CNN: “A majority of Americans say they think Donald Trump is going to win a second term”

Washington (CNN)A majority of Americans say they think Donald Trump is going to win a second term, according to a CNN Poll conducted by SSRS, even as the President’s reviews on issues other than the economy remain largely negative. https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/05/politics/cnn-poll-trump-prediction-economy-issues/index.html https://web.archive.org/web/20190605174505/https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/05/politics/cnn-poll-trump-prediction-economy-issues/index.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p23hmtYiPTY CNN’s Acosta Stuns People, Actually Praises Trump One of President Donald Trump’s fiercest … Read more

Eddie Ghabour – What a Difference 1 Month Makes

from Financial Survival Network Eddie Ghabour returns… Just a few short months ago we were assured by the Fed that rate increases would be continuing into the future. Now we’re looking at rate cuts, perhaps as early as 2 weeks from now. What’s driving the Fed and are they trying to recover from a huge mistake or … Read more

Eric Hadik – Ready for a Stock Market Decline?

from Financial Survival Network Eric Hadik is predicting a 3 month correction but what comes next? Perhaps some consolidation and getting ready for the next decline. NASDAQ and Tech Stocks plunged but stopped at support. A little short term bounce and then it’s on to another sell-off down the road, with some whipsawing in between. Gold’s been … Read more

You’re Under Arrest: How the Police State Muzzles Our Right to Speak Truth to Power

by John W. Whitehead “History shows that governments sometimes seek to regulate our lives finely, acutely, thoroughly, and exhaustively. In our own time and place, criminal laws have grown so exuberantly and come to cover so much previously innocent conduct that almost anyone can be arrested for something. If the state could use these laws not … Read more

The Fed, QE, & Why Rates Are Going To Zero

by Lance Roberts On Tuesday, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, in his opening remarks at a monetary policy conference in Chicago, raised concerns about the rising trade tensions in the U.S., “We do not know how or when these issues will be resolved. As always, we will act as appropriate to sustain the expansion, with a … Read more

How to Harness the Second Wave Cycle

By Rodney Johnson You understand how powerful cycles can be at predicting market moves ahead of time. Here at Dent Research, we’ve used them to help predict almost every major market move of the last 30 years. For example, using the power of cycles we called… The U.S. recession of 1990-1991; The following bull market … Read more

Dozens of Raids in Germany Over Online Hate Speech

via DW: Police have said they carried out searches in 13 federal states over crimes like incitement and the use of banned symbols. Authorities have struggled to enforce Germany’s strict hate speech laws on social media. Police in Germany launched dozens of raids across the country on Thursday as part of a crackdown on incitement … Read more

How I Use StockCharts

by jessefelder I’ve been a long-time user of StockCharts.com, a charting platform that has added a great deal of value to my overall investment process over the years. Not only have the charting tools been helpful but the chart school on the site is second to none when it comes to educating traders on the use of technical … Read more

‘THE POWER OF BULLYING:’ YouTube caves to the Vox Mob, demonetizes Steven Crowder for ‘egregious actions.’

YouTube caves to the Vox Mob, demonetizes Steven Crowder for ‘egregious actions.’ Let this be a lesson to all the kids out there: if you pitch a big enough tantrum — and you’re a raging leftist — you’ll eventually get the scalp you seek. Despite pressure from Vox speech police officer Carlos Maza, it seemed like YouTube wasn’t … Read more

Layers of editors and fact-checkers

via Twitter: As it turns out, Pothoven was allowed by her family to starve herself to death, which is hardly a good thing. But she was not, as the English-language media reported, put to death under Dutch law. That’s a huge, inexcusable miss for the press.   h/t SG      

When The World Comes To An End In 2050, Will Vice Be Around To See It?

● Shot: New report suggests “high likelihood of human civilization coming to an end” in 2050. —Tweet by Vice.com, Monday (link safe, goes to Twitchy.) ● Chaser: Vice.com Lays Off Senior Editors in Shakeup: The company is also still doing its best to emerge from lingering #MeToo fallout after a scathing New York Times investigation into Vice’s workplace culture. The story culminated … Read more

Green New Steal

My colleagues at CEI have a new video out explaining how the carbon tax – one of the cornerstones of the Green New Deal – will cost average American families a bundle. They have much more on the subject here.     h/t IM

Home Flippers Cashing Out

(Bloomberg) — Here’s one consequence of the slowing U.S. housing market: Home flippers are heading for the exits. Homes that were resold within 12 months after being purchased made up 7.2% of all transactions in the first quarter, the biggest share since the start of 2010, Attom Data Solutions reported Thursday. Meanwhile, the average return … Read more

Vox’s Carlos Maza – Leading Force Behind New YouTube Censorship – Now Extremely Upset that the New Censorship is Affecting Leftists and Independe

Vox’s Carlos Maza – Leading Force Behind New YouTube Censorship – Now Extremely Upset that the New Censorship is Affecting Leftists and Independents Carlos Maza Verified account > Carlos Maza Retweeted Ford Fischer What’s happening to Ford is fucking awful. He’s a good journalist doing important work. I don’t understand how @YouTube is still so … Read more

Russia, China Prepare To Dump Dollar, Agree To Bilateral Trade In National Currencies

This article was originally published at Zero Hedge Just one month after conducting joint military exercises, Russia and China are set to sign an agreement which would boost the use of their national currencies in bilateral and international trade in an attempt to mmove away from the current dollar-denominated financial system, according to Russian state-owned news outlet TASS. It … Read more

How Connecticut’s “Tax On The Rich” Ended: Middle-Class Tax Hikes, Lost Jobs, More Poverty

Authored by Orphe Divounguy, Bryce Hill, Suman Chattopadhyay via IllinoisPolicy.org, In the past 30 years, just one U.S. state has adopted a progressive income tax: Connecticut. It made the switch from a flat income tax in 1996, phasing in the progressive income tax over three years. The results were disastrous. And they should halt, or at least caution, Illinois … Read more