We’ve seen the horrible FBI abuse revealed by the IG report issued by Michael Horowitz. But what it revealed was not just the specific abuse but an attitude under former Director James Comey and deputy director Andrew McCabe that allowed such things to happen, of people thinking they were entitled to do what they want … Read more
by DCG Lawmakers have to find a way to promote themselves in order to get re-elected. One way is to make new laws that they can tout in re-election fundraising efforts. Or they find a way to bring in more “revenue” so they can give voters more free stuff, courtesy of taxpayers. Along with legalized recreational … Read more
By Julianne Geiger As the year draws to a close, the Brent and WTI oil benchmarks are trading at $66.55 and $61.54, respectively. From $60.65 to $64.50, investment bank and analyst projections for Brent crude prices next year are starting to come in. Most forecasts had the luxury of OPEC’s deeper production cuts under the … Read more
Every day, consumers are bombarded with countless advertisements and seemingly valuable retail offers. Reasonable consumer behavior is based on certain principles that ensure one’s money is well-spent. Here are five useful budgeting tips provided by Rabato. Keep Track of Bargains Effectively Today, hot deals and discounts from retailers may be found in a … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeF4VEPFUUw The [DS] is now pushing their agenda with the fake impeachment, they need one of the three cases in the SC, if they cannot get this their entire case falls apart. [JB] is now panicking. Barr is now ready to expose the [DS] agenda and Haspel is now working with Durham. SR is now … Read more
by Michael Snyder A lot of people seem to have forgotten that we were literally on the brink of war with Iran earlier this year. Back in June, President Trump cancelled a major U.S. bombing mission against Iran at the last minute, and things seemed to settle down quite a bit since that time. But now … Read more
via issuesinsights: Congressional Democrats just betrayed America’s working class. The House recently passed a series of bills banning offshore energy development, a significant source of employment for blue-collar Americans. Fueled by environmental fervor, these lawmakers are willing to sacrifice opportunities for their most important constituents. There could be up to 90 billion barrels of oil and 328 trillion cubic feet of gas buried … Read more
UNEXPECTEDLY! Rank-and-File Workers Get Bigger Raises. Wages for rank-and-file workers are rising at the quickest pace in more than a decade, even faster than for bosses, a sign that the labor market has tightened sufficiently to convey bigger increases to lower-paid employees. Gains for those workers have accelerated much of this year, a time when the … Read more
Typical idiot leftists. They’re calling on the employer to fix the problem created when they called on the state to hassle the employer. Idiots. A message from the SB Nation MLB communities. Last week we learned that our peers at the California-based SB Nation communities would face major changes under California Assembly Bill 5. You … Read more
Wayne Jett is an accomplished lawyer who has argued cases in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. Jett is also an expert on the Federal Reserve. Jett thinks the globalist-cabal may force a debt reset sooner than later. Jett says, “I prefer to put it off to 2021 if possible, but those that are desperate, … Read more
by Charles Hugh-Smith If we set out to design a highly addictive platform that optimized the most toxic, destructive aspects of human nature, we’d eventually come up with social media. Social problems arise when initially harmless addictions explode in popularity, and economic problems arise when the long-term costs of the addictions start adding up. Political problems … Read more
By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. The Dallas Fed’s Forth Quarter Energy Survey, released today, portrays an industry that is turning increasingly somber. The data is based on responses of executives (names are not disclosed) of 170 energy companies – 111 exploration and production (E&P) companies; and 59 oil field services companies – located or headquartered in the Dallas … Read more
https://m.rasmussenreports.com/public_co…gop_senate Voters View Impeachment As DOA in GOP Senate Even Democrats consider it highly unlikely that the Republican-run U.S. Senate will remove President Trump from office now that he has been impeached by the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that just 24% of all Likely U.S. … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj6sOJpFuew The economic collapse is already here. It’s already here; they’re just not televising it. There are not telling you about it. If you look at central bankers, they’ve never been right about any stock market crash, any depression, any recessions ever. Bank failures are happening all over America. The bank collapse has started, … Read more
via wallstreetonparade A week before Christmas when Americans were focused on either the impeachment proceedings or holiday preparations, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) quietly released its quarterly report on the trading and derivative activities of Wall Street’s casino banks. It contained a humdinger in, literally, red ink. The report showed that Goldman … Read more
by Not_reddits A look at #earnings for January 2020https://t.co/lObOE0dgsr $AMZN $AAPL $AMD $TSLA $NFLX $FB $MSFT $BABA $CMC $INFO $STZ $BBBY $TEUM $WBA $TWTR $JPM $SNAP $LW $BAC $BA $SHOP $MCD $UNH $APHA $FCEL $PYPL $INTC $GE $LEN $CLF $C $V $MA $BYND $DAL $SBUX $GS $ABBV $JNJ $DPZ $WFC pic.twitter.com/8HlGi03s3G — Earnings Whispers (@eWhispers) … Read more
"Is everybody in?"……Hedge fund exposure to US equities "exploding" $SPY pic.twitter.com/3nFelZxNwR — LongConvexity (@LONGCONVEXITY) December 27, 2019 Pretty obvious how the New Year will unfold. https://t.co/4vRN8Y2TFR — Albert Edwards (@albertedwards99) December 27, 2019 It's just "technical". pic.twitter.com/JROpclkVHJ — Randy Woodward (@TheBondFreak) December 27, 2019 Fed Is Expanding Its Balance Sheet At Fastest Pace … Read more
Authored by Caitlin Johnstone via CaitlinJohnstone.com, This is getting really, really, really weird. WikiLeaks has published yet another set of leaked internal documents from within the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) adding even more material to the mountain of evidence that we’ve been lied to about an alleged chemical weapons attack in Douma, Syria last year which resulted … Read more
by David Haggith Did you know Dr. Frankenstein created a monster that stays alive to this day by eating zombies? Neither did the zombies. Neither, apparently, did Dr. Frankenstein. In fact, the zombies, being braindead as zombies are, do not realize that they are also keeping alive the diabolical doctor who made the monster that is … Read more
from Zero Hedge As Millennials rage against older generations of Americans, they appear to have forgotten one thing: their own deplorable credit score, or as Experian notes, “what many people might not know: Millennials also have one of the lowest average credit scores of any generation.” As the following chart from Deutsche Bank shows, the average FICO score … Read more