The 20 Biggest Bankruptcies in U.S. History

by visualcapitalist Doing business means taking calculated risks. Regardless of whether you are opening a lemonade stand or you’re a leading executive at a Fortune 500 company, risk is an inevitable part of the game. Taking bigger risks can generate proportional rewards – and sometimes, such as for the companies you’ll read about below, the risk-taking … Read more

Is Gold About To Get Whacked?

BY JOHN RUBINO Gold has spent the past couple of weeks steamrolling technical barriers and reviving the spiritsof long-suffering gold bugs. But markets don’t move in a straight line. Bull runs (if that’s what this is) have stomach-churning corrections along the way – usually just as everyone concludes that the good times will roll on forever. 321gold’s Bob … Read more

Expert: Chances Of U.S.-Iran War Are At Least 50%

By Tsvetana Paraskova  There’s at least a 50-percent chance that the rising tension between the United States and Iran could escalate into a conflict that would disrupt supplies, Fereidun Fesharaki, a former energy advisor in Iran in the 1970s and now chairman at consultancy Facts Global Energy, told CNBC. Earlier this month two oil tankers were attacked in … Read more

Research Psychologist Epstein: Google Manipulation Will Flip 15 Million Votes in 2020

Research Psychologist Epstein: Google Manipulation Will Work to Flip 15 Million Votes in 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAeGVrd1Zjw GOOGLE EXECS PANIC! Go Into Hiding, Delete Social Media Accounts After James O’Keefe’s Latest Exposé UPDATE: After filming this segment I noticed the Veritas video was still live on Vimeo at a different link, it may have failed to load … Read more

Some takeaways from the latest Project Veritas leak

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvrJXoz24uY Recently Project Veritas was deleted from Reddit for a new leak. The leak was on the company Google, and has an anonymous insider who spoke at length about Google’s censorship and how it has built an Orwellian AI machine learning capable of changing the narrative on the internet in real time. This narrative is … Read more

Universal Basic Income

by Martin Armstrong   The idea of some Universal Basic Income has been around for a long time. Here is Milton Friedman on his proposal of a Negative Income Tax. There will always be welfare for there are people who cannot work for some disability and others who prefer not to work and game the … Read more

The Dying Days Of An Empire

by Raúl Ilargi Meijer Caravaggio Conversion on the way to Damascus 1600-01  Something’s been nagging me for the past few days, and I’m not sure I’ve figured out why yet. It started when Donald Trump first called off the alleged planned strikes on targets in Iran because they would have cost 150 lives, and then the next … Read more

Ted Butler: Why Is JP Morgan Above The Law

by Ted Butler of Butler Research via SilverSeek Recent developments indicate, almost beyond question, that when it comes to silver (and gold), JPMorgan is operating in direct violation of the law. So clear is the proof of this allegation that the only real question is why JPM is allowed to openly flaunt basic commodity and antitrust law? Before getting to … Read more

FLASHBACK: Politicians and bureaucrats are America’s ruling class and they should start paying a price for failure. Accountability isn’t just for little guys.

via usatoday: Our Constitution forbids the creation of “titles of nobility.”  The Framers thought it was important enough that the prohibition appears twice, once forbidding the federal government from doing it, and elsewhere extending the ban to the states. And Americans, to the extent that they give the question any thought at all, probably think that … Read more

Why The Mainstream Media Is Beating The Iran War Drums: Plunging Ratings!

via Zerohedge: Following President Trump’s upset election in 2016 followed by more than two years of constant ‘Russiagate’ coverage, there now appears to be a “Trump slump” across all forms of media as we wait for what promises to be popcorn-worthy debates between Trump and his Democratic challenger in 2020. Top news executives have told Axios‘s … Read more

ANDREW MALCOLM: With 20 candidates vying for airtime, will this week’s Democratic debates matter?

via mcclatchydc: If lucky, each candidate might get a total of maybe 10 minutes on camera, not much to describe their biography, positions on select hot-button topics, offer rebuttals and, since this is TV, likely offer a memorable zinger to stand out from the crowd. Each will have an individual strategy. Frontrunner Joe Biden, for instance, … Read more