by Ruby Henley This is the reason for the wall! A California police officer was shot and killed day after Christmas when he stopped a car without a license plate. He was not an ordinary police officer, as he was …
by Michael Snyder Is the mainstream media overhyping the economic impact of the government shutdown for political purposes? Of course they are. Once upon a time the mainstream media in the United States at least attempted to maintain a facade …
by Michael Snyder At this moment the race for the Democratic nomination in 2020 appears to be completely wide open, but there is one potential candidate lurking in the shadows that could change everything. For a moment, I would like …
by Charles Hugh-Smith To get a good seat at the banquet of consequences, the owner of capital has to shift his/her capital into scarce forms for which there is demand. The Banquet of Consequences is being laid out, and so …
May caves, offeres Brexit Deal concessions, this deal again is not for the people it is for the central bank, it needs to be scrapped. The holiday season did not go as well as everyone thought, Macy’s and now Kohl’s …
Americans without health insurance are too often forced to go to emergency rooms, where costs are drastically inflated. Now, New York City has launched a program to provide all residents with healthcare and a primary care provider. RT America’s Trinity …
by Lynette Zang of ITM Trading For the first time since 2008, no junk bonds were issued in December 2018. “This is clearly more than year-end jitters,” said Guy LeBas, a strategist at Janney Montgomery Scott. “What we’re seeing now is pretty typical …
NYT makes a major correction with the story about Manafort, still no Russian collusion. Trump hits the press hard with fake reporting. The [DS] is now going after Trump tax returns, Grassley blocks. Lindsey Graham says Mueller and Barr best …
Watch the latest video at foxbusiness.com Forty percent of the world’s jobs could be done by machines in as soon as 15 years, according to a top expert on artificial intelligence (AI). Kai Fu Lee, a pioneer in AI who also works in …
#BREAKING: Defense department officials say the Pentagon is prepared to give $3 billion to fund construction of the President's southern border wall, if he were to declare a national emergency. #OANN — Jenn Franco (@jennfranconews) January 10, 2019 Senate Judiciary …
by Jesse “What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.” Robert Kennedy …
TradersChoice.net, Released on 1/10/19 Gregory Mannarino started his financial career working for the securities and trading arm of the now defunct Bear Stearns before the dot-com bubble. He is an active trader of the capital markets and has published several …
Jacob Wohl Verified account @JacobAWohl Sources saying Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will resign tomorrow https://twitter.com/JacobAWohl/status/1083494842838073344 Michael Verified account @freedom_moates > Replying to @JacobAWohl We must be on the same rumor mill. I’m hearing the same thing and also that the …
Well, that didn’t take long. And whatever happened to the Eurozone’s new bail-in rule? By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. Italy’s government, in its eighth month in power, has already bailed out a bankrupt bank, mid-sized Banca …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Normally, this would be ironic: The Fed doesn’t need to borrow; it creates money when it needs some. So it wouldn’t pay interest. But these are not normal times. The Fed reported its preliminary results this morning for …
by Dennis Miller When the Fed bailed out the banks at the expense of seniors and savers, interest rates tanked while investors sought out solid dividend-paying stocks. Interest rates are now rising, and the Fed remains hell-bent with continuing their aggressive …
Just watched an excellent video by Stefan Molyneux titled “The truth about Trump’s Wall Speach” where Stefan gives some hard facts about immigrants and welfare. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1Nmsc7BQAk&feature=youtu.be&app=desktop Welfare use varies among immigrant groups. Households headed by immigrants from Central America …
via WSJ: No U.S. company rated below investment grade has issued bonds since November—the longest stretch without a high-yield sale in more than two decades—reflecting investors’ concerns about market volatility and the durability of the long-running expansion. December was the …
via Reuters: NEW YORK (Reuters) – HSBC Holdings Plc has agreed to pay $30 million to settle litigation by investors who accused 11 big banks of rigging the roughly $9 trillion government agency bond market from 2009 to 2015. The settlement …
via Bloomberg: hat just happened? I last wrote one of these newsletters on Dec. 20, the day after the last Federal Reserve monetary meeting. (More on my disappearance later in this commentary.) Since that date, stocks have staged a spectacular decline worldwide, …
Morgan Stanley's quant team calculates that every $20bn decline in the Fed's MBS holdings shaves 0.37% off the S&P 500. pic.twitter.com/SBfKycKeLo — Robin Wigglesworth (@RobinWigg) January 10, 2019 this is probably not good pic.twitter.com/PxYfrnEczx — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) January 10, 2019 …
earnings season is starting:– Apple guidance cut– Macy's guidance cut– Delta guidance cut– Ford firing thousands– Jaguar firing thousands — zerohedge (@zerohedge) January 10, 2019 Apple cut revenue guidance (for the first time in 16 years) Macy’s cut profit guidance, sending …
by Geoffrey Grider Since the launch of its DNA testing service in 2007, genomics giant 23andMe has convinced more than 5 million people to fill a plastic tube with half a teaspoon of saliva. In case it hasn’t dawned on you yet, you are a commodity …
PJW you RULE dude! The left despises the working class. h/t Group Captain Lionel Mandrake
by Thinker How can Elizabeth Warren, who just announced to the nation her intent to run for president in 2020, bash one of the top politicians in Washington D.C.? Mrs. Warren had the audacity to call out one of South …
PHILIP KLEIN: Confessions of a Russiagate agnostic. Being agnostic about Russiagate is challenging for a political commentator. Russia has dominated the news for the past two years, and people on each side have passionate and confidently held views. It seems either …
Josh Sigurdson talks with author and economic analyst John Sneisen, a Norwegian born and raised to talk about the Nordic Model praised throughout the world as well as most notably the country of Sweden as people claim it to be …
C. Douglas Golden for the Conservative Tribune reports, Did you vote for President Donald Trump? Did you know that you’re an unhappy, uneducated alcoholic who’s possibly going to die early from an overdose or liver disease? And that you voted …
Kassy Dillon for the Daily Wire reports, Former Republican U.S. Representative Mia Love announced on Monday that she will be joining CNN as a commentator and made her first appearance on “New Day,” in which she criticized the Trump administration’s …
Via Marketwatch Even if the economy is on a roll, many Americans aren’t feeling the benefit. Real wages effectively declined in 2018, according to figures from the PayScale Index, a formula from the Seattle-based salary comparison site. PayScale said the median …