THE UNDERSEA WORLD OF AQUATIC DRONES: There are at least two manufacturers promoting aquatic drones at CES. This is the FiFish P3:

This is the Navatics Mito: Both units have built-in lighting to overcome the underwater murk, are connected to their remote control via a tether, which, assuming it doesn’t break, will likely come in handy finding the unit if its remote stops working. (Been there, done that, recovered the airborne drone from my roof.)   h/t … Read more

Oil Posts Longest Rally In 17 Months

By Tom Kool Crude oil prices continued to rise on Tuesday, making the most recent rally the longest in 17 months. (Click to enlarge) (Click to enlarge) (Click to enlarge) (Click to enlarge) – The Henry Hub natural gas price jumped by 15 cents in 2018 to an average of $3.16/MMBtu. Spot prices spiked in … Read more

Nigeria Lost $2.8B To Oil-Related Crimes Last Year

By Tsvetana Paraskova Oil-related crimes in Nigeria cost the African OPEC producer US$2.8 billion in lost revenues in 2018, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported on Tuesday, citing a United Nations report on West Africa. “Oil-related crimes resulted in the loss of nearly 2.8 billion dollars in revenues last year in Nigeria, according to government figures,” says … Read more

Germany Heads for a Technical Recession – This Economic Slowdown Is Not Unique To Germany But Has Been Spreading Across The EU

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter OK, this is embarrassing in the land of super-stimulus via the ECB’s negative-interest-rate policy and years of QE that were supposed to perform miracles: Production in Germany’s industry, which includes construction, dropped 1.9% in November from the prior month (seasonally adjusted), the German statistical agency Destatis reported this morning. This drop is also … Read more

Embarrassed Liberal, Lost Son to Overdose, Speaks Out for Trump

Jim Hoft for the Gateway Pundit reports, On Saturday HUNDREDS of Missouri and Illinois patriots turned out to rally in support of PRESIDENT TRUMP, BORDER SECURITY AND THE WALL! The Missouri rally was announced just two days ago on Thursday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX_MeNdGuEk Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019… GREAT RALLY TODAY!! In St. Louis- Clayton, Missouri in Support of … Read more

Robert Shiller explains the issues he sees as the current drivers of markets.

Bloomberg, Released on 1/7/19 Robert Shiller is an American economist, academic, and best-selling author. He currently serves as a Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University and is a fellow at the Yale School of Management’s International Center for Finance. Mr. Shiller has been a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) … Read more

Mobile Phone As A Tracking Device

by SP It looks like the sale of an individual’s location information on the black market has come of age. Motherboard reports: T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T are selling access to their customers’ location data, and that data is ending up in the hands of bounty hunters and others not authorized to possess it, letting them … Read more

Worldwide Real Estate Crash & Why

by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: Sir, Listening to the WEC 2018 recording this weekend, Mike Campbell made an interesting sideline comment. He stated that pension funds were heavily invested in real estate. Is this just Canada or the US as well? If taxes go up will this further push the pension funds over as well as the … Read more

Raising Taxes by Redefining Who Are the Rich

by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: I get up in the morning, make coffee and read your blog. Thank you for your service to humanity. Ok, so the Democrats want to go back to the 1950’s with 70% tax rates. Does that also mean they’ll reinstate the same deductions that were available back then? For example, passive activity … Read more

Tucker Carlson: Elizabeth Warren encouraged married, two-parent families 16 years ago. She can’t do that today

Watch the latest video at foxnews.com In our opening show of the year, we talked about the central problem of American politics, which is that our leaders have lost sight of the point of being in charge. Their goal should be simple: strong American families. Anything that makes it harder to form strong families, they … Read more

I’m shocked! Study finds that nearly 100 percent of Seattle’s soda tax is passed on to consumers

by DCG The Seattle Times reports: Nearly 100 percent of Seattle’s new tax on the distribution of sweetened beverages has been passed on to consumers through higher in-store prices, a new report estimates. But some taxed beverages have increased in price more than others and some stores have increased their prices more than others, according to the report … Read more