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via althouse: The NYT reports. The vote will take place on Thursday, and it will be presented as whether to “affirm” the inquiry… which seems to say that they don’t want to admit that they were doing it wrong, just asking for an affirmation. Democrats are good enough. They’re smart enough. And doggone it, people like … Read more

It’s hilarious to see how pro war the MSM is. I have a feeling David Stockman might not get invited again, he’s always pretty outspoken but seems this was too woke for his company. Especially when he defends his opinion that the Syrian has attacks were false flags. Also props to Jimmy Doer for going … Read more

Democrat Katie Hill RESIGNS Amid Growing Scandal, So Ilhan Omar Should Resign Next Right? Amid an expanding scandal involving Democratic Rep Katie Hill she has announced her resignation from congress. Hill was accused of having an affair with staffers in violation of House ethics rules and was placed under investigation. Following her announcement many Democrats, … Read more

by Zerohedge Mexico’s oil hedgers, one of the world’s most-active sovereign oil-trading desk, has spent nearly $1 billion on options contracts to protect the government’s revenues from oil sales for 2020 against volatile price action. The news is especially notable because, as we reported last month, Russia is considering oil prices could drop to as low as $25 in 2020. … Read more

By Nick Cunningham A lot of big names will report third quarter earnings this week, and the results are expected to be worse than the same period in 2018. The timing comes as the shale sector is facing somewhat of a reckoning. After years of price volatility – with more downs than ups – oil … Read more

In your opinion, what do you think is the biggest potential TRIGGER event the world faces today? We were told the Financial Crisis was the last of subprime we would see. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. We are watching countless Americans finding themselves further and further in debt. It has now become mathematically impossible for … Read more

BY JOHN RUBINO Venezuela has suffered through recurring power outages this year, as money for routine maintenance dries up and power plant employees flee the country (and, okay, as the US practices its cyberwar skills on a vulnerable target). Some of the blackouts have lasted as long as a week. Here’s an aerial photo comparing … Read more

via visualcapitalist: View the full-size version of this infographic. What do Equifax, Yahoo, and the U.S. military have in common? They’ve all fallen victim to a cyberattack at some point in the last decade—and they’re just the tip of the iceberg. Today’s infographic from Raconteur delves into the average damage caused by cyberattacks at the organizational level, sorted by type … Read more

via Zerohedge: Following a decade during which markets learned that economic data is irrelevant in a time when central banks are injecting trillions in liquidity and corporations are issuing trillions in debt to repurchase trillions in stocks pushing the S&P to all time highs, one can now say the same about corporate earnings, initially in … Read more

by howmuch Cloud computing is changing the economy and transforming the way millions of people work, and private companies with multibillion dollar valuations are at the forefront of the disruption. Our latest visualization reveals the top 25 private cloud companies. Stripe takes the top spot in the Forbes Cloud 100 ranking with $785M in private … Read more

by Michael Snyder If other forms of meat suddenly became too expensive, would you feed dog meat to your family instead?  Sadly, this is a dilemma that many families in China are facing right now.  As I reported a few days ago, one-fourth of all the pigs in the entire world have already been wiped out … Read more

by Charles Hugh-Smith MMT is presented as the solution to the “problem” of insufficient government funding, but that’s not the real problem. Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is presented as a means to painlessly fund the large-scale infrastructure / alternative energy spending the nation needs to rebuild and modernize. While most people support the goal of useful … Read more