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Wells Fargo pays $575 million to settle state investigations

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AP reports, Wells Fargo will pay $575 million in a settlement with attorneys general from all 50 states and the District of Columbia that are investigating fake accounts opened without the knowledge of customers and a string of other dodgy practices. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsHaCZjt-yQ Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.westernjournal.com/ap-wel… Under the agreement announced Friday, the bank will also create … Read more

California maneuvers to make bigger impact in 2020 election

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Nicholas Riccardi for AP reports, Early voting in California’s primary will overlap with the traditional early nominating contests in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpgVxXtYc7o Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://apnews.com/b58e7841a89b4535bc… Go west, 2020 presidential candidates? Early voting in California’s primary will overlap with the traditional early nominating contests in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South … Read more

Corporate bonds set for worst performance year since 2008… JPM to clients: Share buybacks and corporate bond redemptions would likely dissipate

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via Bloomberg: U.S. investment-grade credit spreads are at the highest level in more than two years as the market nears the end of 2018 with the worst returns in a decade. High-grade bonds are returning -2.75 percent this year as of the start of the final trading day of 2018, which is the biggest loss … Read more

Retailers that went bankrupt in 2018 (CNBC)

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by markyu007 Retail had a rough 2018 — Here are five big name brands that went under from CNBC. David’s Bridal Sears Mattress Firm National Stores Gumps Brookstone Rockport Nine West Claire’s The Walking Company Bon-Ton Stores Kiko USA A’gaci https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/31/here-are-the-retailers-including-sears-that-went-bankrupt-in-2018.html

The 1st Alarm Bell, This Will Kick Off Everything

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The same company that warned about Russia bots created them. The IRS has three thousand handguns. The government shutdown continues and Trump is tweeting like crazy why we need the wall. Obama is building a ten foot wall around his house and Kerry wants a wall around his French estate. Trump tweets out about Syria. … Read more

The government “can’t find” $20 trillion, while pension funds are tanking(Note: the missing $20 trillion does not refer to the national debt.)

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by Jon Rappoport Alert to pension fund managers all over the planet—and to everyone else— “If 1,000 US and global pension fund managers start asking questions it could change everything – like stopping a nuclear war.” That’s a statement from former US Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and now president of Solari, Inc., Catherine … Read more

The year that Hillary Clinton’s State Department did the “peer review” of the US Treasury

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by AIsuicide   Note: The following are some of the key audits the State Department decided to focus on…there is a very brief summary of their findings after each….pay attention to the Treasury Foreign Intelligence Network audit specifically. Table 1. Review of Reports Performed by the Department of the Treasury OIG Report No. Report Date … Read more

House Democrats Draft Legislation That Would Make It A Hate Crime To Eat At Chick-Fil-A

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Via The Babylon Bee WASHINGTON, D.C.—Under intense pressure from their left-leaning constituents to do something about the dangerous, Christian-founded restaurant chain, Democrats in the House of Representatives unveiled legislation Tuesday that would make it a hate crime to eat at Chick-fil-A. The CFAHATE Act Of 2018 would make it a hate crime punishable by federal … Read more

Facebook’s Secret Censorship Manual Exposed as Platform Takes Down Video About Israel Terrorizing Palestinians

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via commondreams: Journalist Rania Khalek, whose video was restored after public outcry, says the ability of social media giants “to disappear content as they please” is “creepy and alarming and should be loudly opposed.” After the New York Times on Thursday published an exposé of Facebook‘s global censorship rulebook, journalist Rania Khalek called out the social media giant for taking down a video in which … Read more