Stock picks and discussion for bulls and bears (7/29 – 8/2 trading week and beyond!)

by EsteevTrabajos1 Hey y’all! I will be creating weekly posts (depending on the feedback) with a few stocks to keep on your watchlists for bulls and bears, and for short- and long- term investors. These posts are meant to start a discussion about individual stocks, their technicals and fundamentals. My ultimate goal with these posts is simply … Read more

The Global Economic Momentum Is Slowing – FT

Each passing week is bringing more evidence that the pessimists are right about the underlying momentum of the global economy. The threat of a prolonged dislocation of international commerce from a trade war, on top of a recovery that was already starting to look tired, has put policymakers back on alert. This week it was … Read more

FITTON: BIG Truth: Mueller was an absentee landlord as special counsel. His right hand guy was a paid Clinton world lawyer and Andrew Weissmann, the anti-Trump activist, did the hiring. Judicial Watch has the docs and testimony.

by TFittonJW https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/judicial-watch-obtains-doj-documents-showing-andrew-weissmann-leading-hiring-effort-for-mueller-special-counsel/ BREAKING: So I just figured out Aaron Zelbey, who was inserted as "witness" last minute to help Mueller tomorrow, was almost certainly paid by Clintons to represent their aide in email scandal investigation. @JudicialWatch obtained the testimony on this: https://t.co/CcGR9aNW5M pic.twitter.com/pFJCx2cbcm — Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) July 24, 2019

Mueller Disaster, Spending Deal, Global Economy Fragile

Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller, who tried to uncover dirt on President Trump for the past two years, finally testified in front of Congress about his recently completed report. Democrats pushed for this, but it exploded in their faces as Mueller stumbled, bumbled and mumbled through his testimony. Many are saying his depreciated mental state shows … Read more

Antibiotic Abuse Is The One Form Of Drug Abuse That Can Directly Harm Others

Many take antibiotics without prescription, endangering efficacy. On the other hand, the overhead involved in seeing a doctor for a simple sinus infection or UTI is too high.   No one would argue that antibiotics are an amazing 20th-century innovation, promising a quick cure for bacterial illnesses that might otherwise cause serious harm or death. But … Read more

You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

by Playaguy   This post won’t be popular, but the truth rarely is. An entire generation is growing up thinking that stealing from those who earn things and giving it to those who don’t = prosperity. It doesn’t. History shows us lack of incentives leads to scarcity which leads to collapse and starvation. It happened … Read more

Do You Trust Snopes? You Won’t After Reading This.

via foodbabe: The big players in the GMO and agrochemical industry – Monsanto, Bayer, Dow, Syngenta, DuPont – are engaging in an extensive public relations, advertising, lobbying and political campaigning to make sure that genetically engineered crops (GMOs), and the chemical pesticides they require, continue to proliferate in the U.S. To improve their public image, they are … Read more

FAA Never Inspected 737 MAX, Blindly Trusted Boeing

Thanks to a ‘broken regulatory process,’ the Federal Aviation Administration has been passing off routine oversight tasks to manufacturers for years. In the case of the beleagured 737 Max, however, the plane was so advanced that the regulator “handed nearly complete control to Boeing,” which was able to sign off on its own safety certificates, according to … Read more

Beyond Meat’s (BYND) market cap is bigger than 25% of the S&P 500

Shares of the fake meat maker have soared over 820% since its initial public offering on May 2, putting Beyond Meat’s market capitalization at a whopping $13.85 billion. That valuation is higher than that of roughly 25% of the companies in the S&P 500 index, including decades-old industry stalwarts like Molson Coors, Viacom, Under Armour, and JetBlue. At its Friday morning … Read more

IRS Sending Warning Letters to More Than 10,000 Cryptocurrency Holders: ‘Taxpayers should take these letters very seriously,’ IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig said

IRS Sending Warning Letters to More Than 10,000 Cryptocurrency Holders ​ An IRS spokesman declined to say whether the letters stem from information turned over by digital-currency platform Coinbase. In mid-March of 2018, Coinbase provided data—under a federal court order—on about 13,000 accounts requested by the IRS. One version of the letter recently uploaded to the IRS … Read more

Europe’s Central Banks Ditch 20-Year-Old Gold Sales Agreement

FRANKFURT, July 26 (Reuters) – European central banks have ditched a 20-year-old agreement to coordinate their gold sales, saying they have no plan to sell large amounts of the metal, the European Central Bank said on Friday. https://www.reuters.com/article/europe-cenbank-gold/europes-central-banks-ditch-20-year-old-gold-sales-agreement-idUSL8N24R4QU

Investment Spending Crumbles in Second Quarter

via epi.org: The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) announced today that gross domestic product (GDP), the widest measure U.S. economic activity, grew at a 2.1 percent annualized rate in the second quarter of this year, down from the 3.1 percent rate of the first quarter. Compared to the first six months of 2018, the economy in … Read more

House Passes Bill to Prop up Pensions

The House has passed a bill aimed at fixing some pensions that are endanger of outright failure. Yahoo Finance’s Jessica Smith has details. She joins Julie Hyman and Adam Shapiro. https://news.yahoo.com/house-passes-bill-prop-pensions-174018395.html

Job Creators Network Member Warns: Democrats Are Quietly Trying to Pass a Massive Payroll Tax Increase

Job Creators Network member Kelly Brozyna, who’s spent 25 years advocating on behalf of small business owners and their employees, testified at a hearing of the House Ways and Means Committee Thursday and warned that the Democrats’ Social Security 2100 Act would dramatically increase the payroll tax and devastate job creation. “This proposal would raise … Read more

It’s About Helping Unions At The Expense Of The Less Fortunate: The Minimum Wage Is Not About Helping the Poor.

via commentarymagazine: Bernie Sanders has been embarrassed by the revelation that he wasn’t paying his campaign workers the minimum wage he so loudly demands that every other employer pay. These are salaried employees, not hourly wage workers, so he has now solved the problem–not by raising their pay, but by the simple expedient of cutting their hours, just … Read more

All Comedy Is Conservative

What if the counterculture becomes the culture? Then anti-woke comics start to sound like the counter-counterculture. Three years ago, before his ritual public shaming, [Aziz] Ansari was writing pieces like “Why Trump Makes Me Scared for My Family” for the New York Times, foreseeing an outbreak of Islamophobia. As it turns out, the abuse heaped on … Read more

DON SURBER: Now Brexit begins.

“The parallels between Johnson and President Donald John Trump are many because the situation is the same on both sides of the pond. The establishment failed us with their globalist nonsense in which we are to surrender our sovereignty to some international cabal of bureaucrats who never consider the consequences of their daft decisions. Jefferson … Read more

Watching Fake News Being Made In Real Time

Reuters, CBS Run With Misleading Headline About Migrant Mother, Mexican Border Guard. Both CBS and Reuters ran a photo of a Guatemalan migrant mother and a Mexican border guard, including a headline that didn’t quite tell the whole story. Reuters published the photo with the headline, “Reuters photo captures Guatemalan mother begging soldier to let … Read more