On Wire

by Martin Armstrong The major influential German news weekly, Der Spiegel, has suspended two of its senior editors following the scandal involving a reporter Claas Relotius admitted faking stories for years. Relotius, who is 33, resigned after admitting that he had made up stories and invented protagonists in more than a dozen articles in the … Read more

Rampant unaffordability and a slew of other reasons. By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. In the fourth quarter of 2018, prices in prime regional housing markets in England and Wales fell by 0.9%, according to global real estate agency Knight Frank. For the whole year, priced dropped by 0.6%, compared to 2017. The rate … Read more

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter The price of going upscale: New cars are too damn expensive, and Americans aren’t buying them anymore. Based on new-vehicle sales data this year through November, plus my own estimates for December, for the year 2018, sales of new cars plunged 13% to 5.5 million units; and sales of new trucks … Read more

Dec. 29, 2018 – Mary Greeley News – An American health worker who was possibly exposed to Ebola while treating patients in the Democratic Republic of Congo was evacuated to the United States Saturday and placed in a secure area at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, hospital officials said. The person has no symptoms … Read more

Gateway Pundit reports In the last two weeks the US Border Patrol have Arrested a MS-13 gang leader, An agent was assaulted by an illegal alien, An agent rendered life-saving first aid, And agents rescued a man from drowning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tb4WNGvHq0 Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018…   In the last two weeks the US Border Patrol have: ** … Read more

The stock market has found itself on shaky ground. Many investors have piled on and bought the dip. With nearly a decade of bull market behind them, investors feel very confident about many more years of growth ahead. Unfortunately, they forgot to acknowledge the Fed and their desire to slow down the economy at this … Read more

There is no way out of this mess, that’s for sure. Markets are wild, the real economy is weak, tensions are high. Yet the mainstream media and the propaganda they force feed the public is never ending. I guess there’s nothing really new about that. What’s different about 2019 than 2017 and previous years is … Read more

Associated Press for the Western Journal reports, Russia’s new strategic weapon has rendered any missile defenses useless at a small fraction of their cost, officials said Thursday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaOxMgOHeZk Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.westernjournal.com/ap-off…   Russia’s new strategic weapon has rendered any missile defenses useless at a small fraction of their cost, officials said Thursday. The Avangard hypersonic glide … Read more

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Forced selling by loan funds in the once red-hot $1.3-trillion “leveraged loan” market. Part of the $1.3 trillion in “leveraged loans” — loans issued by junk-rated overleveraged companies — end up in loan mutual funds and loan ETFs. These funds saw another record outflow in the week ended December 26: $3.53 … Read more

by David Haggith  The market’s last chaotic day closed in a way that befit the entire year. Up, down, up harder, down harder, and done! It looked like the violence of the day may have come from the Plunge Protection Team attempting to push the market up in the middle of the afternoon, except that the … Read more

via @OccupyWisdom : 1/ OIL When the economy is doing well, there is a large demand for oil, and oil prices rise. The collapse in oil prices shows we are entering a global slow down. 2/ HOUSING Only 13% of Americans plan to buy homes next year. This is -50% less than a year ago. Single family … Read more

by axolotl_peyotl In a time when most politicians and Mockingbird MSM outlets have lost their collective minds and devolved into propaganda machines, it’s extremely refreshing to see “progressive” folks like Jimmy Dore call out the madness for what it is: sheer, unadulterated madness. Just as how the MSM revealed their true colors when they only showed support … Read more

via imge: Is the world of email biased against conservatives? Many partisans often mutter such an accusation against Silicon Valley. Yet, few digital professionals take the time to investigate whether such a bold claim is true. Poor email deliverability doesn’t just suppress a candidate’s message, it decreases the engagement of campaign supporters. That means fewer donations, … Read more

by Thinker Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2/10) Movie CLIP – Shredded (2005) Knowing both sides of the story is everything, and sometimes it take time to hear the other side… How many have fled to save their lives, because they wanted to tell the people the “TRUTH” and how “ENERGY” was created by Tesla … Read more

by Dr. Eowyn Remember the Hans Christian Andersen tale about the child who, seeing the Emperor parading naked, alone blurted out the truth? This is a contemporary version of the classic tale. On July 25, 2018, at the GameStop store in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a tall man with a husky voice was paying for an … Read more

The UN Migration Pact (UN Immigration Compact) is embraced by Canada & pro immigration Trudeau. But the deal has been collapsing under scrutiny of those critical of migration.   h/t Jake