The 4% Rule Is Dead. What Should Retirees Do Now?

by Lance Roberts The 4% Rule Is Dead. A recent article by Shawn Langlois via MarketWatch pointed out this sobering fact but is one we have discussed previously. Retirees have long counted on being able to retire on their assets and take out 4% each year. However, a little more than 20-years later, the “death of the withdrawal rate” has … Read more

Chris Martenson: Avoid the trap the system is setting to imprison you

by Chris Martenson Millions of people are about to enter a financial purgatory, becoming little more than modern-day slaves. While they’ll be reported by the media as those “evicted” or “foreclosed on”, if we define a slave as someone forced to work for another by existing legal circumstances or approved cultural norms, then that’s exactly … Read more

When Will The Prosecution Of JP Morgan Gold Spoofer John Edmonds Ever Get Somewhere?

by Chris Powell of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA) Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: Market analyst Jim Kim wonders aloud about the federal prosecution of former JPMorganChase gold and silver futures trader John Edmonds, who ages ago pleaded guilty to spoofing those markets and was cooperating with the prosecution in providing evidence against his superiors. But his … Read more

CNN editing videos to make Donald Trump more Orange.

I found this funny. Somehow I ended up on CNN and noticed that Donald Trump looked a lot more “Orange” than normal. I decided to check some other channels and sure enough he was Umpa Lumpa orange on CNN. These people really are sick, funny but sick. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvi-MX0VOsQ CNN Link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpTNeMSTv7Q Fox News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d2D5NfnUNs MSNBC link https://youtu.be/XKPJ7ZtL74o CBS link … Read more

California liberal looters snatch firefighter’s wallet, drain bank account during massive fire

Watch the latest video at foxnews.com A California fire commander had his wallet stolen and bank account drained over the weekend while helping to combat the massive CZU Lightning Complex Fire, according to a report. Looters invading an evacuation zone established in the Santa Cruz Mountains area in Northern California were blamed for the crime, said officials with Cal Fire (California … Read more

Video: The BLM movement is already turning on their Mayor in Chicago

.#BlackLivesMatter activist in Chicago: “We have demands and they need to be met … we’re not asking you anything. We’re telling you what’s about to happen with your permission or not. … You can listen to us or you can get ran over.” pic.twitter.com/yEXFT4LOv9 — Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) August 22, 2020 https://tweetsave.com/tomselliott/status/1297131110674182144 https://nitter.net/tomselliott/status/1297131110674182144?s=20

Australia is along the road to that happy place where everything not forbidden is compulsory.

POSTMODERN PROBLEMS: Australian public servant condemns censorship after blogpost cost him his job. In April, Krook published a post on a fledgling blog called the Oxford Political Review, arguing social isolation was good for big tech companies, because it made people increasingly dependent on online platforms for interaction. Krook also worked as a policy officer … Read more

Kellyanne Conway’s daughter Claudia ‘officially pushing for emancipation’ and asks AOC to ‘adopt’ her…

Kellyanne Conway’s Trump-hating daughter is apparently ready for a new family. “I’m officially pushing for emancipation. Buckle up because this is probably going to be public one way or another, unfortunately. Welcome to my life,” 15-year-old Claudia Conway tweeted Saturday night. https://nypost.com/2020/08/23/kellyanne-conways-daughter-claudia-conway-pushing-for-emancipation/ Claudia Conway marked her return to Twitter this week with a barrage of … Read more

Lindsey Graham shares newly de-classified FBI docs showing ‘clear’ bias against Trump

Lindsey Graham released newly de-classified documents. The documents indicate clear bias by FBI leadership in Washington DC to help Hillary Clinton evade a FISA warrant (foreign interference to help her campaign). The same FBI leadership turned around then applied a different process to hurt the Trump campaign. De-classified email (on pages 14-15) from former FBI … Read more

CNN is going to fact check RNC; They did not do the same for DNC

“SHOULD TV NETWORKS AIR RNC IN FULL?” @BrianStelter advanced rationale for nets not to: “Television nets are going to have interesting choices to make…about whether to cut away if there’s this stream of disinformation happening live.” Promises CNN will cut in w/ “fact checks. pic.twitter.com/7GBgDSdiaI — Brent Baker 🇺🇲🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@BrentHBaker) August 23, 2020 CNN’s … Read more