Brief History of Financial Manias and Fed Doom Loop

Brief History of Financial ManiasTulip Bulbs – 1637South Sea Company Shares – 1720British Railway Shares – 1846U.S. Stocks – 1929U.S Stocks – 1987U.S. Stocks – 2000U.S. Stocks – 2008Cryptocurrencies – 2018U.S. Stocks – 2019-2020 — John Tuld (@BradHuston) November 28, 2019 Fed Doom Loop -Fed lowers interest rates. -Stocks soar. -Bond prices soar. -Under performing … Read more

Rudy Giuliani on Twitter: “The swamp loves investigating corruption, except for their own. @realDonaldTrump has absolutely nothing to hide. But do Democrats?”

The swamp loves investigating corruption, except for their own.@realDonaldTrump has absolutely nothing to hide. But do Democrats? — Rudy W. Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) November 29, 2019 The Schiff frame-up based on no admissible and the trampling of rights to counsel, call witnesses, confrontation, cross examination are worse than the old McCarthy Communist hearings. Republicans stood up … Read more

70% of Immigrant Households are on Welfare

via breitbart: More than 7-in-10 households headed by immigrants in the state of California are on taxpayer-funded welfare, a new study reveals. The latest Census Bureau data analyzed by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) finds that about 72 percent of households headed by noncitizens and immigrants use one or more forms of taxpayer-funded welfare programs in California — the number one … Read more

US Becomes Net Exporter Of Crude + Product

Telefonica, with operations in Venezuela, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Mexico, is on the verge of “junk,” and the ECBholds some of its debt.  By Nick Corbishley, for WOLF STREET: Telefonica, the telecommunications and internet giant headquartered in Spain and with operations in numerous countries and burdened by enormous debts, has announced plans to stage a historic retreat from one of its … Read more

British government to decide how children can decorate their bedrooms

by Simon Black Are you ready for this week’s absurdity? Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, your finances, and your prosperity. Crackdown on homeschooling coming across Great Britain A few weeks ago we talked about how the Labour Party in Great Britain wants to … Read more

74% of economists in survey see US recession by end of 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — A strong majority, 74%, of U.S. business economists appear sufficiently concerned about the risks of some of President Donald Trump’s economic policies that they expect a recession in the U.S. by the end of 2021. The economists surveyed by the National Association for Business Economics, in a report released Monday, mostly didn’t … Read more

Food prices are skyrocketing, and economists are worried

Weather shocks, higher oil prices and a sharp depreciation in the US dollar could make food expensive, warn experts. Pork prices have been surging in China as African swine fever ravaged supply, while India has been struggling with eye-watering onion prices due to extended monsoons [File: Dania Maxwell/Bloomberg] Food prices are climbing fast in the … Read more

‘Blue’ Virginia senate bill to ban firearm and martial arts instruction

by Dr. Eowyn Virginia was considered a “swing” state in presidential elections, but the state became a solid “blue” on November 6, 2019. With Democrats already holding the state’s three highest offices (governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general), after two years of Republican control in the state House and Senate by single-seat majorities, the voters of Virginia … Read more

Seattle repeat offender attacks man outside courthouse; was just released from jail earlier this month

by DCG Like many progressive-run cities on the west coast, Seattle has serious problems: homelessness, criminal activities openly committed on the streets and attacks by repeat offenders. See the following: Homeless harassing King County Courthouse workers: “It’s a reflection of the courthouse location” How many convictions does it take for Seattle City Attorney to place a homeless criminal in jail … Read more

More ILLEGAL SPYING, WIRETAPPING, EX-CIA GANGSTER Cofer Black Taps Giulanis PHONE CALLS

Burisma’s Cofer Black Taps CIA Contacts To Stop Giuliani From Talking To Prosecutor “Burisma is the money laundering business of the Dems and C_A. The Dems and C_A are complicit in the Crowdstrike and Burisma cover up.” This really is worth the 8 minutes to listen to. This is the NEW EVIDENCE the IMPEACHMENT FREAK SHOW DemonRats … Read more

Why Are Oil Markets Suddenly So Volatile?

By Josh Owens Market Movers – The newsfeed this week has been inundated with updates on Aramco’s IPO developments. On the retail side, the Aramco IPO has reached $7.21 billion in subscriptions, bringing the total value for the IPO to somewhere near $25.6 billion. For the institutional side, which was a little slower going, it … Read more

WEAK HAND: Beijing’s threats over bill supporting Hong Kong ’laughable,’ China expert says.

Watch the latest video at foxnews.com via Foxnews: Gordon Chang, the author of “The Coming Collapse of China,” said Thursday that Beijing’s threats of taking “countermeasures” over the U.S. law backing the protests in Hong Kongare “laughable” and that the nation is in no position to “anger its best customer” as its economy slumps. Beijing was quick to admonish President Trump … Read more

A reminder that the DNC and the Mainstream media rigged the 2016 primary against Bernie Sanders

by BerniesSublime 1. Clinton Staff hosts private “off-the-record cocktail party” with 38 “influential” reporters, journalists, editors, and anchors (from 16 different mainstream media outlets including CNN, NBC, CBS, NYT, MSNBC, & more) with the stated goal of “framing the race.” 2. Donna Brazile (CNN contributor at the time, and DNC Chairman during the primary) leaked CNN town … Read more

ASSOCIATED PRESS: Swing-State Voters Skeptical of Impeachment. Probably due to the lack of any discernible high crimes and misdemeanors.

Voters in Wisconsin, a key 2020 swing state, are uninterested in the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, according to a report from the Associated Press. “Everything they say, it’s so repetitive. To me, it’s like they’re beating their heads against the wall,” a retired factory worker and Trump supporter told the AP. “There’s so much information … Read more

The last thing anyone needs to hear when calling a suicide hotline is ‘your call may be recorded.’

Since September, the last thing a caller to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline hears before being connected to a counselor is this: “Your call may be monitored or recorded for quality assurance purposes.” As a Lifeline counselor, this alarms me. Suicide is the 10th-leading cause of death in the U.S., and rates have increased in … Read more

Dollars, Debt, & Risk Go Vertical | Rob Kirby

Rob Kirby interviewed by Dunagun Kaiser on Reluctant Preppers Following the global financial recession of 2009, central bankers accelerated debt/money stimulus to crisis levels, even though they didn’t admit the massive extent of their actions that we are still on the hook to pay for. But the bigger secret you’re not being told is that market and policy interventions … Read more

No more memes in California

by d0ugh0ck California’s AB 730 will be misused against meme makers and is Unconstitutional. Similar unfounded fears were made against Photoshop’s potential to make photographic evidence obsolete. California made it illegal to create or distribute “deepfakes” in a move meant to protect voters from misinformation but may be difficult to enforce. California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, on … Read more