via tomluongo: The Democrats declared war yesterday. Not on Donald Trump but on the United States and the Constitution. What started as a coup to overturn the 2016 election has now morphed into a Civil War as Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San …
Very bad idea, imo. Another conflict we need no part in. Breaking: State Department spokesman: Washington is interested in the Libyan government's (GNA) request for military support. — EndGameWW3 🇺🇸 (@EndGameWW3) December 21, 2019 This would put us against Russian …
@ 3:02 Barr names Soros for his radical social justice money spending! AG Barr on the Trump administration’s initiative to combat crime Soros is truly the most effective actively evil person that’s ever walked the earth… the man’s tentacles are …
by smurfin101 he recent IG report confirmed what we’ve known for 3 years is true. It confirmed that the FBI and Obama admin spied on Trump. MSM lied to the masses about this for 3 years straight. This is why people …
From Birch Gold Group Price inflation (CPI) climbed from 1.8% in October to 2.1%, its highest rate in 2019, according to official sources. CPI is also up 0.5% since June. As usual, if we look beyond the government’s official numbers, we can …
by Martin Armstrong Wikipedia is a professional propaganda organization that allows fakes news and outright illegal propaganda to dominate the internet. Most schools no longer accept Wikipedia as a valid source for citation in universities. The only areas where Wikipedia …
by Lauromartins86 The house didn’t help their cause with this impeachment. They got a technical win, but they’ll leave much of their base with blue balls yet again and then there’s people like these folks who will be completely …
by throwaway927048201 Throwaway for obvious reasons. I’m 21 years old, going to a pretty liberal college in a very liberal area, and have considered myself a Democrat/liberal for most of my life. However, after seeing tonight’s debate, and watching corporate …
https://twitter.com/GreekFire23/status/1207751451566579712 Uber bullish consensus never ends well. Implied vol for junk bonds at its lowest level ever. All previous dips preceded major selloffs in corporate bonds. Key point: High yield spreads are at their lowest level since June of 2007 …
US Leading Economic Index: +0.09% over past yr, slowest growth since 2009. Last 5 times LEI went from + to – YoY… -Aug 2006 (recession Dec '07)-Nov 2000 (recession Mar '01)-Jan 1996 (only 1 month neg, no recession)-Oct 1989 (recession …
by smurfin101 https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3599 Bill Ivy from “globalculturalstrategie” to John Podesta John David Podesta Jr. is an American political consultant who served as White House Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton from October 20, 1998 until January 20, 2001 and …
IT’S OFFICIAL: House Dems Close Up Shop Without Sending Articles of Impeachment to Senate. “‘Hoyer announces no more votes until January 7. Big cheer goes up in House chamber. This means the House won’t approve a resolution on impeachment [managers] & …
Marin Katusa, founder of Katusa Research, explains why he calls negative interest rates a “financially transmitted disease.” He reveals how negative interest rate policy (NIRP) affects savings rates and the rest of the global economy.
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Today’s rate hike by the central bank of Sweden ends an absurdity. ECB and other central banks with negative rates are getting ready to follow. The central bank of Sweden, the Riksbank, has thrown in the …
Air Keeps Pumping Into the U.S. Valuation Balloon: Bloomberg Decomposing soon deflates the bubble of optimism about further gains. Financial Watchdog Warns About Dangers of Leveraged Loans: WSJ The boom in the market for leveraged loans, a favorite financing source …
by Lance Roberts A recent Peter G Peterson Foundation poll, as reported by the Financial Times, revealed a statistic that we have suspected for quite some time. To wit: “Nearly two-thirds of Americans say this year’s record-setting Wall Street rally has …
by Egon von Greyerz Since the Great Financial Crisis started in 2006, global debt has more than doubled from $125 trillion to $260 trillion. The more money that has been printed, the lower interest rates have gone. In 2006 US …
by Ryan McMaken via Mises In my days before I worked for the Mises Institute, I had a colleague who knew I associated with Austrian-school economists. In the wake of the bailouts and quantitative easing that followed the 2008 financial crisis, he’d sometimes …
By John Mauldin When you write for a wide audience, no matter what you say, or how carefully you say it, some people will misunderstand. Sometimes it’s amusing. Reading through my feedback (and I do read all of it), I …
By Irina Slav A few days after the United States and China announced a phase-one trade deal, Beijing announced it had removed six chemicals and oil derivatives from its list of tariffed U.S. imports. The exemption will be in force …
Jonathan Turley: “You Could Impeach Every Living President” By The Standards Of Trump Impeachment. CBS ANCHOR: What impact do you think this could have on future presidents? JONATHAN TURLEY: It is going to have a significant impact, I think it …
Horowitz Examining Past FISA Applications to Determine if FBI’s ‘Basic Errors’ are Systemic. Reminder: https://twitter.com/JohnWHuber/status/1204544962366496770 JACOB SULLUM: The FBI’s Systematic Dishonesty: The problems revealed by the DOJ inspector general go far beyond “errors” and “sloppiness.” Former FBI Director James Comey initially portrayed last …
by The Phoenix The market is telling us that the impeachment process will go nowhere. Very early into his Presidency, Donald Trump branded the stock market’s returns as illustrating the success of his policies. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin even went so …
By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. Companies in the S&P 500 index bought back $176 billion of their own shares in the third quarter, down 13.7% from the third quarter last year, and down 21.1% from the record share-buyback mania in Q4 2018, …
Photo by Wikimedia.org| CC BY | Photoshopped From Birch Gold Group There’s no doubt, Social Security has problems that urgently need to be resolved. If they aren’t addressed in a meaningful way, and soon, those problems could turn catastrophic. Changes could be coming as soon as January. The …
By David Stockman On December 16 the gross Federal debt breached a new level to $23.1 trillion, while the net debt after $401 billion of cash weighed in at $22.71 trillion. The latter monstrous figure is notable because on June 30, 2019 it …
by John Rubino of Dollar Collapse Criticizing the “public sector” is tricky, because teachers, firefighters, cops and bus drivers are by-and-large great people doing hard things that benefit the rest of us. But there’s this problem, which is that once a country’s public …
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by jessefelder Warren Buffett’s most famous quote has to be: “Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.” But how do we know when others are fearful or greedy? I’ve written about margin debt as the, …
by WARREN MOSLER Global trade collapse continues: Looks like more of same- L shaped recovery since the financial crisis: Still looking weak: