Month: January 2020

via International Man International Man: You have sounded the alarm on a coming financial crisis of historic proportions. How do Trump’s trade policies figure into your view that a crisis is coming? David Stockman: Trump’s trade policies only create more risk and rot down below. They’re just kicking the can down the road. With this latest … Read more

https://media.blubrry.com/silverdoctors/s/content.blubrry.com/silverdoctors/2ReasonsUS-IranCrisisNotOverSilverDoctorsLive01-10-20.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Stitcher | RSS Is resolving the crisis with Iran really that simple, or could there be other reasons why Trump stood down on retaliating against Iran’s “show of force” strikes… Mike & Half Dollar are your hosts for Silver Doctors Live. We currently live-stream on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 11:00 a.m. EST. Watch … Read more

From Birch Gold Group Following the killing of Iranian General Quasem Soleimani last Friday, the market was on pins and needles as this week began. The Dow dropped more than 200 points on the news, then recovered Monday: The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended the day up 68.50 points, or 0.2% at 28,703.38 after falling 216 points … Read more

by Fabius Maximus  Summary: Presidential power has been growing for generations. Nothing can stop it except impeachment and removal of a president. Until we find the will to use this tool, presidents will continue to regard us with contempt. Rightly so. We can prevent the eternal reoccurrence of tyrants. Photo 10770928 © Desktopnotions – Dreamstime. I … Read more

Millennials are now considered “generation broke” with their insurmountable student debts, near-record auto loans, high credit card balances with rates at two-decade highs, and limited savings. Many are stuck in the gig-economy with more than one job. Finding a high-paying job this late in an economic expansion is hard to come across. So paging all … Read more

by Martin Armstrong The Democrats are now claiming that because Soleimani was also a “political” figure, that somehow makes it an act of war that only Congress can authorize. Of course, the argument goes down party lines because it is just political and not a valid argument. Nevertheless, what this is showing is that it … Read more

A bill put forward by Delegate Mark Levine (D) would make it a felony for law-abiding citizens to possess a magazine holding more than 10 rounds of ammunition. Moreover, Levine’s legislation, HB 961, even makes it a felony to possess 10-round magazines, if such magazines have a “removable plate” on the bottom that would allow … Read more

By LV According to this article that appeared in today’s Washington Post, U.S. Attorney John Huber is expected to conclude that there was no criminal conduct by the Clintons regarding the Clinton Foundation and the Uranium One deal. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/justice-dept-winds-down-clinton-related-inquiry-once-championed-by-trump-it-found-nothing-of-consequence/2020/01/09/ca83932e-32f9-11ea-a053-dc6d944ba776_story.html#comments-wrapper This result means that numerous cases of blatant self-dealing by the Clintons, which were cited in … Read more

by DCG Demorat Dhingra: Believes your teenagers have rights you don’t need to know about Washington State Senate Bill 5889, sponsored by demorat Manka Dhingra, went into effect on January 1 this year. The bill relates to “insurance communications confidentiality” for children 13 and above. In a nut shell, children (members of a plan) 13 and older will … Read more

Look how small that rally is that’s pathetic. We need more Americans to stand up to Traitors like Warren ! She is Bad for American Values !   AC

by Dr. Eowyn According to some polls, Vermont Sen. (((Bernie Sanders))), the millionaire socialist (oxymoron and hypocrite alert!), has risen in popularity with Demonrats, now second only to Joe “pedo” Biden. Daily Caller investigative reporter Andrew Kerr writes, Jan. 9, 2020, that since announcing his presidential campaign nearly a year ago in February 2019, Bernie Sander’s … Read more

The internet is forever @SpeakerPelosi pic.twitter.com/TsotqABtZN — Mike_Poppin ☂️🕴🏼 (@oh_cue_m) January 9, 2020 Streamable Mirror: https://streamable.com/2ujzd UPDATE: New Mirror via the GOP two dozen articles on obama’s unauthorized use of force 470,000 died in syria because of it. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/apr/27/congress-still-not-specifically-authorizing-islami/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/11/obama-isis-syria-air-strikes-legal-argument View post on imgur.com   h/t dr0id

The Changing Supply of Used Vehicles. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. If you have been renting cars periodically, you will have noticed that it’s not unusual now to get into a rental car that has 45,000 miles or even 50,000 miles on the odometer. But 10 years ago, a rental car with 30,000 miles on the odometer … Read more

Something funny’s happening in NIRP land: long-term yields are rising, negative yields are turning positive, and investors are getting punished for having handed their brains to central banks. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. So how much can you lose in a little over four months buying one of the most conservative investments, the German government 30-year bond, … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhmaYWiybis The [DS] is panicking, the MSM is now asking more questions about the fake impeachment. NP is trapped and she can’t make her next move. The patriots have now pushed operation replace and remove, Iran is in the process of flipping, the [DS] is on the run and they are panicking. HRC sends out … Read more

by Charles Hugh-Smith The global economy and financial system are both running on the last toxic fumes of financialization and globalization. For two generations, globalization and financialization have been the two engines of global growth and soaring assets. Globalization can mean many things, but its beating heart is the arbitraging of the labor of the powerless, and … Read more

The week after the year-end Repo Chaos didn’t happen. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. The feared chaos in the repo market over the year-end period didn’t materialize as the Fed had flooded the market with cash via repo operations and purchases of T-bills (Treasury securities with maturities of one year or less). This kept repo rates glued to the … Read more