by Michael Snyder The U.S. national debt is wildly out of control, and nobody in Washington seems to care. According to the U.S. Treasury, the federal government is currently $21,933,491,166,604.77 in debt. In just a few days, that figure will cross the 22 trillion dollar mark. Over the last 10 years, we have added more than … Read more
BY ROBERT ROSS Investing is all about making the right choices. And one of them is owning dividend stocks. Let’s look at two companies as examples: Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B) and JPMorgan Chase (JPM). Since the 2008 financial crisis, both stocks have more than doubled: JPMorgan Chase gained 141%. Berkshire Hathaway shot up 113%. That’s a pretty … Read more
By Rodney Johnson Senators Bernie Sanders and Chuck Schumer have proposed legislation that would stop public companies from paying dividends or buying back their shares unless they first meet certain conditions. The senators aren’t worried about viability (companies are financially stable before they send cash back to their shareholders). Instead, they want to verify that … Read more
Watch the latest video at foxnews.com Gerald Cotten, the 30-year-old founder of QuadrigaCX, died due to complications with Crohn’s disease, according to Sky News, citing Cotten’s wife, Jennifer Robertson. The executive reportedly passed away in December while traveling in India to open an orphanage. About $190 million in cryptocurrency and traditional money is said to … Read more
by DCG You really want to trust big government with your DNA? Stay far, far, FAR, FAR away from these DNA testing companies. While you believe it may be a good mechanism to help solve crimes, DNA test results can also be used against you. From MSN: The decision by a prominent consumer DNA-testing company to share … Read more
ELIZABETH, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — New Jersey is one of the highest taxed states in the country. Now, residents and businesses could be taxed extra … when it rains. Save it for a rainy day. Some of your hard-earned dollars may be taken away as the weather turns ugly and rain drops fall on the Garden State. … Read more
The business of panel manufacturing is a multi-billion dollar industry fueled by a worldwide construction market and driven by new technologies. One of the existing players, Ontario-based materials company, Cymat Technologies Ltd., will begin servicing a significant portion of this multi-billion dollar industry. The company, which manufactures and licenses Stabilized Aluminum Foam (SAF), has been … Read more
from Financial Survival Network Luke Gromen believes that the much ballyhooed celebration over the end of the US-China trade war is extremely premature. To Luke, it’s a case of an immovable object getting hit by an unstoppable force. For the US to prosper and start making things again, it will have to give up the dollar’s reserve … Read more
by Frank Holmes, CEO, U.S. Global Investors Something big is happening in the gold market right now, and nowhere is that more apparent than in central banks of emerging economies. Last year was a watershed in the size of official gold purchases, as banks added an incredible 651.5 tonnes (worth some $27.7 billion) to their … Read more
Nick Sandmann: The Truth in 15 Minutes https://pjmedia.com/video/covington-teens-lawyer-releases-brutal-14-minute-video-showcasing-lies-of-nathan-phillips-and-media/ h/t KOS
Here is today’s articles mentioned in this news update: 1. The World Bank and IMF are in crisis. It’s time to push a radical new vision https://www.theguardian.com/commentis… 2. The World Bank’s controversial president just resigned https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/20…
https://twitter.com/hks55/status/1092822892117676032 Fed rate cuts during the 2000-2002 and 2007-2009 collapses. When investors are inclined toward risk-aversion, safe liquidity is a desirable asset rather than an inferior one, so creating more of the stuff doesn't durably provoke risk-taking. Chart h/t @CoryLVenable pic.twitter.com/3SzsKawSN8 — John P. Hussman, Ph.D. (@hussmanjp) February 4, 2019
https://twitter.com/JacobAWohl/status/1092628568788463618 https://twitter.com/JacobAWohl/status/1092632142905978880 h/t KOS
via Jesse Kelly The U.S. Senate cannot agree on anything. They are so mired in partisan gridlock, a resolution declaring the sky to be officially the color blue would fail along party lines. But there is one thing and one thing only they agree on: 17 years of our troops dying in Afghanistan isn’t long enough. … Read more
by Lance Roberts On December 25th, I penned “My Christmas Wish” where in I stated that is was “now or never” for the bulls to make a stand. “If we take a look back at the markets over the last 20-years, we find that our weekly composite technical gauge has only reached this level of an oversold condition only a few … Read more
by DCG City bureaucrat, I mean attorney, Pete Holmes We may never know what Seattle City Attorney Peter Holme’s magic number is because, apparently, one having 72 convictions – including 14 felonies – is not enough to warrant your butt being thrown in jail for ANOTHER assault. As I’ve noted many times in the past, the city of Seattle … Read more
by Deplorable Patriot Executive order to end infestation of jellyfish When people ask me what I think about President Donald J. Trump, often my response is “I’m with him until the wheels fall off.” Back in the day In 1973 a group of bikers made a vow to remain together “Until the Wheels fall … Read more
via Samantha Biggers: Over the past few months, my husband and I have kept an eye on the store shelves in our area. We don’t shop daily or even weekly, but the trend of increasingly bare shelves has been incredibly disturbing. This made me curious as to what others have been experiencing. As a member of … Read more
Senator Rand Paul delivers a righteous speech supporting President Trump’s decision to begin removing the US military from the Middle East, and calling out Mitch McConnell and the UniParty for undermining the president. Rand is fired up. MUST WATCH: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/02/05/senator-rand-paul-calls-out-mitch-mcconnell-for-undermining-president-trump/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
READ THE FULL STORY HERE http://jwatch.us/W33s45 Judicial Watch announced that the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Ethics has refused to take action against Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), who admitted to willfully violating Senate rules by releasing confidential records regarding then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s time as a White House counsel. The documents were marked “Committee … Read more
by WARREN MOSLER US factory orders, Euro zone retail sales, UK services, ISM NY, Lumber prices US ISM New York Index at 7-Month Low in January
by Martin Armstrong It very clear that Mueller is acting like any other prosecutor and is using the press for PR stunts. CNN’s reporter David Shortell claimed he had “reporter’s instinct” which led him to get footage of Roger Stone’s pre-dawn arrest, not a tip from the FBI or special counsel’s office. That is about as credible … Read more
Just look around, the madness is all around. On different scales. In different regions. No matter where you turn, there’s a terrible economic drought right now, induced by central bank intervention with no end in sight. With debt at maximum levels, it begs the question, what will trigger the inevitable event we’re waiting for? In … Read more
Jim Hoft for the Gateway Pundit reports, Chief Deputy Whip Rep. Dan Kildee (D-MI) joined Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures to discuss the Democrat Party’s resistance to US border security. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJpLQd1pHgY Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019…
by Martin Armstrong Corporate America will suddenly discover that the Democrats are moving substantially to the left and will do whatever they can to further that goal. The Democrats are becoming the new party of anti-corporation/business. They embrace the misguided ideas of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who has been joined by Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. This … Read more