via bostonherald: The fallout from Wednesday’s disastrous performance by Robert Mueller in the Capitol includes a nearly 450-page report now in question. We don’t know who wrote it. We don’t know who really ran the investigation. We do know that several investigators on Mueller’s team were rabidly anti-Trump and pro-Hillary Clinton. In fact, the Justice Department’s … Read more
via CNBC: A former Scotia Capital and Bear Stearns trader pleaded guilty and admitted manipulating precious metals futures markets for nine years, the latest in a series of crackdowns on so-called spoofing trades. The trader, Corey Flaum, is cooperating with an ongoing federal criminal investigations into gold, silver, platinum and palladium markets, as is ex-J.P. … Read more
via CNBC: ”…the Communist Party doesn’t want to submit themselves to anything measurable or enforceable. I don’t think an agreement could be had,” Bass says. “We believe rate cuts are less and less effective once you’ve been at a zero rate bound…I think in early 2020, you are just going to see softness in the … Read more
Kitco News, Released on 7/25/19 The current monetary system is broken, and the economy may be worse before it gets better, said former congressman Ron Paul. “It’s a system that isn’t workable, and this is the reason why getting out of this recession hasn’t been so good. We got into it because there was too … Read more
via reuters: The former British colony, which returned to China in 1997, is embroiled in its worst political crisis for decades after two months of increasingly violent protests that have posed one of the gravest populist challenges to Communist Party rulers in Beijing. The demonstrations, mushrooming up almost daily, saw the defacement of China’s main representative … Read more
For years we have heard that the United States was in bankruptcy, that we are under Martial Law. For years we could only suppose this to be true. Dr. Gene Schroder, American Agricultural Movement, has done extensive research into the matter. The results of his research prove that these claims are, absolutely, true. Since March … Read more
by Dr. Eowyn Since last October, the Pentagon has had a secret Army mission with Black Hawk helicopters flying over the Washington, D.C., area, backed by active-duty and reserve soldiers, but we’re only now finding out about it. Anthony Capaccio reports for Bloomberg, July 22, 2019, that the mysterious classified operation was disclosed only when the … Read more
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Infrastructure & Technology Issued on: March 26, 2019 https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-coordinating-national-resilience-electromagnetic-pulses/ Executive Orders Executive Order on Coordinating National Resilience to Electromagnetic Pulses Infrastructure & Technology Issued on: March 26, 2019 By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section … Read more
via nationalinterest: Many Americans, myself included, hoped that the PRC’s immersion in the international economic system would encourage further expansion of the freedom of Chinese to debate ideas and ultimately control their political future. Although the CCP showed no willingness to relax its control, intellectual space appeared to grow a bit and liberty expanded in some … Read more
Skip to 1:23 for the report It shows how corrupt the Mueller report was. How sleezy the abusive Mueller team was! AC
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Consumers and companies keep plugging, the world has not come to an end. World trade volume – imports and exports of merchandise across the globe – increased 0.3% in May from April, after falling 0.6% in the prior month, according to the Merchandise World Trade Monitor, released today by CPB Netherlands Bureau … Read more
via MarketWatch: Back in 2007, when Wall Street was careening toward the financial crisis, the S&P 500 split from the consumer discretionary-to-consumer staples ratio, in a sign that appetite for risk was drying up even as the broader market pushed higher. Now, as Jesse Felder points out this week on the Felder Report blog, we’re seeing … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pEb_aqqwxc For More Information See: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019… https://www.chicagotribune.com/column… https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/07/24/chris_wallace_mueller_hearing_has_been_a_disaster_for_democrats_reputation_of_robert_mueller.html https://thehill.com/homenews/administ… https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2…
Authored by Sven Henrich via NorthmanTrader.com, You’d think that the drop in yields and a Fed about to cut rates would’ve brought about some relief to credit card bills. No Sir. And you might think that the highest interest rates on credit cards ever would deter consumers from loading up on additional credit card debt. Oh no. … Read more
Authored by James Rickards via The Daily Reckoning, Free riding is one of the oldest problems in economics and in society in general. Simply put, free riding describes a situation where one party takes the benefits of an economic condition without contributing anything to sustain that condition. The best example is a parasite on an elephant. The … Read more
by Egon von Greyerz It is not difficult to understand Cassandra’s enormous frustration. She was given the gift of accurately predicting important events and her curse was that no one would believe her. Some of us are certain that we can now see the biggest bubbles in economic history coming to an end with totally … Read more
Authored by Kevin Ludolph via Crescat Capital, Crescat Capital Quarterly Investor Letter Q2 We believe there is an opportunity to capitalize on a material downturn in the business cycle based on the composite of timing and imbalance indicators in Crescat’s 16-factor macro model. US Equity Markets The downturn could be particularly brutal for US stocks … Read more
#BREAKING Palestinian president says to end agreements with Israel pic.twitter.com/wa2Ob8QDan — AFP News Agency (@AFP) July 25, 2019 Abbas says Palestinian will no longer abide by agreements signed with Israel Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas says his government will stop abiding by agreements signed with Israel following the demolition earlier this week of 12 buildings … Read more
In 1970, Ford presented its new subcompact car – Ford Pinto. Later the company decided to export the model to Brazil, but the sales were drastically low. Why? It happened to be a translation issue. In Brazilian slang, the word ‘pinto’ means ‘small manhood’… Anecdotes like this happen all the time even with well known … Read more
by David Haggith Here is a journey in photos and facts to compare the present Great Recession with the past Great Depression to gain perspective on where we might be headed. Just as we had two great world wars, we might have two great depressions, the last of which we started out calling “The Great Recession” … Read more
By Tsvetana Paraskova Khalid al-Falih, the energy minister of the world’s largest crude oil exporter and OPEC’s biggest producer, Saudi Arabia, urged on Thursday countries buying crude oil to secure the free navigation of tankers in the Strait of Hormuz. The Strait of Hormuz near Iran is the most important oil chokepoint in the world with daily oil flows … Read more
