Has anyone else noticed Amazon’s and Google’s attempts through low-cost to free offers and deals to get their ‘smart’ speakers into peoples homes?

by lovewd   I find it odd that through various promotions, amazon and google have been pushing out their smart speakers into peoples homes. Amazon’s echo is always listening. So are the Google Home products. I looked through various promotions that provided these products at free or discounted rates. Frontier, and ISP who has a large market share in the … Read more

Despite Startup Millionaires, the Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in America Deflate. Crushed Markets Scramble Higher

Prices skid in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, and New York. Other markets lose steam. A few power on. Crushed markets scramble to new (low) highs. By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET. “The boom and bust patterns of home price growth in the West appear to be now solidly on the bust side,” said Ralph McLaughlin, deputy … Read more

The FED Is Now The Fourth Branch of The U.S. Government | McAlvany Commentary

The FED Is Now The Fourth Branch of The U.S. Government. Unelected power of central bankers challenges representative government. Is there a way to limit the continually growing leviathan of centrally managed markets? Technocracy & the “overmighty citizen”. Thanks for listening to this week’s McAlvany Commentary. The objective of McAlvany Weekly Commentary is to provide … Read more

One False Move By Israel or Iran Will Lead to War

Over the last two years, Israel has warned about Iran’s entrenchment in Syria. But Iran has continued its role in Syria, and it continues to threaten Israel and transfer precision guidance to Hezbollah for converting its rockets. Israel has been monitoring Iranian entrenchment in Syria, weapons transfers that move to Iraq and also to Hezbollah in Lebanon, … Read more

Trump to declare Mexican cartels ‘terrorist groups’, won’t rule out DRONE STRIKES

US President Donald Trump said that his administration will begin designating Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations, citing their role in narco- and human trafficking, and refused to rule out military action. Asked whether that designation means he would “start hitting them with drones and things like that,” the US president refused to elaborate: I don’t want … Read more

Heads up!! Russia’s Latest And Greatest Hypersonic Missile Systems To Go Into Active Combat Duty Within Weeks

MOSCOW, November 13. /TASS/. The first two UR-100N UTTKh intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) outfitted with the Avangard nuclear boost-glide vehicle will go on experimental combat duty in coming weeks. Work is underway to prepare and place the missiles into silos, a source in the defense industry told TASS on Wednesday. “In late November – early … Read more

A “Bomb Cyclone” Just Hit California – Is This The Key Prophetic Sign That John Paul Jackson Warned Us About?

by Michael Snyder In 2011, John Paul Jackson warned that a “major storm is going to come to California” before the great earthquake that radically changes the geography of the state happens.  He said that it would be “a hurricane of incredible force, or it is a storm of incredible force”, and that the storm … Read more

Dawn of a Global Tax

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development proposed a shake-up It would force big businesses to pay more in places they make ‘significant’ sales OECD said it was necessary to make international tax system fit for digital age But tax chiefs have now called for more critical details regarding the changes The group of the world’s … Read more

Here we go again. 120k Californians NO POWER!

https://poweroutage.us/area/state/california Provider Customers Tracked Customers Out Last Updated Burbank Water and Power 51,000 0 11/26/2019, 3:24:40 PM Imperial Irrigation District 150,000 25 11/26/2019, 9:55:20 PM Liberty Utilities 45,391 3 11/26/2019, 9:55:17 PM Los Angeles Department of Water & Power 418,788 105 11/26/2019, 9:55:21 PM Pacific Gas and Electric Company 5,200,000 83,782 11/26/2019, 9:55:19 PM Pacific … Read more

A Bull Market And The Bear – Dow And S&P 500 Technical Analysis

by TraderStef via CrushTheStreet (connect with TraderStef via Twitter or at TraderStef’s website) Despite domestic and global economic data points that signal Goldilocks is not necessarily a happy camper, the Federal Reserve’s “Not QE” has pushed the U.S. stock market to new highs. My recent article, “The ‘Not QE’ TaperCaper Duck Quacks Like QED,” published on Oct. 11, delves into details about … Read more

IEA Warns Of A Looming Oil Glut Ahead Of OPEC Meeting

By Tsvetana Paraskova Strong oil supply growth from non-OPEC countries puts a lot of pressure on OPEC and its Russia-led partners to act, and they will hopefully make the right decision for themselves and for the still ‘very fragile’ global economy, Fatih Birol, the Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), told Reuters in … Read more