POWELL LIED: QUANTITATIVE EASING IS BACK

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by Daniel Lacalle via Mises The Federal Reserve, through its president Jerome Powell, has indicated that it is preparing to increase its balance “organically”. The effort to separate this latest monetary policy change of course from a full-blown new QE (quantitative easing) is, at the very least, amusing. If we look at what is being discussed, it has … Read more

How Much Crude Oil Does Plastic Production Really Consume?

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By Irina Slav Many social media users had a field day recently when Greta Thunberg tweeted a picture in which the 16-year-old activist was snacking on food in plastic packaging. Activists against the oil industry, the argument went, should not take advantage of the products that come from that industry. Indeed, plastics and plastics pollution is one … Read more

Defying Sanctions, India Will Resume Oil Imports From Venezuela

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By Julianne Geiger India’s Reliance is set to resume oil imports from sanctioned Venezuela, according to a Reliance representative that spoke to Reuters on Wednesday. India had stopped its imports of Venezuelan oil months ago after the United States sanctioned Venezuela. Reliance feels secure in its decision to resume the imports, because it will be taking the crude oil … Read more

ELECTRIC CARS COULD BE JUST ANOTHER ECOLOGICAL DISASTER:

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via asiatimes: It sounds counterintuitive but until any nation is in a position to generate the bulk of its electricity from solar, wind, nuclear or hydropower, electric cars could cause at least as much harm to the planet as continuing to run gasoline- or diesel-powered cars. The environmental ramifications of widespread electric-car use are largely unknown. … Read more

Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff have taken over Congress

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by Xeven The House of Representatives power is derived by the votes of the people’s chosen representatives. Pelosi has taken over as an emperor of the house, not allowing members their voice or vote in Presidential impeachment matters. She has placed herself and her own will as the sole Representative of the people. This cannot stand … Read more

How Low Will US Births Go?!?

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by Econimica Summary Births in America continue to tumble despite a growing child bearing population. The growth among the child bearing population is decelerating and this population will begin outright declines around 2029. US births are likely to continue falling, faster and far deeper, while current Census estimates continue to anticipate growth (continually just around the … Read more

Time To Rotate Into Financial Defense | Jerry Robinson

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by Dunagun Kaiser via Reluctant Preppers with Jerry Robinson Since major stock and bond markets have been increasingly volatile and choppy, and economic bad news escalating, this guest signals that anyone exposed to these and other paper asset markets needs to be rotating into a defensive position to weather what’s coming our way. Jerry Robinson, author of “Bankruptcy of Our … Read more

Connecting The Dots

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The media is not informing us on this stuff and making it harder and harder to on social media as well. This is the type of thing an educated populace should know when electing leaders and engaging in politics.   h/t Orangutan  

Elizabeth Warren Blames Businesses for Everything

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via mishtalk: Businesses are bracing for for sweeping changes, none of it any good. Democrat front-runner Elizabeth Elizabeth wants to Remake Capitalism From the Ground Up. It would help if she had a clue what capitalism is all about. A President Warren would seek to regulate big tech companies as utilities, break up big banks and split … Read more

Californistan’s lunatic “Eco-Policies” continue to bear poisoned fruit for it’s inhabitants.

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by Art Brogden First they bankrupted and drove out their timber industry. Then they slashed spending over and over for forest management under the guise of “naturalism”. Turning their forests into tangled skeins of tinder waiting for the perfectly predictable high hot winds that occur EVERY year and need only a careless match, a criminal arsonist, … Read more

Statistician Rethinks Gun Control After Digging into the Data

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via dcdirtylaundry: Statistician Leah Libresco said she used to be for gun control. Then she looked at the data. Writing at the Washington Post, the former newswriter for the data journalism site FiveThirtyEight explained her epiphany. “Before I started researching gun deaths, gun-control policy used to frustrate me. I wished the National Rifle Association would stop blocking common-sense gun-control … Read more

CNN: Drudge Report Moves Away From Trump, This isnt news we already knew this.

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Matt Drudge, a long-running conservative media firebrand, is turning on President Donald Trump amid the latest impeachment push by House Democrats, CNN reported. Drudge founded The Drudge Report in 1995 and has long been supportive of the president, even reportedly making visits to the White House early in her term, but the website has published … Read more

This illustrates why socialism usually turns violent. Socialists start by proclaiming benevolent ideas, which inevitably don’t work.

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by James Imagine the amount of force needed to keep Warren’s society going. Resistance inevitably springs up, which spurs the socialists to violent repression. That doesn’t trouble the socialist’s consciences because, remember, Marx held that law and ethics are merely bourgeois creations of self-empowerment.   WE’LL RUN OUT OF EVERYTHING BUT “UNEXPECTEDLYS”: Elizabeth Warren Vows to … Read more