Small Countries Are Better: They’re Often Richer And Safer Than Big Countries

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by Ryan McMaken via Mises In the wake of the Brexit vote, Scottish nationalists have renewed their calls for a new referendum on Scottish independence. But many remain unconvinced, and many claim Scotland is “too small” to be an independent country. Others claim that Scotland is too poor, since Scotland’s GDP per capita is only 90 percent that of England. But … Read more

Why Bail-Ins in Europe Are Not Likely in the USA

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by Martin Armstrong The public was outraged over the use of tax dollars to bail out banks during the 2007-2009 financial crisis. Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Act of January 2010, which eliminated the option of bank bailouts but opened the door for bank bail-ins. The problem was that the banks … Read more

The 2020 Elections & the Coming Violence

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by Martin Armstrong Democracy is dying and it just looks like we have to go into the crash and burn. The President won more votes than any incumbent ever in history. The Democrats have adopted such a left-wing agenda that it is truly scaring the “silent majority” who most often are4 never represented in the … Read more

World Economy Projected To Shrink For First Time Since 2009 As Coronavirus Plays Havoc With Global Supply Chains

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by Michael Snyder For more than a decade, the global economy has steadily grown quarter after quarter, but it looks like that streak is about to come to a very abrupt ending.  The coronavirus outbreak in China has brought the Chinese economy to a virtual standstill, and as a result critical supply chains are in a … Read more

Patriots Maneuver Barr Into Position, The Second Act Begins, indictments

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUTzH8JsVLs The patriots have now boxed in the [DS]/D’s. They D’s are getting ready to push impeachment 2.0 on Trump, this time it has to do with RS and Barr. This will fail, Trump and the patriots are exposing the corruption. Flynn changes his background on twitter. Trump tweets outs drain the swamp again. Indictments … Read more

George Carlin – Political Correctness is Fascism Pretending to be Manners

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    Carlin didn’t believe in criticizing politicians. “Now, there’s one thing you might have noticed I don’t complain about: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don’t fall out of the sky. They don’t pass through a membrane from another reality. They … Read more

Flying High: The Top Ten Airline Routes by Revenue

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by visualcapitalist The airline industry is a tough business. Profit margins are narrow, airplanes are expensive to run and maintain, and government regulation and taxation can be onerous and unpredictable. In addition, demand can stall by the outbreak of disease, recession, war, or terrorism. So when a company has a winning airline route, it makes all … Read more

The BBC’s Frank Gardner is shown how £194bn worth of gold bars are stored.

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The Bank of England’s gold vaults hold £194bn worth of gold bars. If you stacked them all on top of each other, they would be the same height as 46 Eiffel Towers. They hardly ever let anyone in to film, but the BBC’s Frank Gardner has been given access to the Bank of England’sgold vault. https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-51416500/bank-of-england-gold-rare-look-inside-the-vaults … Read more

Harvard and Yale are being investigated over foreign funding. Our universities are bought and probably laundering money

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The US Department of Education said on Wednesday it has opened an investigation into whether the universities of Harvard and Yale failed to report hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign gifts and contracts as required by law. Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, may not have reported at least $375 million in foreign money … Read more

Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-MI, Suggests Federal Reserve Should Bail Out Democrat Run Cities Like Detroit

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Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-MI, told Jerome Powell that the Federal Reserve should bail out cities like Detroit, and Puerto Rico. Here’s the video: https://www.sgtreport.com/2020/02/tlaib-suggests-federal-reserve-should-bail-out-democrat-run-cities-like-detroit/ TLAIB: “My city filing for bankruptcy was devastating to so many retirees, sir. 40, 50 years they worked for the city of Detroit, saw their pensions completely diminished, gone. Do you … Read more

The Coronavirus May Mark The End Of Russia-OPEC Cooperation

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By Fares Kilzie A week ago, at an emergency meeting of the OPEC’s Joint Technical Committee, Russia refused to agree to the cartel’s proposal to reduce production by an additional 600 000 barrels per day (bpd). Explaining Russia’s position, Energy Minister Alexander Novak said that in order to make such a decision, it takes time to evaluate the effect … Read more

Jim Jordan Given HUGE Promotion Dems Will Hate!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7fNEViWCKI We Love Trump reports, Congratulations Jim Jordan! News broke that Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows would both be receiving big promotions to powerful positions. The House GOP Steering Committee met Thursday and recommended that Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan serve as ranking member of the powerful House Judiciary Committee effective March 12, and that North … Read more