They’re More Trump-focused: FBI’s ‘Basic Errors’ are Systemic…. JACOB SULLUM: The Problems Revealed By The DOJ Inspector General Go Far Beyond “Errors” And “Sloppiness.”

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Horowitz Examining Past FISA Applications to Determine if FBI’s ‘Basic Errors’ are Systemic. Reminder: https://twitter.com/JohnWHuber/status/1204544962366496770 JACOB SULLUM: The FBI’s Systematic Dishonesty: The problems revealed by the DOJ inspector general go far beyond “errors” and “sloppiness.” Former FBI Director James Comey initially portrayed last week’s damning report on the bureau’s investigation of alleged links between the Trump campaign and … Read more

RELIABILITY: Amazon Blocked Sellers From Using FedEx And Now We Know Why.

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via Forbes: A supply chain software company called Convey has done an analysis on 2.5 billion shipping events relating to tens of millions of packages shipped from over 500 thousand locations since Thanksgiving and the results are troubling to any FedEx shareholder: FedEx on-time delivery performance has dropped to 68.3% from 77.5% in the same … Read more

William Barr is literally the personification of the Deep State, interesting that’s overlooked when was handpicked to be the nation’s top lawyer

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by thered00 He was born into an elite family in New York City. He attended literally some of the most exclusive and expensive private schools in the world growing up. His parents were professors at an Ivy League school. He attended an Ivy league school then went to law school in DC before the end … Read more

While Americans Drown in Financial Despair, the Fed Celebrates

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By John Mauldin The Federal Reserve System is supposed to be independent. But it’s not. And as much as Donald Trump doesn’t like it, the Fed shouldn’t follow the president’s orders. The Fed operates under a legal mandate from Congress. Its monetary policy role is “to promote maximum employment, stable prices and moderate long-term interest rates.” … Read more

“Pig Ebola” Is Now Running Wild In Indonesia, And It Has Already Killed About One-Fourth Of The World’s Pigs

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by Michael Snyder The global pig population is being absolutely decimated by a disease that does not have a cure.  African Swine Fever, also commonly referred to as “Pig Ebola”, is raging out of control in dozens of countries all over the globe.  It has a mortality rate of close to 100 percent, and once … Read more

Skyrocketing Costs Will Pop All the Bubbles

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by Charles Hugh-Smith The reckoning is coming, and everyone who counted on “eternal growth of borrowing” to stave off the reckoning is in for a big surprise. We’ve used a simple trick to keep the status quo from imploding for the past 11 years: borrow whatever it takes to keep paying the skyrocketing costs for housing, … Read more

Jersey City joins Newark in suing de Blasio’s homeless relocation plan

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Warren Wilhelm Jr. https://nypost.com/2019/12/17/jersey-cit…tion-plan/ Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop announced Tuesday his city is joining a federal lawsuit challenging a de Blasio administration program that pays for working-class homeless New Yorkers to move across the Hudson River. Fulop made the announcement as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio laid out a new $100 million … Read more

The 20 Best-Performing Stocks of the Decade

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by visualcapitalist Hindsight is 20/20. It can be incredibly difficult to pick the “next big stock” in the moment, but looking back gives us clarity on where we could have reaped the highest rewards. While some of the decade’s chart-toppers—like Netflix and Amazon—are household names, other stocks may come as a surprise. Today’s visualization reveals the … Read more

One of the best accounts of the NY Fed and it’s ties to Wall Street over and above it’s stated mandate….

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via wallstreetonparade: The Federal Reserve Bank of New York (New York Fed) seems intent on stonewalling Wall Street On Parade from receiving some very basic information on JPMorgan Chase’s rapid drawdown this year on its liquid reserves at the New York Fed – a matter which some on Wall Street have fingered as a contributing cause … Read more

Global stocks vs global QE

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Global stocks vs global QE H/T @biancoresearch pic.twitter.com/5sajILlOpH — M/1_LP (@MI_Investments) December 18, 2019 👇 #CentralBanks #economy #Fed https://t.co/nhBO8LDV60 — Tuomas Malinen (@mtmalinen) December 18, 2019  

Danielle DiMartino Booth on impeachment affect on markets and the roll the Federal Reserve is taking

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Fox Business, Released on 12/18/19 Danielle DiMartino Booth spent nine years as an advisor to Richard W. Fisher at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Danielle left the Fed in 2015 to found Money Strong, LLC, an economic consulting firm and launched a weekly economic newsletter She is the author of Fed Up: An Insider’s Take … Read more

The Founding Fathers Warned Us, The [CB] Must Go

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1VOdJVGAW8 The founding fathers knew that having a [CB] control the currency in the US was not a benefit to the people. The [CB] is a burden on the economy, it does not allow people to thrive, it allows a small portion of the population to reach the top, the majority of the people struggle … Read more