via confoundedinterest: Following The Great Recession and the financial crisis, The Federal Reserve enacted their zero-interest rate policy (ZIRP) and started buying Treasury Notes and Agency MBS. QE1, the first round of asset purchases by The Fed starting in late 2008, was …
via sacbee: MIAMI Janet Burke, 71, opens the door of her Hollywood apartment with a smile. That’s how she greets Britt Weatherhead every Friday when he delivers a box of food that will keep hunger away. Cheese, milk, bread and fruit …
by howmuch If you want stark visual proof of global inequality, here it is. Both halves of this graph represent an equal amount of global wealth. The top half consists of the world’s eight richest billionaires. The bottom half represents …
via John P. Hussman, Ph.D.: Chuck Prince famously said we have to dance until the music stops. Actually the music had stopped already when he said that. – George Soros In recent days, the combination of extreme valuations and unfavorable market …
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by nowrongturns I see a common strategy that many tend to employ is to pick an index like the s&p and then pick some of the stocks in the top 10 of the index that they think are good companies. …
Could Italy be the next Greece? “Italy to Bow to EU and Cut Deficit Targets, Corriere Says” https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-03/italy-to-bow-to-eu-and-cut-deficit-to-2-in-2021-corriere-says?srnd=premium-europe Despite bowing down to the EU and cutting the budget deficit, do you guys think that their populist government will become more …
A prototype for the first U.S. penny will be auctioned for around $1 million—or 100 million times its trading value—later this month at an auction via Stack’s Bowers in Baltimore. The one-cent piece is part of the Archangel collection, which …
by Dr. Eowyn Despite sex ed classes in public schools and a wealth of information on the Internet about sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), increasing numbers of Americans still manage to get infected. So much for human rationality, which is the …
From the American Conservative: This summer, a UN panel received reports of a human rights crisis unfolding in China’s far western Xinjiang province. The information showed that as many as two million people had been subjected to an intense political indoctrination and reeducation …
From Vox: Rochester, New York, is a notorious model of terrible urban planning and idiotic corporate sponsorship. On the underdeveloped side of the Genesee River, next to the bus station, sits the “National Museum of Play,” an odd institution founded by Margaret Woodbury Strong …
by Shaun Richards The words of Gwen Guthrie’s song are echoing this morning as the BBC seems to have discovered that renting in the UK has become very expensive. In particular it focuses on the impact on your people. People …
by Ron Paul from Ron Paul Liberty Report Over just the past two weeks we have seen numerous points of conflict between the US and China, including new US sanctions on China, a skirmish in the South China Sea, new tariffs, Trump’s claim …
by Fabius Maximus Summary: While the news media fills the air with flotsam and jetsam, powerful forces reshape America. Chief among them is rising income inequality. Like so much happening to us, it results from rational policies skillfully executed by our …
by Jesse Colombo As seen on Forbes by RealInvestmentAdvice.com’s Jesse Colombo: “Why Another Market Volatility Surge Is Likely Ahead“: The U.S. stock market is climbing to record highs once again and volatility has calmed down dramatically from its panic-induced levels reached earlier …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3ZMMuy8-2s Jorge Washington for Right Wing News Reports, There is literally no escaping the liberal madness. In what is a hilarious outburst of TDS, someone caught President Trump’s motorcade going through New York City as protesters screamed at him. Read …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyLHDDpqN6k Synopsis: Shortly before the 2016 election, the desperate Dems did to then candidate Trump exactly what they are now doing to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh – have George Soros-funded groups pay women to accuse him of a variety …
via failedevolution: Younger generations have been ‘trained’ by the dominant culture to act in more ‘pragmatic’ terms in the arena of a brutal economic cynicism. As the fight for a place in this system becomes harder and harder, more and more …
by flying_panini_press So in the end Amazon is actually saving a bunch of money as well on top of killing mom and pop shops. For the many low wage Amazon workers – both full time and temporary – set to …
A new study shows that 6 artificial sweeteners (aspartame, sucralose, saccharine, neotame, advantame and acesulfame potassium-k) are all toxic to gut bacteria. For years, aspartame and other artificial sweeteners have been associated with an increase in diabetes and other obesity-related …
by Josh Sigurdson and John Sneisen of World Alternative Media Josh Sigurdson talks with author and economic analyst John Sneisen about the fall of the Canadian economy as media claims that the loonie is soaring. It’s quite incredible how people cannot seem to comprehend that …
Roseanne shares her political journey through the years and how she came to #WalkAway from the Democratic Party.
September auto sales plunge, many of the automakers dropped below their pessimistic estimates. We are now at the point where the stock market makes no sense whatsoever, the companies that are losing money or making no money are going up …
For the past several weeks, Democrats and their liberal media allies have publicly excoriated Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh over a number of uncorroborated allegations and unverifiable rumors of criminal wrongdoing, essentially convicting and sentencing him to political death in …
by sundance In a letter released last night from a former boyfriend of Christine Blasey-Ford, there was a name curiously not redacted. The name of Monica L McLean was revealed as a life-long friend who Ms. Ford helped with polygraph preparation. The media has begun to …
by Deplorable Patriot “It always comes out in the wash” A phrase that I have used many times. A phrase that many others have used many times. For those that are not familiar with this phrase it basic meaning is ” …
by Spencer P Morrison, NEE Too often the tariff debate is fought along economic lines: will tariffs create jobs or will they funnel wealth into dying industries? This line of reasoning is fundamentally flawed. Economics and politics—wealth and power—are inseparable, they …
It’s been 10 years since the 2008 financial meltdown. Money manager Peter Schiff warned the world about the last crisis and has a new warning about another coming financial crisis. Schiff says, “The problem is now we are on the …
by John Ward Welcome to Usukeunato, the only place on Earth where you have to be mad to work there. ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ Imagine if you will a society that has turned into an asylum. This isn’t hard if you think about how …
Technological singularity is upon us and we’re on the event horizon of transhumanism. Seriously, this is a MUST watch! Reminds me of this… h/t Rev Woo-Woo