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Weird. The Palm Beach elections supervisor threatened to arrest reporters and it’s not a bigger story. #PalmBeachCounty elections supervisor bans media cameras from public ballot counting & threatens them with arrest. How much more will it take to convince skeptics that what is happening in Palm Beach & #BrowardCounty is not a normal elections process? … Read more

via angry bear blog How might a slowdown (not a recession, but a decline in growth to the 1%-2% YoY range in GDP) that I’ve been forecasting for around midyear 2019 manifest itself in the employment arena?One of my mantras is that “hiring leads firing.” In other words, companies slow or stop their hiring plans, … Read more

via GPC As I keep warning, the Fed is going to hike rates until something breaks. And by “something,” I don’t meant a garden variety correction in the markets; the Fed has made it EXPLICIT that it would only consider slowing the pace of rate hikes if the markets entered a meltdown so massive that it … Read more

Do you think that housing prices in these major bubble cities like Seattle will continue to go higher in 2019? Or is this at or near the peak of housing right now? Home prices have fallen in countless cities around the world now. There’s no way to know how far they can go in this … Read more

RWN Official reports, And here it comes from Nancy Pelosi… her number one priority now that the Democrats have regained control of the House of Representatives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6-8omMMAMs   Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://rwnofficial.com/nancy-pelosi-…

Cillian Zeal for the Western Journal reports, While most of the attention was on the House and Senate this year, as well as other ballot initiatives on issues like marijuana legalization, minimum wage increases were still on the ballot in several states. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92Vsm2dfHEI   Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.westernjournal.com/min-wa…

via UPFINA It seems like almost every new data point on housing shows weakness. That’s because even though millennials are entering their prime age for home buying, starter homes have become unaffordable. Housing prices for houses less than 75% of the cost of median houses increased 8.9% from September 2016 to September 2017 which was above the … Read more

by Dr. Eowyn If one part of an event is a lie, the whole event is contrived. According to the timeline of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting on Wednesday, February 14, 2018, in Parkland, Florida: 2:19 p.m.: An Uber driver dropped off Nikolas Cruz, 19, at the high school. 2:21 p.m.: Cruz entered Building 12, … Read more

RT America, Released on 11/9/18 Gov. Jesse Ventura, host of RT America’s “The World According to Jesse,” joins Rick Sanchez to discuss post-traumatic stress disorder in veterans and how the treatment and mistreatment of veterans in the United States may fuel the kind of violence that happened in the Thousand Oaks shooting. Jesse Ventura, is … Read more

by Chris Martenson Planning without practice is essentially worthless We’re pleased to announce the first-ever Peak Prosperity Resilience Challenge. Over an upcoming weekend in January 2019 (specifc dates to be announced soon) participating individuals will turn off their electricity from Friday at 7:00pm to 7:00pm Sunday and subsist entirely off of their existing preparations. Are you … Read more

by Jesse Colombo After plunging for most of October, the U.S. stock market rebounded sharply in the last two weeks in anticipation of the U.S. mid-term elections. Though the market soared the day after the election, the rally petered out on Thursday and Friday. This means that the breakdown from the important three-year old uptrend line … Read more

Authored by David Stockman via The Economic Policy Journal, Earlier this year the Donald provoked a bleep-hole moment per the Fox “family channel” or what was otherwise known as the shit-hole moment across the rest of the MSM. But whatever you called the contretemps spurred by the president’s crude utterance with regard to certain countries … Read more

by Chris Black Do you remember what Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s handler, used to say back in the day? Never let a crisis go to waste? After winning the midterms, Democrats are now looking to pass aggressive gun control legislation in the aftermath of the mass shooting at the country music bar in Thousand Oaks, which … Read more

via visualcapitalist: The Chart of the Week is a weekly Visual Capitalist feature on Fridays. Are you ready to hand your job over to R2D2? According to a recent study, it’s forecasted by the Mckinsey Global Institute that up to 800 million workers worldwide could lose their jobs to automation by 2030. Industrial machine operators, administrators, and service workers … Read more

Part of a global trend, as exasperated consumers are squealing, but no country has threatened to do what Mexico proposed. By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. Mexico’s stocks are plummeting, with the S&P/BMV IPC index down 5.8% on Thursday — the worst drop in seven years — and another 2.8% by midday … Read more

by Chris Kimble CLICK ON CHART TO ENLARGE Joe Friday suggested that Crude Oil could be peaking in the chart above first shared on 5/25/18, as Crude was testing its 50% retracement level at (2). Weakness in Crude of late has it down near  20% from recent highs. Crude is one of the most important commodities … Read more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuXrjJDDmKg I’m Texan and Governor Abbott is looking into voter fraud. We have a great honorable Governor! We also have the Castle Law, if anyone comes on our property and we feel threatened we can defend ourselves! KK

Josh Sigurdson talks with author and economic analyst John Sneisen about the stunning development out of Statistics Canada as they unroll new policies which would involve lifting 15 years of people’s credit rating information and seizing people’s bank records. No audit, nothing. Simply put, the government says it’s okay so everyone must bow down and … Read more

by Jesse Colombo After selling off this summer, copper has been consolidating over the last couple months and appears to be forming a wedge-type pattern that may indicate another strong move when the metal breaks out from it one way or another. Copper has a reputation for leading the global economy and is known as … Read more

by Wayne Allyn Root I always tell the raw truth. I don’t back down. I just say what’s on my mind and let the chips fall where it may. Here’s the raw truth about Tuesday’s election: the winners and losers. Winner #1: President Trump. Liberals won’t understand this one. But they will soon… Trump pulled off a miracle. He … Read more

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Lured by the siren song of a “buying opportunity” and a fat yield. GE shares plunged another 10% this morning to a low of $8.15 before recovering a little. They’re now a big step closer to the Financial Criss low of $6.66, which had been the lowest since the early 1990s. … Read more

via Sara Tipton: The joyous time of the holiday season brings with it several factors that can cause stress to become out of control.  But there a few simple and all natural ways that work wonders for combating that extra pressure this season! 5 Ways To Beat Holiday Stress ‘Tis the season to be jolly, right? … Read more

by DCG Demorat Eric Schneiderman getting a free pass… I expect the feminists and #MeToo movement to start protests, STAT. And the liberal media should demand justice 24/7 on the public air waves. Oh wait, the perp is a demorat. Never mind… From NY Post: Former New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has dodged criminal charges in the … Read more

by DCG   Photos from GoFundMe page You want to see REAL oppression? Go live in the country under this flag. Every day the left find another way to show their disdain for America. From Fox News: An American flag mural in a small town in New York was vandalized after several protesters started calling for a boycott, … Read more

New reports are revealing the channels of indirect funding for the recent migrant caravans, which point to billionaire George Soros. One America’s Kristian Rouz looks into that matter. Soros is also indirectly responsible for the Demonrat socialist agenda.   RB