So, You Want to Be a Homeowner?

By Ryan Preiss, CRPC®   Purchasing a house is one of the largest financial transactions an individual will make in his or her life. Yet, many people tend to glaze over some key points when they consider purchasing a home. These include solidly understanding where we are in our current interest rate cycle, where rates … Read more

Joe Biden STUNS With This Sad Gaffe – Obama Will NOT Be Happy About This!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDCvtcLmKpo Cristina Laila from The Gateway Pundit reports, What is wrong with Joe Biden? Biden on Friday held two town halls New Hampshire — one in Laconia and the other New Castle to discuss ‘his vision for America.’ Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/09/following-bloody-eye-scare-joe-biden-forgets-that-obama-not-bush-was-the-last-president-video/

FITTON: BIG ARMS SCANDAL: Judicial Watch exposed how Bill Clinton let bin Laden get away with murder AND how Obama/Hillary Clinton helped contribute (by arming the bad guys) to the rise of ISIS and the resulting war.

by TFittonJW .@JudicialWatch exposed how Bill Clinton let bin Laden get away with murder AND how Obama/Hillary Clinton helped contribute to the rise of ISIS and the resulting war (see below tweet). https://t.co/OirdpUDOyA https://t.co/DAoos8R1Z4 — Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) September 10, 2019 (Washington, DC)  Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today … Read more

Men’s “Real” Earnings Below 1973 Level: Census Bureau

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Top 20% households made out like bandits, bottom 40% got crushed. The median earnings of men working full time year-round in 2018 ticked up to $55,291. Adjusted for inflation, this was below the amount they earned in 1973, according to the annual data trove released by the Census Bureau today. In other words, there … Read more

Used-Car Market Profits from Carmageddon. For Many Americans, New Cars Cost Too Much

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter August wholesale auction price index hits record after longest series of year-over-year price gains since 2001. Used-vehicle prices at wholesale auctions around the US ticked up 1.1% in August compared to August last year, eking out a new record, according to the Used Vehicle Value Index by Manheim, the largest auto-auction house, … Read more

The World’s Pharma Trade: Which Countries Buy & Sell the Most Drugs?

by howmuch The pharmaceutical industry is incredibly valuable and is continuing to grow. But just how much of the world’s imports and exports involve pharmaceuticals? To understand the impact of the pharmaceutical industry on the world’s economy, we created two visualizations to demonstrate pharmaceutical imports and exports by country in 2018. The United States is, … Read more

The Global Debt Bubble Enters It’s Blow-Off Stage

BY JOHN RUBINO People have been talking about a “debt bubble” for some years now. They’ve been right, of course, based on the combination of surging borrowing and plunging rates. But the bubble hasn’t stopped inflating, and recently it entered what sure looks like a terminal blow-off stage. Some highlights: Though July, China’s total debt … Read more

Is Walmart Working With The Govt To Distribute Everything When The SHTF?

Authored by Daisy Luther via The Organic Prepper blog, In conspiratorial circles, it’s long been rumored that Walmarts across the country would become FEMA camps after an epic disaster. Some folks even suggested that once you were in the camp, you would not be able to leave. Sort of like those old roach motel commercials. If you’re … Read more

The Bill of Rights Turns 230, and What Do We Have to Show for It? Nothing Good

by John W. Whitehead “That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn’t even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn’t even an enemy you could put your finger on.”—Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale It’s been 230 years since James … Read more

Russia Considers Possibility Of $25 Oil Next Year

By Julianne Geiger Russia is considering the notion that oil prices may be as low as $25 per barrel in 2020, the country’s central bank said in its new forecast published on Monday, as cited by Reuters. Russia’s Central Bank has forecast in its macroeconomic forecast that oil could possibly hit that low due to falling … Read more

Did cashier steal 1,300 credit card numbers with ‘photographic memory?’

(CNN)A store cashier in Tokyo been arrested on allegations of stealing the credit card information of 1,300 customers using just one tool — his memory. The part-time worker was arrested Thursday for stealing credit card details to buy $2,600 (270,000 Japanese yen) worth of bags from online shopping sites last March, according to the Tokyo … Read more

60 Percent Of Americans Believe A Recession Is Coming – But Consumers Continue To Pile Up Debt At A Frightening Pace

by Michael Snyder We haven’t seen survey results like this since just before the last recession.  Right now, 60 percent of Americans believe that a recession is “very or somewhat likely in the next year”, and the reason why that figure is so high is because there is already a tremendous amount of evidence that … Read more