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All Heck Breaks Loose After Spanish Banks Block Thousands of Accounts with Chinese Names & Folks Can’t Get to Their Money

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The banks claim they’re complying with anti-money laundering regulations.  By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. Spain’s Association of Financial Users (ASUFIN) has announced it will be representing Chinese residents in Spain in their legal struggle against three of the country’s biggest lenders, BBVA, Caixabank and Bankia, which it accuses of contravening Spain’s data protection … Read more

Watch AOC Status Hit ALL TIME LOW After Being Compared To Ridiculous Meme Girl

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Ryan Saavedra from The Daily Wire reports, Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) channeled her inner Danielle Bregoli on Friday — the “cash me outside” girl from Dr. Phil — during a talk at a “Girls Who Code” event in New York City. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2ZW7GGFB1s Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.dailywire.com/news/43875/…      

Globex Halted, Palladium Flat, Silver Spiking

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by reflector globex trading has been halted apparently, no explanation https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-26/us-equity-bond-futures-have-st…   was globex halted because of a potential palladium failure to deliver? palladium is flat right now: after having surged the last couple weeks from $1400 to $1540 and rumors of shortages meanwhile silver is having wild swings anyone have info on what’s going on? … Read more

Man Receives A Microchip Implant Live On Stage At The Mobile World Congress Technology Event In Barcelona Spain

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by Geoffrey Grider At the Mobile World Congress Technology event held in Barcelona on Monday, a man named Edgar Pons volunteered to have a microchip inserted under his skin live on stage For nearly 10 years now, we here at Now The End Begins have been telling you about the coming Mark of the Beast. The … Read more

Corporate Debt Is One Trigger Away from “A Self-Feeding Chain Reaction”

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The ballooning edifice of corporate debt securities across the world is of ever lower quality and potentially more dangerous than it was at the outset of the Lehman crisis, the OECD club of rich nations has warned. Global issuance of company bonds has doubled to $13 trillion over the last decade and standards have deteriorated dramatically, raising the risk … Read more

HSBC: “Oblivious” Investors in US Stock Market Don’t See the Everything Bubble

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Investing in passive index funds has enjoyed a stellar run over the past 10 years, exposing the shortcomings of the pricier active approach in a market where everything is in full-on rally mode. In fact, during that time, only 24% of actively managed funds outperformed their passive counterparts through 2018, according to Morningstar. There’s a … Read more

Jon Stewart view on todays media:

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by kit8642 In a broader critique of the media industry, Stewart said: “The model is based on conflict. I’m talking about the 24 hours. Print, I think, is a different animal, and generally, especially, non-pure internet print is generally pretty sober and has a sense of proportion. Internet culture is clickbait. So, what’s done is: … Read more

MMT in the headlines, Housing starts

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by WARREN MOSLER The notion behind what is called “Modern Monetary Theory,” or MMT, is that as long as the Fed can keep interest rates low without sparking inflation, the national debt and budget deficit won’t be an issue. MMT has been espoused by politicians including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Democratic presidential candidate Sen. … Read more

You exhale CO2 which grass needs to grow. Cows eat grass, you eat cows and continue to exhale grass-growing CO2. It’s the circle of life.

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BUT THE NARRATIVE! Scientists: CO2 the ‘miracle molecule’ key to feeding, saving the world. If you like to eat, then you should be cheering global warming. That’s the claim in a new scientific report that counters global warming fanatics like former Vice President Al Gore and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and offers proof that CO2 added … Read more

To Be Fair, He Has Kind Of Driven Them Crazy

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Liberal Media Scream: It’s Trump’s fault liberals fell for Smollett hoax. This week’s Liberal Media Scream features the latest spin for why liberals, including some Democratic presidential candidates, fell so hard and fast for actor Jussie Smollett’s claim he was targeted in Chicago by racists and Trump supporters. In an appearance on MSNBC, the Washington Post’s Jonathan … Read more

Why Is The Fed Talking About EVEN MORE EXTREME Policies Now?

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by Graham Summers of Gains, Pains, & Capital The Fed is truly terrified of what’s coming. Last Friday, a number of Fed officials gave speeches at prominent Central Banking conferences. The contents of these speeches reveal a degree of terror that runs completely counter to what is happening in the markets today. To look at the surface of things, the … Read more

The Age of Tyrannical Surveillance: We’re Being Branded, Bought and Sold for Our Data

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by John W. Whitehead “We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about… Your digital identity will live forever… because there’s no delete button.”—Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt Uncle Sam wants you. Correction: Big Brother wants you. To be technically accurate, Big Brother—aided and abetted by his corporate … Read more

Who’s Buying? Companies. Who’s Selling? Everybody Else. How Will It End? Not Well!

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via NYT: Armchair investors have been selling stock. So have pension funds and mutual funds, as well as a whole other category of investors — nonprofit groups, endowments, private equity firms and personal trusts. The stock market is off to its best start since 1987, but these investors are expected to dump hundreds of billions … Read more