Examples of leftist violence and eliminationist rhetoric

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VIOLENT RHETORIC ALERT: Joe Biden’s fight behind the gym with Donald Trump might involve brass knuckles. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden says that the way he would deal with Senate Republicans who oppose his agenda is with a “brass knuckle fight,” later adds: “Let’s start a real physical revolution if you’re talking about it.” * Curiously, Joe … Read more

Chairman Powell – You’re Fired (Update)

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by Michael Lebowitz Since President Trump first discussed firing Jerome Powell, out of a sense of frustration that his Fed Chair pick was not dovish enough, he has regularly expressed his displeasure at Powell’s lack of willingness to do whatever it takes to keep the economy booming beyond its potential. Strong economic growth serves Trump … Read more

Banks Get Approval To Seize Your Savings Account

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BY JOHN RUBINO Sponsored: If your bank fails, so does your deposit. Bank seizures have already occurred in Spain during the 2012 banking crisis. Since then, they have also happened in Cyprus, Greece and they are now perfectly legal in the United States thanks to a clause in the Dodd-Frank bill. If a “too big to fail” … Read more

MAGA MEGA – ORLANDO TRUMP STAGES GREATEST SHOW YET

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President Trump will formally launch his re-election campaign Tuesday night at the Amway Center in Orlando. The president is expected to address thousands of supporters, some of whom have been camping outside the arena since early Monday morning. Follow along with Fox News.com’s live blog below. Mobile users click here. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-kicks-off-re-election-campaign-at-orlando-rally-live-blog   Fans camped out since … Read more

They Are Calling This A “Bloodbath” For The $800 Billion Trucking Industry As U.S. Economic Activity Dramatically Declines

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by Michael Snyder The U.S. trucking industry has not experienced a downturn of this magnitude since the last financial crisis, and this is one of the clearest signs yet that the U.S. economy is steamrolling into a severe economic downturn.  When economic activity is increasing, the trucking industry sees rising demand for their services and freight … Read more

No, Rate Cuts Were Not Discussed: ECB Insiders Out Draghi as Fabricator & Schemer, and Talk to Reuters

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Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Draghi’s shenanigans get hilarious, months before his term ends. So here’s ECB President Mario Draghi, whose term ends in October, and he’s at the ECB Forum in Portugal, and in a speech on Tuesday titled innocuously, “Twenty Years of the ECB’s monetary policy” – so this wasn’t a press conference after an ECB … Read more

The 8 Ways Urban Demographics are Changing

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by visualcapitalist Cities are what keep the global economic machine humming. Over 80% of the world’s economic output is derived from activities in cities – and more specifically, it’s estimated that 60% of GDP growth occurs in just the top 600 urban centers. Given the above, it’s fair to say that the destiny of humankind is … Read more

Buy the Rumor Sell the News

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by Nathan-T1 Notes on last week: Ended up not seeing the dip I was hoping for to start off last week but some red candles early on made it worthwhile to be short at open. I was hoping for a gap fill to 285 to start off last week but as I mentioned here: https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/bzwqgf/what_are_your_moves_tomorrow_june_13/eqy9fza?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x I started … Read more

White House Explored Legality of Demoting Fed Chairman Powell

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(Bloomberg) — The White House explored the legality of demoting Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell in February, soon after President Donald Trump talked about firing him, according to people familiar with the matter. The White House general counsel’s office weighed the legal implications of stripping Powell of his chairmanship and leaving him as a Fed … Read more

Business insider: Beyond Meat’s post-IPO rally surges to more than 680% as short sellers lose hundreds of millions (BYND)

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business insider Beyond Meat’s post-IPO rally surges to more than 680% as short sellers lose hundreds of millions (BYND) Carmen Reinicke Jun. 18, 2019, 08:48 AM beyond burger Leanna Garfield/Business Insider Beyond Meat gained more than 15% in pre-market trading Tuesday. The jump in shares extended a rally from news of a newly announced ground … Read more

Jim Chanos, Tesla’s most vocal short, is betting on TSLA rise, per SEC filing

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via teslarati: SEC filings from noted Tesla short Jim Chanos’ Kynikos Associates LP has shown that the prolific short-seller’s fund is long $420,000 on TSLA call options. While Kynikos’ Form 13F filing did not provide any information about Chanos’ short bet against the electric car maker or the call options’ strike price, the filing does give the impression … Read more

Leaked documents suggest Tesla has not met a Model 3 production goal set by Elon Musk in recent weeks

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via Businessinsider: Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in a May 22 email to the electric-car maker’s employees that they needed to consistently produce 1,000 Model 3 sedans per day for the rest of the second quarter to set a record for vehicle deliveries in one quarter. According to documents that describe the daily output rate for one segment of Model 3 production, … Read more

Arstechnica: Federal bill would allow clean energy companies to structure like oil companies

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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/06/federal-bill-would-allow-clean-energy-companies-to-structure-like-oil-companies/ Last week, US senators and representatives introduced bills in the Senate and the House to open up a type of corporate structure originally reserved for oil, gas, and coal companies to clean energy companies. Called a Master Limited Partnership (MLP), the structure currently allows fossil fuel companies to take advantage of lower taxes placed … Read more