The South Dakota Democratic Party is closing its two remaining offices. Staff will work remotely for lack of funding

The South Dakota Democratic Party is closing its two remaining offices. Staff will work remotely for lack of funding – Reid Wilson Verified account @PoliticsReid The South Dakota Democratic Party is closing its two remaining offices. Staff will work remotely for lack of funding – South Dakota Democratic Party closing Sioux Falls, Rapid City offices … Read more

Globalization Hits a Brick Wall Named Trump

By Patrick Watson Until about 50 years ago, people paid attention to the area where they lived. They read local papers, shopped at local merchants, and socialized at local events. Technology ended all that. Now we get our news from the internet. We buy imported goods. We converse on social media with friends thousands of … Read more

Latina Congressional Republican Candidate TORCHES AOC, Makes Her REGRET EVER Being in Office

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ii-r5sG2gA Ryan Saavedra from The Daily Wire reports, Latina Republican congressional candidate Catalina Lauf, 26, blasted socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) during an interview on Tuesday, saying that unlike Ocasio-Cortez, she loves America. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.dailywire.com/news/51107/…

FICOs are Beginning to Become Arbitrary

by leodoggo I work in automotive lending for a major automotive lender. With increased technology, credit swipes, credit boosts, authorized user credit, and just straight fraud, FICOs are starting to become unreliable. Below is an example of what I’m referring to: Yesterday I had two separate applications that stood out. Customer A: credit had a … Read more

Mass Layoffs Are Back. Are You At Risk?

by Adam Taggart Imagine the following scene playing out at work tomorrow: You arrive in the morning to find a note reading ‘HR wants to see you’. About what?, you wonder. Seeing your HR manager already in the conference room with the door closed, you fidget as you wait. A knot begins to form in … Read more

BYND borrow rate at IB is 317%

by MikeThePutz This is nuts. There are no shares left to borrow and the rate jumped from 78% on Friday to 317% today. Unless they gave me the wrong info, this means the short squeeze is likely to happen soon. I’m using about 5% of the profits from my first BYND run-up trade on this … Read more

ISM Manufacturing PMI Hits 49.1%, Officially Contracting… U.S. Consumer Sentiment Falls Most Since 2012 on Trade Fears

Link to the report: https://www.instituteforsupplymanagement.org/ismreport/mfgrob.cfm?SSO=1 If anyone was wondering why the market dipped again after 10AM here’s why. Trade policy concerns and supply chain impacts are being cited as some of the largest reasons for slowing orders and leaner inventories. This is one of the indicators the FOMC is going to be looking at when they … Read more

Global Recession Coming

via mishtalk: The economies of China’s neighbors suffer, starting with manufacturers of high-tech equipment. On Sunday, Trump decided to go ahead with new tariffs of 15% on clothing and other Chinese imports totally about $111 billion. The new tariffs are in addition to the 25% tariffs previously imposed on about $250 billion of Chinese imports. No … Read more

5 reasons to remain bullish

by WSBConsensus 1) Fed is easing, but without HY spreads or jobless claims spiking, both of which typically deteriorate into a recession. Crucially, if initial Fed cuts are not followed by a recession, the next 3, 6 and 12 months equity returns were historically very strong– 2) Global activity momentum is likely to look better … Read more

Michael Burry takes activist position in $TLRD

by invest2018 http://secfilings.nasdaq.com/filingFrameset.asp?FilingID=13622252&RcvdDate=8/30/2019&CoName=TAILORED%20BRANDS%20INC&FormType=SC%2013D&View=html Stock is down over 60% YTD for no good reason. People claim that workplace casual is killing $TLRD, but workplace casual has been trending for the past decade and the company has still posted growth numerous times throughout the decade. Demand for suits will always be there because of weddings, funerals, bar … Read more

Forget the Russians: It’s the Federal Reserve Seeking to Meddle in Our Elections

by ron paul The US Constitution never granted the federal government authority to create a central bank. The Founders, having lived through hyperinflation themselves, understood that government should never have a printing press at its disposal. But from the very beginning of America’s founding, the desire for a crony central bank was strong. In fact, … Read more

What unions did for America. We should miss them.

by Fabius Maximus Summary: Americans consider a prosperous middle class to be our just due. We forgot how generations of union activists helped create it. The middle class existed for only a few generations, and survived the crushing of unions by only a few decades. On this Labor Day let’s remember the lost history of the … Read more

Rates, Recessions, Rentiers, Oh My!

by Jesse “The sense of responsibility in the financial community for the community as a whole is not small. It is nearly nil.  Perhaps this is inherent. In a community where the primary concern is making money, one of the necessary rules is to live and let live.  To speak out against madness may be … Read more

Reddit Is Quietly Ramping Up Its ‘Anti-Evil’ Content Moderation Teams

Reddit is expanding their Anti-Evil team. In August, several positions opened in the world of Reddit’s Anti-Evil operations, a shadowy content-moderation initiative which, according to the company, “works almost entirely behind the scenes.” However, few users and moderators truly understand the content policy, nor are they meant to. One potential implication is the action is … Read more

Uh, OH! The Top 10% Account For 50% Of Consumption, But The Wealthy Have Stopped Spending

via CNBC: A sudden pullback in spending among the wealthy could cascade down to the rest of the economy and create a further drag on growth. High-end real estate is having its worst year since the financial crisis. Luxury retailers are struggling while discounters like Walmart and Target thrive. At this month’s massive Pebble Beach … Read more

More Than 12 TONS of Beef Recalled Because It’s “Unfit for Human Consumption”

by theorganicprepper A mysterious new beef recall has taken place because the meat is “unfit for human consumption.” According to Food Safety News: Chino, CA-based American Beef Packers, Inc. late Saturday recalled approximately 24,428 pounds of raw beef products that are deemed unfit for human consumption, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and … Read more