculty lounge. Regrettably, universities don’t live up to the Las Vegas adage–what begins on campus … Read more

If this latest incident wasn’t a false flag attack, it would quite literally be the one exception to the rule.

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by axolotl_peyotl The Powers that Shouldn’t Be have long ago cemented their tired and blatantly obvious playbook, as they continue to recycle their bullshit false flag attacks to justify their genocidal agenda decade after decade. The once burgeoning anti-war movement in the US has been consumed by over-immersion in technology and a manufactured resistance against a … Read more

The Fed is Between a Rock & a Hard Place

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by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: Dear Mr Armstrong, Not sure if I am understanding it correctly. Is the FED currently between a rock and a hard place? The FED is not able to cut rates (implement QE) due to the current pending/ongoing crisis of the US pensions, and they cannot raise interest rates as it’s going to … Read more

IMO 2020: The Big Shipping Shake-Up

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by visualcapitalist Over 90% of all global trade takes place on our oceans. Unfortunately, the network of 59,000 vessels powering international commerce runs on sulfur-laden bunker fuel, and resulting emissions are causing problems on dry land. As today’s infographic by Breakwave Advisors demonstrates, new emissions regulations taking effect in 2020 will have a big impact on the world’s … Read more

Billionaire Kochs to Financially Back Democrats Pushing Amnesty, Free Trade

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The pro-mass immigration Koch brothers’ network of billionaire, donor-class organizations is readying to financially back Democrats, so long as they promise to support amnesty for illegal aliens and vote to advance free trade at all costs. In a memo to its staff, the Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity (AFP) organization announced that the economic libertarian group … Read more