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(CNN)The red meat or white meat debate is a draw: Eating white meat, such as poultry, will have an identical effect on your cholesterol level as eating red beef, new research indicates. The long-held belief that eating white meat is less harmful for your heart may still hold true, because there may be other effects … Read more
China launched a rocket from a pad at sea for the first time today (June 5), making it the third nation to successfully demonstrate the ability to launch satellites into orbit from a floating platform (following the U.S. and Russia). The Long March 11 rocket lifted off from a floating launch pad in the Yellow … Read more
by Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics “U.S. Officials Meet in Secret Over Junk-Loan Frenzy as Recession Alarms Flash” U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Thursday led a secret meeting of top U.S. financial regulators on the risks to global markets from the recent surge in corporate borrowing…”No details were provided on the gist of the discussion, though … Read more
via Zerohedge: The bear case for U.S. stocks is getting more compelling by the day, according to Bloomberg macro strategist Mark Cudmore. Via Bloomberg, There’s been a remarkable deterioration in the macro environment since my column last week, yet U.S. equities have gained in value. This divergence is unsustainable but it’s a reminder that bear markets take many months to … Read more
by axolotl_peyotl Sadly, much of the population is being spoon-fed propaganda, and TDS and other manufactured issues are preventing actual discourse from leading to tangible change. Lee Camp nails it with the following list, as the propagandists in the Mockingbird Media have been working overtime to discredit Assange: It is politically inconvenient at this time for … Read more
Jason talks about US Presidents from both major political parties threatening and bullying Fed Chairmen decades before President Trump did it with Jerome “Jay” Powell This biased, poorly researched article from Politico last week inspired this video: The Fed’s dangerous ‘new normal.’ Is the Fed becoming the president’s piggy bank of choice? https://www.politico.com/agenda/story… Additional … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqAe_6t7igs Jim hoft from The Gateway Pundit reports, Author and Super Lawyer Sidney Powell joined Jan Jekielek from the Epoch Times on American Thought Leaders this week after Robert Mueller’s preposterous press conference on the Trump-Russian collusion investigation. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-Wxg6iEysk Comey: request gave me queasy feeling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCY0p… James Clapper Knew There Was No Evidence of Trump-Russia Collusion In 2016 https://thefederalist.com/2019/04/24/… Fmr. AG Mukasey predicts criminal charge for Clinton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6t9f…
via UPI: More than 60,000 workers were laid off in March, topping off the worst quarter for job cuts since 2015, outplacement firm Challenger, Gary & Christmas reported. The 190,410 job cuts in the first quarter was 10.3 percent worse than the last quarter of 2018. Layoffs are up 35.6 percent over the same period a year … Read more
Watch the latest video at foxnews.com Jun. 05, 2019 – 3:58 – How far can this money go? Fisher Sand and Gravel Company president Tommy Fisher weighs in.
via Almost Daily Grant‘s Many unhappy returns. Thirty years ago, British ambassador Sir Alan Donald cabled home his classified report on the bloody goings-on in Tiananmen Square: “Students linked arms but were mown down. Armored personnel carriers then ran over the bodies time and time again to make, ‘pie’, and remains collected by bulldozer, incinerated and … Read more
by John Ward Behind the scenes of anti-Left politics in Britain, the usual suspects are at work flexing their finely honed but unelected muscles. Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson have been working that room better than anyone in the stampede to snatch the Crown of Thorns from Theresa May. A victory for Nigel Farage in … Read more
by DCG I don’t even know where to begin with this. Well, actually I do. The demorat-run, liberal utopia of Seattle has a major homeless crisis. The bureaucrats in that city and King County do nothing to actually address the real problems (drug addiction and mental health issues). Instead, they coddle the homeless and try to mislead the public on just how … Read more
Nile Gardiner from the UK Thatcher Foundation praised President Trump following his very successful state visit to London. Even the British tabloids praised Trump on his visit. Ted Bromund joined Fox Business, Tuesday, June 4, to talk about Pres. Trump’s visit to the U.K., Trump’s success during the visit, the coverage of the protests simultaneous … Read more
by DCG The words “personal responsibility” do not exist in a liberal’s dictionary. With all the tax-payer funded and private charity safety nets available (As an example, see here, here, here, here, here, here, and here), how exactly is someone FORCED to commit violent acts to make ends meet? DCG
by WARREN MOSLER Employment can be a lagging indicator, so this forecast of Friday’s employment number could be verifying the rest of the weakness that’s been reported: US Private Sector Jobs Rise the Least in 9 Years Private businesses in the US hired 27 thousand workers in May, less than an expected 180 thousand and … Read more
by Danielle Park In explaining why highly levered, speculative cycles are so damaging to balance sheets and financial stability, I often reference the reality that when asset bubbles burst, prices drop and debt level rise, evaporating net worth rapidly and intensifying selling pressure. The graphic below captures the point within the context of housing. Of course, … Read more
Fun Fact: #Venezuela's external debt is at $156B, this means that is owes about 738% of the value of its exports, about 4 times what is typical in emerging markets pic.twitter.com/4XcysYqgHy — Tracy Shuchart (𝒞𝒽𝒾 ) (@chigrl) June 4, 2019 full article on that >>Venezuela Defaults on Gold Swap With Deutsche Bank https://t.co/qFQUp7n7uU pic.twitter.com/qfOJFcNN4K — … Read more
via trueeconomics: Remember my ‘scary chart’ from the day back? The one plotting the persistently high – relative to the business cycle – duration of unemployment in the U.S.? I have not updated this chart for some years now. So here is a new version based on the latest data: Two things worth noting: Declines in … Read more
