The Federal Reserve will be extending its temporary overnight repo operations through at least January. In addition, the central bank said it will be buying short-duration Treasury bills through at least the second quarter of 2020. Both announcements come as the Fed is looking to address issues in the short-term lending markets. The Federal Reserve … Read more
The Chinese government is harvesting and selling organs from persecuted religious and ethnic minorities on an industrial scale, the UN Human Rights Council has been told. Speaking at the council’s headquarters in Geneva on Tuesday, lawyer Hamid Sabi presented the findings of the China Tribunal, an independent tribunal on allegations of forced organ harvesting. Mr Sabi told the council that UN … Read more
Beto O’Rourke: Religious Institutions Will Lose Tax Exemption If They Oppose Same Sex Marriage During the broadcast of CNN’s town hall on LGBTQ issues on Thursday, 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) said religious institutions that do not agree with same-sex marriage would lose their tax-exempt status under his presidency. … … … Read more
Reluctant Preppers, Released on 10/9/18 You’ve heard the adage, “If you don’t hold it, you don’t own it,” and you may be wary of keeping “money in the bank,” or “owning” stocks through a brokerage, or shares of “precious metals funds” like GLD or SLV due to concerns about third-party risk, layers of indirection that … Read more
Rich Dad Radio Show, Released on 10/10/19 Dennis Gartman joins Robert and warns about the effects of Trump’s trade wars. Middle America is struggling and global markets are taking notice. Find out how to navigate these uncertain times Robert Kiyosaki is best known as the author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, the #1 personal finance book … Read more
via offgridsurvival: The People’s Republic of California is at it again; through unelected state officials, California is severing ties to ham radio repeater owners throughout the state, jeopardizing the lives of millions of Californians who depend on these repeaters to operate during emergencies. Last month, repeater operators were sent emails telling them the State would no longer allow … Read more
Soros has a corrosive influence on our press. From the money he funnels to NPR (as an anonymous donor) to ProPublica, he has control over the far left. The lack of transparency should worry everyone When liberal investor George Soros gave $1.8 million to National Public Radio, it became part of the firestorm of controversy that … Read more
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A 7-year-old boy is in critical condition this morning after being attacked by a homeless man Thursday in Queens. Police say the suspect – Laurance Gendreau – is emotionally disturbed. The 35-year-old is now undergoing a psychiatric evaluation at Jamaica Hospital. He faces multiple charges, including assault and harassment. “I went after him, followed … Read more
by ilovelifeitsgreatlol Facebook, for years, has already been asking for ID verification for certain people who have their accounts locked for “suspicious logins.” Online anonymity will not be a thing in the future.. sad.. Liberals will be useful idiots for passing stricter internet laws. Government will justify online ID verification to prevent kids from viewing … Read more
(Bloomberg) — As noon struck Thursday amid the latest U.S.-China trade talks, the S&P 500 turned south for no apparent reason. “They order the wrong lunch for the meeting?” @selling_theta tweeted. It was a joke, but investors could be forgiven for thinking otherwise. While trade headlines have whipsawed markets for nearly two years, the heightened … Read more
by howmuch Americans are notorious spenders. Compared to many other nations around the world, households in the U.S. have a particularly low savings rate, and 28 percent of American adults have no emergency fund. However, consumer spending accounts for 68 percent of the country’s GDP, making it essential for economic strength. Our newest visualization takes a closer look at … Read more
by Charles Hugh-Smith The price we’re paying to keep our heads above water steepens while the pay-off is dropping off a cliff. A good friend related a story that goes directly to the heart of what’s broken in our way of life. My friend went to a reunion in Silicon Valley attended by the most successful … Read more
You give a tech company your personal information to activate a security feature and later find out they were using it “unintentionally” for targeted advertising. By Gennie Gebhart and Jacob Hoffman-Andrews, Electronic Frontier Foundation: Stop us if you’ve heard this before: you give a tech company your personal information in order to use two-factor authentication, and later find out that they were using … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Just how important is China to GM, its Largest Market & Once Biggest Hope for Growth? General Motors is getting crushed in China, its largest market, and by far the largest auto market in the world. The auto industry overall has been getting hammered by the first downturn in modern China, … Read more
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter The repo blow-out — whoever instigated it — comes in real handy. Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s explanation on Tuesday and the FOMC minutes released yesterday were a bitter disappointment for the Crybabies on Wall Street – the broker-dealers and banks: They’d expected a massive bout of QE, and perhaps some of … Read more
Retired CIA Station Chief Brad Johnson explains how the coup against President Trump looks an awful lot like a CIA operation. Johnson feels this impeachment effort has been engineered by John Brennan.
Here is the information mentioned in this RTD Quick Take here: 1. After bankers rigged the LIBOR, the end of ‘the world’s most important number’ is nigh https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/opin… 2. The end of Libor: the biggest banking challenge you’ve never heard of https://www.reuters.com/article/us-br… 3. Factbox: The global benchmarks replacing Libor https://www.reuters.com/article/us-br… 4. LIBOR Countdown: Navigating the … Read more
As one of the largest purchases most of us will ever make, financing a car is the only choice many people have. However, even if you are fortunate enough to be in a position to pay cash for a car, many financial experts recommend financing the purchase anyway. Yes, we know, it does sound … Read more
It’s like watching a cat play with a mouse before eating it. POTUS and his operatives are making these corrupt pols lose their minds.
