By John Mauldin When you write for a wide audience, no matter what you say, or how carefully you say it, some people will misunderstand. Sometimes it’s amusing. Reading through my feedback (and I do read all of it), I get called both heartless capitalist and bleeding-heart socialist in reaction to the same article. In … Read more
Ruth Bader Ginsburg spoke with the BBC this week about the upcoming impeachment trial in the US Senate. During her questioning Justice Ginsburg suggested that US Senators could be disqualified from the proceedings if they are not impartial. Justice Ginsburg: “The House indicts, and the Senate tries. Should a trier be impartial? Of course, that’s the … Read more
Incredible fundraising numbers! @realDonaldTrump has raised over 5M dollars (still growing) today as Americans use their wallet to show support against @SpeakerPelosi’s impeachment hoax! Thanks Dems! You morons. LOL Incredible fundraising numbers!@realDonaldTrump has raised over 5M dollars (still growing) today as Americans use their wallet to show support against @SpeakerPelosi’s impeachment hoax! Click the link … Read more
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-sec-investors/u-s-sec-proposes-allowing-more-investors-access-to-private-companies-idUSKBN1YM245 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday proposed changes to its decades-old definition of a professional investor in order to allow more Americans to buy shares in private companies. The agency hopes the changes will boost retail investors’ access to the swelling pool of companies that are staying private for … Read more
By Irina Slav A few days after the United States and China announced a phase-one trade deal, Beijing announced it had removed six chemicals and oil derivatives from its list of tariffed U.S. imports. The exemption will be in force for 12 months, ending on December 26, 2020, Reuters reports, citing a statement by the Chinese … Read more
There is no provision under US Law that makes it a crime to let the crimes of a political opponent go if you have the knowledge of them. It is, a crime to have knowledge of a crime under US Law, and not report it. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/4# Watch the latest video at foxnews.com Democrats have … Read more
Jonathan Turley: “You Could Impeach Every Living President” By The Standards Of Trump Impeachment. CBS ANCHOR: What impact do you think this could have on future presidents? JONATHAN TURLEY: It is going to have a significant impact, I think it will be a largely dysfunctional one. The problem I have is that this sets the … Read more
Surveillance video of Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide attempt in jail has vanished, prosecutors revealed Wednesday Officials could not locate the footage from outside Epstein’s cell at Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City from his suicide attempt on July 23 Authorities have no explanation for how or why the footage went missing In that attempt Epstein … Read more
Code for sour grapes: http://archive.ph/girmi
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) appears to be considering an idea Democrats have floated for several days of holding back the articles of impeachment to exercise leverage over the Senate and the president. She declined formally to transmit the articles to the Senate on Wednesday evening after the House voted to impeach President … Read more
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
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
by The Phoenix The market is telling us that the impeachment process will go nowhere. Very early into his Presidency, Donald Trump branded the stock market’s returns as illustrating the success of his policies. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin even went so far as to state that the White House views the stock market as a “report … Read more
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
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
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
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
By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. Companies in the S&P 500 index bought back $176 billion of their own shares in the third quarter, down 13.7% from the third quarter last year, and down 21.1% from the record share-buyback mania in Q4 2018, according to the S&P Dow Jones Indices. But hey, since the beginning of 2012, these companies … Read more
Tim Picciott of The Liberty Advisor talks with author and economic analyst at WAM John Sneisen about the Federal Reserve’s belief that they can print forever and can end recessions. The fact of the matter is, we’re already in a recession papered over, but there’s a lot more to it than that. Tim and John … Read more
