Confederate Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson statues in Charlottesville officially removed

The city of Charlottesville, Virginia, officially removed its statues of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson on Saturday. Viewing areas for the removal of the statues were erected so that bystanders could watch cranes lift the statues from their plinth blocks; the process was nearly complete just before 9 a.m. https://www.foxnews.com/us/robert-e-lee-stonewall-jackson-statues-removed … Read more

This “Financial Law of Gravity” Predicts an Inevitable Market Collapse

Photo by Muzammil Soorma   From Birch Gold Group “Brace for a significant market correction,” said Mark Zandi earlier this week. He hinted that a 10 to 20% correction was already underway. Which isn’t surprising, as manic investing behavior coupled with last year’s pandemic mitigation attempts eventually must give way to fundamental market forces. CNBC reported that a moment of clarity may have finally clicked … Read more

The New York Times Criticizes China’s Political Censorship, Have They Looked in the Mirror?

Funny how leftists view themselves as having an awakened consciousness, even as they show no trace of self-consciousness. Case in point: The New York Times denounces China for precisely the kind of speech suppression and silencing of dissent that it openly advocates in this country. — Dinesh D’Souza is an author and filmmaker. A graduate … Read more

VIDEO: Tucker Carlson Reads Viral Thread On Why So Many Trump Supporters Have Questions About The 2020 Election & Their Distrust Of The Media

Full Thread: https://t.co/Df6KBL84Xv — The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) July 10, 2021 https://t.co/BoFbVYp11Q — The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) July 10, 2021 https://t.co/YFOHj4bXel — The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) July 10, 2021 View post on imgur.com     h/t  dr0id

Biden’s executive order aims to increase competition; China’s tech giants face regulatory pressure

Deputy Director of the National Economic Council in the Joe Biden administration, Bharat Ramamurti, joins Yahoo Finance to discuss Biden’s new executive order centered around improving workers’ opportunities and how these three provisions will shape the labor market moving forward. Yahoo Finance’s Brian Sozzi, Myles Udland, and Julie Hyman speak with Levi Strauss CFO Harmit … Read more

I struggle to describe how large of a bubble US stocks are…

https://twitter.com/PondSagg/status/1413571409310363648 https://twitter.com/RetirementRight/status/1413581362494283776 The chart of the week is this one: Investors taking maximum risk at maximum risk. Compliments of trusted psychopaths. Sadly, they don't trust anyone who can be trusted. pic.twitter.com/qCA3C4zoEj — Mac10 (@SuburbanDrone) July 9, 2021 the last time this happened was late 2008 pic.twitter.com/gz1Zsd2npr — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) July 9, 2021 The Dow's record … Read more

Record-breaking heat, drought prompt Manitoba to declare state of agricultural emergency

by: Ethan Huff (Natural News) Parts of Canada are currently experiencing the hottest temperatures ever on record, resulting in severe drought conditions that threaten to destroy local agriculture. The situation is so dire in Manitoba that government officials recently declared a state of agricultural emergency. The Rural Municipality of St. Laurent, located in the Interlake region, … Read more

Fed drops major hints of tapering ‘fairly soon’; Gold’s response to policy reversal – Gary Wagner

Kitco News, Released on 7/9/21 Gary Wagner, editor of TheGoldForecast.com, discusses with David Lin, anchor for Kitco News, the Federal Reserve’s next steps in monetary policy, and how a tapering of mortgage-backed securities purchases can impact the bond and #gold markets. 0:00 – Fed tapering? 2:09 – Taper Tantrum 5:00 – Economy re-opening 7:40 – … Read more

Markets Are Bracing For the Wrong Impact

by Peter Schiff of Peter Schiff Podcast Bitcoin and other risky assets being sold off. Investors flee to gold and other safe havens. Fed goes from thinking about thinking about tapering to talking about talking about it. Supply of starter homes at 50 year low. Buying Bitcoin is as risky as it’s ever been. FULL SHOW NOTES AND … Read more

Tiny Bubbles? Reign of Faang Oligarchy Showing No Signs of Stock Usurpation (S&P 500 Hits All-time High, But Shiller CAPE Ratio Hits All-time High Too … Except For The Dot.com Bubble Of 2000)

by confoundedinterest17 I wonder if the late Hawaiian crooner Don Ho knew what would happen in 2021. His song “Tiny Bubbles” may have to be rewritten as “BIG BUBBLES!!” (Bloomberg) — A sudden swoon in bond yields has put the stock market “reflation trade” at risk of an early death. For all the ink spilled over the phenomenon, … Read more

Wells Unexpectedly Shuts All Existing Personal Lines Of Credit, Hinting US Economy On The Edge

As the credit market heats back up due to the growing consumer demand amid the reopening, America’s third-largest bank, Wells Fargo, unexpectedly announced this week that it will permanently shut down all of its existing lines of credit – a very popular product provided by the retail-focused Wall Street giant – and the move is … Read more