That was fast: Gov. Newsom wants new tax on drinking water

by DCG Newsom not wasting any time in quickly creating new taxes for Californians. Elections have consequences. As reported by SF Gate: In order to help disadvantaged communities obtain safe and affordable drinking water, California Governor Gavin Newsom is proposing a new statewide water tax. In the newly-released 2019-20 budget, Newsom calls for the creation of a “safe … Read more

Gallup Poll: Conservatives outnumber liberals 35% to 26%

by Dr. Eowyn Why do conservatives feel so marginalized and besieged when we actually outnumber liberals? A new Gallup poll found that, in America, conservatives still outnumber liberals by at least 9 percentage points of 35% to 26%, but the trend is not in our favor, with the number of conservatives decreasing and the number of liberals increasing since … Read more

Escalation in France: Macrons government is now using helicopters to drop tear gas on YellowVest protesters.

by AnonDidNothingWrong I’ve never seen anything like this before in an EU member state. (#)Macron is using HELICOPTERS to fire tear gas cannisters against the #GiletsJaunes protesters? Will the #EuropeanCommission finally protest or are they to busy with trying to put sanctions on #Poland & #Hungary?   Video Proof: https://twitter.com/BasedPoland/status/1084502204608860163/video/1 I've never seen anything like this … Read more

A majority of millennials identify as socialists. Unfortunately, one-third of them don’t know what socialism is.

Watch the latest video at foxnews.com via Foxnews: The majority of American Millennials identify as socialist, according to surveys by both Reason-Rupe and the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. That’s the bad news. The good news is that just 32 percent of Millennials can define socialism. The frequently-wrong but never-in-doubt freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., may … Read more

Shutdown creates delays at Immigration Court: Democrats now holding up legal immigration…

via news5cleveland: CLEVELAND — Since the shutdown started at the end of December, immigration court hearings that could be the difference between someone getting permission to stay in the United States, or get deported, have had to be rescheduled. “People who have been waiting for years are now hitting these setbacks that will push them back … Read more

Macro Clouds

via northmantrader: Lots of “bottom is in” calls these days after the 10%+ rally off of the December lows. I remain on the open minded train train awaiting for more evidence on the technical and macro front to come in. In my 2019 Market Outlook I made mention of industrial production as one of the key data points … Read more

Location data is ground zero for privacy wars

From Axios: Our phones’ GPS and location capabilities are a key part of what make them magical — enabling them to speed our commutes, hail rides, and find the devices when we lose them. These capabilities are also ground zero for the looming fight over defining the boundaries of privacy and acceptable uses of our personal … Read more

Presser: Trump calls out democrats for being out partying on taxpayers dime during shutdown.

pic.twitter.com/w5X8jqvtiS — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 14, 2019 Trump may never back down on the #shutdown! Smokes Out The Resistance I’m A Senior Trump Official, And I Hope A Long Shutdown Smokes Out The Resistance | The Daily Caller  As one of the senior officials working without a paycheck, a few words of advice … Read more

Homebuilders Set To Deliver “Canary” Message Again!

by Kimble Charting There are often market “tells” that occur long before the beginning of a broader stock market rally or correction. And they tend to be sectors/areas of the market that are more sensitive to the economy… for instance, small cap stocks, tech/growth stocks, housing stocks, etc… When a reversal pattern shows up for one of … Read more

Sweden has just doomed itself

Backstabbing centrist parties have given Sweden’s socialist prime minister four more years of rule and agreed to an increase in mass migration.   Goodbye, Sweden. Imagine politically maneuvering for your own extermination. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/01/11/swedens-parties-reach-deal-keep-far-right-sweden-democrats-influence/ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-13/tense-days-await-sweden-to-seal-deal-rejecting-nationalists https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-11/sweden-social-democrats-reach-government-deal-aftonbladet-says   h/t Matt

Maria Bartiromo completely goes off on liberal Democrat Rep. Jim Himes on fake Russian collusion

Well, democrat congressman Jim Himes from Connecticut, you are an absolute lying buffoon & you aren’t fooling anyone. Just more of the same crap we’ve heard for the last two years. There was nothing then & there’s nothing now. On the other hand, the dem’s fingerprints are all over traitorous Russian deals. This is their … Read more

Failure to deliver Brexit will be a breach of trust in our democracy | NIgel Farage Show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_CyhtBDSgg   Losers pushing their agenda to get what they want! No! Brexit won, now deliver what the people democratically voted for, no deal, no problem! These traitorous /remainers have sulked, stamped their feet, insulted millions of people, tried everything to thwart our exit and have delayed! delayed! delayed! Now deliver what we voted for! … Read more

Warning Neocons Joining Democrats to Support War

by Martin Armstrong I have previously written that all wars have been started by the Democrats with the single exception of the Iraq War under Dick Cheney and the Neocons. Now after Trump has pulled out of Syria, the Neocons are meeting with the Democrats to retake the White House and restore the effort to bring World War III to the … Read more

Yet another MAJOR reason to buy gold

by Simon Black For almost a year now, I’ve been advising you that gold production is plunging… By itself, declining gold production isn’t a huge deal. It takes hundreds of millions of years for minerals to form deep in the earth’s crust… but humans only need a few decades to extract it. That’s why mining companies … Read more

The Next Financial Crisis

via Daniel Lacalle We have been reading numerous comments recently about a forthcoming recession and the next crisis, particularly on the tenth anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers. The question is not whether there will be a crisis, but when. In the past fifty years, we have seen more than eight global crises and many more … Read more