Tucker Carlson explains how Senators use their office to make money through insider trading. Rand Paul: We absolutely must, must, resist government run amok taking advantage of a crisis.

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Here is how one Senator, Richard Burr the former Lawn Mower salesman made money using his access to privileged information. Rand Paul: We absolutely must, must, resist government run amok taking advantage of a crisis. This is how your liberty dies. Stand up America and resist. DOJ seeks new emergency powers amid coronavirus pandemic – … Read more

NEW YORK — Military is Outlining Plans to Take Over Hotels, Dormitories, Arenas to Treat Patients

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NY State Declared Major Disaster Area After 56 Coronavirus Deaths — Military is Outlining Plans to Take Over Hotels, Dormitories, Arenas to Treat Patients On Friday President Trump declared New York State a major disaster area as the number of confirmed coronavirus cases jumped to 10,356 by Saturday morning. There have been 56 deaths reported in the state due … Read more

CNN: “The Use of American companies to push Russian propaganda goes beyond social media sites like Facebook.”

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Also CNN: Much more at Twitchy: ‘So we believe Russia now?’ CNN passes along Kremlin info saying ‘Putin’s strategy seems to have worked’ against coronavirus (and people have thoughts). Related: Is Russia running a coronavirus disinformation campaign? ARE YOU GUYS SURE WE CAN’T EXPEL JOURNALISTS TO CHINA?  I MEAN OSTENSIBLY AMERICAN JOURNALISTS:  Rachel Maddow and others call on networks … Read more

Egon von Greyerz – Fake Markets Supported by Fake Money, Global Financial System Broken & Bankrupt

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Financial and precious metals expert Egon von Greyerz (EvG) operates the largest private gold vault in the world in Switzerland. EvG contends, “They have managed to maintain totally false markets with no real price discovery, certainly since 2009, by just flooding the market with so much money. We don’t have any real markets. We don’t … Read more

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos asks laid-off workers from BARS and RESTAURANTS to come join the company . Amazon has also raised overtime pay for us workers . Bezos says ” Things are gonna get much worse “

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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said in a statement on Saturday the company is hiring for 100,000 new roles, and urged laid-off restaurant workers to apply. Bezos added that the company has implemented a number of health and safety measures in response to the crisis, and has raised wages for hourly workers. Amazon has been flooded … Read more

Everyone Needs To Brush Up On Their History Because We Can’t Use 2008 As A Precedent.

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by bingo_bango_zongo I found this doc on 1929 to be a useful retrospective https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAZjlxWNszw Unsurprisingly there’s a lot of parallels to our current situation. An era of new technologies, purchased on credit by workers whose wages remain unchanged. An ever widening wage gap. A manipulated market that seems only to move up, eventually disconnecting from … Read more

Possibility of a housing crisis and strategies

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by DonkStonx Hello fellow retards. One externality of a shut down economy is the possible increase in homes on the market, new home building slump, and the possibility of a housing crisis. I wanted to make a thread to discuss this. We’ve been reaching a pinnacle in home prices and I think we’re seeing the … Read more

SPY – DD

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 by rredditscum Instead of looking at the entire market, I decided to take a deep dive into SPY this time and get a good idea of what’s happening. Hopefully someone can correct me if I’m wrong. PCR aka Put-Call Ratio; this is defined from Investopia as “an indicator ratio that provides information about relative trading volumes … Read more

Is the U.S. Stimulus deal enough?

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Is the U.S. #Stimulus deal enough? Let’s call it a solid start at $2+ trillion & I’m hearing another $1 trn gets added in a couple of weeks’ with @wolfblitzer tonight #CoronavirusOutbreak pic.twitter.com/hK50hDvqhr — Julia Chatterley (@chattwithjulia) March 22, 2020 Getting there but it’s still not big enough plus the financial market pressure, margin calls, corporate … Read more

Corporate Bond Defaults are coming

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by Jburd6523 Your 11 year bull market that thrived on low interest rates, and low unemployment encouraged a lot of big dick financial risk taking behavior by large corporations who similar to us kept saying “Can’t go tits up.” This in turn led to a corporate debt bubble that was highlighted as “Risky” by the … Read more

Last time Government intervened it didn’t stop market fall

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Last time Government intervened it didn't stop market fall pic.twitter.com/7UMJGSLs65 — Win Smart, CFA (@WinfieldSmart) March 21, 2020 Prime money market funds experiencing significant outflows pic.twitter.com/b9MJebav3W — Win Smart, CFA (@WinfieldSmart) March 21, 2020 BBB alarm pic.twitter.com/p9xZs6P9ms — Win Smart, CFA (@WinfieldSmart) March 21, 2020 MBS spreads pic.twitter.com/um1cBHWJsM — Win Smart, CFA (@WinfieldSmart) March 21, … Read more

The Ease And Speed Of Governments’ Reactions Should At Least Make Us Stop And Think

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by Claudio Grass of ClaudioGrass.ch “Trust the state. Do what they say. They’ve never lied to us before, have they?” – Daniel McAdams, Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity Central bankers are washing their hands too Looking at the carnage that stock markets have suffered, it’s not surprising to see central banks jumping in to save the day. … Read more