by Geoffrey Grider Law professor Catherine A. MacKinnon writes that “Once a defense of the powerless, the First Amendment over the last hundred years has mainly become a weapon of the powerful.” Oh really? Someone once said that ‘Liberalism is a …
by Magic2424 I am currently 25, my parents raised me to save save save. Things like not having cable, only ever driving cars that cost >$1000, never eating out, camping vacations (rare). Because of this, my parents saved enough money …
Our model for the S&P has caught all the major cycles since 2000. What it suggests now is that following the recent bounce towards in the S&P towards 2800, the highs are in and while the initial sell-off shouldn't be …
Why U.S. Household Wealth Is In A Bubble – Part 1 Since the financial crisis in early-2009, household wealth has surged by nearly $46 trillion or 83 percent to a record $100.8 trillion. As the chart below shows, the powerful increase in …
The Obama administration granted citizenship to 2,500 Iranians, including family members of government officials, while negotiating the Iran nuclear deal, a senior cleric and member of parliament has claimed. Hojjat al-Islam Mojtaba Zolnour, who is chairman of Iran’s parliamentary nuclear …
What do you think is the best indicator for housing prices? The #1 statistic to determine if real estate is undervalued or overvalued is debatable, but it most certainly should be the average price of a home vs the average …
Democrats are eating their own. https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1013506609153265664 GOD’S ARMY @Brenda06135 14h14 hours ago More Replying to @RealSaavedra @RepMaxineWaters you have been in the US congress for more than 26 years. What infrastructure bills have you gotten passed during that period? What have you done …
by Dave Armstrong suggests that it is a natural feature of markets that if a decline is severe enough, the market will take a long time to recover. The more severe and rapid the decline, the longer it will take …
Wolf here: Amazon is a mega-force in online retail. The “Amazon effect” is everywhere. But even for Amazon (AMZN), it’s hard to make money on its online retail operations. Amazon, through its division AWS, also owns a big part of …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIZqsq5fi8I Scott Kelnhofer for the Western Journal reports, Money can’t buy love and it can’t buy happiness. And in some areas of the San Francisco, it can’t buy most people a home, either. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.westernjournal.com/low-in…
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter “Recent home buyers could be facing negative equity”: CoreLogic. In Sydney, Australia’s largest property market and Petri dish for one of the world’s biggest housing bubbles, home prices fell 4.6% in June compared to a year …
by Charles Hugh-Smith Printing / borrowing money to generate the unsustainable illusion of “growth” sets up the collapse of the entire Keynesian edifice. Of the many delusions of modern economics, perhaps the greatest is that the dominant Keynesian model reflects …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_rdj9zj8zY #QAnon. Here. Follow. It’s our Bletchley Park, thecentral site for British (and subsequently, Allied) codebreakers during World War II. It housed the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS), which regularly penetrated the secret communications of the Axis Powers – …
President Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan will be in Wisconsin this Thursday for the groundbreaking of the $10 billion Foxconn plant. The Taiwanese electronics company has promised thousands of jobs in Racine County and in return has been offered …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zJSL5pAs4k One of just three jaguars known to be living in the U.S. was recently killed by poachers. Experts identified the jaguar’s pelt in a recent photo and say it is Yo’oko, a male jaguar (Panthera onca) that was known …
via BOING BOING: Kenichiro Okamoto, a Japanese blogger and cybercrime consultant, was murdered in a restroom following a lecture he gave in Fukuoka on how to deal with Internet trolls. From The Washington Post: About 15 minutes after he concluded his talk, …
“An oppressive religious state, showing very little tolerance inside its borders for the unrest and dissent that has found fertile ground elsewhere in the Arab world. http://www.cbc.ca/passionateeye/episodes/saudi-arabia-uncovered With unprecedented access to an intrepid network of young activists, Saudi Arabia Uncovered …
by howmuch Imports are the lifeblood of a developed economy, they let consumers enjoy a wide range of products that they may otherwise be unable to find. Think about all the conveniences of modern life that usually come from other …
by David Panizzutti This article is not so much about economics as it is about life. The two are more entwined than the average person wants to accept. I remember as a young boy a wise older friend told me that …
It’s about time… finally someone does a great job of explaining why President Trump’s plan is 100 times better and safer than Obama’s plan. Hopefully, whistleblower Jason Piccalo will go on TV and start screaming this to the public. I …
Hardliners in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative bloc on Monday gave her a two-week ultimatum to tighten asylum rules or risk pitching Germany into a political crisis that would also rattle Europe. Interior Minister Horst Seehofer’s CSU party at a meeting …
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By June 1776, the British had taken over Boston, attempted to confiscate the arms of the local militias (leading to Paul Revere’s Ride and the Battles of Lexington and Concord). After their defeats at Lexington & Concord, the British determined …
by Michael Snyder We haven’t seen anything like this since the financial crisis of 2008. Investors are taking money out of global stock funds at a pace that we haven’t seen in 10 years, and many believe that this is …
by Michael Snyder While most of the world is focused on the World Cup and other trivial pursuits, the three global superpowers are busy jockeying for nuclear superiority. Historians will debate the extent to which the first Cold War ever …
We need to pray for Maxine Waters Alveda King, niece of Martin Luther King Jr., on Rep. Maxine Waters’ call for people to publicly confront Trump administration officials and how White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked to …
While the focus in Washington remains centered on the Mueller Russia probe, we cannot lose sight of another ongoing investigation on Capitol Hill. At the center of this developing scandal are the nefarious actions of a former Democratic congressional IT …
In what looks like a validation of the growing public expressions of anger directed at members of the media, a new Axios poll found that nearly all (a staggering 92%) of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents believe that mainstream media organizations …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29FbQF3pigg The main speakers in the video are Kamala Harris, Angelica Salas (Head of CHIRLA), Maxine Waters, and Gavin Newsom.
