Jim Rickards: Multiple Risks Are Converging at Once

via dailyreckoning: Since the end of QE and the “taper” in October 2014, the Fed has been trying to “normalize” their balance sheet and interest rates. The balance sheet needed to be reduced from $4.5 trillion to about $2.5 trillion through “quantitative tightening” or QT, which is tantamount to burning money. Interest rates needed to be … Read more

Bernie Sanders Raised $6 Million In One Day After Launching Campaign

Via ZeroHedge Just one day after officially launching his campaign for the 2020 Democratic nomination during an interview on Vermont Public Radio, Bernie Sanders has already raised more than $6 million through more than 220,000 individual contributions, according to CNN. Sanders, who consistently ranks near the top of most polls alongside former Vice President Joe Biden, saw the … Read more

Restoring trust, and delivering on it.

by John Ward I CAN HARDLY BEAR TO WATCH FOR THE NEXT ATTEMPT OF THE POLITICAL CLASS TO GET IT EVEN HALF RIGHT   ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ Returning briefly to last night’s study of purposeful incompetence compensated for by cunning guile, there is an insurance commercial on UK television at the moment. It has a claim in the … Read more

LET THIS SINK IN: The Dems just used a faked hate crime and media mafia support to pass legislation in the US

The Senate on Thursday cleared legislation to make lynching a federal crime. The bill, introduced by Sens. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Tim Scott (R-S.C.), makes lynching punishable as a hate crime. The bill previously passed the Senate in December, but it did not clear the then-GOP controlled House before the end of … Read more

How Two Hidden Forces Significantly Contributed To Shaping The ‘Winner-Take-All’ Economy

by jessefelder There has been a lot written recently about the forces that have led us to the current “winner-take-all” economy, or what some have called a new, “gilded age,” a reference to the time when a handful of large “trusts” dominated their respective industries. Most seem to blame the lack of antitrust enforcement and … Read more

Roseanne Barr: Socialism is just another capitalistic program by the rich at the top to enslave the masses.

by Jake Socialism is just another capitalistic Program by the rich at the top to enslave the masses. Rosanne Barr! Roseanne Barr calls AOC ‘bug-eyed Farrakhan loving b***h’ in expletive laden YouTube rant (VIDEO) Scandal-prone former sitcom star Roseanne Barr let loose against leftist Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her ‘green new deal’ with a torrent … Read more

Downturns and Financial Crises – Sequence

by Gary Christenson Miles Franklin sponsored this article by Gary Christenson, the Deviant Investor. The opinions are his. Bond Market Turned Down & Interest Rates Up – Check! Two-Year yield bottomed September 2011 Five-Year yield bottomed July 2012 Ten-Year yield bottomed July 2016 The 30+ year bond bull market is done. Housing Market Turned Down – Check! Mortgage … Read more

Warren Gets BLASTED By Heckler At Her Own Rally In Front Of Crowd

Katherine Rodriguez from Breitbart reports, A heckler at Democrat 2020 presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) Saturday rally in Georgia repeatedly yelled, “Why did you lie?” while holding up a “1/2020th” sign. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duaiWzLmQTo Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/20…      

5-Things To Do Before Retirement

by Richard Rosso Saving for retirement isn’t perfect nor as easy as most financial pundits make it appear. Certainly, people with steeled fiscal resolve exist; those not diverted by a major financial life event that has threatened or postponed retirement plans should consider themselves fortunate.  Sadly, it’s not the norm. Today, most retirements are imperfect. … Read more

The Guardian is mass censoring comments mentioning that Joan Ryan, the Labour politician accusing Corbyn of anti-semitism, was caught receiving £1 million from the Israeli Embassy a couple of years ago

by exname   The Guardian is deleting comments mentioning Joan Ryan receiving £1 million from the Israeli Embassy for propaganda purposes. Please go now and post https://t.co/piH7bkOewZ pasting this link https://t.co/XF1HXKqvN8 — Craig Murray (@CraigMurrayOrg) February 20, 2019 Archive in case the tweet gets suicided: http://archive.is/RQAzi   You’ll think I’m exaggerating, that reality can’t be that … Read more

Presidential Coup Confirmed As Evil Is Poured Out Upon Our Planet… Tom Fitton: DOJ/FBI Abuses against President Trump a ‘Threat to Our Form of Government’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=383yPokz3u8 Gateway Pundit Exclusive: Uncovered FBI/DOJ Coverup of Clinton Foundation and Russian/China Related Crimes – PART I A 2016 DOJ criminal investigation was suppressed and buried by the DOJ/FBI that involved a major NY Democratic power broker, Bill and Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation. The investigation revolved around the illegal sale of controlled US … Read more

Republican Party Transition

by Dave Well, this may shock you, but Tucker Carlson is actually doing a fairly decent job of this.  Not every time, and not for every show, but it is definitely a theme. Here’s a particularly good show.  He sounds a whole lot like Bernie Sanders.  No joke. Romney spent the bulk of his busness … Read more

Walmart raises annual dividend to $2.12 per share, marking 46(th) consecutive year of dividend increases (Barron’s)

BENTONVILLE, Ark.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–February 19, 2019– The Board of Directors of Walmart Inc. (NYSE: WMT) approved an annual cash dividend for fiscal year 2020 of $2.12 per share, an increase of approximately two percent from the $2.08 per share paid for the last fiscal year. The fiscal year 2020 annual dividend of $2.12 per share will … Read more

Stocks seesaw after Federal Reserve notes increasing risks to the economy

Stocks gyrated on Wednesday as Wall Street tried to interpret a release from the Federal Reserve which summarized its crucial meeting last month where the central bank indicated it would be patient on future rate hikes. As of 2:30 p.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average traded 21 points higher and briefly rose nearly 100 points. The S&P … Read more

Your phone and TV track you — and political campaigns listen in… NEST SPY: GOOGLE says built-in microphone was ‘never supposed to be secret’

Your phone and TV are tracking you, and political campaigns are listening in It was a crowded primary field and Tony Evers, running for governor, was eager to win the support of officials gathered at a Wisconsin state Democratic party meeting, so the candidate did all the usual things: he read the room, he shook … Read more