Is Trump Really About to Attack Venezuela?

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by Ron Paul Last week Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ordered the last of the US diplomats out of Venezuela, saying their presence was a “constraint” on US policy toward the country. The wording seemed intended to convey the idea that the US is about to launch military action to place a Washington-backed, self-appointed politician to … Read more

It’s Only Bad For Our Democracy When Republicans Do It

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Democratic Superstars Get Away with Questioning the Integrity of Elections. Andrew Gillum and Stacey Abrams were 2018 runner-up candidates for governor in the country’s third- and ninth-largest states, are considered “rising stars” in the Democratic Party, and are engaging in “horrifying,” “shocking” rhetoric that is “threatening our democracy.” That’s according to Hillary Clinton and Tim … Read more

The name of the game is division. The ruling class stays in power by dividing the masses. They do this by pointing out generational differences, gender, & sexual orientation, but racial division is their most used and most effective weapon.

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by R3gusPhilbun And over the last 5-6 years, they have been “turning up the heat” so to speak. I believe the masses have a natural inclination to befriend one another and work as a group to develop a convenient, safe, and fair way to satisfy our needs in a team effort. However, the ruling class, … Read more

Why Trump’s Tariffs Will make Goods CHEAPER

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by Spencer P Morrison, NEE From Why Trump’s Tariffs Won’t Cost You a Penny: The big reason why so many Americans oppose tariffs is because they don’t understand them.  They think tariffs are just another sales tax, and assume that imposing a 10 percent tariff on a product will increase said product’s price by 10 percent.  That’s … Read more

Paris Riots Take Over the Champs-Elysees

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by Martin Armstrong Paris on Saturday saw a second major uprising of Yellow Vest protests. Many are now arguing that the rioting on the Champs-Elysees has been instigated by extreme elements that have infiltrated the movement to further a second French Revolution. Some 20 stores were looted or set on fire as well as one bank. Needless … Read more

The Justice Democrats

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by Martin Armstrong People have no idea that the Justice Democrats really stand for injustice. Their platform is the subjugation of everyone who disagrees and to force their beliefs upon the rest of society. They were founded by Kyle Kulinski (born 1988), who is at least an American, and Zack Exley (born December 5, 1969) who was the Chief Revenue … Read more

The stock market today is eerily similar to 1937

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by Troy As the stock market rallies, it never ceases to amaze me how popular crash-analogues can be. The 1937 analogue has been quite popular recently, constantly shared and reshared on social media and trading blogs. Go here to understand our fundamentals-driven long term outlook. Let’s determine the stock market’s most probable medium term direction by … Read more

US manufacturing, and growth forecasts, LA port traffic, Japan trade

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by WARREN MOSLER Decelerating global trade hitting home: U.S. manufacturing sector slowing as economy loses steam (Reuters) The Fed said manufacturing production dropped 0.4 percent last month. January was revised up to show output falling 0.5 percent instead of slumping 0.9 percent. Production at factories increased 1.0 percent in February from a year ago. Motor vehicles … Read more

Attitude Adjustment re: Emergency Fund

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by HuntersMarkTheDM   Hey y’all, I just need a little nudge to get my brain in the right frame. I received a very nice annual bonus. YAY! Part of that was going to be a “fully” funded $2K emergency fund (we’re still in “turn the titanic” mode on funding it). The money was to hit … Read more

Unicorns to launch Initial Public Offerings with massive losses – Lyft ($20 billion), Uber ($100 billion)

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Lyft reported revenue of $2.2 billion and losses of $911 million in 2018. Lyft aims to value itself at about $20 billion Lyft Touts Revenue, Values in Video Pitch to Investor Prospects (Bloomberg) Roadshow for $2.1 billion IPO kicks off with drone shots, funk CFO lingers on revenue growth metrics — losses not so much … Read more

Market is going to break at some point. like physically snap in half

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https://twitter.com/hks55/status/1107774076368510977 It's never been lower at 0.4% YoY…. [M1 for China] pic.twitter.com/cuNwSEYSW1 — Peter Ryan (@Pulpisafiction) March 18, 2019 https://twitter.com/MacroTechnicals/status/1107959041047834626 Oil rally looks done on so many levels. pic.twitter.com/UvJQOv1KJO — Puff Dragon (@PuffDragon11) March 18, 2019

Almost one-third of Chinese cities are shrinking – but developers told to keep building

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via scmp: Satellite imagery monitored the intensity of night lights in more than 3,300 cities and towns between 2013 and 2016 In 28 per cent of cases, the intensity of lights had dimmed, but urban planners are still assuming China’s urbanisation will continue, research shows The perception that China’s urbanisation is still in full swing is … Read more

US Freight Volume Drops

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter The services sector better hang in there. Now it’s the third month in a row, and the red flag is getting more visible and a little harder to ignore about the goods-based economy: Freight shipment volume in the US across all modes of transportation – truck, rail, air, and barge – … Read more

ISPs in AU and NZ start censoring the internet without legal precedent: A full list of blocked websites can be found below: voat, 4chan, 8ch, liveleak, archive, Bitchute, zerohedge, kiwifarms

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via privateinternetaccess: Several websites including Voat, ZeroHedge, Archive.is, LiveLeak, and others have been blocked in Australia and New Zealand in direct contravention to civil liberties that citizens are supposed to have. The biggest of these internet providers, Telstra, has published a blog post defending their censorship action – even acknowledging that free speech has been sacrificed by company … Read more

Emergency Savings

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by boringbluesocks   I realize that this decision is highly personal, there is no right or wrong answer, and there is boatloads of information out there on the web about this. I’ve done a substantial amount of reading on it, but I am still interested in other people’s opinions. Here are my details: My husband … Read more

Obesity vs Median Income for Class

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by traxtar3 Taking a data analytics course. Needed to compile and visually represent something from a very large data set. I compiled the obesity and diabetes and compared them to the median household income per county. This is just the initial plot. I’ve never used seaborn before and I got excited. Next is highlight the … Read more

[medical][insurance] Got billed as an ER visit at an urgent care. Spent 11 months trying to misbill us, we finally got the bill and its outrageous.

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by sadomasochrist   Hoping to get pointed in the right general direction. We had an urgent care visit for a strep throat that we got billed $1500+ on. They’re billing (edit) as a “billing modifier” even though the place is an urgent care. Their explanation is that “after 6, we charge it as an ER … Read more