by Zap_Powerz Western civilization is dying before our eyes. Our political processes are sclerotic, dysfunctional, corrupt and unable to address the problems we face as a society. It does not matter what political religion you belong to, it is a …
by HauntingArmadillo5 EDIT: Alrighty, I’m wrong about depreciation. Depreciation is still a thing, still affects your personal income taxes, but I’m heading right back to google to correct my own information. Guys, I wrote this whole thing off the top of …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Rents plunge in Chicago, Honolulu, New York, Washington DC, and others, but surge in many markets. Across the US in August, the median asking rent for 1-bedroom apartments rose 2.2% from a year ago, to $1,209. For two-bedroom …
by Charles Hugh-Smith The only possible output of this system is extortion as a way of life. As the accompanying chart shows, productivity in the U.S. has been declining since the early 2000s. This trend mystifies economists, as the tremendous investments …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Peso collapses despite the $50-billion IMF bailout and the central bank’s 45% interest rate. Just when you think Argentina’s financial crisis can’t get worse, it gets a whole lot worse. In order to halt the peso …
The original group of PayPal founders and employees who have gone on to become one of the most successful groups of individuals in the world. The portfolio of companies they’ve founded includes; Tesla, Youtube, Space X, Linkedin, Yelp, and Founders …
by LeftOfTheDials Just wanted to give you guys a bit of insight into the SWIFT network and it’s use in money transfers. It’s discussed here a bit with regards to first Russia then the EU discussing moving away from the system. …
by HasStupidQuestions I just wanted to give you a small reminder of the picture most seem to forget. The goal is to consolidate power and reduce the amount of owners with influence. Why on Earth would anyone want to discuss …
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by John Ward WHAT ON EARTH COULD GO WRONG? ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ I mentioned at the start of the week about the high likelihood of Brazil’s imminent economic numbers being pretty awful. But Argentina beat them to it yesterday by asking the International Monetary …
by Tom McClellan In the election of 1992 there was an insurgent candidate, who did not win a majority of the popular vote, but who took the White House and set about reorganizing the government in a manner more to his …
By Bob Shanahan On Tuesday, Senior Justice Department official, Bruce Ohr, testified on Capitol Hill. During this closed-door session, Ohr revealed that prior to getting the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant on Trump campaign volunteer, Carter Page, the …
Tucker takes on the increasingly extreme views of the Democratic party as more and more progressive candidates win their respective primaries. SPREAD THE WEALTH: Sen. Harris Wants US TAXPAYERS to Subsidize California’s OUTRAGEOUS Rents Firebrand Senator and potential 2020 …
Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, “Only those that risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T.S. Eliot I was reminded of that quote recently as I was reading a great piece by Tim Duy: “Federal …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter This is not good. What’s causing the drop-off in pending home sales in the US, and in particular in the West? Surging home prices that have outrun wage increases for years? Mortgage rates that hover around …
From Birch Gold Group Inflation has been on the rise since late 2015. According to the Consumer Price Index (CPI) measure, the Fed has typically maintained the “target inflation” rate of 2%. But official inflation has moved well past that benchmark. …
by Amy S. Would you be prepared to survive a nation-wide blackout? A Nuclear Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) is a burst of electromagnetic radiation created by nuclear explosions. North Korea & Russia has threatened and boasted about their capabilities for using an …
by FS The following is a summary of our interview with Felix Zulauf, Founder and President at Zulauf Asset Management AG, which can be listened to on our site here or on iTunes here. After a pretty strong rally this year, the US dollar …
From Richard Smith, Founder, TradeStops: Are you ready for the next bear market? Have you thought about what it will be like… and how you’ll handle your portfolio when it comes? If you haven’t given much thought to the topic, you …
by TFittonJW Again, Judicial Watch did the heavy lifting to get smoking gun docs. https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-fbi-records-show-dossier-author-deemed-not-suitable-for-use-as-source-show-several-fbi-payments-in-2016/
By Deep Throat IPO: Let’s take a look at what happened once Alibaba’s YUGE! “61%” number hit the street at 7:30 AM on Thursday August 23rd. Pre-market generally went nuts, pushing the opening number up $7, to $184 from the prior …
Have to say it again, This market is 100 Times more ridiculous than 1999 or 2000. Not even close. IMO Everything going parabolic now. Back then it was speculative growth names. — Reminiscences of an American Capitalist (@4Awesometweet) August 29, …
by Dave While social justice is a nice thing, conceptually, it is being used to provide cover to the “elites on the left” to continue the middle-class harvesting operation arm-in-arm with the “elites on the right”. What do I mean …
Studies have repeatedly shown we’re extremely susceptible to social cues coming from machines, and a recent experiment by German researchers demonstrates that people will even refuse to turn a robot off — if it begs for its life. In the …
Cover image courtesy of Ben Garrison of GRRRGRAPHICS.COM By Bob Shanahan President Donald Trump again went after the liberal internet goliaths of Facebook, Twitter, and Google Tuesday afternoon, saying they are “treading on very, very troubled territory and they …
From Hollywood to the Vatican something sinister is a foot. The years of Laughter and jokes have turned to tears and fear. The secrets are flowing out. There are REPORTS on the news about companies shutting down and being caught …
The Federal government reported 235 school related shootings. NPR could not confirm 224 of them. The rest of the article goes on to explain the discrepancy- The biggest discrepancy in sheer numbers was the 37 incidents listed in the CRDC …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter New York condo prices fell again. Historic spikes slow in Seattle and other metros. On a national basis, home prices surged 6.2% in June compared to June last year (not seasonally-adjusted), and 0.8% from May, according to …
by badpauly This is a list of the top 20 companies that experienced the largest change in insider shares in the last seven (7) days. The SEC defines an insider as any officer, director or 10% shareholder. It is not …
by Martin Armstrong While in the US some people have discovered that running a YouTube Channel can get you in trouble with the law. One many found himself in Georgia with being charged with running a business without a license even though …