GM Closes American—Not Mexican—Factories After Collecting $11 Billion in Subsidies

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by Spencer P Morrison, NEE General Motors last week announced it would close five manufacturing plants, four in America and one in Canada. President Trump responded to GM by threatening to cut the automaker’s subsidies unless it protected American jobs: Very disappointed with General Motors and their CEO, Mary Barra, for closing plants in Ohio, Michigan … Read more

The Left pushes America down a slippery slope

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by Fabius Maximus Summary: The Left drives America down a slippery slow to an unknown future. Radical social changes are coming ever faster, experiments powered by government power, done without our consent. We can still get off this path. It is essential to see that we are sliding down the slippery slope. First, easy divorce. Second, … Read more

It’s the Worst Time to Make Money in Markets Since 1972

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Market statisticians are falling over each other in 2018 to describe the pain being felt across asset classes. One venerable shop frames it this way: Things haven’t been this bad since Richard Nixon’s presidency. Ned Davis Research puts markets into eight big asset classes — everything from bonds to U.S. and international stocks to commodities. … Read more

Facebook workers turn on Zuckerberg: Founder and CEO could be forced out amid fallout from company of spying on users’ calls and signing secret deals to hand over their data, insiders reveal

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via dailymail: Facebook employees are turning on boss Mark Zuckerberg, it was reported last night, as British MPs leaked a trove of documents then accused the company of spying on users’ calls and texts and signing secret deals to give access to their data. Former workers described a ‘toxic and hostile’ atmosphere at the social media giant … Read more

A Pin For These “”Markets””?

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by Chris The Huawei executive arrest is playing out very poorly in the “”markets””. After all of the efforts to stem the losses taken by the CME last night, the futures have drited lower and lower, and look to be opening with a -1.5% to -2% loss for most indexes, as well as for oil … Read more

Federal judge lets criminal illegal escape from back door of courthouse because ICE was there to arrest/deport him

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A Massachusetts judge reportedly allowed an immigrant who was in court on drugs charges, and what appeared to be a Pennsylvania warrant for drunk driving, to leave through the back door to avoid immigration enforcement officers who had arrived to arrest him. Shelley Joseph, a judge in the suburbs of Boston, is reportedly being investigated … Read more

MSM Is Getting Weirder, More Frantic, And More Desperate By The Day

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via Caitlin Johnstone: When even the Washington Post is saying your Russiagate article is bad journalism, your Russiagate article is really, really bad journalism. In an article titled “The Guardian offered a bombshell story about Paul Manafort. It still hasn’t detonated.”, WaPo writer Pul Farhi draws attention to the fact that it has been a week since the Guardian published a claim that … Read more

The Mainstream Media Declares That This Is “The Worst Time In Decades To Make Money In The Markets”

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by Michael Snyder  It looks like the turmoil for the financial markets is going to continue to get worse, and the mainstream media is really starting to freak out.  Just a few months ago, they were continuously using the word “booming” to describe the state of the U.S. economy and they were assuring us that the … Read more

It’s Happening: San Francisco House & Condo Prices Fall

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter House prices down $265,000 from peak, down $60,000 from year ago. America’s most majestic housing bubble begins to deflate. In San Francisco, the median price of single-family house sales that closed in November fell to $1.435 million. This is down a blistering $265,000 or 15.5% from the crazy peak in February … Read more

What’s Actually Happening In France

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by Chris I came across this description frm an American living in Paris.  Seems about right: Here’s what’s actually happening in France (from an American in Paris) It’s important to note that the majority of protestors are middle aged, these are not college or university students, who make up the usual French protests. This is … Read more

MASSIVE Futures Dump…Tomorrow Could Be Ugly

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by Chris After drifiting higher immeidately after the painful close on Tuesday, US stock futures went a bright shade of red immediately upon opening back up again at 6:00 pm. EST (~15 minutes ago). The reason? I think it’s related to this: Canada arrests Huawei’s global chief financial officer in Vancouver DECEMBER 5, 2018 Canada … Read more

The Risk of “Buy-and-Hold” Nobody Is Talking About

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BY JOHN MAULDIN Investment advisers say we are “investing for the long run” and diversify among low-fee funds in various asset classes and indexes. Then they trot out studies showing investors will average 8% or whatever in the long run. And those are true statements. The problem is that most investors don’t have the 40 or … Read more

What alternative media sites do you go to? Let’s share alternative media sites with each other!

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by Zaroden   Basically, I’m talking about the sites that we usually share here that aren’t in the mainstream media. Leftwing or rightwing, it doesn’t matter. Let’s share them. Why? So that we can leave no stone unturned and actually be better informed. Yes, we should occasionally listen to what the mainstream media has to … Read more

Harry Dent – Japan Real Estate Crisis

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Economy & Markets – Facebook, Released on 12/5/18 Amid a real estate crisis in Japan, where 8 million or 15% of homes are currently sitting empty, Economist Harry Dent talks about how the Japanese government is offering significant incentives to jumpstart home sales, nearly giving them away altogether… Harry Dent is a Fortune 100 consultant, … Read more