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via upfina: Headline GDP growth of 3.2% signals no economic slowdown, but final sales signal otherwise. Final sales exclude the effect of net exports and private inventories. As you can see from the chart below, final sales to domestic purchasers’ growth fell to 1.52%. This was a huge divergence from real GDP growth. It was the … Read more
Journalist = Propagandist = Enemy of the People. The public thinks that journalist use incidents as props to support their political agenda. Two-thirds think journalists would bury a negative story about candidates they support. h/t LSR
Old interviews with Trump have been in my youtube newsfeed lately and it is so interesting to see his views back then and they always seem to match up exactly to his views now. Very interesting stuff and then I stumbled on this – thought some of you might enjoy seeing the historical snippets. … Read more
Katie Jerkovich from The Daily Caller reports, Superstar Cardi B weighed in on the huge field of 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls Thursday and shared that it was time to “start learning and encouraging voting now.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiqs1WBRvCI Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/25/ca…
This time, Democrat presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris are calling for convicted terrorists, like the Boston Marathon Bomber, and mass murderers to have the right to vote. Democrats are not just crazy they are dangerous. h/t Jwnlwplus4
But something else is afoot as well. According to diGenova, and here is the tremendous breaking news: The FISA court has been looking into abuses of the FISA system and has communicated with the Justice Department about its findings. Their chief judge has already determined that for more than four years before the election of … Read more
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange stated that Hillary Clinton’s Clinton Foundation and the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIL/ISIS) are funded from the same sources. He was speaking about the organisation’s latest release of Clinton emails, during an interview on the John Pilger Special show that is to be exclusively broadcast by RT, courtesy of Dartmouth … Read more
by Dr. Eowyn In a CNN town hall meeting on April 23, the socialist senator from Vermont and 2020 presidential aspirant Bernie Sanders said: “Yes, even for terrible people because once you start chipping away — you say, ‘That guy committed a terrible crime, we’re not going to let him vote,’ or ‘that person did that,’ you’re … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter And according to chip makers, the plunge isn’t over yet. Global semiconductor sales dropped 15.5% in the first quarter, from the fourth quarter last year, to $96.8 billion, the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) organization reported Monday afternoon. The three-month moving average in March has now plunged 25% from the three-month moving average … Read more
via Zerohedge: update 3: Things are getting hotter in Venezuela, as Reuters reports that a pro-Guaidó gathering at the La Carlota military air base came under fire and shot back. In this video, what sounds like gunfire can be heard. Militares pro Maduro atacaron a @jguaido y @leopoldolopez y a los militares sublevados en el doatribuidor Altamira pic.twitter.com/xJynGSJU3L — Rafael … Read more
New Jersey also has one of the largest racial wealth gaps in the country, with the net worth for white families at $309,000 while for black and Latino families it’s $5,900 and $7,000, respectively. “There’s a lot of people who are working full time and unable to meet all of their monthly expenses, and because … Read more
via spectator: Since the release of the Mueller report, with each passing day comes a new and increasingly strident demand to impeach Donald Trump. The New York Times, Washington Post, and various prestige magazines are cluttered with such demands, casting impeachment as an imperative for the survival of American democracy. Mueller might have affirmatively concluded that … Read more
It’s wrong to think of them as an industry, or even as an institution. They’re a middle-school style clique, whose members’ chief goal is to perform for the approval of other clique members. via powerlineblog: The White House Correspondents’ Association held its annual dinner Saturday night. Who knew? With President Trump and all senior members of … Read more
Georgetown University poll: Nation at edge ‘of civil war,’ but voters reject compromise. Voters are pointing fingers at social media, TV news, and politicians for the breakdown in everyday civility in the country, but instead of compromise, they want their leaders to double down and champion their interests first, according to a ground-breaking survey from … Read more
The 2020 battle is on: Elizabeth Warren accuses Joe Biden of siding with credit card companies over struggling Americans Sen. Elizabeth Warren became the first 2020 Democrat to directly attack former Vice President Joe Biden following his Thursday announcement that he’s joining the presidential primary. “Joe Biden was on the side of the credit card companies,” Warren said … Read more
Watch the latest video at foxnews.com President Trump called Monday night for a sweeping overhaul to an asylum system he has long said is rife with fraud — including a new fee to process asylum applicants, and the capacity to rapidly adjudicate applicants’ claims while also barring them from working in the U.S. in the … Read more
by Martin Armstrong Socialism is dying because governments have made promises they cannot keep. Now when people expect that they will be there, they suddenly find the promises have been constantly revised. They always point to the rich and how they will make them pay. Everything who thinks they cannot possibly be the rich cheer, … Read more
from Financial Survival Network John Rubino returns… A listener question triggers an interesting debate about the Commitment of Traders (COT) Report. How can the so-called Speculators keep on losing every month? How do the Commercial Traders always get it right? And who in their right mind is coming back month after month only to lose bigly? John … Read more
by Lance Roberts This past weekend, we discussed the breakout of the markets to all-time highs. The question I asked this past weekend was simply; “The bull market is back, but can it stay?” When I was growing up my father, probably much like yours, had pearls of wisdom that he would drop along the way. … Read more
by John Ward The United States has stepped into the Huawei row and played the ‘No Huawei or no Intelligence’ card. Whether that gains any traction or not with the British Government, it’s obvious that The People don’t count in the assessment of whether to let the contract go ahead. The UK is sliding gently into … Read more