Charted: The Companies Making the Most Money in 2019

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by howmuch Big companies around the world are reaping the benefits of a strong global economy, with many raking in hundreds of billions of dollars. Every year, Fortune Magazine publishes a ranking of the world’s largest companies by revenue. Our new visualization presents the top 100 companies to make the cut in 2019, including where … Read more

“A Generation Without A Future”: Millennials Struggle To Survive In Modern Hong Kong

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via Zerohedge: As we pointed out yesterday, migration from Hong Kong to Taiwan has surged this year – but not solely because the streets of Hong Kong have been clogged with protesters since June. Young Hong Kongers, like their American counterparts living in San Francisco and Brooklyn, are struggling with the twin burdens of managing rent … Read more

The “Lungs Of The Earth” Are Literally Being Burned Away As Unprecedented Wildfires Absolutely Ravage Our Planet

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by Michael Snyder We have never seen anything quite like this.  This week the skies above Brazil’s largest city turned black in the middle of the afternoon due to the massive wildfires that are currently raging in that country.  But the wildfires aren’t actually happening anywhere near São Paulo.  In fact, the smoke that turned … Read more

Savers Need to Think Creatively as Interest Rates Drop

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The Fed’s July 31st quarter-point interest rate reduction may not sound like much. Undoubtedly, businesses, investors, and home-buyers would have preferred for interest rates to go down more dramatically — with guarantees of more reductions to come. With all of the trade concerns potentially affecting the economy, their wish might come true very quickly. Unfortunately, … Read more

One Of The Largest “Too Big To Fail” Banks In America Boldly Declares That “The Wheels For A Slowdown Are In Motion”

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by Michael Snyder Now even one of the biggest banks in the entire country is openly admitting that a “slowdown” is upon us.  Over the past week or so, the mainstream media has been filled with chatter about the possibility of a recession and what that would mean for the Trump campaign in 2020, and we continue to … Read more

Obamagate: The biggest scandal in our history. 3 hours on the plot to subvert Donald Trump

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In this special edition of AMERICA First, Sebastian spends the full three hours focusing on the massive scandal known as “Obamagate,” from the illegal surveillance of the Trump campaign to the Deep State attempts to bring down the Trump presidency, with special guests Joe DiGenova, Victoria Toensing, Sara Carter, John Solomon, and Chris Farrell of … Read more

Citing Congressional Testimony is now a Conspiracy Theory according to CNN

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by Stevemagegod Man the push to discredit anything that goes against the mainstream liberal narrative is ridiculous at this point. I thought liberals were naturally suspicious of big business. So why are they ignoring the claim? Its Congressional Testimony. And last time I checked lying to Congress is a crime. Punishable by fine or imprisonment. … Read more

Central Bank ZIRP & NIRP Create, Sustain & Reward More Zombie Companies

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Central bank policies of zero interest rate policy (ZIRP) and negative interest rate policy (NIRP) have had weird intended and unintended consequences for corporations including now over $1 trillion dollars in negative yielding corporate debt, which is is from only $20 billion dollars in January 2019. Negative yielding corporate debt over $1 trillion now! Surge … Read more

No Recession In Sight? But Cutting Rates To Avoid One

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by Mike Shedlock President Trump and his economic advisor Larry Kudlow have important announcements. I can help with translations. Please consider Trump ‘Not Ready’ for China Trade Deal, Dismisses Recession Fears. Consumers Doing Well Trump: “We’re doing tremendously well, our consumers are rich, I gave a tremendous tax cut, and they’re loaded up with money.” Trump Translated: The … Read more

How Will Airports Keep Up With Travel Demand?

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by Frank Holmes, CEO, U.S. Global Investors More than 2.7 million travelers on 44,000 flights travel across the United States each day – a figure that has increased every year since 2008. According to S&P Global Ratings, nearly 45 percent of all Americans took a commercial flight in 2018 and 42 percent of U.S. citizens now … Read more

Top 10 Signs We Are Entering a Recession

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by Amy S.  The world economy has never faced a more perilous situation. While many have just started to debate whether a recession will start in 2019 or 2020, very few perceive the ’black hole’ the global economy is about to get sucked into. With the trade war between the US and China re-escalating once more, … Read more

The Press in Iowa Caught by Surprise they Were Participating in a Bernie Sanders Fundraiser.

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JUST THINK OF THE MEDIA AS DEMOCRATIC PARTY OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES AND IT ALL MAKES SENSE via redstate: It was recently announced that Major League Baseball will be playing a regular season game at the famed Field Of Dreams stadium, in Dubuque Iowa. This is the now famous landmark location where the titular baseball motion … Read more

The “Hidden Tax” That Could Hurt Your Retirement Savings

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From Birch Gold Group Retirees have enough potential problems to deal with when it comes to providing security for their retirement, including the disturbing fact that 42% of Americans may retire broke. You can see in the GoBankingRates chart below that 61.6% of retirees have less than $100,000 saved for retirement, which is far from the amount some experts claim is needed on … Read more