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by ogordained UNITED STATES Futures are down amid weak trade data out of China US CPI was in line with expectations at 1.9% Loan Growth has accelerated rapidly going into 2019 Business loans are up 11% since last year S&P 500 companies are warning that their 2019 earnings may not be as high as initially forecast OTHER UK Industrial Production disappointed (Actual -1.5% | Expected … Read more
by howmuch President Trump loves to talk about cutting U.S. foreign aid, even if he doesn’t always follow through. What’s most often missed in media coverage about this debate is where American dollars are going, and the issues U.S. expenditures are meant to fix. Our latest visualization lays out a nice snapshot, revealing the handful of countries with … Read more
by GoldCore – Case for a pending financial collapse is well grounded warns Rickards – “Ticking time bomb” the Federal Reserve has created is set to go off… – Economist warns U.S. high-yield debt, default of “junk bonds” could cause next crisis – Systemic risk is “more dangerous than ever” as “entire system is larger … Read more
JUST THINK OF THE MEDIA AS DEMOCRATIC OPERATIVES WITH CHYRONS, AND IT ALL MAKES SENSE: The MSM Never Questioned Airing An Obama Speech Despite These 1,063 Examples Of His Lies, Mendacity, Etc. WIDELY CITED STUDY OF FAKE NEWS TURNS OUT TO BE BOGUS: Last year, a study was published in the Journal of Human Behavior, explaining why … Read more
Lindsey Graham Blinks: Urges Trump to open govt ‘temporarily’… WASHINGTON, Jan 13 (Reuters) – A Republican senator close to President Donald Trump on Sunday backed a temporary re-opening of the federal government, in the 23rd day of the longest shutdown ever, to allow for talks on a spending agreement that could satisfy Trump’s border security … Read more
30 Democrats in Puerto Rico with 109 lobbyists for weekend despite shutdown Some 30 Democratic lawmakers left the government shutdown behind Friday on a chartered flight to Puerto Rico for a winter retreat with 109 lobbyists and corporate executives during which they planned to see the hit Broadway show “Hamilton” and attend three parties including one with … Read more
by Michael Snyder Could it be possible that a full-blown eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano is not too far away? All over the world seismic activity has been increasing in recent years, and this process seems to have accelerated during the early days of 2019. In particular, quite a few once dormant volcanoes are springing to … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter This is on purpose. Macy’s is not alone. Other department stores and brick-and-mortar retailers are into this too, at least the ones that haven’t filed for bankruptcy yet. So we’ll take a look (11 minutes):
by Charles Hugh-Smith This exhaustion of the neocolonial-neofeudal model was inevitable, and as a result, so too is the decline and fall of the European integration/exploitation project. That a single currency, the euro, would fracture rather than unite Europe was understood long before the euro’s introduction as legal tender on January 1, 2002. The euro, the … Read more
The world is preparing for a no deal BREXIT, they are making it seem if this happens there is going to be total chaos, this is the plan of the central banks, if it is not their deal there will be chaos, or not. France and Germany see the future, globalism is imploding, they take … Read more
Lisa Page’s leak show who was behind the dossier, who benefited, and the motivation. The [DS] is pushing everything they have at Trump, they know they need to control the narrative before the hammer drops. Peace talks intensify with the Kurds and Syria. Q gave us a pic of an airport, in the photo there … Read more
When Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy ten years ago on Friday, the question on everyone’s minds was simple: “Who’s next?” If a pillar of Wall Street worth hundreds of billions of dollars just months before couldn’t be trusted with the public’s money, then nowhere was safe. Panicked investors rushed for the door, banks refused to lend … Read more
by TFittonJW Let's be clear, the Obama FBI, DOJ, CIA, State, Deep State, etc NEVER had a good faith basis to pursue @RealDonaldTrump on Russia. Russia collusion isn't just a hoax, it is a criminal abuse, which is why @JudicialWatch is fighting for key Russiagate docs in federal court…. https://t.co/fwymuviGUR — Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) January … Read more
by axolotl_peyotl It’s becoming undeniably apparent that the mere existence of Trump is being weaponized by the military industrial complex to create significant cognitive dissonance (and indeed derangement) in huge swathes of the population. While conspiracy theorists and alternative researchers have been crying foul for years (even decades), it’s been utterly bizarre to watch people … Read more
After 9 weeks of protesting the Yellow Vest Movement shows no sign of slowing. There is still minimal coverage by the mainstream media even after protests have started to spread to every major city in France, across Europe and to the UK. The entire area around the Arc de Triomphe was controlled by protesters on Saturday. Riot … Read more
Via The Babylon Bee U.S.—With the government shutdown in effect, life has felt incomplete for many Americans. “Everything is just too easy—it’s boring,” said restaurant owner Gloria Morgan, “and I realized it’s because we’re missing an essential challenge in life: soulless bureaucrats posing arbitrary rules on us.” One of the primary functions of the government … Read more
via Bloomberg: PG&E Corp., the California utility giant facing billions of dollars in wildfire liabilities, may notify employees as soon as Monday that it’s preparing a potential bankruptcy filing, according to people familiar with the situation. The San Francisco-based utility owner is planning to send the notice to fulfill a state law that requires the … Read more
Trump is well aware of the relationship between the two men-Barr and Mueller. Trump is still playing chess…. RM
The proposal still needs to be approved by the City Council. If it passes, business will have to let some of their employees go, go out of business, or move out of the city or state. Too funny watching liberals destroy themselves and their environment with socialist ideologies. via ABCNEWS: New York City Mayor Bill … Read more
$21 trillion in “missing money” at the DOD and HUD that was discovered by Dr. Mark Skidmore and Catherine Austin Fitts in 2017 has now become a national security issue. The federal government is not talking or answering questions, even though the DOD recently failed its first ever audit. Fitts says, “This is basically an … Read more