Capital One gets pwned by former Amazon Engineer, swipes personal info on 106 million US, Canadian credit card applicants

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More than 1 million social numbers nicked among other details – FBI collars, charges software engineer A hacker raided Capital One’s cloud storage buckets and stole personal information on 106 million credit card applicants in America and Canada. The swiped data includes 140,000 US social security numbers and 80,000 bank account numbers, we’re told, as … Read more

Everybody all in? Everybody all owning the same few stocks via index funds and ETFs. Nobody ever selling because markets are risk free?

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by northmantrader As outlined this weekend put call ratios are fairly low and benign going into this week’s Fed meeting. No worries. Investor positioning? All in long it appears. One indicator combination of interest, RYDEX account positioning as well as money flows. During times of market stress we can observe shifts to more bearish positioning and the RYDEX … Read more

A Sign Of The Times? Las Vegas Is Being Hit By A Grasshopper Plague Of “Biblical Proportions”

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by Michael Snyder It is being called “the Great Grasshopper Invasion of 2019”, and it is really freaking out a lot of people in Las Vegas, because most of them don’t understand why this is suddenly happening.  Unusually wet weather earlier this year created ideal breeding conditions, and now massive swarms of grasshoppers have descended … Read more

Guggenheim Expects Stocks to Crash 50% In The Next Recession

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via Zerohedge: One could get whiplash listening to Guggenheim’s Scott Minerd’s rapidly changing opinions these days. Back on May 29, the weightlifting CIO of the $265 billion asset manager, made a gloomy forecast on CNBC, predicting that the stock market sell-off is likely far from over, and said stocks would go “somewhere below the lows in December.” Near … Read more

Chip Roy UNLOADS On House Democrats In Hearing And Storms Out

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPhrihnNizk Molly Prince from The Daily Wire reports, Firebrand freshman Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) slammed House Democrats on Thursday for prioritizing a “fishing expedition” into senior White House aides’ communications instead of focusing upon the needs of the American people. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.dailywire.com/news/49906/…

If The Federal Reserve Cuts Interest Rates Now, It Will Be An Admission That A Recession Is Coming

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by Michael Snyder So there is a lot of buzz that the Federal Reserve is about to cut interest rates – and it might actually happen.  We’ll see.  But if it does happen, it will directly contradict the carefully crafted narrative about the economy that the Federal Reserve has been perpetuating all this time.  Fed … Read more

Fake Cash & Fake Accounting: Chinese Regulators Suddenly Halt 46 IPOs and Bond Offerings

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter The companies are clients of China’s 2nd largest audit firm, now under investigation. On Monday, Jinhe Biotechnology and Liande Automatic Equipment disclosed in filings that they had been ordered by the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) to suspend their plans to sell bonds. On Sunday night, four companies — Hunan Baili … Read more

Taking Advantage of the Infrastructure Boom: The Case for Taxable Municipal Bonds

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by visualcapitalist The Case for Taxable Municipal Bonds for Investors If you’re a homeowner, there are probably a few things you’ve been neglecting to do. Perhaps the kitchen needs upgrading, or the roof needs replacing. We tend to procrastinate on these improvements due to large renovation costs, until it hits a point where we can’t ignore … Read more

Everything you need to know about Hunting Seasons

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IMG Source: https://unsplash.com/photos/v2ogJh_Pbxg  (free to use)    Let’s face the truth- killing other animals being an intelligent animal ourselves is quite cruel. However, both death and survival are part of life and we do need food to survive well. Humans have been hunting from the very beginning of their existence to survive in this world … Read more

Americans Are Not Ready for Coming Financial Calamity

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Greg Hunter interviews Kevin Shipp via USA Watchdog Former CIA Officer and whistleblower Kevin Shipp says a very big risk is the global economic system suffering a financial calamity. This includes the U.S. Shipp contends, “Russia and China are stocking up on gold . . . as they agree to stop using the U.S. dollar and go to the … Read more

Joe Scarborough from MSNBC Calls For HARM To Trump After Mueller Testimony

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GYW59qt-BA 100% Fed Up reports, It’s safe to say that Joe Scarborough has a bad case of Trump Derangement Syndrome. He had an on-air temper tantrum today that was stunning. It’s unbelievable that MSNBC allows this emotional, hate-filled lunatic to just go on and on until he gives up and says “If you don’t do … Read more

U.S. tech-job listings have slowed down in recent quarter

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From Axios: While U.S. companies continue to vigorously seek new workers, growth in openings for some hard-core digitalized jobs — projected to be among the most prominent work in the future economy — have sharply slowed, according to a new report. Quick take: The reported weakening in hiring may reflect the general U.S. economic slowdown. But, amid … Read more

Robots take over NYC restaurants

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From the Wall Street Journal: Robots are making their way into New York City’s restaurants. A growing number of dining spots throughout town are using machines to prepare all manner of food and drink, in many cases replacing the employees who would normally handle the task. Think gizmos that can do everything from slice a sushi … Read more