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Weather shocks, higher oil prices and a sharp depreciation in the US dollar could make food expensive, warn experts. Pork prices have been surging in China as African swine fever ravaged supply, while India has been struggling with eye-watering onion prices due to extended monsoons [File: Dania Maxwell/Bloomberg] Food prices are climbing fast in the … Read more
by Dr. Eowyn Virginia was considered a “swing” state in presidential elections, but the state became a solid “blue” on November 6, 2019. With Democrats already holding the state’s three highest offices (governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general), after two years of Republican control in the state House and Senate by single-seat majorities, the voters of Virginia … Read more
by DCG Like many progressive-run cities on the west coast, Seattle has serious problems: homelessness, criminal activities openly committed on the streets and attacks by repeat offenders. See the following: Homeless harassing King County Courthouse workers: “It’s a reflection of the courthouse location” How many convictions does it take for Seattle City Attorney to place a homeless criminal in jail … Read more
Burisma’s Cofer Black Taps CIA Contacts To Stop Giuliani From Talking To Prosecutor “Burisma is the money laundering business of the Dems and C_A. The Dems and C_A are complicit in the Crowdstrike and Burisma cover up.” This really is worth the 8 minutes to listen to. This is the NEW EVIDENCE the IMPEACHMENT FREAK SHOW DemonRats … Read more
by Michael Markowski Based on my analysis of the S&P 500 technical chart patterns after new all-time highs were set in 1999, 2000, 2007, 2018 and 2019, the index is ripening for a significant correction or a crash. The volatility increasing for a market that is making new all-time highs near the end of a … Read more
By Josh Owens Market Movers – The newsfeed this week has been inundated with updates on Aramco’s IPO developments. On the retail side, the Aramco IPO has reached $7.21 billion in subscriptions, bringing the total value for the IPO to somewhere near $25.6 billion. For the institutional side, which was a little slower going, it … Read more
Watch the latest video at foxnews.com via Foxnews: Gordon Chang, the author of “The Coming Collapse of China,” said Thursday that Beijing’s threats of taking “countermeasures” over the U.S. law backing the protests in Hong Kongare “laughable” and that the nation is in no position to “anger its best customer” as its economy slumps. Beijing was quick to admonish President Trump … Read more
by BerniesSublime 1. Clinton Staff hosts private “off-the-record cocktail party” with 38 “influential” reporters, journalists, editors, and anchors (from 16 different mainstream media outlets including CNN, NBC, CBS, NYT, MSNBC, & more) with the stated goal of “framing the race.” 2. Donna Brazile (CNN contributor at the time, and DNC Chairman during the primary) leaked CNN town … Read more
Voters in Wisconsin, a key 2020 swing state, are uninterested in the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, according to a report from the Associated Press. “Everything they say, it’s so repetitive. To me, it’s like they’re beating their heads against the wall,” a retired factory worker and Trump supporter told the AP. “There’s so much information … Read more
Since September, the last thing a caller to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline hears before being connected to a counselor is this: “Your call may be monitored or recorded for quality assurance purposes.” As a Lifeline counselor, this alarms me. Suicide is the 10th-leading cause of death in the U.S., and rates have increased in … Read more
Rob Kirby interviewed by Dunagun Kaiser on Reluctant Preppers Following the global financial recession of 2009, central bankers accelerated debt/money stimulus to crisis levels, even though they didn’t admit the massive extent of their actions that we are still on the hook to pay for. But the bigger secret you’re not being told is that market and policy interventions … Read more
by d0ugh0ck California’s AB 730 will be misused against meme makers and is Unconstitutional. Similar unfounded fears were made against Photoshop’s potential to make photographic evidence obsolete. California made it illegal to create or distribute “deepfakes” in a move meant to protect voters from misinformation but may be difficult to enforce. California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, on … Read more
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/corporate-debt-nears-a-record-10-trillion-and-borrowing-binge-poses-new-risks/2019/11/29/1f86ba3e-114b-11ea-bf62-eadd5d11f559_story.html Little more than a decade after consumers binged on inexpensive mortgages that helped bring on a global financial crisis, a new debt surge — this time by major corporations — threatens to unleash fresh turmoil. A decade of historically low interest rates has allowed companies to sell record amounts of bonds to investors, sending … Read more
Major events that moved the stock market, 2007-19 H/T @themarketear pic.twitter.com/NSvOogQqHC — M/1_LP (@MI_Investments) November 29, 2019
#recession … China #Business edition "Sales managers at Chinese companies reported the worst conditions on record""All gauges for manufacturing dropped from recent months, suggesting widespread problems""China's factory deflation continued and deepened for the fifth month" https://t.co/QaasOUXYbd — Invariant Perspective (@InvariantPersp1) November 30, 2019 Did some simple event analysis yesterday, and looks like a no. 👇 … Read more
…and now we know why the fed launched qe-4 pic.twitter.com/KBnXMnC0ji — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) November 29, 2019 junk bonds are warning there's trouble ahead pic.twitter.com/sU578On3jJ — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) November 29, 2019 What if the consumer turns out to be weak during this holiday spending period? oops! — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) November 29, 2019 oops pic.twitter.com/StSchSuCVl — Alastair … Read more
Crossposted from r/antiMSM where mod Ian56 gave the following comment to support his position. There is more truth on RT every week, than the entire combined total of NYT, WaPo, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, BBC, ABC, CBS, huff Post, Politiico, Buzzfeed, LA Times and every other Corporate or Oligarch owned Western propaganda rag for the last 30 … Read more
by Ian56 See the bottom of the article for an important last minute update on the BBC, Boris Johnson and the UK election. The terrorist was previously known to MI5, having previously been released from jail for committing terrorist offences. Rehabilitation gone wrong or MI5 asset flipping out? London police confirm attacker’s ID, terrorism conviction … Read more
by DCG Socialist Kshama Sawant This past week the Seattle City Council passed a $6.5 BILLION budget. With a population of approximately 745,000 that equates to a little over $8,700 taxpayer dollars to be spent per citizen. Ballotpedia cites an April 2015 study which found that the country’s 100 largest cities by population spent an average of $2,605 per citizen in the most recent fiscal … Read more
by Dr. Eowyn Recall that two weeks ago on Saturday, November 16, President Trump, 73, made an unscheduled visit to Walter Reed Military Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, unlike his two previous physical exams that were announced ahead of time by the White House and noted on his daily public schedule. White House press secretary Stephanie … Read more