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by Dr. Eowyn Democrat presidential candidate Andrew Yang, 44, is an attorney, entrepreneur, and son of Taiwanese immigrants, with a net worth of $1 million. See “Net worth of 2020 presidential candidates” Yesterday, Andrew Yang said something quite remarkable, akin to the child in the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale who alone said the truth — that the … Read more

by DCG Bonus: The rapist could be eligible for a reduced sentence or work release! KATU reports that 22-year-old Joseph Myers was sentenced to just 14 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to raping three teens. He was originally charged with 12 counts of third-degree rape, one count of third-degree sodomy and three counts of unlawful delivery of … Read more

by Power80770M Full discussion here. There was also a pretty big divergence in 2015, back when the economy had a mini recession. Of course the Fed also pumped the market aggressively in early 2016 when things started melting down. It’s amazing to me that people are blindly dumping their entire life savings in this scam of a … Read more

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BY JOHN RUBINO Of all the amazing scenes in The Big Short, a film about the genesis of the Great Recession, arguably the most shocking is the meeting between a couple of hedge fund managers trying to understand the housing bubble and “Georgia,” a (in a bit of symbolic overkill) visually-impaired executive with the Standard & Poor’s … Read more

by howmuch Economic growth headlines the news in good times and bad. Financial analysts continually forecast and tweak outlooks for the U.S. and the global economy. With the holiday season coming to an end, Americans spent 3.4% more than the prior year on top of an 18.8% growth in online sales. Although the political focus has been … Read more

So Biden would put fossil fuel execs in jail for pollution? Isn't son Hunter an exec in Burisma, a fossil fuel gas company? So Joe wants his son put in jail? https://t.co/UufkXQiiyK — Ambassador Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) December 30, 2019   h/t dr0id

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By Jared Dillian The stock market is the opiate of the masses. Oh sure, the days of watching Jim Cramer mash buttons on his console with his sleeves rolled up to his armpits are pretty much over. And nobody really day trades anymore, except for masochists. And, despite a 10,000-point rise in the Dow since … Read more

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by Robert Ross Doom and gloom predictions about the stock market drive click. I get it. But those predictions have fallen flat for 10 years straight. US stocks keep marching higher, and history’s longest bull market keeps getting longer. Here’s a chart of the S&P 500 since February 2009. It’s climbed 325%: I’ve said before … Read more

By Robert Ross 2019 was a good year for stocks. US stocks have rocketed 28% this year. This is the second largest annual gain since 1999. And the tenth straight year stocks have climbed higher. This has a lot of investors worried that stocks could tank soon. But this bull market is far from over. My research shows … Read more

by Charles Hugh-Smith After 11 years of “the Fed is the market” expansion, the Fed has now reduced its bloated balance sheet by 6.7%. This is normal, right? So here we are in Year 11 of the longest economic expansion/ stock market bubble in recent history, and by any measure, the hour is getting late, to … Read more