Venezuela Will Continue Exporting Crude To U.S.: Maduro

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By Irina Slav Venezuela will continue trading with the United States despite the fact Washington broke off diplomatic relations following president Nicolas Maduro’s inauguration for a second term in office, which the U.S. and a host of other countries decried as illegitimate. Turkey’s Anadolu Agency quoted Maduro as saying, “We have multifaceted relations with the … Read more

Mapped: Every Power Plant in the United States

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by visualcapitalist Every year, the United States generates 4,000 million MWh of electricity from utility-scale sources. While the majority comes from fossil fuels like natural gas (32.1%) and coal (29.9%), there are also many other minor sources that feed into the grid, ranging from biomass to geothermal. Do you know where your electricity comes from? THE … Read more

RECALL: Peaches, Plums, and Nectarines Could Be Tainted with Listeria

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by Daisy Luther Yet another recall has hit the shelves of a store near you. This time, it’s something really surprising. It’s fresh fruit. The FDA has announced that peaches, nectarines, and plums sold in more than a dozen states could potentially be tainted with Listeria monocytogenes. Jac. Vandenberg, Inc. of Yonkers, New York has recalled 1,727 cartons … Read more

This Technology from MIT Can Beam a Voice Right Into Your Head

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by Daisy Luther We’ve had all sorts of articles on this website about technology run amok, like videos that are undiscernable from reality and doorbells that monitor the entire neighborhood and China mining data from the brains of workers. But this one takes the creepy sci-fact cake. According to MIT, (Edited to add: the website where this paper is hosted … Read more

What Headwinds? Airlines to Book Their 10th Straight Year of Profitability

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by Frank Holmes, CEO, U.S. Global Investors Summary: Despite the government shutdown, airlines beat on earnings and offer exciting guidance for 2019. Global airlines are expected to log their 10th straight year of profitability—an industry first. With incomes expanding worldwide, air travel demand is projected to outpace economic growth for the next couple of decades. … Read more

10-Investing Axioms Every Investor Should Learn

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by Lance Roberts Martin Tarlie of GMO just recently wrote a great piece on the issue of the current U.S. Stock Market Bubble asking the question of whether or not it has finally burst. To wit: “A new model explains this dichotomy between price action and fundamentals by suggesting that a bubble in the U.S. stock market started … Read more

Climate Collapse: Wind Chill Temperatures Will Hit -60 In The Midwest This Week As Global Weather Patterns Shift

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by Michael Snyder  The experts are telling us that the Midwest could experience the coldest weather that it has ever seen this week.  Wind chill temperatures of -40 and -50 degrees will be common throughout the region, and it is being projected that some spots will actually get hit by wind chill temperatures of up to … Read more

The “Working Rich” Are Not Like You and Me–or the Oligarchs

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by Charles Hugh-Smith Rising income inequality may be a reflection of the changing nature of work. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s story The Rich Boy included this famous line: “Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.” According to a recent paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER),Capitalists in the … Read more

Lords of War: Visualizing the Global Arms Trade Network

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by howmuch Selling weapons to other countries is big business. It’s so lucrative that President Trumpfamously refused to cancel an American arms deal with Saudi Arabia in the aftermath of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder. So just how big is the international market? The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and the World Bank keep detailed figures on … Read more

The Stunning Importance of What Devin Nunes Said Yesterday – Rosenstein Made President Trump Mueller’s Target…

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by sundance Devin Nunes dropped a bombshell yesterday in an interview with Maria Bartiromo [Video Here].  Many people are overlooking the implications of his speculation; and, more importantly how Nunes statement answers just about every contradictory question people have carried.  Including: Why Rosenstein introduced Mueller to President Trump the day before he was appointed as Special … Read more

Reporter Asks Sarah Sanders About Trump Pardoning Roger Stone

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcOMf4zM7fE Reporter Asks Sarah Sanders About Trump Pardoning Roger Stone Today During white house press briefing, sarah sanders press briefing happened, it was on government shutdown and trump shutdown this is current events and latest news and breaking news in business from the white house briefing this is also news in politics and political news … Read more

Mexico is starting to look like Venezuela

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by Simon Black Mexico is in the midst of a crisis again. And no, it doesn’t have anything to do with the border wall that caused the US government to be hopelessly deadlocked for more than a month. Or the economy. Or murders and violence. Or drug trafficking. Or bird flu. Nope. Mexico is battling an … Read more

Which Debt Do You Pay off First?

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BY JARED DILLIAN Let’s say you are trying to get out of debt. What debt should you pay off first? A university professor like myself might say: “You pay off the debt with the highest interest rate.” But there are other concerns—it’s not an equation that you can solve for x. Let’s talk about some of those concerns. … Read more

Rough Seas Ahead

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by Jesse “Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.   The things that we love tell us what we are.” Thomas Aquinas “When a man takes an oath, Meg, he is holding his own self in his own hands. Like Water. And, if he opens his fingers then — he needn’t hope to find himself again.” … Read more

FITON: HUGE Time’s up for inactive voters: Miss 2 federal elections, and you’re out. Judicial Watch lawsuit will result in massive clean up…up to 1.56 million inactive voters in LA!

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by TFittonJW Judicial Watch shaking things up in California: https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Time-s-up-for-voters-who-don-t-vote-Miss-two-13565476.php Californians across the state could find that they are no longer registered voters now that a suit by a pair of conservative groups has been settled by Los Angeles County and Secretary of State Alex Padilla. The settlement, which requires counties to purge inactive voters from their registration … Read more

IF A BUSINESS DID THIS, WE’D BE HEARING ABOUT THE EVILS OF CAPITALISM

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Exclusive: D.C. Exchange Website Misled Customers About Individual Mandate. Last year, in response to Congress repealing the Obamacare individual mandate penalty beginning this January, the D.C. Council established its own requirement for District residents to maintain health coverage. If D.C. leaders wished to replicate Obamacare on the local level, they have succeeded beyond their wildest … Read more

THIS is SUPER BULLISH for VOL

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THIS IMO is SUPER BULLISH for VOL because what it shows is that the real vol that market was considering was MUCH higher than actual VOL and that therefore risk is much higher than people are thinking as well (meaning risk assets) https://t.co/GhEZfpZmfp — mcm-ct.com (@mcm_ct) January 28, 2019 Update on our textbook RUT index … Read more