Suffolk University/USA Today Poll: Impeached or not, Trump leads his Democratic rivals for another term

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#NEW National General Election: Trump 44 (+3) Biden 41 Trump 44 (+5) Sanders 39 Trump 45 (+8) Warren 37 Trump 43 (+9) Bloomberg 34 Trump 43 (+10) Buttigieg 33 Suffolk University/USA Today Poll #NEW National General Election: Trump 44 (+3)Biden 41 Trump 44 (+5)Sanders 39 Trump 45 (+8)Warren 37 Trump 43 (+9)Bloomberg 34 Trump 43 … Read more

Vox Media hit hard by regulations they themselves championed, hundreds of their freelancers affected

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Vox Media fires hundreds of freelance writers over California ‘gig economy’ law — and they’re tweeting angrily about it. Hundreds of freelance writers in California got very bad news just ahead of Christmas when Vox Media informed them that they would be losing their jobs because of a new “gig economy” law intended to target Uber and … Read more

Bailing Out Bankers Is All the Rage Again

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(Bloomberg Opinion) — After the financial crisis, Europe’s political leaders put together a complex set of rules to make it harder for future governments to bail out banks. That system is looking so full of holes that one wonders what the point of it is. Two episodes in a fortnight show that taxpayers are still very … Read more

Definition of insanity. Junk bond spreads (ex-energy) now at their lowest since June of 2007 at record corporate leverage!

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Definition of insanity. Junk bond spreads (ex-energy) now at their lowest since June of 2007 at record corporate leverage! pic.twitter.com/VgMDx140wC — Otavio (Tavi) Costa (@TaviCosta) December 16, 2019 Apple stock jumps on huge sale drop in China Boeing shares jump on production halt in 2020 — Russian Market (@runews) December 17, 2019 According to chart … Read more

Tazewell County Virginia Forms Militia To Protect Its Sheriffs Who Will Not Confiscate

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by SP The Organic Prepper, Daisy Luther, offers an update on the Virginia effort to ban military style rifles.  The county of Tazewell, Virginia, has voted to form its own citizen militia. Tazewell County is taking this threat to the Second Amendment very seriously. Not only did they pass a Second Amendment Sanctuary resolution, but they’ve … Read more

College Enrollment Skids for 8th Year in a Row in 2019, But Student Loans Skyrocket. What Gives?

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter The stunning decline of men in the student headcount. With college costs blowing through the roof, with “luxury student housing” and not so luxury “student housing” having become asset classes – including, of course, CMBS, now in rough waters – for global investors, with textbook publishers gouging students to the nth degree, and … Read more

BOOM! Dem Rep. BLASTED at Town Hall Over Trump Impeachment

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https://100percentfedup.com/dem-rep-i… 100% Fed Up reports, Dem. Rep. Abigail Spanberger held a town hall on Sunday that was a doozy but not in a good way for this West Virginia Democrat. People are furious! Video from the town hall shows people yelling that President Trump is innocent. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://100percentfedup.com/dem-rep-i…

‘Journalism is dying’: US govt ‘has its tentacles’ in every part of media

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Stories that challenge establishment narratives go unreported because the media has been co-opted by the US government, a former Newsweek reporter has alleged, after his editors blocked him from writing about recent OPCW leaks. Tareq Haddad announced his resignation from Newsweek last week, claiming that his editors had shot down his attempt to report on … Read more

Virginia Activates Official Militia in Response to Gun Confiscation Threats. Lawmakers Want To Make This a Felony.

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by Daisy Luther As Virginia lawmakers prepare to pass a draconian gun control bill that would make most guns in the state illegal, Tazewell County has formed an official active militia as per the Second Amendment to the Constitution. A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of … Read more

Repo Madness Is Global? BIS Warns of Looming EU Repo Problems, Doug Noland Repo Analysis

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Doug Noland (Credit Bubble Bulletin) put out an interesting piece on Repo Madness over the weekend. Here’s some excerpts: “U.S. securities/“repo” finance is clearly a major source of liquidity for the markets as well as the real economy. Yet this Bubble Dynamic is undoubtedly global, with international securities finance instrumental to inflating securities and asset … Read more

Italian Bank Still in Trouble

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by Martin Armstrong Italy is again helping a troubled bank. The government approved an emergency ordinance to support the Volksbank Popolare di Bari on Sunday and provided grants of up to 900 million euros. Volksbank Popolare di Bari was founded in 1960 as a cooperative bank. However, funds from the Ministry of Finance will not … Read more