Bonds Are The New FANG!

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by jessefelder It was nearly five years ago, in late-2014, that I wrote a piece titled, “Here’s Why The Long Bond Could Be About To Blast Off.” At the time, I argued that the combination of relative value and extreme negative sentiment was very constructive for bond prices. And it wasn’t long before this idea … Read more

Even after the ‘mid cycle adjustment’, global policy rates are still too tight given economic data (global PMI).

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Even after the 'mid cycle adjustment', global policy rates are still too tight given economic data (global pmi). pic.twitter.com/bQFT7lpult — Teddy Vallee (@TeddyVallee) August 6, 2019 Central banks around the world are surprising markets with aggressive rate cuts: Here’s why Central banks in New Zealand, India and Thailand all announced larger-than-expected cuts to interest rates … Read more

‘Death Camps For Trump Supporters’ Fliers In New York… Update: Castro Outed Own Supporter To Shame Trump

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by follyboyz This is absolutely unacceptable. They are threatening Trump campaign donors "For those of you funding Donald Trump's re-election campaign, you may want to take note: Because you keep writing checks to this president, it's on you…because you are funding this white supremacist campaign…It is your money that is funding this white supremacy." —@JoeNBC pic.twitter.com/w0kxC0KJAk … Read more

Oberlin College Trying To Delay Settlement Payment To Bakery Until After Bakery Owner Dies

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The bakery-owning family that won a $32.5 million defamation suit against Oberlin College is accusing the famously left-wing school of trying to string the case along until an owner dies of cancer. In a video posted Tuesday to Facebook, Dave Gibson said he had been diagnosed “late last year” with pancreatic cancer, a fact he … Read more

NBC Contributor Goes Full Conspiracy On Trump’s Flag Lowering Order

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NBC News contributor Frank Figliuzzi said Monday that President Trump’s decision to fly American flags half-staff until Aug. 8– in response to the El Paso and Dayton mass shootings– could be seen by white supremacists as a nod to Adolf Hitler. Figliuzzi, a former FBI assistant director for counterintelligence, made the claim during an MSNBC broadcast with Brian Williams. Trump issued the order on … Read more

SLOPPY: CDC Shuts Down Military Lab Studying Ebola, Plague, etc. Amid Fears It’s GETTING OUT Through Wastewater

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by Daisy Luther We may not have to wait for a traveler from the Democratic Republic of Congo to visit the United States for an Ebola outbreak. It just might be brought to us by our own military along with the plague and other horrifying germs. The laboratory at Fort Detrick, the  U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of … Read more

NYT CHANGES front-page mass shootings headline for DEMONCRATS, something your not supposed to see

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© The New York Times The New York Times was forced to alter its front page headline after it was savaged online by high-profile Democrats who didn’t like how the paper framed President Donald Trump’s speech about mass shootings. The US newspaper got into trouble after print editor Tom Jolly shared a preview of Tuesday’s … Read more

Chernobyl’s ‘sarcophagus’ built to contain fallout from the 1986 disaster is being pulled down as experts fear it could soon collapse

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Ukrainian firm maintains safety at the former Soviet nuclear power plant where a reactor exploded in 1986 It’s signed a £64 million contract to deal with the collapsing sarcophagus and remove its debris by 2023  Robotic cranes and engineers will work to reinforce and dismantle the structure and deal with any hazards A £2 billion … Read more

Elon Musk used to claim the Tesla Model 3 was the safest car on earth. Then he got a cease-and-desist from the US government.

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Tesla and its CEO, Elon Musk, repeatedly described the company’s Model 3 sedan as the safest car ever tested by US regulators — claims that earned Musk a cease-and-desist letter last October. The transparency group PlainSite on Tuesday published a letter from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration taking issue with the claim that “there is … Read more

Apple slips to 4th place in a list of the world’s top smartphone makers after record drop in iPhone sales

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Apple is losing its grip on the smartphone market. The US-headquartered tech company slipped to fourth place in an IHS Markit list of the world’s top smartphone makers during the second quarter of 2019. It now sits behind Samsung, Huawei, and Oppo – a Chinese smartphone brand that is lesser-known in the West. According to … Read more

Why So Many Homeless People? – The Ugly Truth Behind The Poverty

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by Josh Sigurdson and John Sneisen of World Alternative Media Josh Sigurdson talks with WAM contributor Tim Picciott of The Liberty Advisor about the economic conditions that lead to such an excess in the number of homeless currently on the streets throughout major cities around the world. No matter where in the world you are, the problem is clearly getting … Read more

BREXIT MELTDOWN: how other agendas have now taken over

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by John Ward The Eunatics have Britain exactly where they want it: in a state of anarchic chaos. We need a General Election with intelligent voting. ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ This is a sad, sad time for Britain. Three years of grubby lies, broken promises and false witness are now morphing into a scene from the fall of the … Read more

Looking At Solving Its Growing Homelessness Problems, Austin Finally Turns To The Obvious Answer: Color-Coding.

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What are those violet trash bags about? How Austin hopes to encourage homeless population to clean up their areas. AUSTIN (KXAN) — For the next six weeks you may see violet-colored trash bags in certain sections of Austin. It’s a new program the city is trying out to encourage those experiencing homelessness to clean up … Read more

And That’s How it All Came Down

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by David Haggith On June 12, I wrote, The market is moving into waiting mode as the Fed’s next FOMC meeting where they have the opportunity to live up to the rate-cutting hopes they’ve raised come next week. As it does, it is forming that topping pattern that keeps repeating at this level. “Frothy Bubbles Make … Read more

Banks Slash Trader Bonuses As Wall Street Braces For Recession

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via Zerohedge: Even the Wall Street traders who survived this year’s cull of front-office personnel won’t escape the great bulge-bracket bank retrenchment of 2019 unscathed. According to Bloomberg, which cited a report from compensation consultants Johnson Associates, after the worst first half in a decade for Wall Street trading desks, bonuses for equity traders are expected … Read more