This agency didn’t exist until Obama. via seattletimes: The board had played an influential role in advising the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s leadership. But members held a news conference to criticize Mulvaney for, among other things, canceling legally required meetings. WASHINGTON …
by Geoffrey Grider FIRST LADY MELANIA TRUMP MADE HER FIRST PUBLIC APPEARANCE IN NEARLY A MONTH ON WEDNESDAY, TAMPING DOWN RUMORS ABOUT HER NOTICEABLE ABSENCE FROM THE PUBLIC EYE AFTER SHE UNDERWENT A KIDNEY PROCEDURE. EDITOR’S NOTE: The fake news media …
by John Ward Is push at last coming to shove on the question of ‘real’ Brexit being delivered? Backstop plans to keep all of Ireland in the customs union after Brexit have now morphed into a plan to keep all of the …
by Duane Norman, Free Market Shooter Facing a serious re-election challenge from “Sex and the City” actress Cynthia Nixon, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo accomplished by executive action what he could not accomplish in the state legislature: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday …
via thedailybeast: ROME—“Immigrants are criminals!”—“Our interests first”—“What’s wrong with being friends with Russia?” If the rhetoric coming out of Italy’s newly minted government sounds familiar, that’s because it is. Just a day after being sworn in as Interior Minister and Deputy …
Sebastian Gorka DrG: “What are the Dems going to campaign on in November? Bring back ISIS? Bring back …” Sebastian Gorka DrG Verified account @SebGorka What are the Dems going to campaign on in November? – Bring back ISIS? – …
by Chris Vermeulen of The Technical Traders While the US majors continue to push higher through recent price rotation levels, the IWM (Russell 2000 ETF) is showing investors where strength lies in the markets. Recently, we issued a research report showing that a …
via silverdoctors: The U.S. national debt is actually twenty times higher than officially reported. Here’s what Laurence Kotlikoff says is really going on… Editor’s Note: Even when the national debt and debt servicing statistics and projections are taken at face value, …
by Martin Armstrong There is much hope buzzing around in Europe that Draghi is planning on ending Quantitative Easing. This is giving the Euro a bit of a lift in hopes that higher interest rates will stem to drastic …
The majority of likely voters in 2018 midterm swing districts across the United States say immigration to the U.S. has made American life worse, a new poll reveals. In the latest CBS News/YouGov Poll, which surveyed likely voters in 2018 …
https://youtu.be/59lEtxjFK5A Thousands of migrants in Paris are being cleared from their make-shift shelters along the city’s canals.Roughly 200 of them have been resettled in a wealthy district in the French capital. Charlotte Dubenskij went to find out what the residents …
Mass-Migration Should Be Accepted By Western Nations, UN SecGen UN member states should prepare for great migratory movements, said UN Secretary General António Guterres on 11th of January 2018 during the presentation of the report on the management of migration processes. …
by sundance This is one of those little snippets of information, buried in the swamp and avoided by the media, that seems small and disingenuous unless you know the corrupt record of the Senate Intelligence Committee. According to Wall Street Journalist Byron Tau, …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1O_GdJ2aQc Amanda Prestigiacomo for the Daily Wire reports, Three male police officers from California have come forward to accuse the state’s first female sheriff of past acts of sexual harassment and retribution. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.dailywire.com/news/31425/…
In your opinion, are taxes used mostly for our public services? Or are they squandered? Vast numbers of people from all classes are leaving California for a multitude of reasons which we will cover today. Businesses are concerned about taxation. …
Quote:He stoked further outrage last weekend with reported comments to far-right website Breitbart of his ambition to “empower other conservatives throughout Europe, other leaders”. Grenell also raised eyebrows with his plan to host a lunch on June 13 for Austria’s …
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https://twitter.com/StockBoardAsset/status/1004397868340400128 Corporations should take the $2.5 trillion in corporate buybacks and pay off the $1.5 trillion in student loans — then maybe millennials will consume again. — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) June 6, 2018
via Hussman Funds: Ever-increasing amounts of debt, taken on by those least able to pay it back. As the current Everything Bubble inflates to ever-more-absurd levels, larger loans must be sold to people who have almost no chance of ever …
https://twitter.com/RonStoeferle/status/1004270803448422401 that means most countries have diminishing marginal productivity of debt and are headed to #EconomicHeatDeath KW
https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/1004522695860674560 1999 – Why profits don’t matter for IPOs The Wall Street Journal has a heads-up article in Monday’s paper that says the percentage of companies going public this year that aren’t yet profitable is higher than at any time since …
via CNBC: Jamie Dimon, the chairman of the Business Roundtable, said the group of CEOs has thrown its support behind companies backing away from the practice. “When companies get where they’re sort of living by so-called making the numbers, they …
Ouch. Investors betting against Tesla lost more than $1 billion Wednesday, according to estimates from financial technology firm S3 Partners. Tesla bears have lost nearly $5 billion in mark-to-market losses since 2016, S3 finds. The electric car maker is one …
via goldtelegraph: The official news bulletins on the economy are positive. Officially, unemployment is at 3.8 percent, a low not seen in two decades. The big picture looks great as companies are making record profits and consumers are spending again. But …
by ITS_JUST_LOW_T In investing it’s essentially the ability of an asset to change in price rapidly. This doesn’t mean it’s always changing in price necessarily, just that it has the potential to. Bonds are generally a fixed rate of return paid …
It’s the stock buybacks. Companies are expected to buy back 10% of their market cap this year. They are borrowing money to do it. Likely be a huge credit crisis and crash in the future from it, but enjoy the …
Chart: VIX is below 12 again – pic.twitter.com/JnyAc2HIZj — (((The Daily Shot))) (@SoberLook) June 7, 2018 we are in the latter innings of an economic cycle. pic.twitter.com/NbKonj1Xyh — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) June 5, 2018 FT: Eurozone GDP data confirm first-quarter growth …
Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute, When governments subsidize goods and services — or provide them directly through government-owned institutions — the effect is to lower the price to consumers, thus increasing demand. Put another way: if the …
June’s OPEC meeting might be one of the worst since 2011, says expert from CNBC. The forthcoming meeting between OPEC and non-OPEC oil producers like Russia could be one of the most fractious in recent years with competing interests and …
https://twitter.com/FerroTV/status/1004657021835149313 UST10Y & $SPX Soar as DXY & WTI Negatively Diverge pic.twitter.com/dALWBQ7zYD — Alastair (@StockBoardAsset) June 7, 2018