via sultanknish: Here are a few things that are effectively legal in San Francisco: drugs, public defecation and shoplifting. And here are some of the things that are banned or will be banned in the City by the Bay. Straws. Fur …
FLASHBACK: Frenzied, Angry Mob Turns on Reporters in a Dangerous Physical Altercation. “You may not remember it. No president was asked about it. No Democrat candidate was made to disown it. It didn’t get much press. Not like this week’s mob.” …
by Michael Snyder Major changes are happening to our planet, and the experts are groping for answers. In recent days some have suggested that what we are witnessing is the natural progression of “man-made climate change”, but that explanation has generally …
via @dlacalle_IA: There is no such thing as “orderly exit”. Four charts that explain why Italy leaving the Euro would create a financial crisis of gigantic proportions. . Holders of Italian debt . Government spending . Maturities . Non-Performing Loans …
by FS Listen to this podcast on our site by clicking here or subscribe to FS Insider by clicking here. Earlier this year, Variant Perception’s Tian Yang told FS Insider listeners that China’s LEIs were turning down “quite sharply”, and we’ve now seen a …
The Obamas are worth 30 times more than when they entered the White House in 2008. Barack Obama’s net worth is currently estimated to be $40 million. Aside from the six-figure pension he receives as former president, Obama has made millions from speaking engagements …
via 13D Research: In an article on America’s declining birthrate (WILTW July 19, 2018), we cited an unnerving finding from a recent Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis study: “the average net worth of a family headed by someone born in the 1980s — the …
via @OccupyWisdom: SO HERES SOMETHING…. CONSUMER #DOLLAR PURCHASING POWER VERSUS BABIES BORN PER 1,000 PEOPLE IN THE USA 1910 ONWARD The dollar’s purchasing power is a leading indicator for fertility. As the dollar drops in value (or spikes in 1940s), birth …
by TechGuy Vegan’s don’t stastically live longer than omnivores. Most of the differences attributed to vegan’s living longer are attributed to better lifestyles: Don’t smoke, drink much less, not obese, etc. http://theconversation.com/do-vegetarians-live-longer-probably-but-not-b… “We followed a total of 267,180 men and women over …
by stockboardasset After Apple delivered strong earnings, the stock advanced +9 percent to the 208-handle. I made the move to acquire heavily discounted AAPL October 19 ’18 Puts with a cost basis of .33. The chart below shows resistance at 207.79 (2.618-extension …
via confoundedinterest17 The monthly jobs report for July is out and it shows that total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 157,000 in July, and the unemployment rate edged down to 3.9 percent. Employment increased in professional and business services, in manufacturing, and …
by tosi-ebin I’m always surprised by how few people know about this. When a business owes you money but can’t send it to you, they may turn it over to the state. Each state holds onto that money and keeps …
by Dana Lyons These are the most impactful trendlines to monitor among the major asset classes. Every week on Twitter (in a feature we creatively call #TrendlineWednesday), we post some of the more intriguing and relevant trendlines that are in play …
BBC Stealth-edits the Sarah Jeong article to downplay her racism. Tim Pool also noticed this and is concerned it now looks like people linking to the original article were editorialising. h/t UnbowedUncucked
Europe set for its hottest day EVER with temperatures set to soar above 48C record set in 1977 Thousands of Brit holidaymakers and expats in Spain and Portugal will pile on to packed beaches as the heatwave peaks EUROPE is …
by Michael Snyder If Portland authorities do not intervene in a major way, we could potentially see one of the largest street brawls in modern American history on Saturday. On June 30th, an extremely violent confrontation in Portland between Antifa thugs …
by Ruby Henley I know the parents of Seth Rich are very disappointed today, but they also may realize aspects of their son’s alleged murder are not going away. There are too many unanswered questions, which are only multiplying. A …
by I_1F30FP135 Yesterday, I was astonished to see the New York Times defending their new hire for their editorialist board, Sarah Jeong, who had expressed a deep-rooted hate for white people in a series of (now deleted) tweets from 2014- …
by Chris Black I recently wrote an article about the situation in South Africa, a formerly first-world country under “apartheid”, that is currently struggling between 2nd and 3rd world status and it’s on a path to civil war and maybe …
by Daniel Carter There isn’t much better advice than that of a successful investor. It’s hard to imagine a professional with more skin in the game than an investor. When they are wrong about their analysis of this crazy and complicated …
via thefreethoughtproject: If you are to believe the official story, one of America’s deadliest wars in history, Vietnam, was started after the United States had been attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin in the South China Sea. However, over the …
via voiceofthemarkets We have advised our clients since at least 4 years that property prices will keep plunging every single year for a variety of reasons. With the exception of China, Philippines and very selectively in Spain, property prices, especially of …
Amazon now pays even LESS tax while struggling High Street firms pay up to 20 times more Amazon has declared its lowest UK corporation tax bill in five years as the web giant was accused of killing the high street. …
FACEBOOK: HEARTWARMING AD ‘SHOCKING, DISRESPECTFUL, SENSATIONAL’ “Facebook banned a pro-life video ad by a judicial candidate, explaining it violated the social-media company’s policy of not allowing ‘shocking, disrespectful or sensational content.’” https://www.wnd.com/2018/08/facebook-heartwarming-ad-shocking-disrespectful-sensational/ You can see the ad at the link …
#TradeWar starting to take its toll on manufacturing (seen notably in new orders component of ISM) @SoberLook https://twitter.com/LizAnnSonders/status/1024969700399374336 China’s capital flight is getting worse The dollar is jumping against most of the currency #DXY #Yuan #EURUSD https://twitter.com/amital13/status/1025097412594073600 https://twitter.com/StockBoardAsset/status/1025339582232100864 The Euro …
via thesoundingline: CNBC’s Rick Santelli recently spoke with Bianco Research President Jim Bianco about global central bank balance sheets and the increasingly massive profits banks are generating due to the Fed’s decision to pay banks interest on their excess reserves. Santelli …
Politically correct effort to rename Austin proves Donald Trump was right. “First they came for the Confederate monuments, but who knows where progressive efforts to erase history will end? It is a ‘short hop from the unthinkable to the mandatory.’” IT’S …
Mac Slavo August 1st, 2018 SHTFplan.com The democratic socialist nation of Venezuela’s collapse is showing just how far people will go in order to escape the horrors of big government. In fact, the situation in Venezuela has gotten so bad …
by Chris Black Just watch the video below, it will make your blood boil: 🆘‼🤬🔥 #Germany: one of these enriching Merkel-refugee beats a young German man with a beer bottle with full force on the skull! He shouts, "That's …
Donald Trump has no earthly clue about how real people buy groceries. (CNN)On Wednesday morning, Donald Trump once again took to Twitter and blasted out a direct demand to Attorney General Jeff Sessions to “stop this Rigged Witch Hunt right …