Image by iStock/DNY59 From Jim Rickards, Editor, The Daily Reckoning: All financial crises are the same and different at the same time. They are the same when it comes to the dynamics of contagion, illiquidity, bank failures and the high-panic state …
By Charles Sizemore Tax season was a little more painful than usual this year. I sold some stock positions that I’d held for years and that had accumulated large capital gains. So, when I filed my tax return, I had …
By Irina Slav The International Monetary Fund dampened optimism about oil prices by forecasting the average for Brent at a little over US$58.24 a barrel next year, down from this year’s projected US$62.31. And things only get worse from there, with …
We have been receiving your donations, and we want to sincerely thank you. These generous donations will help us pay for our new system. As we told you, it has been more expensive to upgrade than we thought. I hope …
It is well known in Sweden that the current ambition is to reach and maintain 2% inflation. It seems any other goal is secondary. The Swedish krona just hit its lowest level since the aftermath of the financial crisis …
“Jeff Bezos released Amazon’s annual Letter to Shareholders on April 18th. Most notably, Amazon disclosed for the first time ever that it has 100M paid Prime members globally. Color us impressed. Some other great tidbits below: Prime Free One Day …
There was a time wherein these kind of conditions would have instantly become subject to strict public oversight and legislative intervention. However, in a modern age designed to legislate for the benefit of private faction, rather than individual citizens, it …
-James Comey -Hillary Clinton -Loretta Lynch -Andrew McCabe -Peter Strzok -Lisa Page https://desantis.house.gov/_cache/files/8/0/8002ca75-52fc-4995-b87e-43584da268db/472EBC7D8F55C0F9E830D37CF96376A2.final-criminal-referral.pdf https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/986642714388135937
By John Del Vecchio Earnings season is underway, and the path to quick profits (or losses) is right in front of us. Expectations are high because of tax reform and solid trends in earnings growth. Sales are trending up, and …
It was item #20 on the city council meeting yesterday. That much I can confirm. If someone with Facebook can go on their city page, they might have posted the minutes of the city council meeting there. http://agenda2009.city-lakeforest.com/SIREPub/mobilemtgviewer.aspx?meetid=1022&doctype=AGENDA California City …
Here you go, ‘pede! I just did a DuckDuckGo on the names beneath the quote above **Spez: here is another article https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ThLM433AscQJ:https://www.publicintegrity.org/2016/10/17/20330/journalists-shower-hillary-clinton-campaign-cash+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk https://web.archive.org/web/20180418123722/https://www.publicintegrity.org/2016/10/17/20330/journalists-shower-hillary-clinton-campaign-cash http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/10/26/report-97-percent-doj-employee-political-donations-went-hillary-clinton/ IT
White House budget director Mick Mulvaney on Wednesday said the White House hopes to send Congress a package of new spending cut proposals in the coming weeks, even as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell appears cool on trying to roll back parts of the recent …
https://youtu.be/liQxGN_RS00 His voice get’s a little pitchy around the 3:00 mark. h/t WyatteSmith
The magnificent house price bubble wheezes. By Steve Saretsky, Vancouver, Canada, Vancity Condo Guide: With 2017 mortgage pre-approvals having now expired, the first wave of buyers facing OSFI’s ground breaking mortgage regulations are being put to the test. The regulations, also …
Josh Sigurdson does another Freedom Minute update, this time on the recent finding of a survey by Credit Karma showing that only 0.04% of Bitcoin users actually reported their gains or losses to the IRS. 100 out of 250,000 filers. …
It’s really stunning when one hears of school districts getting in trouble because they discipline disabled students at higher rates than non-disabled students. The problem is that we DEFINE students who are chronically misbehave as “disabled.” So, of course, they get disciplined …
by Chris Black If you have any notion about what’s currently (and silently) going on in the world, you’re probably aware of the fact that a manufactured migrant-crisis is tearing Western countries apart, and I am not talking just about …
Part 1 – Questions about Attorney General Loretta Lynch By LV The following translations of Comey’s statements are offered by a professional skeptic after hearing Ex-FBI Director James Comey’s answers to George Stephanopoulis’s questions that aired on ABC last Sunday …
Los Alamitos, California Mayor Troy Edgar Says Several More Cities Ready to Vote Against Gov. Brown’s Sanctuary State Policy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4kXpy_kAI4 Amanda Prestigiacomo for the Daily Wire reports, A new Pearson-published advanced placement (AP) history textbook displaying some overt anti-Trump and anti-conservative bias is just more confirmation that the public school system is becoming increasingly geared towards indoctrinating our children …
Victorville, California Neighborhood Covered In Tumbleweeds; Many Homes Had Them Piled Up In Front Of Their Houses, Reaching the Second Story [link to www.youtube.com (secure)] http://abc7.com/weather/tumbleweeds-inundate-homes-in-high-desert/3357227/ h/t Panda Bears
The Amazon Era: No Profits, No Problem There is a new calculus in corporate boardrooms. Profits are so yesterday. Now it’s all about vision and great storytelling. Blame Amazon.com. The online behemoth cracked the code. Despite posting just a handful of …
Looks like another person coming forward sharing this can’t be what we are being told. This one will be someone people pay a bit of attention to given his clout. “Not until we have done all the research necessary…” This is …
Update with @OPCW confirmation that the UNDSS reconnaissance team “came under small arms fire and an explosive was detonated.” Update with @OPCW confirmation that the UNDSS reconnaissance team "came under small arms fire and an explosive was detonated." https://t.co/YHHK3Cctwp — …
by stockboardasset Last week, the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) assembled all of its most advanced warships, aircraft, and nuclear submarines for a massive show of force in the South China Sea. We explained, how the 3-day war drill from April 10 through …
by InTheEndThereWasPie I love the car buying process. It’s fun, I take my time, test drive cars, find what I like and try to find a good deal on a 2-4 year old car. Car salesmen are not the ones …
https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/985904699839799297 https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/986447271591137280
https://twitter.com/OccupyWisdom/status/986585336812843008 The Treasury market continues to ignore the rising federal deficit. https://t.co/v7hFdTrxuh via @SoberLook pic.twitter.com/MiHextxHdN — Jesse Felder (@jessefelder) April 13, 2018 World Debt Hits Record $164 Trillion Bloomberg–16 minutes ago High levels of sovereign debt could make it difficult for governments to refinance …
by Fine_Bovine I’ve been in spiraling debt for the last three years. I moved to a new city where the cost of living was much higher than I’d ever experienced. I worked less after this initial move, draining my …
