FedEx CEO on Global Reality: “The Stock Market Is Very Bullish, But The Industrial Economy Doesn’t Reflect Any Growth At All Worldwide”…..There is reality… and then there is the stock market.

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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

Where’s The Inflation? It’s In Stocks, Real Estate, And Higher Education

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by Ryan McMaken via Mises In my days before I worked for the Mises Institute, I had a colleague who knew I associated with Austrian-school economists. In the wake of the bailouts and quantitative easing that followed the 2008 financial crisis, he’d sometimes crack “where’s all that inflation you Austrians keep talking about?” But then, in the very same … Read more

Americans Are Not “Free to Choose” Anymore

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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

More left BIAS: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Suggests Senators Can be Disqualified from Upcoming Impeachment Trial if they are Not Impartial

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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! Donald Trump has raised over 5M dollars (still growing) today as Americans use their wallet to show support

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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

SEC proposes allowing more investors access to private companies

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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

China Removes U.S. Oil Products From Tariff List

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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

NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW! Laura Ingraham: Joe Biden Doesn’t Deserve a Pass on Ukrainian Corruption Just Because He’s a Presidential Candidate

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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…. Two-thirds of voters say Democrats Want to Impeach Trump More Than Help Americans.

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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 First Suicide Attempt Goes Missing

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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

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