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as employment downturn continues – fed money printing props of stocks pic.twitter.com/eeBw4oOluL — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) December 19, 2019 Cyclical employment growth is being ignored. Represents over 1/4 of total jobs and still trending lower w/hours worked still moving lower. pic.twitter.com/z2SHnpBwxx — Eric Basmajian (@EPBResearch) December 18, 2019 powell couldn't let cccs implode on christmas week … Read more

via Zerohedge: Yesterday we covered Fedex’s latest disastrous earnings report, in which the company disappointed Wall Street yet again reporting a huge miss to expectations while slashing guidance. Naturally, analysts – who were once again wrong in expecting a rebound for the logistics bellwether – were quick to slam the results (it’s the company’s fault, not theirs … Read more

by Eustace Muffins This was never planned to ever go to the Senate. This was solely to put it on record that Trump has been impeached by the House(which does hold some weight). In doing this desperate impeachment process by the House, The Dems now have their only weapon. A political weapon, that is infinitely malleable … Read more

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

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

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

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 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