By Rodney Johnson Senators Bernie Sanders and Chuck Schumer have proposed legislation that would stop public companies from paying dividends or buying back their shares unless they first meet certain conditions. The senators aren’t worried about viability (companies are financially …
Watch the latest video at foxnews.com Gerald Cotten, the 30-year-old founder of QuadrigaCX, died due to complications with Crohn’s disease, according to Sky News, citing Cotten’s wife, Jennifer Robertson. The executive reportedly passed away in December while traveling in India …
by DCG You really want to trust big government with your DNA? Stay far, far, FAR, FAR away from these DNA testing companies. While you believe it may be a good mechanism to help solve crimes, DNA test results can …
ELIZABETH, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — New Jersey is one of the highest taxed states in the country. Now, residents and businesses could be taxed extra … when it rains. Save it for a rainy day. Some of your hard-earned dollars may be …
The business of panel manufacturing is a multi-billion dollar industry fueled by a worldwide construction market and driven by new technologies. One of the existing players, Ontario-based materials company, Cymat Technologies Ltd., will begin servicing a significant portion of this …
from Financial Survival Network Luke Gromen believes that the much ballyhooed celebration over the end of the US-China trade war is extremely premature. To Luke, it’s a case of an immovable object getting hit by an unstoppable force. For the US to …
by Frank Holmes, CEO, U.S. Global Investors Something big is happening in the gold market right now, and nowhere is that more apparent than in central banks of emerging economies. Last year was a watershed in the size of official …
Nick Sandmann: The Truth in 15 Minutes https://pjmedia.com/video/covington-teens-lawyer-releases-brutal-14-minute-video-showcasing-lies-of-nathan-phillips-and-media/ h/t KOS
by David Haggith Here is a single chart that proves how completely the Fed’s end-game for its recovery failed, which means the fake recovery, itself, is failing. It’s not hard to figure out what happened here. Talk about a euphoric rise …
Here is today’s articles mentioned in this news update: 1. The World Bank and IMF are in crisis. It’s time to push a radical new vision https://www.theguardian.com/commentis… 2. The World Bank’s controversial president just resigned https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/20…
https://twitter.com/hks55/status/1092822892117676032 Fed rate cuts during the 2000-2002 and 2007-2009 collapses. When investors are inclined toward risk-aversion, safe liquidity is a desirable asset rather than an inferior one, so creating more of the stuff doesn't durably provoke risk-taking. Chart h/t @CoryLVenable …
https://twitter.com/JacobAWohl/status/1092628568788463618 https://twitter.com/JacobAWohl/status/1092632142905978880 h/t KOS
via Jesse Kelly The U.S. Senate cannot agree on anything. They are so mired in partisan gridlock, a resolution declaring the sky to be officially the color blue would fail along party lines. But there is one thing and one thing …
by Lance Roberts On December 25th, I penned “My Christmas Wish” where in I stated that is was “now or never” for the bulls to make a stand. “If we take a look back at the markets over the last 20-years, we find that …
by DCG City bureaucrat, I mean attorney, Pete Holmes We may never know what Seattle City Attorney Peter Holme’s magic number is because, apparently, one having 72 convictions – including 14 felonies – is not enough to warrant your butt being thrown in …
by Deplorable Patriot Executive order to end infestation of jellyfish When people ask me what I think about President Donald J. Trump, often my response is “I’m with him until the wheels fall off.” Back in the day In …
via Samantha Biggers: Over the past few months, my husband and I have kept an eye on the store shelves in our area. We don’t shop daily or even weekly, but the trend of increasingly bare shelves has been incredibly disturbing. …
Senator Rand Paul delivers a righteous speech supporting President Trump’s decision to begin removing the US military from the Middle East, and calling out Mitch McConnell and the UniParty for undermining the president. Rand is fired up. MUST WATCH: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/02/05/senator-rand-paul-calls-out-mitch-mcconnell-for-undermining-president-trump/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
READ THE FULL STORY HERE http://jwatch.us/W33s45 Judicial Watch announced that the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Ethics has refused to take action against Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), who admitted to willfully violating Senate rules by releasing confidential records regarding then-Supreme …
by WARREN MOSLER US factory orders, Euro zone retail sales, UK services, ISM NY, Lumber prices US ISM New York Index at 7-Month Low in January
by Martin Armstrong It very clear that Mueller is acting like any other prosecutor and is using the press for PR stunts. CNN’s reporter David Shortell claimed he had “reporter’s instinct” which led him to get footage of Roger Stone’s pre-dawn arrest, …
Just look around, the madness is all around. On different scales. In different regions. No matter where you turn, there’s a terrible economic drought right now, induced by central bank intervention with no end in sight. With debt at maximum …
Jim Hoft for the Gateway Pundit reports, Chief Deputy Whip Rep. Dan Kildee (D-MI) joined Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures to discuss the Democrat Party’s resistance to US border security. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJpLQd1pHgY Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019…
by Martin Armstrong Corporate America will suddenly discover that the Democrats are moving substantially to the left and will do whatever they can to further that goal. The Democrats are becoming the new party of anti-corporation/business. They embrace the …
via visualcapitalist: There’s a persistent belief across America that crime is on the rise. Since the late 1980s, Gallup has been polling people on their perception of crime in the United States, and consistently, the majority of respondents indicate that they see crime …
By Nick Cunningham Venezuela’s oil production could be disrupted to a greater degree than most analysts first thought, as the U.S. government seeks essentially shut in the country’s oil sector. When the Trump administration first announced sanctions on Venezuela’s oil …
via studyfinds: Research shows that the average employee logs 7.5 hours of screen time daily, and battles eye pain or discomfort four times in that span. NEW YORK — As the classic Todd Rundgren song goes, “I don’t want to work, I …
by Charles Hugh-Smith All the policies that worked in the Boost Phase no longer work. Natural and human systems tend to go through stages of expansion, stagnation and decline that follow what’s known as the S-Curve. The dynamic isn’t difficult to …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter During the selloff in December, the BOJ shed $31 billion, but in January it piled on. Total assets on the Bank of Japan’s mammoth balance sheet, after a drop of ¥3.4 trillion ($31 billion) in December, rose by ¥4.8 trillion …
via CNBC: It comes at a time when political tensions in Venezuela are reaching boiling point, with the oil-rich, but cash-poor, country in the midst of the Western Hemisphere’s worst humanitarian crisis in recent memory. In a statement published Monday, …