MODERN STASI: What To Learn From The Social Justice Warrior Who Was Eaten By His Own Mob.

“Mob compliance is a vicious and deadly cycle. The only way to stop the cycle is to stop complying with the mob’s demands.” Wilson also describes the social justice industry, which thrives on political correctness, as “a surveillance culture, a snitch culture.” This description is very apt, especially if you recall last summer’s Twitter crusade … Read more

10 MOST POPULOUS CITIES SPLIT BETWEEN RED, BLUE. CAN YOU GUESS WHICH COST MOST?

Here are the 10, as calculated by Truth in Accounting: Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Jose, San Diego, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Phoenix. If you live in deep-blue Chicago, your overall tax burden (including public entities like mass transit authorities and pubic schools that big cities typically don’t include in their balance sheets but which taxpayers … Read more

Revenge of the Corporate Zombies: 15% of Largest US Companies Are Walking Dead

by goldsilver The S&P 1,500 is a very broad index. In fact, its constituent companies represent over 90% of the entire market cap of all US stocks. And, a frighteningly increasing number of them are the walking dead. By design, the companies that index does not include are the smallest, riskiest, most-likely-to-fail public companies. So you’d think the … Read more

Famous Last Words

BUBBLES AND NOT BUBBLES Chart via @Silver_Watchdog WoW–> “Shiller P/E based on NIPA profits. Stocks are a bargain,” h/t @GS_CapSF “Distorted US yield curve still a warning sign for the economy,” h/t @CapEconMarkets $SPX $NFLX Search Phrase “inverted yield curve” highest since right before the 2008 Crash — no wonder WH & Fed are freaking … Read more

Police Union President Laments That Portland Has Become A “Cesspool” As West Coast Cities Struggle With An Unprecedented Surge In Homelessness

by Michael Snyder  Even though it has always been kind of crazy, at one time Portland, Oregon was quite an attractive place to live, but now those days are long gone.  Today, the city streets are strewn with garbage, drug paraphernalia and human feces.  Mentally ill homeless people and drug addicts wander about like zombies, and … Read more

Do You Have Too Much Stock Exposure?

by John Coumarianos If you’re retiree trying to use your saved capital to generate income, you’re basically trying to construct a pension for yourself. And that means you should think about how Jeremy Gold understood pensions. Gold, who died recently (here are his obituaries in in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal), made the first … Read more

Airbnb Goes Full Peter Thiel: Finances Host’s Lawsuit Against NYC

by stockboardasset Airbnb Inc. has taken a page straight from the Peter Thiel playbook of litigation funding. Thiel, an American billionaire, secretly funded Hulk Hogan’s privacy case against now-defunct Gawker Media. Investors placing bets on lawsuits have long operated under a veil of secrecy. As litigation funding becomes more well known in the United States, it … Read more

As Congress goes back to sleep for the elections, Judicial Watch’s heavy lifting gets results….

by TFittonJW RESULTS: New Strzok-Page emails — coming out slowly, but surely — through federal lawsuit — to Judicial Watch. Vid discussion on the modified limited hangout by DOJ of Strzok-Page emails: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-fbi-begins-releasing-strzok-page-communications-doj-objects-to-preservation-order/