Blackrock CIO: The Endgame Is Coming And Central Banks Will Debase Everything To Spark Inflation

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Via ZeroHedge Blackrock’s Chief Investment Officer, Rick Rieder, best known perhaps for recently suggesting that the ECB should monetize stocks, writes in the Blackrock blog today and highlights the economic policy state-of-play today, and where it may lead to should economic growth falter, productivity not materialize, and populism continue to thrive. * * * The major global central banks continue … Read more

Saudis Want Richest Families As Anchor Investors In Aramco IPO

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By Tsvetana Paraskova Saudi officials have approached some of the richest families in Saudi Arabia about potentially becoming anchor investors in the initial public offering (IPO) of state oil giant Aramco, Bloomberg reported on Monday, citing five people familiar with the discussions. Saudi Aramco could hold more formal meetings with some of the Kingdom’s wealthiest business families … Read more

Stock Market Hasn’t Yet Cleared The Storm, September 30th Critical Date For US & Global Markets

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by Chris Vermeulen of The Technical Traders As much as we would like to report that the US Stock market has recently cleared the future concerns of a global economic recession as well as expanded into a new growth phase, we simply can’t make that claim give the data we are seeing from our proprietary price modeling systems.  … Read more

Obama’s Treason: Even Worse Than We Thought… But Leftist Privilege Will Prevent Him From Ever Being Held Accountable.

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via frontpagemag: The Washington Free Beacon reported Wednesday that “the Obama administration skirted key U.S. sanctions to grant Iran access to billions in hard currency despite public assurances the administration was engaged in no such action, according to a new congressional investigation.” And it gets even worse: “The investigation, published Wednesday by the House Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, further … Read more

GOOGLE FACES 50 PROBES

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Texas will lead a joint state investigation into Google over antitrust concerns, state Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Monday. The news follows the announcement of a joint state Facebook probe led by the attorney general of New York. Google is also reportedly facing an antitrust probe from the U.S. Department of Justice. Fifty attorneys general … Read more

Baltimore evacuations after vehicle found with 1,000 gallons of gas

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Baltimore police discovered a van loaded with 1,000 gallons of gasoline Monday morning and are evacuating several office buildings from the Inner Harbor — where emergency officials are urging people to stay away, city council members confirmed. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is assisting Baltimore police on the scene. A police spokesperson … Read more

2020 WILD! YANG CROWD-SURFS

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Andrew Yang is doing what Beto O’Rourke could only dream of. The 2020 Democrat and entrepreneur was spotted performing what might be a presidential campaign first on Saturday: crowd surfing across a wave of supporters at the AAPI Democratic Presidential Forum in California. And if the sight of Yang’s ride wasn’t triumphant enough, the fact that … Read more

The Costs & Consequences Of $15/Hour – The Update

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by Lance Roberts  In 2016, I first touched on the impacts of hiking the minimum wage. “What’s the big ‘hub-bub’ over raising the minimum wage to $15/hr? After all, the last time the minimum wage was raised was in 2009. According to the April 2015, BLS report the numbers were quite underwhelming: ‘In 2014, 77.2 million workers age 16 … Read more

Democrats are amassing a 2020 trove of opposition research to weaponize against Trump in key battlegrounds that includes information from 7,000 lawsuits from nearly 50 states

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Democrats have gathered information from 7,000 lawsuits from nearly 50 states Information includes documentation about every time Trump told supporters at his 2016 campaign rallies that Mexico would pay for the wall The Democrats will use the research against the president in the 2020 election, particularly in key battlegrounds states   Information was gathered through news … Read more

If It Weren’t For Double Standards, They’d Have No Standards At All: Trump-russia And Clinton-libya: A Story Of 2 Probes And The Fbi.

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via realclearinvestigations: Records recently posted online by the FBI indicate that it did little to investigate allegations from private sources connected to Republicans about a scheme in which associates of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tried to exploit their connection to her to profit from the turmoil in Libya in 2011. The FBI received the documents … Read more

Why Trump Is Bad News For Political Consultants

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via americanthinker: “Political consultants burn through billions of dollars and have no idea what they’re doing except to enrich themselves. “They do a number of things over and again of limited effect: TV and radio ads, direct mail, robocalls. And burn through money they do. Jeb Bush’s campaign famously spent $139 million and he dropped out … Read more

Not Only Is The Government Not Capable Of Protecting You, It Doesn’t Even Want To

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Parkland dad uncovers how district enabled deranged student-turned-shooter. After the deadly Feb. 14, 2018, mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas HS in Parkland, Fla., national media focused largely on a handful of student activists, leaving it to victims’ parents to unravel why the slaughter happened. Andrew Pollack, whose daughter, Meadow, was one of the 17 killed, … Read more

82 Days In Jail And A Lost Job For Possession Of…Honey

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by Simon Black of Sovereign Man Let’s bring on the weekly absurdity! School cop handcuffs and screams at autistic 8-year-old An eight year old autistic boy in Southlake, Texas became agitated in his guidance counselor’s office. At one point the child became fidgety and took out a jump rope (that had been provided to him by the school). … Read more

Elizabeth Warren’s Insane Proposals

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by Martin Armstrong QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong, Elizabeth Warren’s proposal seems to lack any comprehension of the economic impact. She has said: “To put our economy — and our families — on firmer ground, it is essential to reduce household debt both by raising people’s wages and by bringing down their costs. That is the heart of her economic … Read more