U.S. Population Growth by State (1900-2017)
https://streamable.com/t0r6s Source – Federal Reserve Economic Data Tools – Python 3 + matplotlib Here is a fixed-axis version of the visualization. h/t ThePedMeister
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Freezing Temperatures Could Heat Up Natural Gas Prices
by Frank Holmes, CEO, U.S. Global Investors Here in San Antonio, the temperature hit a bone-chilling low of 27 degrees last Wednesday, breaking a 102-year-old record for mid-November. An out-of-state visitor, Cornerstone Macro’s Head of Portfolio Insights Stephen Gregory, speculated …
The End Of The Tax Cut Boost
by Lance Roberts Last week, I touched on the issue of corporate profits and tax cuts. While the promise was that tax cuts were going to a massive boost to economic growth, the reality has been quite different. To wit: …
Insanity: Dog in London accused of hate crime after pooping outside a home
by DCG The UK lost all common sense several years ago. From Daily Mail: We all know it’s irritating, unsightly and unhygienic, but one case of dog fouling has been logged by police as a racist hate crime. The incident is among …
Google vs DuckDuckGo | Search engine manipulation, censorship and why you should switch
If a 10+ year web developer (me) who’s been using Google since like 2000 can switch to DDG, you can too. For the bulk of my searches, DDG works just fine. Once in a while, I have to add !g …
Time for some antitrust enforcement?
JOEL KOTKIN: Jeff Bezos Is Right at Home in the D.C. Swamp, but Amazon Might Have Bit Off More Than It Can Chew with the Big Apple. It turns out that tech oligarchs aren’t much better than old dogs at learning …
JOHN STOSSEL: How the Government Fails to Help the Mentally Ill
http://reason.com/archives/2018/10/03/how-the-government-fails-to-help-the-men Related: De Blasio Dithers on Mental Illness: New York City needs serious change, not another police-blaming task force. h/t ED
GOOD: Parents are lining up to join a lawsuit being planned by Pacific Legal Foundation.
via nypost: Parents, Asian-American groups and schools are lining up to join a federal suit opposing the city’s planned changes to specialized high school admissions. Joshua Thompson, a lawyer for a California-based libertarian law firm, said a range of individuals and groups …
TAR SANDS OPERATIONS GO FROM BAD TO WORSE: Now Losing Billions A Month
BY SRSROCCO The situation at Canada’s Alberta Tar Sands Operations has gone from bad to worse as the super-low oil price is now costing the industry billions of dollars each month. Unbelievably, the price for the Western Canadian Select heavy …
US Army Orders $180 Million-worth of M4s from Colt & FN; Springfield releases RO Elite 1911 in 10mm
Nov. 9 (UPI) — Colt’s Manufacturing Company and FN America have each been awarded $88.6 million by the U.S. Army for the production of M4 and M4A1 carbines. The purchases, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, are modifications to existing …
Zuckerberg’s New Low – Look What He Just Did To President Trump!
While checking my Facebook Newsfeed I noticed something curious that millions of other did as well, the Presidential Seal and White House logo was purposely blurred out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1ziWu8phGI Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018… ANTISOCIAL MEDIA: With Facebook at ‘War,’ Zuckerberg Adopts …
More Than 1,000 Missing In California Fires
More Than 1,000 Missing In California Fires Firefighters have been racing against time. Firefighters issued a red flag warning, which is issued for weather events which may result in extreme fire behavior, Saturday night into Sunday. Winds up to …
King County passes law requiring gun stores to post signs outlining dangers of owning a gun
by DCG More “feel-good,” useless legislation (show me a study where it’s been shown that signs reduce gun violence) that will do nothing to stop criminals. From MyNorthwest.com: The King County Board of Health passed legislation requiring stores that sell firearms and …
The entire world is burning, and America is holding on by a thread
The entire world is burning, and America is holding on by a thread pic.twitter.com/8XARuLvD9X — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) November 17, 2018 In case you missed it: #Greece's banks index has dropped another 12.3% this week, hit lowest level since 2016. pic.twitter.com/OJQlQRkeyM …
JOURNALISM: NYT, CNN wildly skew story on sexual harassment, Pence’s Press Secretary busts them.
