by John Ward The new EC President doesn’t start until November, but is already planning a Federal EU in which no opposition to directives will be tolerated. At the same time, more and more evidence of economic quicksand is available for …
by Playaguy This post won’t be popular, but the truth rarely is. An entire generation is growing up thinking that stealing from those who earn things and giving it to those who don’t = prosperity. It doesn’t. History shows …
Many investors are worried about the ballooning national debt, with 54% naming the political environment and 47% viewing national debt as their top concerns, according to a UBS second-quarter investor sentiment survey. Tax and spending policy are the main …
IRS Sending Warning Letters to More Than 10,000 Cryptocurrency Holders An IRS spokesman declined to say whether the letters stem from information turned over by digital-currency platform Coinbase. In mid-March of 2018, Coinbase provided data—under a federal court order—on about 13,000 …
via commentarymagazine: Bernie Sanders has been embarrassed by the revelation that he wasn’t paying his campaign workers the minimum wage he so loudly demands that every other employer pay. These are salaried employees, not hourly wage workers, so he has now solved the …
Reuters, CBS Run With Misleading Headline About Migrant Mother, Mexican Border Guard. Both CBS and Reuters ran a photo of a Guatemalan migrant mother and a Mexican border guard, including a headline that didn’t quite tell the whole story. Reuters …
via investopedia: By keeping interest rates at historic lows, the world’s leading central banks, including the Federal Reserve, have produced an “everything rally” marked by rising prices for a variety of asset classes, among them stocks, bonds, gold, safe haven currencies, and asset-backed securities. Investors have …
Investors Pour Money Into Bond Funds at a Record Pace Some excerpts Mutual funds and exchange-traded funds tracking bonds posted $12.1 billion of inflows for the week ended July 17, the 28th consecutive week of inflows. That brings the total …
by Daisy Luther Self-defense courses sound hard. Aggressive. Intensely physical. For some women, darn near impossible. When we reach a certain age, gain a certain amount of weight, see a drop in our fitness levels, we sometimes thing, that’s it. …
From Birch Gold Group Like clockwork, this week POTUS and and congressional leaders reached an agreement to have the debt ceiling suspended again. That means the U.S. Government has a renewed open checkbook it can use to cover expenses for two more years. However, …
by Tom McClellan The FOMC is expected to cut short term interest rates at its upcoming July 30-31 meeting, but they probably will not cut as much as they need to. The FOMC is usually slow to do the right …
by Troy It’s been 7 months since the stock market’s December 2018 bottom, and the S&P has rallied 28% since then. The rally is slowing down, and it is unreasonable to expect the next 7 months to be like the …
by TFittonJW Another great interview with Epoch Times: And my speech to Turning Point USA’s young activists:
by Michael Snyder This is a very difficult article for me to write. I cannot remember a time when there was so much hatred in America. We are a deeply, deeply divided nation, and those divisions are constantly being deepened …
by axolotl_peyotl ⚡️Meet @coppola_gregory: a current Google engineer who is blowing the whistle on political bias. FYI — Google testified before Congress and said there is no political bias at Google. Coppola says, "I'm just so sure that's not true." …
Trump must be gloating in ecstasy. Not because of the failure that is Robert Mueller — his Report is still a damning document of crimes by Trump—but because Trump understands the power of the visual, and he understands that the …
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 …
From Birch Gold Group It seems like the market is responding urgently to what the Fed has been saying about rate cuts, as the market has been on a rather unusually long bull run. Earlier today the DOW was at an all-time high despite losing …
by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: Do you think Jeffrey Epstein will ever go to trial? SF ANSWER: NO WAY!!!!!! First of all, if the court were fair, he should be on bail where he offered to pay for 24 hrs guards, wear a bracelet, …
By John Mauldin The inverted yield curve is one of the more reliable recession indicators. I discussed it at length last December. At that point, we had not yet seen a full inversion. Now we have, and it appears the curve …
By John Mauldin I’m often asked if recession is coming. For quite some time now, my answer has been: “Yes, but not just yet.” That’s still what I think today, but more of the early warning signals I have used in …
by carnageta The stretch from 2000-2010 is one of the worst in stock market history. Even so, the returns you would have garnered up to this date are nothing to be ashamed of. Lets assume you started your investment journey …
by FireOfDragons This is a post about how even a little bit of attention can go a long way for you, and others. I work for a company with ~600 employees across North America. Since finding the personal finance communities …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Story stocks, momentum stocks, hyperventilation stocks, consensual hallucination stocks, financial engineering stocks: anything but reality. You see, Tesla is different. It just reported another doozie, a loss of $408 million in the second quarter, after its …
via howmuch In the first quarter of 2019, the total private and public debt of the United States hit a record $70 trillion, raising concerns about the possibility of widespread defaults. Non-financial corporate businesses hold about $9 trillion of that debt. What companies …
by AlaminsBox Source of data: statista.com Tool used: Photoshop
by BoMcCready Just a quick graphic showing the 50 most expensive public colleges and universities in the US by average net price. If this topic resonates, it’d be easy to do an interactive version, bring in private colleges, overlay with …
Unmasking the Five Eyes Beast https://patriots4truth.org/2019/05/24/unmasking-the-five-eyes-beast/ Did Obama use the “Five Eyes” intelligence agreement to get Britain to spy on Trump? “[T]hree intelligence sources have informed Fox News that President Obama went outside the chain of command. He didn’t use …
TradersChoice.net, Released on 7/24/19 Gregory Mannarino started his financial career working for the securities and trading arm of the now defunct Bear Stearns before the dot-com bubble. He is an active trader of the capital markets and has published several …
From Pew Research Center: Trust is an essential elixir for public life and neighborly relations, and when Americans think about trust these days, they worry. Two-thirds of adults think other Americans have little or no confidence in the federal government. Majorities …