Democratic incumbent Bill Nelson conceded Florida’s race for U.S. Senate on Sunday, signaling the end of an 18-year run in Congress’ upper chamber and likely the close of a 46-year political career. According to Gov. Rick Scott, who defeated Nelson in a race so close it required a manual recount, Nelson called to concede after … Read more
Japanese researchers at the Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) research center have developed a prototype humanoid robot, the HRP-5P, designed to autonomously perform heavy labor in hazardous environments. Standing just under 6-feet tall and clocking in at 222 lbs, the HRP-5P has “unsurpassed physical capabilities,” according to Phys.org, and is fitted with an array … Read more
More Than 1,000 Missing In California Fires Firefighters have been racing against time. Firefighters issued a red flag warning, which is issued for weather events which may result in extreme fire behavior, Saturday night into Sunday. Winds up to 50 mph and low humidity are possible. https://www.cbsnews.com/live-news/fires-in-california-camp-woolsey-paradise-wildfire-evacuations-death-toll-map-2018-11-18-latest/ AC
by John Rubino Dan Oliver: We learned nothing from the 2008 crisis … Michael Alkin: The US auto industry is about to implode … Rick Rule vs Marin Katusa: Who is the top stock picker? … Peter Schiff: Investors are oblivious as multiple bubbles pop … Steen Jakobsen: The Four Horsemen portend a painful reckoning … Read more
The real reason for Winter Storm Avery in Autumn breaking thousands of snow and cold records is that our Sun is changing as it always does on its 400 year cycle called a Grand Solar Minimum. This affects global grain yields and food prices. If you think New York’s old snow record was one inch … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5TvHeHcw_0 The Daily Caller reports Former Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Tom Homan said it’s “game on” for the government’s showdown with the migrant caravan headed for the southern border, on “Fox & Friends” this week. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://rwnofficial.com/game-on-forme…
by Doug French via Mises Wire The New York Times reminded us that two things which go together are a currency crisis and prostitution. The featured story on October 28 was the red light district in uber-depressed Athens where “Dimitra, a middle-aged woman who lost her [flower] shop in the crisis and now works as a madam on … Read more
by Thinker How could anyone have thought the Pentagon could have passed, when in 2001 they announced they couldn’t find $2.3 trillion dollars, it just disappeared. Since there wasn’t an outrage or march on Washington about the missing trillions, that amount that can’t be found by the Pentagon has jumped to over $9 trillion today!!! … Read more
by Thinker Well, bad boy Jim Acosta, and the fake news CNN, with all their using bad laws to get back into the White House, just may have opened the door for the POTUS to let every alternative journalist who applies for a WH press pass to get in. Mainstream media has always been invited … Read more
by DCG More “feel-good,” useless legislation (show me a study where it’s been shown that signs reduce gun violence) that will do nothing to stop criminals. From MyNorthwest.com: The King County Board of Health passed legislation requiring stores that sell firearms and firing ranges to post signs warning customers of the various dangers posed by gun violence. … Read more
via Joe Guzzardi: For California natives like me, the wildfires are a real gut punch. As of this writing, the wildfires are the deadliest in the state’s history with 63 fatalities, and more than 600 people are unaccounted for. More than 10,000 buildings are gone, and more than 230,000 acres have burned. In the now obliterated community of Paradise, … Read more
Via ZeroHedge During 2000–2016, suicide rates among American workers (aged 16–64 years) jumped 34%, from 12.9 per 100,000 population to 17.3, according to a newly published report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). “Increasing suicide rates in the US are a concerning trend that represents a tragedy for families and communities and impact the American workforce,” said Dr. Debra Houry, … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u31PZU3SRWI Terrence P. Jeffrey for CNS News reports, The federal government collected record total tax revenues of $252, BILLION in October, the first month of fiscal 2019, according to the Monthly Treasury Statement released Tuesday. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/…
Commentary: 40% of the American middle class face poverty in retirement. How do we change that? https://t.co/3pArY3E7SW — CNBC (@CNBC) November 18, 2018 Some 40 percent of middle-class Americans are at risk of poverty in retirement, due to depressed earnings and asset values and increased health-care costs. Nearly three-quarters of workers now plan to work … Read more
by gorillaz0e Graph of this issue: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DsJk79OWkAA0Wq-.jpg When people say ETFs and passive flows are driving the market….. Weekly flows of ETFs that hold $GE actually have a -12.17% (yes negative) to the performance of GE shares YTD. This is interesting to note. Are you surprised to see that GE tanks, while the funds, that hold … Read more
Credit bubbles caused by the central banks always burst….https://t.co/qgd75cqR2R — Dave Collum (@DavidBCollum) November 18, 2018 The good times are coming to an end in the corporate debt market, and this week’s turmoil in General Electric Co. credit is a sign that things can get much worse. That’s what a growing chorus of money managers are saying. … Read more
The entire world is burning, and America is holding on by a thread pic.twitter.com/8XARuLvD9X — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) November 17, 2018 In case you missed it: #Greece's banks index has dropped another 12.3% this week, hit lowest level since 2016. pic.twitter.com/OJQlQRkeyM — Holger Zschaepitz (@Schuldensuehner) November 16, 2018 Anyone from Australia that has on-the-ground insight into … Read more
ITM Trading, Released on 11/16/18 Link to Slides and Sources: https://www.itmtrading.com/blog/corpo… Everyone wants to know if this is the market implosion that we’ve been expecting. Perhaps it is since frozen corporate buybacks met a lack of buyers and sent stock markets on a volatility roller coaster ride that started in October. The anticipated November surge in … Read more
Fox News, Released on 11/14/18 It was a CNN that almost single-handedly led the campaign to have broadcaster Alex Jones banished from the Internet, on the grounds
by Jim Quinn You will find more infographics at Statista Since the September 11 terror attacks in the United States, the U.S. has racked up costs of almost $6 trillion in its War on Terror. This is according to a new Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs analysis. Unlike official estimates from the Pentagon, the … Read more
via theblaze: Both the New York Times and CNN have deliberately misled readers about two sexual harassment-related formal rebukes issued by the House Ethics Committee on Friday. In the case of the Times, they hid the fact that the rebukes addressed one Republican and one Democrat (guess which part they hid), and in the case of CNN, attempted … Read more
Pupils have been banned from wearing expensive designer coats to school to stop other kids feeling poor. Woodchurch High School in Wirral, in Northwest England, says students are no longer allowed to dress in jackets from Canada Goose, Moncler or Pyrenex, which cost up to 1,000 pounds ($1,280) each. The Church of England academy sent a letter … Read more
You may not agree with Glenn Greenwald often, and you may even believe that Julian Assange is/was a national security threat. Reasonable minds can differ. But Greenwald’s piece in The Intercept underscores what many conservatives, libertarians and free-thinkers have known for a while: “Over the last two years, journalists and others have melodramatically claimed that press freedoms … Read more
Macroeconomic analyst Rob Kirby says, “The lineup of billions of dollars to get into physical metal is astoundingly large. . . . ” If you think this all sounds crazy, well it is, and the financial elites know it. Kirby says, “When the financial elites are dealing with hopeless situations, they will make decisions that … Read more
by Geoffrey Grider Drivers were trapped on gridlocked, snowy roads for hours. Middle schoolers in New Jersey had to spend the night at school. The upper level of the George Washington Bridge — one of the busiest bridges in the world — came to a standstill with drivers abandoning their cars. I was born and … Read more