via theblaze: Both the New York Times and CNN have deliberately misled readers about two sexual harassment-related formal rebukes issued by the House Ethics Committee on Friday. In the case of the Times, they hid the fact that the rebukes addressed one Republican …
WHEN TRUMP DOES IT, IT’S A CRISIS
You may not agree with Glenn Greenwald often, and you may even believe that Julian Assange is/was a national security threat. Reasonable minds can differ. But Greenwald’s piece in The Intercept underscores what many conservatives, libertarians and free-thinkers have known for a …
Progressive Liberal Run New York And New Jersey Plunged Into Mind-Numbing Chaos After Receiving Only 6 Inches Of Snow!
by Geoffrey Grider Drivers were trapped on gridlocked, snowy roads for hours. Middle schoolers in New Jersey had to spend the night at school. The upper level of the George Washington Bridge — one of the busiest bridges in the …
Estonia will not sign the U.N. migration pact, joining the U.S., Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Italy, Austria, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic
via voiceofeurope: After Hungary, Austria, the Czech Republic and Bulgaria, Estonia has also left the UN migration pact. “In forming the governing coalition, we agreed that we make decisions only by consensus. The government has today failed to reach agreement at the …
Nancy Pelosi Flubs Names, Repeats Self, Suffers Brain Freezes, Confused By Bill She Supports… Trump Predicts She Will Be Speaker
Why would the Democrat Party want she leading it? TRUMP PREDICTS PELOSI WILL BE SPEAKER: ‘She deserves this.’ Indeed she does: h/t ED
IT’S WAR: Potential Pelosi Challenger Marcia Fudge Blasts Her As A Wealthy Elitist
It is now becoming increasingly clearer as to why House Speaker frontrunner Nancy Pelosi kissed the ring of Al Sharpton at one of his events this week: her potential challenger, Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-OH), is a black woman who’s about …
US Military taking out the Clinton Cartel in Haiti?
https://twitter.com/CoreysDigs/status/1063975021553434628 Thread Unroll: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1063975021553434628.html 1) U.S. FORCES HAVE TAKEN CONTROL OF THE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT IN PORT-AU-PRINCE HAITI. I was receiving reports on this over the weekend, while I was away, but there is more to this story, not being reported on. …
Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-CA) threatens to nuke gun-confiscation resisters
by Dr. Eowyn Rep. Eric Swalwell, 38, is a California Demonrat who represents east Alameda County in the San Francisco Bay Area. In a May 3, 2018 USA Today op/ed entitled, “Ban assault weapons, buy them back, go after resisters,” Swalwell said he and …
Bear Market Growls As Market Remains Weak
by Lance Roberts Bear Market Growl Grows Louder Several months ago, I penned an article about the problems with “passive indexing” and specifically the problem of the “algorithms” that are driving roughly 80% of the trading in the markets. To wit: …
WOW: Over 6,000 CEO’s and government offices that people have resigned, retired or worse since September 1, 2017
Below is a link to spreadsheet vie google docs that is also in the video description on YouTube. It contains several lists of over 6,000 CEO’s and government offices that people have resigned, retired or worse since September 1, 2017. …
WOW! Coast Guard Seizes $500 Million in Cocaine (18.5 tons)!
$500 Million in Seized COCAINE Lands in FLORIDA; What’s Next For The Cocaine? A dumbass that thought Florida was an open port. I wonder if something changed behind the scenes and shipments like this have been coming for a long …
Vicious Machete Attack In Birmingham, U.K. Shows The Migrant Crisis Going Unchecked Across Europe
by Jon Hall, Free Market Shooter Last week, in Birmingham, England, a startling and graphic machete attack was captured on film as a horrified resident recorded the footage from the window of a nearby home. A large gang of men can …
Global Debt Bubble Will BREAK the Financial System! Imminent CRISIS Unfolding!
Let’s admit the truth. Debt matters. And soon the debt will implode this corrupt system. The only issue is that will only get worse with the new monetary system. There will be no salvation from the debt fiasco we are …
Market outlook: why the economy is bullish for stocks going into 2019
by Troy As we expected in last week’s market outlook, the U.S. stock market has pulled back after a hard bounce. The S&P 500 has now retraced more than 61.8% of its gains. The economy’s fundamentals determine the stock market’s medium-long term …
Rescue Friday
by Chris The TPTB have lines drawn all over the beach apparently. They are desperately afraid of all sorts of things: People having access to the truth Markets finding their own way People deciding what to put in their …
Chaos as Brexit Nears its Final and Insane Stage
Tell the EU to screw off then negotiate afterwards: http://archive.is/TEYL6 Theresa May surely by now symbolises the phrase “bad day at the office”. This week, having spent months negotiating the deal by which Britain will leave the European Union …