From Gallup: After hitting a new high last month, mentions of immigration as the most important problem facing the U.S. increased further to 27% in July. Since Gallup began regularly recording mentions of the issue in 1993, immigration has been cited by an average of 6% of Americans, though it has been higher in recent years. … Read more
From Forbes: The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has released its 2019 Global Innovation Index which gauges levels of innovation in 126 economies across a host of criteria ranging from business sophistication to levels of education spending and creative output. This year’s index has found that innovation is blossoming despite the global economic slowdown, particularly in Asia. Overall, … Read more
Trump must be gloating in ecstasy. Not because of the failure that is Robert Mueller — his Report is still a damning document of crimes by Trump—but because Trump understands the power of the visual, and he understands that the Dems aren’t street fighters and that’s why he’ll win — Michael Moore (@MMFlint) July 24, … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Revisions show the slowdown expected this year hit last year, and now is the rebound. If there’s ever a time for the Fed to not cutalready low interest rates, it’s now. Economic growth in the US for the second quarter once again exceeded consensus expectations, after blowing past them in the first … Read more
Watch the latest video at foxnews.com The Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration on Friday in lifting a freeze backed by a lower court that had halted plans to use $2.5 billion in Pentagon funds for border wall construction. The decision, which split the bench along ideological lines, allows the administration to move ahead with plans to use military … Read more
by DCG Chiraq Mayor Lori Lightfoot What a role model leader you elected, Chiraq. From MyFoxChicago: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot was caught on a microphone insulting a police union leader aloud on Wednesday. It’s no secret that Mayor Lightfoot does not get along with the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP). However, it was still surprising when, during … Read more
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“Weissman and Mueller put Paul Manafort into solitary confinement on tax charges, and brought him out 9 times, NINE TIMES, to ask him: ‘Are you ready to tell us if the President knew about the Trump tower meeting, prior to the meeting’. ”
Pewdiepie trends all over the world except the United States. YouTube is no longer about content creators. Alex Jones is right yet again! Is the trending tab rigged against creators? Is late night dominating the charts? Why does it feel your favorite controversial creator never trends. All of that and more, in the first ever … Read more
In his first interview since Robert Mueller’s wildly anticipated hearings, President Trump called the Special Counsel’s investigation ‘treason,’ adding that this should ‘never be allowed to happen to our country again.’ #Hannity #FoxNews
Watch the latest video at foxnews.com Finally someone gets MSM press time on this long known hoax issue. Looks like the left is in for some serious butthurt. Starting to eat their own? Sure looks like it. Braced for 1-star bandits and red karma from the tree fiddy troll/shill crowd for posting this. “Ex-MSNBC host … Read more
A record 61,000 unaccompanied migrant children have surged over the U.S.-Mexico border and been handed to federal care facilities since October, and there are still over two months left in the fiscal year, according to immigration officials. The number tops the total for fiscal year 2016, at 59,170 turned over to the Department of Health … Read more
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Submitted by Joseph Carson, former Director of Global Economic Research, Alliance Bernstein The happy prophecy of endless growth in the economy generating a continuous flow of strong corporate earnings just ran into trouble—the “truth” on profits. According to GDP data released today Q2 corporate earning posted their largest annual decline in several years, and the revised … Read more
via Zerohedge: As we reported earlier, Q2 GDP printed far stronger than expected, with US households going on an all-out spending spree and at 2.85%, or contributing 138% of the bottom line 2.1% GDP print, personal consumption soared an annualized 4.3%, the strongest print going back to 2014! So, as we always do, we decided to take … Read more
by Charles Hugh-Smith All we’re doing is waiting for the fake “prosperity” to crumble, and the resulting loss of credibility and legitimacy will follow like night follows day. The citizenry of corrupt regimes ruled by self-serving elites tolerate this oppressive misrule for one reason and only one reason: increasing prosperity,which we can define as continual … Read more
via visualcapitalist: The to-do list for any financial executive is surely daunting. From navigating technology changes to managing talent effectively, there’s many initiatives competing for attention. One issue that’s been in the headlines for many years is anti-money laundering (AML). When criminals are able to successfully hide the illicit origins of their cash, both the financial institution … Read more
Robert Mueller’s congressional hearing was a fun time for those that like to be frustrated. Add some autotune, some beats, and baby, you’ve got a stew going.
by FS Both political parties and most economists have seemingly abandoned conservative principles of managing national debt. This situation is setting the U.S. up for serious consequences, Jim Rickards told Financial Sense Insider on a recent podcast. Rickards, a financial adviser and investment expert, spoke with Financial Sense about his new book, Aftermath: Seven Secrets of Wealth Preservation … Read more
The Federal court has upheld a complaint by the Swiss Federal tax administration with three to two votes. The Federal judge of the second public law Department have in their advice, however, unanimously stressed that the data is not in the money laundering proceedings against the UBS may be used. On this point the court ruled in … Read more
Boris Johnson’s Brexit demands are “unacceptable,” according to the EU’s chief negotiator. The new UK prime minister has demanded the complete removal of the backstop from the Brexit deal. If not, the UK would be prepared to walk away without a deal in October, Johnson said Thursday. However, chief negotiator Michel Barnier wrote to EU … Read more
via Twitter: Trump was right, and Puerto Rico is one big sinkhole of corruption? Who could have guessed? AC
Mueller is Finished, So Democrats Fix Your Cities. The Mueller appearance before Congress turned out to be an Epic Fail for Democrats. So now that they’ve seen their impeachment plans go up in smoke, what’s next? Perhaps Democrats should turn their attention to the cities they run, where thugs douse cops with water, and teenagers … Read more
Today we have ultra low interest rates. This forces investors to look for assets which have some level of return. With this, comes added risk. So-called riskless assets have low or negative rates, which has caused a greater appetite for risk taking. As these investors pile further and further into riskier assets and as more … Read more
