The stockmarket is now run by computers, algorithms and passive managers

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https://www.economist.com/briefing/2019/10/05/the-stockmarket-is-now-run-by-computers-algorithms-and-passive-managers Unfortunately behind a paid wall but if you click through and hit ESC (on desktop) you can fully load it. According to Deutsche Bank, 90% of equity-futures trades and 80% of cash-equity trades are executed by algorithms without any human input. Each day around 7bn shares worth $320bn change hands on America’s stockmarket. Much … Read more

JPMORGAN: “We believe the global economy has entered a second and more dangerous phase of slowing…

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JPMORGAN: “We believe the global economy has entered a second and more dangerous phase of slowing. .. Against this backdrop, we believe the emergence of more tangible signs that US growth has slowed will encourage the Fed to ease again at the end of this month.” pic.twitter.com/6GHpaTePuO — Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) October 6, 2019 In … Read more

Scientists Want To Turn Asteroids Into Gas Stations

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By Mining.com Scientists planning to start mining the moon as early as 2025 may soon shift their attention to other celestial bodies as a new study suggests that there are about 1,000 asteroids closer to our planet than the lunar surface and which contain large amounts of the most precious resource: water. While most of those space rocks are only a … Read more

Perhaps the Newseum could have stayed opened if its gift shop sold items that people wanted to buy.

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METAPHOR ALERT: Washington’s Newseum to close by year’s end. “A museum dedicated to journalism and the First Amendment is set to close its doors near the National Mall by the end of the year.” A decade ago, John Podhoretz dubbed it “The News Mausoleum:” The Newseum is chock-a-block with television studios, both actual (ABC’s This Week with … Read more

Kamala Harris teams up with Maxine Waters on $13B plan to “end” homelessness

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by DCG The street of LA… Not ONE mention of addressing the REAL culprits of homelessness: Drugs and mental health issues. Yet if the actual root of the problem is addressed then there’s no need for continuously siphoning taxpayer dollars. From HuffPo: Senator Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), who is running for president, introduced a bill Thursday that would invest billions of more dollars … Read more

Pelosi net worth $120m, owns large stakes in companies like Facebook, Apple, Comcast, Shutterfly and the Walt Disney Co.

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via moneyinc: Do you know the official Nancy Pelosi net worth? Most people have heard of the name Nancy Pelosi, even if they don’t know the first thing about American politics. Granted, her name comes up in the news on a fairly routine basis so it’s not hard to have some type of generic idea who she … Read more

Adem Tumerkan: Worsening Global Economic Slowdown Now Drastically Hurting the US; Peter Schiff: Service Sector to Follow Manufacturing into Recession

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Wall St. For Main St., Released on 10/4/19 Jason Burack of Wall St for Main St interviewed returning guest, former Editor-In-Chief for Palisade Research and former analyst at Stansberry Research, options trader and newsletter writer at Speculators Anonymous https://speculatorsanonymous.com/, Adem Tumerkan. During this hour plus long interview, Jason asks Adem about the global economy slowing down … Read more

Kevin Shipp – Former CIA Director Brennan Will Rat Out Trump Coup Criminals, Trump Impeachment Like KGB Operation

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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi says the impeachment inquiry “will be worth it” even if the Democrats lose the House of Representatives in 2020. What?? How can an amateurish phony whistleblower story, they are using to try to impeach President Trump, be “worth it”? Former CIA Officer and whistleblower Kevin Shipp says, “It’s going … Read more

Situation report: Iraq in domestic chaos; Fed trying to increase liquidity in banks! Orlando lakes rising; AI creates virtual beings

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Masked gunmen storm Iraq television office amid reports 94 killed and nearly 4000 wounded in anti-government protests By Associated Press 6:56am Oct 6, 2019 https://www.9news.com.au/world/news-iraq-scores-dead-and-nearly-4000-reportedly-wounded-as-security-forces-fire-on-anti-government-protesters/79aa4ffe-c215-4fe4-88f3-20bdb97e7df9   The Federal Reserve announced that it will extend through October the ad hoc liquidity lifeline that it’s been offering to U.S. funding markets since a spike in rates in … Read more

Forget Facial Recognition: DHS’s New Database, HART, Also Uses Scars, Tattoos, and Your VOICE to ID You. And Amazon Is Storing All the Data.

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by Daisy Luther These days, you can’t really go anywhere without encountering cameras.  Going into a store? Chances are there are security cameras. Getting money at an ATM? More cameras. Driving through the streets of a city? More cameras still. Your neighbors may have those doorbells from Amazon that are surveilling the entire neighborhood. And many of … Read more

When everything is degraded by unearned privilege, the ideologues have won

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by John Ward Never stop questioning the rights of the privileged minority. They may be Brussels carpetbaggers, self-styled Tory élites, thinly disguised Communists, black activists, ‘peaceful’ Muslims, City slickers or rabid feminists. But their end goal is always the same: to turn personal beliefs into Absolute Truths. With the police and judiciary on their side, they … Read more

If you don’t know about the history of central banking, then you don’t really know who controls the world. Here is a documentary on the entire history of central banking, money and how we got to this point.

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by bbennett36 https://youtu.be/MpG-r9FnnXY Most people fear things like “capitalism” and they think that’s why there is extreme income inequality, high COL, etc but it’s not from that. It’s all from central banking and fiat currencies. This is how we are all enslaved. The central bankers are the ones that really start almost all wars. A war … Read more

Bots and Paid Trolls Have Ruined Online Discourse

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by throwawaybutrlly People underestimate the extent to which we have to wonder if the experiences we have on forums are genuine, and the extent to which they’re engineered by PR professionals. Many believe Russia is the center of this problem, but the US Military and the Clintons use botnets/troll farms too.   via medium: Why should … Read more

NYT: Free Speech Is Killing Us.

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by AC The flagship of globalist propaganda, the NYT, is defending internet censorship. In this propaganda piece, the author regurgitates the tired leftist talking point that the sites that his puppetmasters haven’t subverted are responsible for inciting violence. Of course, it is far more likely that leftist propagandists have exploited mass shootings trying to silence … Read more

Fake Intel: The CNN War Channel And Its Covey Of Ex-Spooks

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via Zerohedge: After years in the shadows overseeing espionage, kill programs, warrantless wiretapping, entrapment, psyops and other covert operations, national security establishment retirees are are turning to a new line of work where they can carry out their imperial duties. That is, propagandizing the public on cable news. Reborn as cable news pundits, these people are cashing in.So … Read more