It’s a little known fact that it was the democratic party that allowed the creation of The Federal Reserve. If they never did that, we wouldn’t have trillions of dollars in debt. The great recession would of never happened (The Fed caused that) and there wouldn’t of been two world wars.

by bbennett36 I know most people don’t know the truth about The Federal Reserve. The truth is the people that the dems allowed to create the Federal Reserve were the same bankers that controlled the money in Europe. They sold America to them on a silver platter. That single event led to all of the … Read more

The Fed’s Excessive Money-Pump Is “Reinforcing The Inevitable Unraveling Of Imbalances”

by CRESCAT CAPITAL Download PDF Version The highly probable and downright inevitable unwind of today’s trifecta of financial asset bubbles: stocks, corporate credit, and Treasury bonds may soon morph into brutal bear market. The end game is unstoppable in our view and approaching fast. The Fed is between a rock and a hard place. It has … Read more

What Options Do Mall Landlords Have When Brick & Mortar Retail Melts Down on Them?

Even in San Francisco: From a brand-new glitzy zombie mall to innumerable vacant storefronts. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. Mall investors have long denied it. But year after year, ecommerce has been eating up brick-and-mortar retail sales, in the third quarter faster than ever, and in the fourth quarter, according to early indications, even faster. Turns out, ecommerce … Read more

Welcome to the Era of Intensifying Chaos and New Weapons of Conflict

by Charles Hugh-Smith Geopolitics has moved from a slow-moving, relatively predictable chess match to rapidly evolving 3-D chess in which the rules keep changing in unpredictable ways. A declining standard of living in the developed world, declining growth for the developed world and geopolitical jockeying for control of resources make for a highly combustible mix … Read more

Progressives hate to admit it: “Trump is remaking the federal judiciary”

by DCG Merry Christmas Eve! The most read article on SF Gate late Sunday evening was the story with the above headline. Excerpts from their story: “After three years in office, President Donald Trump has remade the federal judiciary, ensuring a conservative tilt for decades and cementing his legacy no matter the outcome of November’s election. Trump nominees … Read more

CNN pays $6 million per year to pump propaganda into airports nationwide

Have you ever wondered why CNN is the only program played on the TVs at most of the major airports throughout the US? It’s not because CNN is preferred by frequent flyers. CNN pays @ $6 million per year to 58 different airports to show their fake news propaganda. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF6uAFdMvbk&feature=emb_title CNN Pays Airports $100,000 Each … Read more

San Francisco cafes are banning disposable coffee cups. Henceforth, customers will have to carry their coffee in their bare hands

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A new cafe culture is brewing in the San Francisco area, where a growing number of coffee houses are banishing paper to-go cups and replacing them with everything from glass jars to rental mugs and BYO cup policies. What started as a small trend among neighborhood cafes to reduce waste is … Read more

Chile Is In Danger Of Becoming Just Another Crisis-Ridden Latin American Country

by Matheus Vieira via Mises Although we Latin Americans thought Chile was immune to populism, small protests have grown into the largest ones since the nation’s re-democratization in the 90s. Initially, the protestors were groups of students complaining about a raise in the Santiago subway fare — an increase of 3.75 percent or about five US cents (which … Read more

France Bans Nativity Scene from Pubic Property

by Martin Armstrong France has banned the display of any Nativity scenes from public property which has many French quite upset that because of the large Muslim population, the very culture of France has been changed. It is interesting that normally people migrate because they want to be part of that culture. That has not … Read more

Fund Manager: Why Can’t The Fed Just Print Money And Drive The Markets Higher, Forever?

by Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics The title quote is from Tad Rivelle, Chief Investment Officer of TCW (Los Angeles based fixed income management company), who manages one of the largest actively managed bond funds. He goes on to comment about the implications of the negative rate policy that has been implemented by Japan and the EU: … Read more

Stock market returns from 2010-2019 have not matched the 1980s and 1990s

by chargum It seems like everyone on this board is saying the stock market returns from 2010-2019 are unprecedented and better than any time in stock market history. This is false! 1980-1989 Nominal CAGR 16.16% (10.52% Real- Inflation Adjusted) 1990-1999 Nominal CAGR 17.27% (13.94% Real- Inflation Adjusted) 2010-2019 Nominal CAGR 13.09% (11.12% Real Inflation Adjusted) … Read more

David Morgan: US On Trajectory To System-Wide Collapse, Jobs & Retirement Dollars Will be Lost

by David Morgan of The Morgan Report Pension Schemes in EU Show Big Shortfalls | https://www.themorganreport.com Millions of retirees and workers are at risk of losing their multiemployer pension benefits because their plans are forecasted to become insolvent in the near future. This would lead to these retirees receiving just a portion of their pensions. Eu’s crisis also puts … Read more

CAUGHT! China Has Been Spending A Fortune Buying Influence On Far-Left Media Outlets

via dcwhispers: From New York To L.A., Hollywood to the NBA and all points in between, China has been buying up millions of dollars worth of deceptive advertising disguised as news and for some publications, that China revenue might very well be the difference between staying in business vs going under. Oh, and for those really … Read more

Repocalypse: The Second Coming

by David Haggith This little monster that feeds beneath the surface of global banking at its core briefly raised one ugly eye out of the water as 2018 turned into 2019. I wrote back then that the interest spike we saw in the kind of overnight interbank lending known as repurchase agreements (repos) was just the … Read more