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by Jim Willie CB The year 2018 was a memorable year of great transitions. They involved changes in the political arena. They saw enormous changes in the debt picture, for both the USGovt and the major Western corporations. They saw a struggle to terminate the QE bond monetization, laced with hype-inflation. They offered staggering damage … Read more
by John Rubino Michael Oliver: “Once gold breaks $1,300, $1,750 will happen quickly. And I like gold mining stocks better than gold” … Lynette Zang: “Doom loops” you need to understand … McAlvany: “Be the dip… I mean buy the dip” … Peter Schiff: “Blind Fed leading blind investors over a financial cliff …
via fedsmith: Relatively few federal employees make donations to political campaigns. In FedSmith surveys, a majority of those responding normally indicate that they are independent rather than aligned with any political party. How have federal employee unions and federal employees that do donate to political campaigns spent their money? All of the financial information below is provided … Read more
The Fed FOMC meetings are behind closed doors. But after 5 years, the meeting minutes become public. We can get a glimpse of what is said behind the curtain and use it to our advantage. To get the depth of knowledge required to understand the markets requires understanding what happens much further beyond what mainstream … Read more
Bethany Blankley for the Western Journal reports, The Trump Administration plans to implement a rule change to close loopholes that states have been using to exempt large portions of healthy, younger food stamp recipients from work requirements. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlDOC2nfSSQ Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-… The Trump Administration plans to implement a rule change to close loopholes that states … Read more
https://youtu.be/r1Nmsc7BQAk Trump gave an impassioned speech about the need for America to build a wall along its southern border. What are the facts behind the rhetoric? Stefan Molyneux, Host of Freedomain, takes you on a fascinating journey to the real data behind the current government shutdown. AC
If Turkey, Israel, and Hungary can build border walls, secure their border and put their people first, so can America! AC
via newsweek: Where the Money came From Federal Reserve $8.2 trillion; included bank loans and asset guarantees. Treasury Dept. $6.8 trillion; included TARP funds, stimulus spending, and tax benefits. Other $654 billion; included $134 billion from FHA to guarantee residential mortgages. Joint Treasury, Fed set aside $1.3 trillion to buy bad bank assets and help Citigroup. … Read more
The UK is lost. It’s people vote for Brexit, and bureaucrats do everything they can to undo that. Migrant invasion. Check. Now sanctioned propaganda. https://youtu.be/mshI72vkcXM SC
Greg Hunter gives The Weekly Wrap Up for Friday, January 11th, 2019 According to renowned gold investor Jim Sinclair, the global debt reset that has been long predicted has begun. Lots of debt that will never be repaid will be written down around the world. Sinclair says gold and silver will be the last men standing when the … Read more
Why should people who work for the government make more than those who pay them? Almost sounds like a conspiracy. Federal employees are paid out of tax dollars, which begin by taking them from the private sector. To recap, people who are paid through the private taking of taxes, make 50% more than those paying … Read more
via telegraph.co.uk: Heavy snowfall this week across Europe has closed down schools, left some remote villages cut off and disrupted traffic and power supplies in many areas in the region. Authorities in Bulgaria said two snowboarders died in an avalanche on Friday. The Bulgarian Red Cross said in a statement that their bodies were found at noon on … Read more
via CBSNEWS: A GoFundMe campaign to subsidize what it called “the Trump Wall” will refund all money to donors because it did not meet its $1 billion goal, said Bobby Whithorne, director of North America Communications for GoFundMe. Donors will receive their money on April 11, unless they choose to donate their contribution to the campaign creator’s … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter What SpaceX is trying to do has “bankrupted other organizations,” it said. SpaceX, the unicorn startup with a newly minted $30.5 billion “valuation” and dreams of sending humans to Mars shortly, will lay off about 10% of its employees, “a person familiar with the matter” told the Los Angeles Times on Friday. The … Read more
via Twitter: On Chris Cuomo’s CNN program this week, professional Trump shade-thrower Ana Navarro got into a heated debate with Trump supporter Steve Cortes over immigration. Much of the discussion was a shouty mess, and the seriousness of the exchange was made clear early on when Navarro pulled out her nail file to help illustrate … Read more
by Jesse Colombo Throughout the market sell-off of the past few months, I’ve been showing key technical levels to help determine if further downside was likely or if the rout was truly over. In late-December, the S&P 500 broke below an important support zone from approximately 2,550 to 2,650 (which formed at the early-2018 lows), … Read more
by Jesse Colombo CNBC just published a piece about how venture capital spending hit an all-time high in 2018, surpassing the dotcom bubble record: Venture capital just had its highest spending year in history. The amount of money firms spent on private companies hit a new all-time record in 2018— well above the previous watermark from the … Read more
by Dr. Eowyn Leonard Pozner is the alleged father of alleged Sandy Hook child-victim Noah Pozner whose image, mysteriously, was among the posters of those who were killed by the Taliban in the Army Public School shooting massacre in Peshawar, Pakistan, on December 16, 2014, two years after Sandy Hook. See “Sandy Hook Child Victim … Read more
‘Yellow fever’ has spread to the UK where people are also donning high-viz jackets, as a symbol of protest. Only problem is – it’s being adopted for very different reasons, as Polly Boiko explains. https://youtu.be/-bsj3YJav_c
# Breaking : Just in – Huge Explosion in # Paris ! One store got blowned up! Police are reporting Casualties! Possible Terror attack or something! # Update : Looks like a car bomb went off! Multiple windows have broken awning’s and one building damaged in heavy # Paris and is on fire! If this … Read more
US President Donald Trump has said that he would not declare national emergency for now to solve the border security funding issueand partial government shutdown. He would rather see the US Congress act. https://sputniknews.com/us/201901111071410763-trump-wont-national-emergency-declaration/?utm_source=short_direct&utm_medium=short_url&utm_content=k24d&utm_campaign=URL_shortening https://twitter.com/SputnikInt/status/1083818738812637184 h/t Watchout
by sundance In the last 24 hours The Epoch Times has become a conduit for leaked information from inside the joint House congressional committee (Oversight/Judiciary) that was investigating DOJ and FBI corruption. [Two Stories: See Here and See Here] The joint House committee previously requested approval from the DOJ and FBI for transcripts of all witness testimony to be released. In … Read more
via visualcapitalist: The Chart of the Week is a weekly Visual Capitalist feature on Fridays. Today’s emerging markets are tomorrow’s powerhouses, according to a recent forecast from Standard Chartered, a multinational bank headquartered in London. The bank sees developing economies like Indonesia, Turkey, Brazil, and Egypt all moving up the ladder – and by 2030, it estimates that seven of … Read more
by Michael Snyder Really strange things are starting to happen all over the world. We’ll talk about “the North Pole’s sudden shift” later in this article, but first I want to focus on the very unusual event which just took place in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. A “massive swarm” of thousands upon thousands of black locusts descended … Read more