Month: August 2019

Baby Boomers Leaving Behind Trail of Luxury Ranches… Nervous Retirees Too Scared to Spend

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Decades ago, a generation of America’s wealthiest, raised on television shows like “Howdy Doody” and “The Lone Ranger,” headed west with dreams of owning some of the country’s most prestigious ranches. Now, as those John Wayne- loving baby boomers age out of the lifestyle or die, they or their children are looking to sell those … Read more

FOXNEWS Signs Sarah Huckabee Sanders… Scaramucci: Democrats Have More Fun!

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders, one of the more controversial holders of the office of White House Press Secretary in recent memory, will join Fox News Channel as a contributor. The former Trump administration advisor is expected to add commentary to Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, Fox News Digital and the Fox Nation streaming service, the Fox Corporation unit … Read more

Mauldin: Modern Monetary Theory Could Destroy This Nation:If we attempt MMT, it will end the US dollar’s reserve currency status and produce out-of-control inflation. That will essentially destroy the Boomer generation’s ability to retire

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Authored by John Mauldin via MauldinEconomics.com, I am back from my 14th annual Maine fishing camp. The private event at Leen’s Lodge is generally called Camp Kotok in honor of David Kotok of Cumberland Advisors who started these outings many years ago. CNBC and others began calling it the “Shadow Fed,” but it is really just … Read more

Life-like robots closer to reality… Learn, adapt… ‘Nurse’ helps you dress

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Life-like robots that can make decisions, adapt to their environment and learn, are one step closer to becoming reality. Researchers at the University of Bristol have demonstrated a new way of embedding computation into soft robotic materials. This advance could create new robotic possibilities to environmental monitoring, pollution clean-up, drug delivery, prosthetic devices, wearable biosensing … Read more

REPORT: Cell Phone Use Causes Brain Depletion… Leaking more radiation than safety limits?

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Using your phone on break during mentally challenging tasks doesn’t allow your brain to recharge effectively and may result in poorer performance, according to new research. For the study, researchers assigned college undergraduates to solve challenging sets of word puzzles. Halfway through, some were allowed to take breaks using their cellphones. Others took breaks using … Read more

Obamas buying $15M Martha’s Vineyard estate

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Barack and Michelle Obama are close to buying a massive Martha’s Vineyard estate. TMZ reports that the former president and first lady are in escrow — aka in contract to purchase — a 29-acre beachfront plot with a 6,892-square-foot main house. The Obamas were initially just renting the seven-bedroom, 8½-bathroom spread for summer 2019, but apparently … Read more

U PAY: Germany Sells 30-Year With Negative Rates

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FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Imagine lending money to someone and having to pay for the privilege of doing so. Or being asked to invest and informed of how much money you’ll lose. Sounds absurd, but increasingly that’s the global bond market these days. A rising share of government and corporate bonds are trading at negative … Read more

FAKE NEWS? This New York Times story about Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to the MIT Media Lab includes this about Marvin Minsky:

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via nytimes: Mr. Epstein may have had ties to people in leadership positions at the lab before meeting Mr. Ito. In a deposition unsealed this month, a woman testified that, as a teenager, she was told to have sex with Marvin Minsky, a pioneer in artificial intelligence, on Mr. Epstein’s island in the Virgin Islands. Mr. … Read more

Gold Is Knocking On Key Breakout Level

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by Kimble Charting In 2013, Gold broke below its 23 percent Fibonacci retracement level and a bearish trend change took place at (1). This was the beginning of a bigger decline that saw gold fall another 450 dollars. Nearly six years later, Gold returns to this “breakdown” level in hopes of making it a new “breakout” level at … Read more

Our Wile E. Coyote Federal Reserve

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by Charles Hugh-Smith Whatever the Fed chooses to do, it’s already failed.. Wile E. Coyote has gotten a bad rap: in all fairness, his schemes are ingenious, if overly complicated, and it’s not his fault that the Acme detonator misfires or the Road Runner doesn’t respond as predicted. Every set-up to nail the Road Runner shouldwork. That … Read more

2020 Dem Candidates RUIN Themselves By Staying SILENT On This SICK Issue

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4GqtaEYtf8 James Barrett from The Daily Wire reports, In a new video produced by conservative group TPUSA, several Democratic presidential candidates are asked at the Iowa State Fair if they will denounce the violence-embracing radical leftist group Antifa. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.dailywire.com/news/50800/…

Feds move to dismiss Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking indictment

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Watch the latest video at foxnews.com Federal prosecutors on Monday moved to dismiss the sex-trafficking indictment against Jeffrey Epstein following his suicide in federal lockup earlier this month — but officials say they have no plans to end the probe into Epstein’s alleged victims’ claims, and authorities are still considering charging others accused in the alleged underage sex ring. Epstein, … Read more

THIS DOESN’T SURPRISE ME: The Truth About Faster Internet: It’s Not Worth It.

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via WSJ: The Wall Street Journal studied the internet use of 53 of our journalists across the country, over a period of months, in coordination with researchers at Princeton University and the University of Chicago. Our panelists used only a fraction of their available bandwidth to watch streaming services including Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and … Read more