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.
She learns the hard way that she was just a front and firewall. Suicide incoming.
Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton discusses his perspective on the 90 national security officials requesting the whistleblower’s identity be protected.
by Michael Snyder A lot of people out there don’t like when I write these kinds of articles, because they directly contradict the false narrative that humanity has an extremely bright future ahead. Sadly, the truth is that our planet and everything that lives on it is rapidly deteriorating. And I am not talking about … Read more
via washingtonexaminer: https://twitter.com/whpresscorps/status/1182445597502009344 You may recall — and if not, I’m sure as hell gonna remind you — that just yesterday I wrote, in Who Does the Whistleblower Know?: I think the most plausible inference is that the whistleblowers are connected to Biden’s campaign, or to the DNC, and were shaken by the possibility of Biden and … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvqBsXURjSs Carlos Garcia from The Blaze reports, A car dealership in Honea Path, South Carolina, is offering everyone who buys an automobile an American flag, a Bible, and a voucher for a Smith & Wesson AR-15 rifle. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.theblaze.com/news/dealers…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgj8tw9o8SA Virginia Kruta from The Daily Caller reports, CNN guest Linda Chavez criticized House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff during a CNN panel Sunday, saying that he had “caused himself a lot of problems” with regard to impeachment hearings. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://dailycaller.com/2019/10/06/sc…
MUMBAI/BEIJING (BLOOMBERG) – Down the street from Mumbai’s grand colonial-era Royal Opera House, Deepak Gurnaney sits in his small electronics shop in front of rows of flat screen TVs flashing Hindi-soap operas, while his four staff play with their phones. There are no customers. The 68-year-old used to need a machine to count the cash … Read more
Professional investors are selling stocks as international risks pile up The repression of human rights in China, limits on American money flowing to Chinese stocks and a mini-crisis in Turkey are beginning to weigh on the stock market. Let’s explore this issue with the help of two charts. Two charts For the first chart, please … Read more
via MarketWatch: President Donald Trump says he’s presiding over “the greatest economy in the history of the U.S.” Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says the economy is “in a good place.” Who’s right? Neither, actually, although Trump’s assessment — sometimes supported by a specific statistic, more often than not unaccompanied by a data point — is … Read more
by IAMENKIDU https://www.dhs.gov/real-id-public-faqs Another step in the slow march to our enslavement, and of course there no outcry. Evidently, we need Big Brother to keep us safe from the monsters in the shadows, because all of our time and energy is consumed with feeding our Bankster overlords, and pursuing entertainment ad infinitum which doubles as their propaganda engines. … Read more
