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The Existential Threat of a Democratic Texas Suburban moms could turn Texas blue. Ann Coulter predicted in December 2018 that Trump will be the last Republican president. Texas may well prove her right. The Lone Star State is the gem of the Republican electoral map. It has a population of nearly 30 million and 36 seats … Read more
The outcome of the G-20 meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and China President Xi Jinping could be a watershed moment that could impact the course of markets and the global economy for the second half of the year. The G-20 summit in Osaka could end in a ‘feel good’ moment for markets, but the … Read more
BREAKING: VIDEO: John Solomon: Damning Samantha Power E-mails to Drop Possibly as Early as Today (Wednesday) Related: Who is Samantha Power? Not a good idea to piss off John Brennan. https://t.co/VLg94OLL2R — Samantha Power (@SamanthaJPower) March 17, 2018 Samantha Power emphatically denies making any unmasking requests. – 260 of these requests were made in her … Read more
by Troy As the stock market continues to trend higher and Treasury yields continue to collapse, two groups of stocks are about to send crisis-era signals on the economy (according to Bloomberg). Today’s headlines: Crisis era signals Stocks continue to rally and Treasury yields continue to fall Citigroup Economic Surprise Index still deep in negative territory … Read more
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is betraying Americans and her constitutional duties by denouncing the police enforcement of Congress’ immigration laws and judges’ deportation decisions, say immigration reformers. https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/06/25/nancy-pelosi-denounces-law-enforcement-media-yawn/ AND !! _Report: Elizabeth Warren Advocates Decriminalizing Border Crossing On Tuesday, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren reportedly joined Democratic rival Julian Castro in advocating for the decriminalization of … Read more
by John W. Whitehead “She was asked what she had learned from the Holocaust, and she said that 10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and that 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and that the remaining 80 percent could be moved in either direction.”—Kurt Vonnegut Please spare me the media hysterics and … Read more
Money manager Peter Schiff predicts, “Inflation is going to run out of control. . . . This is why people need to buy gold. Paper currencies are going to lose a tremendous amount of value. So, if you want to preserve your purchasing power of your savings, you better be saving real money and not … Read more
by Michael Snyder It is going to take a miracle for the U.S. economy to pull out of this tailspin, because the economic numbers are really starting to deteriorate very rapidly now. On Tuesday we got some more new numbers, and they were just as bad as we thought they might be. But even before … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter New York, San Francisco condo prices fall year-over-year. Seattle house prices flat year-over-year. After earlier declines, Denver, Boston hit new highs. Miami, Phoenix, Las Vegas try to regain nutty peaks of Housing Bubble 1. Seasonal price spikes are cropping up in many of the most splendid housing bubbles in America, but … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA53Gtwcoic Today’s Guest: Rob Kirby
by Michael Snyder Negotiations with Iran are over before they could even take place. After President Trump and Iranian leadership exchanged more insults on Tuesday, the Iranians declared that the “channel of diplomacy” is now closed “forever”. Of course anything is possible in the future, but for now it appears that any possibility of a … Read more
by Graham Summers of Gains, Pains, & Capital Sometimes it’s good to take a big picture look at the stock market. By “big picture” I mean a monthly chart that is at least three years long. Here’s one that caught my eye over the weekend. This is the S&P 500’s monthly chart going back almost four years. The … Read more
“Mexico has deployed almost 15,000 troops to the US-Mexico border to curve migration flow,” CNN reporter Nick Valencia tweeted. “An additional ~2,000 National Guard elements have also been deployed across the country’s southern border with Guatemala. The move by Mexico comes after the Trump administration increased pressure on the Mexican government to significantly increase its … Read more
by sunderkeenin Google controls large portions of the worldwide flow of information, yes. They have the power to influence elections, but they’re only one piece of the puzzle. Facebook has done everything they can to control communication between you, your friends, and your family. Facebook has also begun pushing Libra to allow Silicon Valley their … Read more
Authored by Sven Henrich via NorthmanTrader.com, “And I heard as it were the noise of thunder. One of the four beasts saying come and see and I saw. And behold a white horse”. Did the Fed just cop to something very important? Are they freaked about something I’m seeing in charts? If they’re seeing what I’m seeing … Read more
via Zerohedge: Earlier today we noted that, as every last trace of the 2008 global financial crisis (and the 2007 credit bubble peak preceding it) is coming back with a vengeance thanks to a world that is drowning in liquidity as central banks begin the final lap in the race to terminal currency debasement, HELOC-based … Read more
by visualcapitalist Doing business means taking calculated risks. Regardless of whether you are opening a lemonade stand or you’re a leading executive at a Fortune 500 company, risk is an inevitable part of the game. Taking bigger risks can generate proportional rewards – and sometimes, such as for the companies you’ll read about below, the risk-taking … Read more
BY JOHN RUBINO Gold has spent the past couple of weeks steamrolling technical barriers and reviving the spiritsof long-suffering gold bugs. But markets don’t move in a straight line. Bull runs (if that’s what this is) have stomach-churning corrections along the way – usually just as everyone concludes that the good times will roll on forever. 321gold’s Bob … Read more
