While E-commerce is slowly chipping away at brick and mortar, it is not the catch all reason for the collapse. E-commerce < 10% of retail sales. The remaining 90% is suffering for other reasons. (Hint: #DEBT)
$DJIA has been lurking just under 200MA for the past 7 trading days. That MA had previously acted as support. If DJIA starts downward from here, that means lurking is over and the downtrend is getting going for real. DON’T …
ANNALS OF #THERESISTANCE: Teen Attacked For Wearing MAGA Hat, Assailant Fired. San Antonio police are investigating what appears to be a politically motivated hate crime after 16-year-old Trump supporter Richard Hunter was reportedly assaulted by an aggressive liberal for wearing a …
The Justice Potter Stewart Bubble: Wilshire 5000 To GDP Ratio At All-time High US Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart once stated that with regard to obscenity, “I know it when I see it.” The same goes for asset bubbles. I know …
– Interest Rates Cannot Rise Because It Will Cause A Recession Sorry, rates are unsustainably low and bond yields as well. Rate hikes are urgent and healthy. If “growth needs zero interest rates” and massive debt, why is growth so …
What do you think the TRIGGER EVENT will be for the next financial crisis? Let’s look at what’s really going on. Globally, in 2018, markets have shown their true weakness. As soon as central banks made it known that QE …
via Mike Bird and Riva Gold Even before a round of U.S. tariffs levied on China comes into force Friday, there are signs that global trade is already cooling. Business surveys published this week show that global export growth, strong in 2017, has slowed …
by Egon von Greyerz Can investors really be that wrong? Global risk is today greater than ever in history and at the same time the great majority of investors show no fear at all. There are so many potential catalysts that …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU8SoW_dTRo At the height of the immigrant influx into Europe in 2014 and 2015, Sweden with a population of 6.7 million, accepted 244,178 asylum seekers – by far, the highest rate per capita in the EU. Since then the rate …
by DCG From Yahoo (via Engadget): The New York Times recently published a reportthat revealed a disturbing trend of harassment and domestic abuse via internet-connected devices. In addition to using them to stalk and monitor their victims, abusers are also doing things like changing door-lock codes, turning lights …
by Thinker What happened to HONOR? Actions with integrity and truth don’t have to be reprimanded or threatened. How far does ownership go over a man/woman when they sign to join the military and serve their country? The military firing officers …
by Thinker Every American who has gone to war or lost a loved one is who the “deep state” wants to keep information from. Who have the men/women of the U.S. been fighting and dying for if it wasn’t what …
From the NBC original story and buried near the end: In response to a series of questions from NBC, Ohio State emailed a statement saying that the law firm Perkins Coie was overseeing the probe into the Strauss allegations for the university. …
by John Ward A new Prime Minister, a new Foreign Secretary, and a major breach of Porton Down security that threatened to become political dynamite for a Conservative Government already struggling to survive after an ill-timed General Election. Is this how …
The people who keep voting for her in this district, even though nothing ever changed over the years, are more stupid than she is, which is A LOT! LINK: https://twitter.com/kwilli1046/status/1014671966714912768 The 43rd district boundaries https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/CA/43 https://youtu.be/qNpLUFRfsZI How Maxine Waters lives v. …
by DCG Kill your babies via abortion? That’s a right! Educate your babies to read and write via compulsory, taxpayer-provided education? Fuhgetaboutit! By Lori Higgins at Detroit Free Press: Few could dispute the importance of literacy. But children have no fundamental right …
by howmuch Everybody assumes that CEOs make the most money, but it turns out that getting into the C-Suite isn’t the only way to earn a giant paycheck. Publicly traded companies are now required to release pay figures for their …
by yellowsnow2 This is just the first source I could find because the search terms bring up so much garbage. If you don’t like the source feel free to look for another. “As president, I will make it clear that …
by SpaceFloow I found this article that believes the Novichok attacks could have been done by anyone, not just Russia. https://newsclick.in/novichok-story-indeed-another-iraqi-wmd-scam TL;DR Porton Down has acknowledged in publications it has never seen any Russian “novichoks”. The UK government has absolutely …
Awan pleas out, flips on her, she’s next. The DNC server is the key. EVERYTHING will be coming out soon. These people are stupid. And desperate. Review the accusations (predicted) against key House Intelligence and Judiciary Committee members (Devin Nunes, …
by Michael Snyder Firefighters all over the western part of the country are talking about an unprecedented wildfire season, and we are only in early July. It is going to get a lot hotter and a lot drier as we …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Was “QQE” just a pretext for bringing the government bond market under control to avoid a Greek-style debt crisis? In June, total assets on the Bank of Japan’s balance sheet dropped by ¥3.79 trillion yen ($34 billion) from …
SAN ANTONIO — Police are investigating after a teen says he was verbally attacked and assaulted at a Whataburger for wearing a Make America Great Again hat. In the video, you can see a man throw a drink in 16-year-old Hunter …
by Charles Hugh-Smith The gathering storm cannot be dissipated with propaganda and bribes. July 4th is an appropriate day to borrow Winston Churchill’s the gathering storm to describe the existential crisis that will envelope America within the next decade. There is no single …
Trump Approval Jumps As Attacks From Critics Backfire; Trump Now More Popular Than FBI: IBD/TIPP Poll Increasingly bitter and aggressive attacks on President Trump managed to bolster his approval rating, which climbed 5 points to reach the second highest level …
via pjmedia: Facebook announced last year that they will be using third-party fact-checkers to root out “fake news” on their platform. At the time of the announcement, conservatives sounded the alarm about how some of the fact-checkers they’re using are left-wing …
Fake News: MSNBC’s Joy Reid Wrongly Urges Twitter Mob to Attack Innocent Grandma. FoxLA.com reported the truth behind the image: A photo taken by the Ventura County Star that’s been making the social media rounds has become twisted as it churns its way …
The Martha’s Vineyard Crowd Strikes Back At Alan Dershowitz For His Defenses Of Trump. But all is not lost: Trump backer Ernie Boch Jr. welcomes Vineyard outcast Alan Dershowitz. Boch, who apparently runs with a different crowd, said he’s chumming with …
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: What if We Treated Public Schools as Monopolies? If monopolies are bad, then public schooling is possibly the worst kind of monopoly. Many of my friends who defend public education are also the political type who are …
by Chris Black Speaking of leftist insanity and news going under the radar, on Tuesday, an Episcopalian church in Indianapolis decided to protest President Trump’s zero tolerance immigration policy by putting statues of Mary, Joseph and the baby Jesus in …