Josh Sigurdson reports on the unmitigated disaster that is the $15/hour minimum wage hikes in many states across the United States. As the wages get hiked, enforced by the government, businesses are forced to close, lay people off, automate or leave the states. Government always comes in as the savior for all the problems it … Read more
Josh Sigurdson reports on the recent imprisonment of a man in Nashville, Tennessee who rented his own home out through Airbnb for paying guests without a permit. Layton Jones listed his northwest Nashville home on Airbnb without a permit which apparently people are being forced to have despite them owning their property…allegedly. After a judge … Read more
Disney/Marvel is Lying About the movie theatre sales for Captain Marvel. I want to hear your opinions on this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Golmuk-l-0I
by Kimble Charting Junk Bonds and the S&P 500 are both facing key breakout tests at the same time. What each does at these key price points could well determine if the S&P 500 will have the strength to retest last years all-time highs. This chart looks at Junk Bond ETf (JNK) and the S&P 500 over the past … Read more
via popularmechanics: Plus: “The trades are not merely an alternative to college. A trade is equal to college. If you’re a Ph.D. and you’re at home on a Saturday night in July and your air conditioner quits, the smartest person around is somebody who can fix that air conditioner. The trades are one of the most … Read more
via sputniknews: On today’s episode of Double Down, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert talk to Craig Hemke of TFMetalsReport.com about negative interest rates on the horizon. https://video.img.ria.ru/Out/MP3/20190312/2019_03_12_DOUBLEDOWN155110319_sgwsvte3.to0.mp3 In a seemingly coordinated media campaign, the US Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank indicate more negative rates are on the horizon, which would be the first time they … Read more
Taiwan Mulls F-16 Viper Fighter Purchase From the US. According to unconfirmed Taiwanese media reports, the Republic of China Air Force (ROCAF) had expressed interest in procuring up to 66 Lockheed Martin F-16 Fighting Falcon Viper (V) Block 70 multirole combat aircraft. F-16V fighters are equipped with an Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar system, … Read more
A Nation of Felicity Huffmans. The latest elite-college admissions scandal rests on a foundation of pure silliness; as Jim Geraghty writes, people with rich, famous, well-connected parents are the ones who least need the imprimatur of a famous college to speed them through life. Yet these same people are the ones with the means to indulge the status … Read more
Via Ammoland (Ammoland.com)- A new bill introduced in Pennsylvania would establish a gun registry within the state. HB0768 is known as the Firearms Registration Act. The Democrats that introduced the bill were Mary Louise Isaacson (D), Angel Cruz (D), and Mary Jo Daley (D). Last Friday, the General Assembly referred the bill to the committee … Read more
by Gary Galles via Mises Wire On January 30, Rep. John Larson and 200 Democratic co-sponsors introduced the Social Security 2100 Act. Portrayed as giving retirees long-overdue benefit increases, it would actually add another step to Social Security’s long-running Ponzi scheme. Despite Democrats’ history of rejecting that term for Social Security, it has been the biggest … Read more
by Charles Hugh-Smith A feature of the economic crisis that enfolded in Greece was the fantasy that economic growth would quickly recover. It seems hard to believe now that anyone could have expected the economy to grow at 2% ot so per annum from 2012 onwards but the fans of what Christine Lagarde amongst others … Read more
March 7, 2019 The Wall Street Tax Act, introduced this week by Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) in the Senate and Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) in the House, would make our tax system fairer and put the brakes on corporate greed. The legislation would implement a small 0.1% tax on transactions of stocks, bonds, and derivatives … Read more
Originally posted at ExecSpec.net Corporate balance sheets are in excellent shape, but equally impressive is the net worth of the American household that grows virtually every single quarter year over year. During rare periods when it doesn’t expand, it typically coincides with economic trouble. Historically, more than a four percent decline in sequential quarters is a … Read more
U.S. college admissions scandal sparks $500 billion lawsuit March 14 (Reuters) – The U.S. college admissions scandal that erupted this week has triggered private litigation accusing rich, well-connected parents of buying spots for their children at prestigious schools, and keeping children of less wealthy parents out. A $500 billion civil lawsuit filed by a parent … Read more
Boeing planes have trouble flying, Tesla cars can't stay on the road, and social media companies' websites are down across the world. — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) March 14, 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV4l2y9ISqE cancellation wave has begun https://t.co/GtRXpiDIvO — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) March 14, 2019 https://twitter.com/Tslareaper/status/1106219599509356545 Goldman Sachs says Tesla's new Model Y SUV could make its Model 3 demand … Read more
Recently 250 scientists have republished a petition warning against wireless tech. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpqunxmX1fU
It seems the deals are so bad, that they have to keep going back to repackage them. My two cents as to what is happening in regards to brexit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1qsEIh_2vA
via nypost: A dreaded bloodbath at Goldman Sachs under the bank’s new boss has finally begun. The Wall Street powerhouse — whose new Chief Executive David Solomon took the reins from Lloyd Blankfein last October — had laid off 65 employees in its New York office at the end of February, according to notice filed on … Read more
UK lawmakers gear up for vote on delaying Brexit LONDON (AP) — British lawmakers were voting Thursday on whether to scuttle the already dwindling chances the U.K. will leave the European Union this month as scheduled, but EU officials warned they would only allow a delay if the country made a fundamental shift in its … Read more
China and the U.S. are looking to push an earlier scheduled meeting between President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping to at least April, Bloomberg reported citing unnamed sources. Trump said on Wednesday he was in no rush to complete a trade pact with China and insisted that any deal should include protection for intellectual property, a … Read more
by GoldCore – Internet’s “off switch” increasingly used to curb political and economic freedom – Internet shutdowns were seen 188 times throughout the world in 2018 (see table) – Democratic India experienced 154 internet shutdowns in just 30 months – Technologically advanced EU countries Spain and Estonia experienced shutdowns – Gallup poll shows people more worried … Read more
WARNING: PDF https://dougcollins.house.gov/sites/dougcollins.house.gov/files/06.27.18%20Interview%20Of%20Peter%20Strzok.pdf h/t KOS
Surely this won’t harm the platform and be misapplied.
by Geoffrey Grider Then, at noon here in California, a Facebook spokesman denied one possible explanation: that the Silicon Valley giant, and Google before it, were being subject to a massive denial-of-service attack. Today as nearly all the main social networks collapsed, I couldn’t shake the creepy feeling that whatever or whoeverwas behind the outages was paying … Read more
A new report was released from the Fed, the report shows that Millennial’s are in more debt than any other generation and most don’t even own a home. US banks are reporting billions of unrealized losses on security investments, when the market goes down the banks are going to implode. When countries want to use … Read more