by DCG The city of Baltimore faces many challenges, mainly a very high crime rate. See our following blog posts: Baltimore sets record for killings per capita Baltimore lawmaker’s grandson killed in Labor Day weekend violence Baltimore’s “Don’t kill anybody” weekend: 3 shot, …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vSPrAMcyCQ Kat Stevens for the Daily Vine reports, President Trump’s critics are too numerous to note. They range from his political rivals to many in his own party. We’ve heard a lot from former President Obama about what he thinks …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAvW-30hnyk Frank Lea for the Daily Vine reports, Donald Trump had a fantastic first year as President of the United States of America, but some people just can’t be pleased. Some people wake up hating life and Trump so much …
Is it a coincidence that the assets that have received the most QE have increased the most? I really don’t know how anyone can overlook this obvious detail. The stock market has performed incredibly well since March 2009, showing impossible …
Trapped in the rigid structure of diamonds formed deep in the Earth’s crust, scientists have discovered a form of water ice that was not previously known to occur naturally on our planet. The finding, published Thursday in Science, represents the …
From the Wall Street Journal: From a townhouse near a megachurch in Atlanta, Kelvin Lyles recruited about 300 accomplices to embark on a crime spree. His group scammed ATMs, internet retailers and credit-card companies, grabbing around $350,000, until late 2015, when …
By David Stockman Yesterday we noted that financial markets have become completely uncoupled from reality and that the recent feeble bounces between the 20-day and 50-day chart points were essentially the rigor mortis of a dead bull. As it happened, we were able …
From Birch Gold Group If you leave your sliding glass door open, you might let in a stray cat, raccoon, or bugs without knowing it. Some intruders are worse than others. All can be annoying. But let in a thief, who …
IBOR is being pushed forward, those who were profiting and controlling these social media sites have been and continue to sell their shares, the writing is on the wall. Russian billionaire says that Soros funded the Steel dossier. Russian double …
Wholesale trade sales decline this is one of the biggest drops since 2 years ago. The Housing market is doomed, everything has been engineered away from the big banks to non-banks and when the crisis hits they will take the …
THE SHOWDOWN Attorney General Jeff Sessions finally woke up. He intends to stop California’s open border policy. Not only is Governor “Moonbeam” Jerry Brown not enforcing our immigration laws, he and other lefty loons have actively been trying to suppress …
by David Haggith Bloomberg this week ran a story telling us how the smart money gets out of the stock market when it hits its all-time peak and how the dumb money helps the smart money out. Only they didn’t know that …
“The American electorate isn’t moving to the left- it’s shrinking. Democrats figured out they’d never win with Americans, so they implemented an evil, genius plan to change this country by restocking it with voters more favorably disposed to left-wing policies …
He spoke for 2 minutes about Whacko NK. In a 1999 interview on Meet the Press, Donald Trump described how he would handle North Korea if he was elected president. h/t technicalrogue
I was in Rome this week reporting on the Italian elections. While I was there I saw a video of a journalist being attacked by North African migrants live on air. I was shocked to see how blatantly these migrants …
by sundance Leo Gerard, the President of the United Steelworkers Union, talks to a very frustrated Chuck Todd about the effect of President Trump’s new tariffs and his appreciation therein. Chuck Todd has all his Media Matters talking points prepared to …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaWakFKHenk Amanda Shea for the Daily Vine reports, Major retailers around the nation have become battlegrounds for political correctness, using their businesses as soapboxes to make social statements. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://daily-vine.com/home-depot-fou…
by jessefelder While most investors and pundits are currently focused on optimistic analyst earnings estimates for the coming year there’s another far more important phenomenon underway that deserves more attention. Three years ago Stan Druckenmiller gave a very important speech to …
via Macro Voices Erik Townsend welcomes Jim Grant to MacroVoices. Erik and Jim discuss new Fed governor Powell, treasury yields and how far the FED go before something breaks. They discuss his outlook on inflation, gold, junk bonds, China and the …
by Dylan Scott, NEE Trump Asks China To Reduce Their Trade Deficit And Stop Intellectual Property Theft This week, the President slapped tariffs on steel and aluminum imports to enhance domestic steel production, to the dismay of liberal economists and journalists who …
by Dana Lyons After setting its all-time high during the dotcom bubble, 18 years later — to the day — the PHLX Semiconductor Index is finally scoring a decisive new all-time high. One factor in convincing us that the correction of …
by Geoffrey Grider AT LEAST 21,000 NEEDY PEOPLE HAVE DIED WHILE WAITING FOR MEDICAID COVERAGE, WHILE 13 MILLION ABLE-BODIED ADULTS RECEIVED COVERAGE FROM MEDICAID IN THE STATES THAT EXPANDED MEDICAID UNDER THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT, ALSO KNOWN AS OBAMACARE, AN EXPLOSIVE …
Drivers licensing is not about qualifying to operate a motor vehicle, it has become a database and tracking program for the federal government. The requirements for the states to issue drivers licences are being dictated by the Department of Homeland …
via bloomberg Our prediction last year of a global growth downturn was based on our 20-Country Long Leading Index, which, in 2016, foresaw the synchronized global growth upturn that the consensus only started to recognize around the spring of 2017. With the …
by stockboardasset From Maryland to Maine, millions of American’s strapped on their rubber boots and grabbed a rusty snow shovel to end the week, after a fierce nor’easter dumped several feet of snow across the Northeast. This, of course, was backbreaking work for …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter “The very slow pace may still be contributing to a buildup of various financial imbalances.” So we have the first Fed Governor and member of the policy-setting FOMC who came out and said that the QE …
The Chinese government has taken over its management, and its CEO is under investigation. By Tsvetana Paraskova, Oilprice.com: When a little-known private Chinese company said in September 2017 that it would be buying 14 percent in Rosneft, many analysts were wondering how …
It is generally believed that being stylish stands for having to spend a lot of money on one’s looks. However, money is not as important as creativity, one should always remember that. You must have seen some people, who buy …
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, In a world dominated by mobile capital, mobile capital is the comparative advantage. Defenders and critics of “free trade” and globalization tend to present the issue as either/or: it’s inherently good or …