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Al Caicedo – Economic Downturn on the Way

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from Financial Survival Network Al Caicedo is back… Savings Rate Plunges As Consumer Spending Soars By Most In A Decade. After lagged (govt shutdown) and mixed performances in the last two months, income and spending growth was expected to rebound notably in March (despite a weak signal from within the GDP data) and while income growth was … Read more

Womyn who runs hotel in small-town Michigan offers free lodging to women seeking abortions

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by DCG From Yahoo: Incensed by the spate of legislation severely limiting abortion rights in several states, the manager of a hotel in a small Michigan town posted an unusual offer on Facebook last month. “Dear sisters,” Shelley O’Brien began in a post addressed to those who live in the states that have or are trying to … Read more

One Trick Pony: The Fed Is Pushing On A String

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by Lance Roberts Last week, I discussed the Fed’s recent comments suggesting they might be closer to cutting rates and restarting “QE” than not. “In short, the proximity of interest rates to the ELB (Effective Lower Bound) has become the preeminent monetary policy challenge of our time, tainting all manner of issues with ELB risk and imbuing many old … Read more

Lynette Zang: How to Protect Against the US & China Currency War

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ITM Trading, Released on 6/12/19 Links to slides and sources: https://www.itmtrading.com/blog/curre… Looking at the Yuan/USD graph it appears that the relationship between the US Dollar and Chinese Yuan is breaking down in a very pervasive way and is ushering in currency wars through targeted currency devaluation against other currencies. What could go wrong? The elite fear … Read more

If you’ve got a treasured movie, keeping a physical copy on Blu-Ray or DVD might be a wise decision to future-proof yourself against the ever-woke curators of streaming video platforms.

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DISPATCHES FROM THE PATH NOT CHOSEN: Epic Fail — How Blockbuster Could Have Owned Netflix. Flash-forward to March of this year: There’s now only one Blockbuster left on the planet. Much as everyone loves the convenience of streaming sites like Netflix and Amazon Prime,  as Brian Watt wrote at Ricochet last month, “When Some Films Are Banned, Only Outlaws Will … Read more

The Housing Cost Of Liberalism (International Edition)

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Tokyo proves that housing shortages are a political choice. Compared to skyrocketing housing costs in many Western cities, Japan has seen remarkable success in supplying affordable housing – even in cities with lots of economic growth. While average mean rents in London are upwards of £2,000, average rents in Tokyo are about £1,300 – even … Read more

THE TRUTH HURTS:

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via Twitter: RELATED: Rep. Amash stokes talk of campaign against Trump. Good luck with that, if he’s already struggling to win a primary in his own district.     h/t SG

INEZ FELTSCHER STEPMAN: Campus Insanity Is Migrating To Society, And Republicans Had Better Stop It Before It’s Too Late.

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via thefederalist: While the right wrestles with how to deal with big technology companies’ hostility to conservative voices on their platforms, the source of that enmity goes mostly unremarked upon: Google’s highly credentialed workforce has roughly the personal politics of a faculty lounge. Regrettably, universities don’t live up to the Las Vegas adage–what begins on campus … Read more

If this latest incident wasn’t a false flag attack, it would quite literally be the one exception to the rule.

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by axolotl_peyotl The Powers that Shouldn’t Be have long ago cemented their tired and blatantly obvious playbook, as they continue to recycle their bullshit false flag attacks to justify their genocidal agenda decade after decade. The once burgeoning anti-war movement in the US has been consumed by over-immersion in technology and a manufactured resistance against a … Read more