Renowned author and journalist James Howard Kunstler is not sure there is going to bed a 2020 Presidential Election. Kunstler predicts, “When all is said and done, I am not convinced there is enough there to convict President Trump of …
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) prevented Republicans from asking impeachment probe witness Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the White House’s top Ukraine expert, some questions at his closed-door deposition in the Capitol basement Tuesday. Democrats have accused Republicans of trying to figure …
Authored by Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner via Wirepoints.org, Don and Paula Parker aren’t your typical seniors. After living the last 20 years in Florida, they recently retired to Illinois. The Parkers were born and raised in Rockford, Illinois. Don …
THE OCEANS AREN’T GETTING ANY SMALLER: Navy admiral: A 355-ship Navy may not be attainable. “Will we get to 355 ships?” Burke asked at the Military Reports and Editors conference in Arlington, Va. “I think with today’s fiscal situation, where the …
via propublica: After ProPublica sued the IRS, the agency released emails that show it has allowed the tax preparation industry to write the rules. For a decade and a half, the IRS program to allow most Americans to file their taxes …
MOLLIE HEMINGWAY: The Real Reasons Why Legacy Media Are Freaking Out Over Trump’s Successful Baghdadi Mission. Corporate media have moved from at least projecting concern for reporting the actual news into unembarrassed political actors. That enables them to flamboyantly spin — …
by Natura Naturans The Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming (“CAGW”, aka “Global Warming”, “Climate Change”, “Climate Crisis”, “Climate Emergency”) scare is a failed hypothesis and the greatest scientific fraud in history. Global warming alarmism has been promoted by political extremists and believed …
via visualcapitalist: View the full-size version of this infographic. What do Equifax, Yahoo, and the U.S. military have in common? They’ve all fallen victim to a cyberattack at some point in the last decade—and they’re just the tip of the iceberg. Today’s infographic …
In funds with a liquidity mismatch, the First-Mover Advantage is huge, as Woodford’s investors found out. By Nick Corbishley, for WOLF STREET: On Oct 15., it was announced that Neil Woodford’s flagship Equity Income fund (WEI), which has blocked redemptions since June, would …
by TFittonJW COVER-UP? More than enough evidence to open up a criminal investigation into Ilhan Omar marriage scandal. And House Ethics Committee needs to act! https://youtu.be/Fak6PsSOFMI Per usual, Judicial Watch with the heavy lifting: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/judicial-watch-requests-ethics-investigation-of-whether-rep-ilhan-omar-improperly-used-campaign-funds/ https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/judicial-watch-files-house-ethics-complaint-against-rep-ilhan-omar-over-potential-immigration-marriage-tax-and-student-loan-fraud/
via rushlimbaugh: RUSH: Trump was praising today the value of people’s 401(k)s, the stock market at an all-time high, economic activity shooting through the roof. On the Democrat side, “Growing Uncertainty Looms Over the Democrat 2020 Primary.” Growing uncertainty? There’s nothing …
by WARREN MOSLER Deep contraction: Highlights The good news is that the trade deficit in goods narrowed sharply in September to a much lower-than-expected $70.4 billion, but the bad news is both exports and imports, in an indication of economic slowing, …
Via Marketwatch The top 1% has run out of investing ideas, so they’ve parked $4.7 trillion in the bank For every dollar of capital owned by a typical family in the poorer half, a family in the top 1% has …
S&P 500 jumps to record high on strong earnings, trade-deal progress The S&P 500 hit a record high on Monday, breaking above an all-time high set over the summer as investors cheered strong earnings and progress on U.S.-China trade. The S&P …
by The Phoenix Stocks broke upwards last week from the consolidation pattern we’ve been watching. Both breadth and credit suggested this move was coming. Stocks had some catching up to do and if you took our analysis from two weeks ago …
Was it Trump’s magic wand that turned the Washington Post into a laughingstock? I’m beginning to think that hidden somewhere in the White House or Trump Tower there’s a magic wand that the president wields which turns his detractors— old Obama hands, …
by Michael Snyder Have you noticed that each year the overall tone of Halloween just continues to get darker and darker? The movies keep getting more graphic, the decorations keep getting more gory and even the costumes keep getting more …
by Bulldogmasterace I remember a lot of “oh shit”.. “what was going on?”. Sort of defeatist behaviour. Large CMBs and RMBs desks first got merged, then got smaller week by week. Until it was just a handful left as …
https://twitter.com/thebradfordfile/status/1188455047023222785 Reporter: Did you notify Pelosi ahead of time? President Trump: No, no I didn't. I wanted to make sure this was kept secret. I don't want to have men lost 😎#Baghdadi pic.twitter.com/rHLGK8TlY3 — Wojciech Pawelczyk (@WojPawelczyk) October 27, 2019 …
While funding costs are declining, they are failing to stimulate investment and durable good demand, due to a reluctance to make longer-term commitments amid the current uncertainty Durables and long cycle capex have been at the centre of the weakness …
ICYMI: The rolling 3-month ratio of leveraged loan credit rating downgrades to upgrades has just spiked to the highest level since the GFC. RM #DriehausAlts pic.twitter.com/PP15smgVev — Driehaus Capital Management (@DriehausCapital) October 26, 2019 tech pricing in a 2016-style rebound …
by Willy_WY Full video showing the record from 1960 to 2019 is available here: https://youtu.be/qlGxfVJt95M Source: World Tourism Organization Tools: Python, d3.js
by theimpossiblesalad Source: United States Department of Health and Human Services (US DHHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Division of Vital Statistics, Natality public-use data 1995-2018 Tools: Microsoft Excel and Adobe Photoshop …
by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: Dear Mr Armstrong, Donald Trump is the president of the world’s largest economy. Is it the world changing when China become the world’s largest economy? With being categorical like analytic person, defensive like a relationship person and …
by Natura Naturans Top Dems are involved in the plundering of the Ukraine: new names, mind-boggling accounts. The mysterious ‘whistleblower’ whose report had unleashed the impeachment is named in the exclusive interview given to the Unz Review by a prominent Ukrainian …
by Natura Naturans High Electricity Costs, Hostile Environmental Activism, Uncertainty Now Crippling German Economy …Outlook Bleak German online weekly FOCUS writes Germany is turning into “Europe’s economic sick man” – due in large part to high energy prices and fierce environmental …
Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai explains how the entire student loan system in America was designed to benefit exclusively universities and hedge fund manager at the expense of the futures of college students and graduates (and their co-signers) all over the country. …
By Gail Tverberg The energy needs of the world’s economy seem to be easy to model. Energy consumption is measured in a variety of different ways including kilowatt-hours, barrels of oil equivalent, British thermal units, kilocalories and joules. Two types …
by TFittonJW Heavy lifting gets results: Hoping Durham strikes but JW will continue its independent Swamp-draining: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/judicial-watch-ap-reporters-gave-doj-fbi-ukraine-info-and-code-to-private-locker-of-paul-manafort-in-apparent-effort-to-push-criminal-prosecution/ https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/judicial-watch-new-benghazi-documents-confirm-clinton-email-cover-up/ https://www.judicialwatch.org/corruption-chronicles/state-dept-used-soros-linked-media-tracking-tool-to-monitor-journalists-trump-allies/
Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk, What’s behind the ever-increasing need for emergency repos? A couple of correspondents have an eye on shadow banking. Shadow Banking The shadow banking system consists of lenders, brokers, and other credit intermediaries who fall outside …